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Splat! Splat! - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

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Description

Player has a choice of three characters. Characters wander around a playfield while foodstuffs cascade down from the top. Player grabs a pie (for example) and chucks it at NPCs or the other player.

Splat! was produced by Williams Electronics, Inc. (1967-1985) in 1982.

Williams Electronics, Inc. (1967-1985) released 215 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1959. Williams Electronics, Inc. (1967-1985) was based in United States.

Other machines made by Williams Electronics, Inc. (1967-1985) during the time period Splat! was produced include: Cyclone (1981), Barracora, Jungle Lord, Pharaoh, Hyperball, Varkon, Thunderball, Bubbles, Joust, and Robotron: 2084

Splat! - Cabinet - Machine
Cabinet

Specs

Name Splat!
Developer Williams Electronics, Inc. (1967-1985) (United States)
Year 1982
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 9727
Class Wide Release
Genre Platform
Monitor
Conversion Class Williams
# Simultaneous Players 2
# Maximum Players 2
Gameplay Competitive
Control Panel Layout Multiple Player
Controls
  • Joystick: 8-way [Move]
  • Joystick: 8-way [Throw]
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard
Control Panel Splat! Control Panel Image

Splat! KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

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Trivia

The game was designed by John Newcomer, the same fellow who made Joust. Williams apparently bet the farm on it and lost big. It's certainly not as entertaining as the other early Williams architecture games, but it's cute and good for a laugh."

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Splat! Census

There are 14,717 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,456 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,294 machines (6,886 unique titles).

Uncommon - There are 10 known instances of this machine owned by Splat! collectors who are active members. Of these, 3 of them are original dedicated machines. 3 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 4 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - There are 4 active VAPS members currently looking for Splat!.

This game ranks a 6 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 7 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Technical

This is one of seven games that can be implemented with ROM swapping and trivial (in most cases) modifications to a Robotron: 2084 or Joust boardset. See http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/games/ for a five game daughterboard. This also applies to Robotron: 2084. Uses 3 M6809 and 1 HD63701 for CPUs. Uses a YM-2151 for sound.

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