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Description

Your character is a robber. Run around a mine collecting moneybags and depositing them in a wheelbarrow at the top of the screen. Climb ladders and ride elevators to avoid two angry miners. Grab pickaxes and other objects to temporarily stun your pursuers.

Super Bagman was produced by Stern Electronics in 1984.

Stern Electronics released 67 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1977. Stern Electronics was based in United States.

Other machines made by Stern Electronics during the time period Super Bagman was produced include: Lost Tomb, Great Guns, Goal To Go, Cliff Hanger, Great Guns, Black Beauty, Lazorlord, Gold Medal With Bruce Jenner, Speed Coin, and Lazer Lord

Super Bagman - Cabinet - Machine
Cabinet

Specs

Name Super Bagman
Developer Stern Electronics (United States)
Year 1984
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 9863
Class Wide Release
Genre Labyrinth/Maze
Monitor
Conversion Class unique
# Simultaneous Players 1
# Maximum Players 2
Gameplay Alternating
Control Panel Layout Single Player
Controls
  • Joystick: 4-way (up, down, left, right)
  • Buttons: 2 [ActionShoot]
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard
Control Panel Super Bagman Control Panel Image

Game Introduction

The character you control in this game is Bagman, an escaped convict in a stripped suit. His goal is to steal all the bags of gold from a mine, haul the gold to the surface and deposit his loot into his wheel-barrow. Bagman must avoid two cops who have been ordered to protect the mine, prevent the gold from being stolen and stop Bagman at all costs.

Unlike the original game, this sequel has more variations. The mine has stairs that can be climbed down, an escalator to ride as well as an elevator. There is a Gunsmith's room with six-shot guns and bombs that Bagman can pick up and use. There is even another convict, Bagman's friend,locked in a dungeon in the mine which Bagman can free for an extra life.

Game Play

The mine is five screens wide and scrolls as you move around. You must grab a bag of gold and carry it up to the surface and place it into the wheel-barrow before the bonus timer runs out. Whenever a bag of gold is being carried, Bagman will only walk half his normal speed, allowing the cops to easily catch up to him.

Since evading the policemen is of primary importance, the following are some ways to actively disable your pursuers. If you are carrying a bag of gold while climbing a ladder, the bag can be dropped on the cop's head. Hitting a policeman with a pick-axe will stun him. Shooting the gun at or placing an exploding bomb next to a cop will also stop him for a few moments.

Alternatively, passive techniques of avoiding the policemen can also be effective. The pick-axe can be used to dig a big hole in a wall or you can use a bomb to destroy the wall. Bagman can jump into or out of a mine cart by grabbing a handle on a tunnel roof as the cart passes underneath, but he must be careful to not come into contact with these carts in any other way, otherwise he will lose a life. The escalator or evelvator can also be used to elude the cops and, when transporting gold, will help Bagman reach the surface quicker.

Most bags of gold are yellow, but there is a blue bonus bag that is behind a wall. The wall can only be penetrated by a pick-axe or a bomb. Even so, the bonus blue bag of gold is twice as heavy as the standard yellow bags of gold, but it is also worth a greater amount of points.

If you free the imprisoned convict from the dungeon in the mine using a pick-axe or a bomb, you will receive an extra life.

The game can be incredibly frustrating to play and suffers from some dubious collision detection. Speech: "Good Work", "Ai Ai Ai!", and some other unintelligible quote.

Super Bagman KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.60 (7 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.78

Overall Like 4.60
Fun (Social) 2.40
Fun (Solo) 5.00
Collector Desire 3.17

Technical Rating: 3.71

Gameplay 4.00
Graphics 4.00
Originality 4.60
Sound/Music 4.00

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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Trivia

This game was originally developed by the French company Valadon Automation and licensed to Stern.

Cabinet Information

This game's cabinet has an eight panel comic strip that shows how the game is played and explains all the actions in a very simple and effective way. The first panel has the convict working on getting his ball and chain off his ankle with a hacksaw and saying "As soon as I get rid of this. I will get the gold I stashed!". The second panel has him looking toward the mine entrance and saying "I will take the gold out in the wheel-barrow I have ready on the surface.". The third and fourth panels show Bagman getting into a minecart and saying in each of those respective panels: "I will grab this ceiling beam ..." following "... And into the wagon!". The fifth panel shows him dropping a bag onto a cop and saying "Take this!". Panel six shows him grabbing a pick-axe and saying "Ah-ha! A pick-ax!". The seventh panel shows him carrying a bag of gold and getting into the elevator and saying "This will be the quickest way to the surface!". The eighth and last panel shows the jailbird pushing his wheelbarrow filled with bags of gold and saying "This is my kind of work!". The comic strip on the cabinet sure does give us an interesting story, but when a person plays the game, it is much more difficult than it looks.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Super Bagman 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).

Common - There are 22 known instances of this machine owned by Super Bagman collectors who are active members. Of these, 7 of them are original dedicated machines. One is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 14 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with an extra Super Bagman circuit board for sale.

Wanted - There are 3 active VAPS members currently looking for Super Bagman. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Super Bagman circuit board set.

This game ranks a 8 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.

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Technical

The PCB uses a TMS5510 speech chip for sampled sounds. This part is no longer being made by TI and may be hard to find.

Legacy

  1. Bagman
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Foto-Finder® (Books)

  1. The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 177; Color photo Price guide: No
  2. Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 177; Color photo

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