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Food Fight
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Name: Food Fight Developer: Atari Year: 1983 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Game Specific: Food Fight Pinout Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Sound: Unamplified Mono (requires one-channel amp)
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Food Fight DescriptionAs Charley Chuck, you hurl piles of food at your foes, the four crazy chefs, but make sure you eat the ice-cream cone before it melts. This game uses a special analog joystick that is comprised of a centering-bellows and two potentiometers.Food Fight was produced by Atari in 1983. Atari released 139 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1972. Other machines made by Atari during the time period Food Fight was produced include Alpha 1, Arabian, Cloak & Dagger, Cloud 9, Crystal Castles, Fast Freddie, Gravitar, Dig Dug, Black Widow, and Akka Arrh. Food Fight - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.45 (13 votes)
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. Log in to rate this game! Cabinet InformationThere are two known types of marquees: a flexible vinyl paper type and a dedicated solid plastic type. The artwork on the upright is classic Atari.Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
Game IntroductionFood Fight hero, Charley Chuck, gets points by eating his ice cream cone before it melts. To do this, he must fight off Oscar, Angelo, Jacques, and Zorba, the four mean-looking chefs who rise from holes and throw food at him.Each of the chefs wears a different hat: Oscar wears a big hat Angelo wears a small hat Jacques wears a curved hat and Zorba wears a tall hat. Charley must not be caught by a chef, get hit by food thrown by a chef or walk onto an open hole or else he is a goner. On some stages, the food that Charley can throw at the chefs include peas, tomatoes, bananas and pies each in piles. On these stages, the supplies are limited, so you must try to use whatever you can to throw at the crazy chefs before they run out. On other stages, the food that he can throw are watermelons. On these stages, Chuck can throw pieces of watermelon continuously because the supplies are absolutely unlimited. Whenever Charley makes a direct hit at a chef, the chef is temporarily stunned. Chuck must eat the ice-cream cone before it melts in order to proceed to the next stage. When Chuck eats the cone, the ice-cream flavor changes and the game difficulty increases. If the round lasts a long time and Charley has a lot of narrow escapes or close calls before successful completion, the game may award an "Instant Replay" - when this happens silly music plays there is no background music during gameplay and the entire round is played back on the screen. The music is synchronized to the replay so that the last few notes correspond perfectly to the point where Charley eats the cone. Getting an "Instant Replay" does not add to the player score, but it sure is fun to see. When the chefs pop up they also leave holes on the screen, you fall in a hole you die! Avoid the holes. Game PlayThere are 125 total levels. Once you reach level 80 or so, the game is so fast that you are pretty much just running for the cone.VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Food Fight CensusThere are 12,007 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,523 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 161,736 machines (6,804 unique titles).Very Common - There are approximately 153 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 60 of these machines are owned by our active Food Fight collectors. And of these, 55 are original dedicated machines, 1 is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 4 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with a Food Fight machine for sale. There is one active VAPS member with an extra Food Fight circuit board for sale. Wanted - Popular - There are 23 active VAPS members currently looking for Food Fight. This game ranks a 41 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 67 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
TriviaThe game is labeled "Charley Chuck's Food Fight" on the marquee and the manual.An upright version of the game appears in the movie "Real Genius". Manuals
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eBay ListingsClick to search eBay for Food Fight Videogame machines and related items.Click to search eBay for Atari for machines and parts. Check out the IAM/KLOV report of the hottest coin-op machine auctions, powered by Ace.com.
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