Joust Description

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

Williams Electronics, Inc. (1967-1985) released 216 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1959.

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

You are a knight flying on an ostrich, battling buzzard-mounted enemies. To fly, you repeatedly hit the flap button. To topple the Buzzard-Riders "the highest lance wins." Two-player head-to-head play is excellent.

Joust - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 4.03 (29 votes)

Cabinet Information

Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

Conversion

Game Introduction

There are three different enemy knights who all ride on giant buzzards and each of them are colored differently. The enemy knights are red Bounders, silver Hunters and dark blue Shadow Lords. The other enemies include the "unbeatable" pterodactyl and The Lava Troll, a giant hand that reaches out and grabs from one of the two lava pools at the bottom of the screen.

Game Play

Sometimes the eggs will fall into the lava pits at the bottom of the screen in later waves. During the first two waves, there are platforms at the bottom of the screen that will allow you to walk over the lava pits, but in later waves, the platforms will be burned away. Also, in later waves, flames will start to burn in the lava pits.

Sometimes, a pterodactyl will show up in some of those waves, usually if you take too long. The pterodactyl will sometimes try to fiercely charge right at you. The only way you can kill the pterodactyl is by ramming him in the mouth to desintagrate him.

If you have your feathered mount fly too close to either of the lava pits, The Lava Troll will reach out and grab your mount by the legs and pull you both into his fiery home. If this happens, you must have your mount repeatedly flap really hard to escape from the grip of The Lava Troll. The Lava Troll will also grab the enemy knights on their buzzards and occasionally pull them in with him.

Even in the later waves, platforms will collapse and disintegrate. Occasionally, there is an Egg Wave where you must grab all the enemy eggs before they hatch. As you advance to later waves, the difficulty constantly increases.

Miscellaneous

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Joust Census

Very Common - There are approximately 764 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 316 of these machines are owned by our active Joust collectors. And of these, 289 are original dedicated machines, 10 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 17 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 6 active VAPS members with Joust machines for sale.

Wanted - Very Popular - There are 37 active VAPS members currently looking for Joust.

At any given time, our active members are listing on VAPS on average of 4,400 games they are looking for, and 3,600 games for sale.

This game ranks a 93 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 82 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Legacy

1. Joust (1982)
2. Joust 2: Survival Of The Fittest (1986)

Manuals

1. Instruction Manual - Cocktail  12 Pages, 771 kB File.
2. Instruction Manual  26 Pages, 3.8 MB File.
3. Instruction Manual  13 Pages, 100 kB File.
4. Manual Amendment  7 Pages, 781 kB File.
5. Drawing Set  16 Pages, 1.6 MB File.
6. Parts Catalog  4 Pages, 373 kB File.

Foto-Finder® (books)

1. The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 122; Color photo;
2. Arcade Fever, Sellers (ISBN 0762409371): Page: 94; Color photo; Price guide:
3. Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 122; Color photo; Price guide:
4. Pinball Compendium : 1982 to Present, Shalhoub (ISBN 0764323008): Page: 36; Color photo; Price guide:

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