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Looping
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Name: Looping Developer: Venture Line Year: 1982 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Game Specific: Looping Pinout Settings: Looping Dipswitch Settings Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)
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Looping DescriptionFly around in your plane shooting hot-air balloons, rockets, and other oddball items in an attempt to reach "The End". The game starts with you flying over a city, then after shooting the rockets to open the gate, into a series of pipes and finally into "The End" itself.Looping was produced by Venture Line in 1982. Venture Line released 9 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1976. Other machines made by Venture Line during the time period Looping was produced include Ponpoko, Sky Bumper, Super Rider, Meteoroids, Space Force, Golden Cup, Jokers Wild, and Break Away. Looping - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 2.74 (3 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 Style Weights and Measures
Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter EggsDo not let too many hot-air balloons appear. Otherwise, the dreaded Red one will show up, making all of the other balloons move very quickly. Holding the speed button when diving or climbing will give you tighter turns. The longer you fly around in the pipes, the higher your score will get.When you destroy the rockets, open the gate, finish flying through the plumbing and you will end up in the "blob" room. Here a green blob repeatedly drops from a pipe in the ceiling. If you adjust your airplane's attitude just so, you will be able to hold down the joystick, the Fast button and the Fire button, allowing your gun to destroy the blob each time you complete a loop 500 points each. This trick can be performed indefinitely -- or at least as long as you are able! Game IntroductionThe player controls a plane that can shoot hot-air balloons, structures, rockets, and some other oddball items. The object of the game is to get to "The End" which you can see off to the left of the screen from where you start if you fly over there. Destroy all of the rockets to open the gate that will take you into a series of pipes. As the levels progress, more oddball things appear to make your flight harder, such as giant drops from a spigot. After making your way through the pipes, the final room contains balls bouncing around which you must shoot or avoid. Fly into "The End" to complete the level. Each level becomes progressively harder. Avoid crashing into any foreground structure which are sometimes hard to differentiate from the background structures in the city, pipes, or walls, the top or bottom of the screen when in the pipes or "The End"'s room. When outside over the city, hitting the top will bounce you back down facing the opposite direction.Game PlayThe simplicity of the controls is what gives the game its biggest challenge since you only use up and down on the controller to dive or climb respectively and effectively loop. When flying over the city, hot-air balloons will bounce off the top and bottom of the screen in a very predictable manner. Shoot them to get them off the screen and out of the way. If too many appear, a red balloon will appear making every other balloon increase in speed quite a bit. Destroy rockets located in different parts of the city to open the gate to the pipes. Once in the pipes, navigate through to the other side. The longer you fly through here, the more points you will rack up. As the levels get harder, more obstacles, such as large drops, appear. After navigating the pipes, you will get into "The End" room which has five bouncing balls. Shoot if possible or avoid the balls and fly into the end. Be quick as the balls will return after a short amount of time.VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Looping 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).Common - There are approximately 34 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 19 of these machines are owned by our active Looping collectors. And of these, 16 are original dedicated machines, and 3 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 Looping machine for sale. Wanted - There are 2 active VAPS members currently looking for Looping. There are 2 active VAPS members looking for Looping board sets. 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 5 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
TriviaLooping was licensed to Venture Line by Video Games U.K., Ltd., and to Video Games Gmbh in Germany.Manuals
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eBay ListingsClick to search eBay for Looping Videogame machines and related items.Click to search eBay for Venture Line 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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