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Mat Mania
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Name: Mat Mania Developer: Taito Year: 1985 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Game Specific: Mat Mania Pinout Settings: Mat Mania Dipswitch Settings Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)
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 Photo contributed by: Glen Connoly
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Mat Mania DescriptionA one-on-one wrestling game from Taito. The player competes against other wrestlers around the world in a tournament. Use special moves such as bouncing off the ropes, jumping off the turnbuckle, and even wrestle outside of the ring.Mat Mania was produced by Taito in 1985. Taito released 487 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1967. Other machines made by Taito during the time period Mat Mania was produced include Go Go Mr. Yamaguchi, N.Y. Captor, Legend Of Kage, The, Gyrodine, Fairyland Story, 10-Yard Fight, 40-0, Birdie King 3, Ben Bero Bee, and Athlete. Mat Mania - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.73 (6 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 EggsThrowing your opponent into the ropes and simply letting him run into you will allow you to pick him up off the mat and perform any move successfully. Repeat until the opponent has been beaten.Another Pattern that will give you a much higher score per match is by letting your opponent punch you once then dodge his attack by moving the player either up or down the ring and counter attack with two punches and dodge the opponent's attack. Repeat until the opponent becomes dizzy. Now is the time to take advantage and execute any two wrestling moves consecutively that require power such as body slam, brainbuster, piledriver or Irish whip. Note If you attempt a third consecutive move without repeating the pattern it will be unsucessful. Cocoa Savage is a bit tricky. The Dodge and Punch pattern will not be very effective with him since he will counter attack with a shoulder block. The best way to attack Cocoa Savage is to let him come close to the player and give him a taste of his own medicine with a running shoulder block. Wait for him to partially get up on one knee and then Shoulder Block him again. Repeat pattern until he is beaten. If you would like, before lowering the Boom on Cocoa Savage get him close to the turnbuckle and perform the last Shoulder Block followed by either two Brainbusters or Piledrivers and finally either two knee drops or somersaults off the top turn buckle, then go for the pin. Game PlayPlayers win a match by pinning an opponent for a three count or by keeping the opponent outside of the ring for twenty counts. Players can lose a match by standing on the top rope for five counts. The match will be declared a draw if neither the player nor opponent are pinned or counted out when the time limit expires or if both are counted out of the ring.The game has five opposing wrestlers who you must fight in order: Insane Warrior, Karate Fighter, Cocoa Savage, The Pirania and Golden Hulk. Golden Hulk is the champion and if you beat him in the title match, you will become the champion. After that, the game begins again. MiscellaneousCOPY OF: Exciting HourLICENSOR: Technos This game was distributed in the US by Memetron. VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Mat Mania 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 55 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 23 of these machines are owned by our active Mat Mania collectors. And of these, 4 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 19 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There are 2 active VAPS members with extra Mat Mania circuit boards for sale. Wanted - There are 4 active VAPS members currently looking for Mat Mania. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Mat Mania circuit board set. This game ranks a 17 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 12 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
TechnicalThe PCB set for this game is comprised of two boards. The top board is labeled TA-0015-P2-0 and the bottom board is TA-0015-P1-0. The main CPU is a 6502A and the sound processor is a 6502P with two AY-3-8910A ICs.TriviaIn the game, if you look closely at the audience in the background, you will see a variety of recognizable characters including a boy in a Union Jack t-shirt, Darth Vader, Superman and several others.Mat Mania and Mania Challenge were combined into Mat Mania Challenge and released for the Atari 2600 and 7800 in 1990/1991. Legacy
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eBay ListingsClick to search eBay for Mat Mania Videogame machines and related items.Click to search eBay for Taito 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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