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Pengo
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Name: Pengo Manufacturer: Sega Year: 1982 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Game Specific: Pengo Pinout Settings: Pengo Dipswitch Settings Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)
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Pengo DescriptionPengo was produced by Sega in 1982. Sega released 590 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1936. Other machines made by Sega during the time period Pengo was produced include Character Cabinets, Ali Baba And 40 Thieves, 005, Monster Bash, Buck Rogers - Planet Of Zoom, Star Laker, Borderline, Turbo, Turpin, and K.O. Punch. Pengo - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.60 (8 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
Game PlayPressing the Push button slides ice blocks across the playfield, stopping only when they hit another ice block or the wall. Attempting to push an ice block in front of another will it crushes it. Sno-Bees hatch from flashing ice blocks, but they can be killed before they hatch by crushing the block.Aligning the three diamond blocks along a wall scores 5,000 points while aligning them within the playfield scores 10,000. The game has animated intermissions featuring penguins doing things like dancing, imitating Space Invaders, and playing a cocktail arcade game. The game's music very catchy and you will never get it out of your head. An extra life is awarded at 50000 pts. HacksMiscellaneousPengo makes a cameo appearance in Up-n-Down. If you manage to pass the first four rounds in under a minute each, Pengo will appear in the water of round five riding a surfboard.VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Pengo CensusThere are 11,774 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,265 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 155,180 machines (6,604 unique titles).Very Common - There are approximately 232 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 120 of these machines are owned by our active Pengo collectors. And of these, 76 are original dedicated machines, 2 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 42 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There are 4 active VAPS members with Pengo machines for sale. There are 3 active VAPS members with extra Pengo circuit boards for sale. Wanted - There are 7 active VAPS members currently looking for Pengo. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Pengo circuit board set. This game ranks a 67 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 21 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
TriviaThe song that plays in the background is called Popcorn. The group that released it originally was called Hot Butter.Manuals
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eBay ListingsClick to search eBay for Pengo Videogame machines and related items.Click to search eBay for machines and parts made by Sega. Check out the IAM/KLOV report of the hottest coin-op machine auctions, powered by Ace.com.
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