Pengo - Videogame by Sega

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Pengo

Name: Pengo
Manufacturer: Sega
Year: 1982
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Labyrinth/Maze
Monitor:

Orientation: Vertical
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: unique
Game Specific: Pengo Pinout
Settings: Pengo Dipswitch Settings

Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Controls:

Joystick: 4-way (up, down, left, right)
Buttons: 1 [Push]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Cocktail
Upright/Standard

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Pengo 3-D Model (QuickTime (TM))

Pengo Description

Pengo 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.

You are a penguin in a maze of ice-blocks. Slide the blocks to squash the Sno-Bees chasing you or electrocute them by trapping them along a wall. Score 10,000 points for aligning three special diamond blocks. Bonus points are awarded for finishing a level quickly.

Pengo - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.72 (9 votes)

Personal Impressions Score: 3.57

     Overall 'Like': 4.25
     Fun (Social): 2.44
     Fun (Solo): 4.50
     Collector Desire: 3.11

Technical Impressions Score: 4.22

     Gameplay: 4.00
     Graphics: 4.25
     Originality: 4.38
     Sound/Music: 4.25

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.

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Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Cocktail
Upright/Standard

Game Play

Pressing 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.

Hacks

Vector Pengo - Uses vector graphics.

Miscellaneous

Pengo 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 Census

There are 12,158 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,544 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 160,082 machines (6,700 unique titles).

Very Common - There are approximately 234 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 103 of these machines are owned by our active Pengo collectors. And of these, 62 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 40 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 Pengo machine for sale. There are 3 active VAPS members with extra Pengo circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There are 5 active VAPS members currently looking for Pengo. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Pengo circuit board set.

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

Rarity and Popularity independently are NOT necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Trivia

The song that plays in the background is called Popcorn. The group that released it originally was called Hot Butter.

Manuals

Pinout and DIP Switch Settings 2 Pages, 360 kB File.
Preliminary Owner's Manual 8 Pages, 356 kB File.

Foto-Finder® (books)

The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 132; Color photo;
Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 132; Color photo; Price guide: