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Amidar

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Name: Amidar
Manufacturer: Konami
Year: 1981
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Labyrinth/Maze
Monitor:

  • Orientation: Vertical
  • Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
  • CRT: Color
Conversion Class: Konami Classic
Game Specific: Amidar Pinout
Settings: Amidar 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 [Jump]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

  • Upright/Standard
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Amidar Description

Amidar was produced by Konami in 1981.

Konami released 432 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978.

Other machines made by Konami during the time period Amidar was produced include 600, Jungler, Scramble, Super Cobra, Tactician, Space War (Leijac), Space King, Block Game, Percussion Freaks 3rd Mix, and Silent Scope Token Shot.

Your character moves on a screen full of boxes. Either collect dots or paint all the paths to fill in the boxes, avoiding the chasing Amidars and Trackers. A bonus screen appears after each completed level.

Amidar - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.25 (3 votes)

 Personal Impressions Score: 3.54

     Overall 'Like': 3.67
     Fun (Social): 1.00
     Fun (Solo): 3.33
     Collector Desire: 3.00 
Technical Impressions Score: 3.11

     Gameplay: 4.33
     Graphics: 2.33
     Originality: 3.67
     Sound/Music: 1.00

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
Upright/Standard

Game Introduction

The game has two sequences for each level. In the first sequence, you are a gorilla trying to draw boxes and you are being pursued by savages. During the second sequence, you play a paint roller trying to paint squares while being pursued by pigs.

Game Play

On even-numbered levels, your character is a gorilla on odd-numbered levels, it is a paint roller and the Amidars are savages and pigs, respectively. Filling the four corner boxes of the screen gives you a short time to chase the Amidars and score extra points. You also have a jump button that causes all the enemies to jump, allowing you to escape from a close situation. You start with three "jumps" on every level. In between levels, there is a chance to earn 5000 bonus points. Here, a pig moves across the top of the screen. By pushing the jump button, the pig traces a path across the boxes towards the bottom of the screen. If the savage or pig reaches a bunch of bananas, the bonus is awarded. The game has infuriatingly catchy music.

Miscellaneous

LICENSOR: Konami

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Amidar Census

There are 11,505 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,119 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 152,575 machines (6,538 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 87 known instances of this machine owned by Amidar collectors who are active members. Of these, 24 of them are original dedicated machines, 2 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 61 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 2 active VAPS members with Amidar machines for sale. There are 4 active VAPS members with extra Amidar circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.

This game ranks a 32 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

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

Trivia

One bootleg version was called Amigo.

Manuals

  1. German Manual NSM  12 Pages, 484 kB File.
  2. Schematics  13 Pages, 1 MB File.

Video Clips


    AMIDAR (HQ) ARCADE GAME ORIGINAL BOARD KONAMI

    Amidar - First Level Complete / Primeiro Nível Completo

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Additional References
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  1. The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Amidar Flyer #46    
  2. The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Amidar Flyer #2947    
  3. The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Amidar Flyer #2954    
  4. The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Amidar Flyer #6199    

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