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Cloak & Dagger
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Name: Cloak & Dagger Manufacturer: Atari Year: 1983 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)
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Cloak & Dagger DescriptionCloak & Dagger was produced by Atari in 1983. Atari released 139 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1972. Other machines made by Atari during the time period Cloak & Dagger was produced include Alpha 1, Arabian, Food Fight, Cloud 9, Crystal Castles, Fast Freddie, Gravitar, Dig Dug, Black Widow, and Akka Arrh. Cloak & Dagger - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.14 (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 InformationThe cabinet side art shows Agent X jumping into the elevator, narrowly escaping enemy fire and the smoke of exploding bombs.Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
ConversionAtari designed the game as a conversion kit for Williams' games like Defender, Stargate, Joust and Robotron: 2084. The wiring harness supplied with the kit plugs into the existing power supply in these games and reuses the Williams' sound board (without the CPU and ROM) for audio amplification.Game IntroductionAgent X, complete with trenchcoat, Bogie hat and briefcase, hurries through a series of floors to retrieve stolen plans and destroy Dr. Boom's underground bomb factory. The hero descends in a special elevator and on each floor he encounters conveyor belts with moving explosives, bomb converters, forklifts, robot guards, acid pits, and death-ray shooting eyeballs. On the final level, Agent X meets the notorious Dr. Boom himself.At this point, however, the game is only half over. You then must guide Agent X all the way back up to the surface. There are new obstacles and opponents to deal with, and every level has a huge hole in the middle where the bomb exploded. Once the hero has made it all the way out, the screen shows a quick glimpse of the "top secret" plans and the game is over. You also receive 1 free credit after you are finished viewing the plans. VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Cloak & Dagger CensusThere are 12,083 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,498 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 158,935 machines (6,672 unique titles).Common - There are approximately 50 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 30 of these machines are owned by our active Cloak & Dagger collectors. And of these, 8 are original dedicated machines, 14 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 8 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. Wanted - There are 8 active VAPS members currently looking for Cloak & Dagger. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Cloak & Dagger circuit board set. This game ranks a 13 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 22 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
TriviaThe working title for the game was Agent X -- it's silkscreened on the PCB -- but the name was changed to coincide with the release of the film Cloak & Dagger. Scenes from this very game were also featured in the movie of the same name. It is also said that in the game, Agent X's real name is Jack Flack, the same name of the character in the movie played by Dabney Coleman.Manuals
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