by Taito, 1989
STATUS: No Longer In the Collection
Post from old site last updated 3/02/2004
Description of game:
Kind of like a two-dimentional Marble Madness that uses a spinner instead of a trackball. The object is to get the ball through the maze by rotating the MAZE with a spinner while the ball stays fixed in the middle of the screen. There’s all kinds of obstacles to slow you down. It’s a jamma game, in a cabinet that looks like it was a Tetris (still has the control panel for Tetris). The cabinet was originally a Rockola cabinet, and I can’t tell what the original game was before it was a Tetris. This conversion was very clean and well done! Check out the picture of the back!
Different games that this cabinet plays:
Jamma conversion – plays any horizontal display game that uses a spinner.
How I got it:
I got this game as part of a bulk buy in February of 2003. The games were in an old movie theater that went out of business. The really strange thing about this machine is that while I was researching information on it last night, I found out that this is the actual machine whose picture is posted on the KLOV! You can tell by the Tetris control panel overlay, and the small nick in the laminate on the front left bottom corner. If you happen to know who submitted the picture, please let me know. I would love to know more about its history.
Recent repairs:
Worked fine when I got it. I did clean out the spinner mechanism with a bit of WD-40 to loosen it up some. It is a very strange gear-driven system. Most spinners have the encoder wheel directly mounted to the spinner shaft. Check out the pictures to the left. Also just swapped out the monitor. Had to flip a switch on the PCB to get it to not run upside-down.
What it still needs:
Could use a Cameltry control panel overlay if there is such a thing. I did sell it on ebay in April 2003, and I am still waiting for it to be picked up. Looks like I’ll keep it in the gameroom and play it until I hear from the buyer! At least he paid.
Final Thoughts:
Very cool game. The spinner is a perfect control for this game! Seems to be a cool game for kids.
Personal High Scores:
Nothing I want to admit!
Links:
KLOV Cameltry Page – Check out the picture…its my cabinet!
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