MUSEUM VOOR POPULAIRE CULTUUR
Donkey Kong
Nintendo
1981
Jumpman – known today as Mario – must traverse levels structures to save his girlfriend, Pauline, from Donkey Kong before time runs out. The levels include Girders, Rivets, Elevators, and Conveyor Belts. Mario must avoid flames, barrels, and bouncing rivets to reach his goal.
genre | platform
design | Shigeru Miyamoto, Gunpei Yokoi
art | Shigeru Miyamoto
composer | Yukio Kaneoka
upright cabinet
acquisitie | februari 2023
Make Trax
Alpha Denshi | Williams Electronics
1981
Player controls a paintbrush to paint paths within a maze. The player is harassed by two fish which can be temporarily destroyed by running them over with a one of two paint rollers located near the maze center. A critter occasionally emerges to leave footprints on painted areas which must then be repainted.
genre | maze
upright cabinet
acquisitie | januari 2023
Scramble
Konami | Stern
1981
Player controls a spaceship that must infiltrate the enemy Scramble system in this side-view shooter/bomber classic. Player must destroy the Base at the end of the system. In the STERN version, the enemy base is much harder to destroy than the Konami version but at least in the STERN version, if you lose a base while destroying the enemy base, you do not lose the life and the game starts you back at the system beginning.
genre | scrolling shooter
upright cabinet
acquisitie | november 2022
BurgerTime
Data East | Bally Midway
1982
Peter Pepper the chef moves around the screen walking over the parts of a hamburger. As each item is walked over it drops to the level below. Armed with pepper he can throw on his enemies, he must avoid Mr. Hotdog, Mr. Egg, and Mr. Pickle. Bonuses appear in the forms of ice cream, coffee, and french fries.
genre | platform
upright cabinet
acquisitie | november 2022
Vanguard
TOSE | Centuri
1981
This game is a horizontal and vertical scrolling shooter with four buttons that let you shoot in four different directions. In addition to shooting enemies, you can drive your ship through an “energy” pod that energizes your ship allowing you to crash into enemies without being destroyed.
genre | scrolling shooter
upright cabinet
acquisitie | september 2022
Phoenix
Taito | Centuri
1980
A spaceship which moves left and right horizontally at the bottom of the screen must destroy bird-shaped spaceships, birds, and finally a mothership at the end of each level. The player’s ship is equipped with a shield that requires seven seconds to regenerate before it can be used again.
genre | fixed shooter
upright cabinet
acquisitie | augustus 2022
Pole Position
Namco | Atari
1982
Race your Indy car around the Fuji course before the timer runs out. The first run is the qualifying lap and your starting position is determined by your completion time. Avoid road hazards and other cars as you drive, earning extra time for each completed lap.
genre | racing
design | Kazunori Sawano, Sho Osugi, Shinichiro Okamoto
programmer | Koichi Tashiro
composers |Nobuyuki Ohnogi, Yuriko Keino
upright cabinet
acquisitie | mei 2022
Kung-Fu Master
Irem | Data East
1984
This is a horizontal scrolling game with five floors that you must fight your way through to save your girlfriend “Sylvia”. You must fight various enemies and the clock to the end of each floor where you will find a master of various martial arts. Defeat him and you will proceed up the stairs to the next floor. Defeat the master on the fifth floor and save Sylvia … for a little while …
genre | beat ‘em up
design | Takashi Nishiyama
composer | Masato Ishizaki
upright cabinet
acquisitie | maart 2022
Pac-Man
Namco
1980
A yellow, pie-shaped character named Pac-Man runs along inside a maze, eating dots as it avoids four ghosts. Each ghost has its own unique personality and gobbling one of the four super dots makes Pac-Man invincible to the ghosts for a given period of time. Each maze has its own unique bonus fruit or object with bonus points increasing as the game progresses.
genre | maze
design | Toru Iwatani
programmer | Shigeo Funaki, Shigeichi Ishimura
art | Hiroshi Ono
composer | Shigeichi Ishimura, Toshio Kai
upright cabinet
acquisitie | februari 2022
Joust
Williams
1982
You are a knight flying on an ostrich, battling buzzard-mounted enemies. To fly, you repeatedly hit the flap button. To topple the Buzzard-Riders “the highest lance wins.” Two-player head-to-head play is excellent.
genre | action
design | John Newcomer
programmer | Bill Pfutzenreuter
art | Jan Hendricks, Python Anghelo
composers | Tim Murphy, John Kotlarik
upright cabinet
acquisitie | december 2021
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