MUSEUM VOOR POPULAIRE CULTUUR
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
cockpit
acquisitie | februari 2025
Cycle Rider
Taito
1970
genre | racing
upright cabinet
acquisitie | maart 2023
Galaxian
Namco | Midway
1979
A game where a spaceship flies back and forth shooting aliens in space.
genre | fixed shooter
design | Kazunori Sawano, Shigeichi Ishimura
programmer | Koichi Tashiro
art | Hiroshi Ono
composer | Toshio Kai
upright cabinet
acquisitie | april 2021
Hyper Sports
Konami
1984
This game consists of Olympic events. The player must qualify the event to move onto the next.
genre | sports
upright cabinet
acquisitie | september 2023
Q*Bert
Gottlieb
1982
A two-legged, big-nosed, orange creature jumps diagonally around on a pyramid, changing the color of the blocks he lands on. Avoid most moving objects and characters while luring Coily, the snake, to his demise by jumping off the edge of the pyramid onto one of the flying disks. The game has nine levels of four rounds each.
genre | action, puzzle
design | Warren Davis, Jeff Lee
programmer | Warren Davis
art | Jeff Lee
composer | David Thiel
upright cabinet
acquisitie | mei 2023
Robotron
Vid Kidz | Williams Electronics
1982
The object of the game is to save the last human family although it seems they had a really big family and kill anything or anyone who gets in your way. Two joysticks are used for play control one for movement and the other for firing.
genre | multidirectional shooter
design | Eugene Jarvis, Larry DeMar
programmers | Eugene Jarvis, Larry DeMar
upright cabinet
acquisitie | februari 2023
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
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