Description
Destroy Planets before they form floating in space. Pickup stranded floating spacemen. Avoid/Destroy comets.
Mad Planets was produced byin 1983.
Gottlieb, D., & Co., a Columbia Pictures Industries Co. released59 machinesin our database under this trade name,starting in 1970.Gottlieb, D., & Co., a Columbia Pictures Industries Co.wasbased in United States.
Other machines made by Gottlieb, D., & Co., a Columbia Pictures Industries Co. during the time periodMad Planets was produced include: Insector, Spirit, Q*bert, Reactor, Snots And Boogers, Krull, Q*Bert's Quest, Royal Flush Deluxe, and Super Orbit
Specs
| Name | Mad Planets |
|---|---|
| Developer | (United States) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Type | Videogame |
| KLOV/MOG # | 8489 |
| Class | Wide Release |
| Genre | Space |
| Monitor |
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| Conversion Class | Gottlieb |
| Game Specific | Mad Planets Pinout |
| Dipswitch Settings | Mad Planets Dipswitch Settings (user contributed) |
| # Simultaneous Players | 1 |
| # Maximum Players | 2 |
| Game Play | Alternating |
| Control Panel Layout | Single Player |
| Sound | Amplified Mono (one channel) |
| Cabinet Styles |
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| Control Panel | Mad Planets Control Panel Image |
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Game Play
If planets form, you must destroy orbiting moons before you can destroy the planet. The planet will become a Mad Planet when all the moons that orbit that planet are destroyed. Once it has become mad, you will be hunted and the longer you let the planet hunt you, the faster it moves. Bonus screens are all spacemen with the comet killing you as the end to the bonus round.
Mad Planets KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score:3.54(6 votes)
Fun Factor:3.34
Overall Like | 3.33 |
|---|---|
| Fun (Social) | 3.60 |
| Fun (Solo) | 3.33 |
| Collector Desire | 4.75 |
Technical Rating:3.68
| Gameplay | 3.83 |
|---|---|
| Graphics | 4.20 |
| Originality | 3.67 |
| Sound/Music | 3.50 |
Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score.Within the Personal Impressions category, Like
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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Mad Planets Census
There are 14,742 members of theVideo Arcade Preservation Society /Vintage Arcade Preservation Society,9,468 whom participatein our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale.Census data currently includes 164,435machines (6,892 unique titles).
Very Common -There are 114 known instances of this machine owned byMad Planets collectorswho are active members.Of these, 100 of them are original dedicated machines. 7 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 7 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.
For Sale -There is one active VAPS member with aMad Planets machine for sale.
Wanted - Very Popular-There are 34 active VAPS members currentlylooking for Mad Planets.
This game ranks a 23on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common)in popularity based on census ownership records.
This game ranks a 48on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common)in popularity based on census want list records.
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Technical
The game uses a 8088 processor for the game as well as a 6502 processor for the sound.
Manuals
Foto-Finder® (Books)
- The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video GamesKurtz(ISBN 0764319256)Page: 155;Color photoPrice guide: No
- Encyclopedia of Arcade Video GamesKurtz(ISBN 0764319256)Page: 155;Color photo
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