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Wacko

Wacko - Japanese Title

Wacko - marquee

Manufacturer: Bally Midway
Year: 1983
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Shooter
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

  • Orientation: Horizontal
  • Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
  • CRT: Color
Conversion Class: Midway MCR II
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player Ambidextrous
Controls:
  • Trackball: Optical
  • Joystick: 4-way (up, down, left, right) [Zap]

Sound: Unamplified Stereo (requires two-channel amp)

Wacko


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Wacko Description

Kapt'n Krooz'r "kroozes" around the landscape and inside caves shooting monsters and avoiding collisions. Shoot two matching monsters in succession to make them disappear. On higher levels, shooting unmatched monsters creates "mutants".

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Cabinet Information

Wacko has a uniquely designed cabinet -- the marquee and control panel are angled! Instead of being the same height on both sides, the right side of the cabinet is about three inches lower than the left-hand side.

Game Play

Kapt'n Krooz'r must destroy all monsters on each level to proceed to the next. There are six different monsters to destroy on each level and they include blue lizardmen, black-robed space vampires, yellow two-headed dragons, brown mudmen and red man-monsters.

On later levels, Kapt'n Krooz'r must zap like monsters in sequence or they will become mismatched and he will have to zap the monsters again to unmix them. Each pair of zapped monsters will then turn into babies. Once they have been zapped, the babies will turn into eggs and the eggs will turn into bats.

Kapt'n Krooz'r must zap all the monsters and whatever they each become until they are all destroyed. After that, the player will proceed on to the next level.

VAPS Arcade Census

GAMES OWNED, WANTED, or FOR SALE BY MEMBERS OF THE VIDEO ARCADE PRESERVATION SOCIETY

Common - There are 27 known instances of Wacko owned by one of our 3,650 members who participate in our machine census project. Of these, 27 of them are original dedicated machines

Of the 59,775 machines (3,517 unique) tracked by the Video Game Preservation Society, this game ranks a 13 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records.

Wanted - There are 2 VAPS members currently looking for Wacko.

For Sale - There is one VAPS member with a Wacko machine for sale. VAPS members are totally independent of VAPS and the International Arcade Museum, and we are unable to recommend, endorce, or guarantee any person or company selling games or game parts.

Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them (they are common because arcade operators might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses), while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up. Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector. For a clue to value, compare how many people have this game vs. how many people want this game and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range.

Trivia

Kapt'n Krooz'r" starred in a later game by Bally/Midway called Kozmik Krooz'r.

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Legacy

  1. Wacko
  2. Kozmik Krooz'r

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  1. The Encyclpedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 154; Color photo;
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Wacko - Title screen image


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