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Blue Print

Description

You control a character that must search houses to find pieces of machine. There are a variety of antagonists that impede your progress including monsters and bombs. Once you've assembled the machine according to the blueprint, use it to shoot the monster that is chasing your girlfriend.

Blue Print was produced by Bally Midway in 1982.

Bally Midway released 96 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1980. Bally Midway was based in United States.

Other machines made by Bally Midway during the time period Blue Print was produced include: Lazarian, Solar Fox, Wizard Of Wor, Adventures of Robby Roto, The, Crossroads, BurgerTime, Bump 'n Jump, Baby Pac-Man, Earth Friend, and Kozmik Krooz'r

Specs

Name	Blue Print
Developer	Bally Midway (United States)
Year	1982
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	7172
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Labyrinth/Maze
Monitor	Orientation: Vertical Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	unique
Game Specific	Blue Print Pinout
Dipswitch Settings	Blue Print Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player Ambidextrous
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 1 - Fast
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard Cabaret/Mini Cocktail
Bezel	Blue Print Bezel Image
Control Panel	Blue Print Control Panel Image
Side Art	Blue Print Side Art Image

Video Clips

Bally Midway BLUE PRINT Cabaret

Game Introduction

You control handyman J.J. who must build a crazy machine that will help him stop mean Ollie Ogre and save the fair Daisy Damsel.

J.J. collects various machine parts from a maze of houses and places them on top of a blue print at the bottom of the screen. His efforts are constantly antagonized by a monster called Sneaky Pete and an owl called Fuzzy Wuzzy.

Blue Print KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 2.61 (2 votes)

Fun Factor: 2.60

Overall Like	3.00
Fun (Social)	2.00
Fun (Solo)	2.50
Collector Desire	2.50

Technical Rating: 2.63

Gameplay	2.50
Graphics	2.50
Originality	3.00
Sound/Music	2.50

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

Images

Cabinet - Video Game Marquee: Alternate
(Contributed by: Jereme Downs)

Miscellaneous

The game was released in June of 1982.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Blue Print Census

There are 15,264 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,669 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,973 machines (7,000 unique titles).

Common - There are 30 known instances of this machine owned by Blue Print collectors who are active members. Of these, 18 of them are original dedicated machines. 12 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 2 active VAPS members with a Blue Print machines for sale.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Blue Print.

This game ranks a 9 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 3 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Technical

The closest thing I've seen, architecture-wise, to this game is Super Pac-Man. The board uses only 0.156 inch MTA headers for it's wiring.

Manuals

Parts and Operating Manual - Blue Print Manual — **Parts and Operating Manual**
(75 pages, 7.9 MB File)

Foto-Finder® (Books)

Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 147; Color photo

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Upright (af3ee0d522d4f448c3864156e4194aad)

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