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Food Fight

Description

As Charley Chuck, you hurl piles of food at your foes, the four crazy chefs, but make sure you eat the ice-cream cone before it melts. This game uses a special analog joystick that is comprised of a centering-bellows and two potentiometers.

Food Fight was produced by Atari in 1983.

Atari released 139 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1972. Atari was based in United States.

Other machines made by Atari during the time period Food Fight was produced include: Fast Freddie, Gravitar, Dig Dug, Black Widow, Akka Arrh, Alpha 1, Arabian, Cloak & Dagger, Cloud 9, and Crystal Castles

Specs

Name	Food Fight
Developer	Atari (United States)
Year	1983
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	7837
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Platform
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	unique
Game Specific	Food Fight Pinout
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Joystick: Analog Buttons: 1 - Throw
Sound	Unamplified Mono (requires one-channel amp)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard Cocktail
Side Art	Food Fight Side Art Image
PCB	Food Fight PCB Image

Game Introduction

Food Fight hero, Charley Chuck, gets points by eating his ice cream cone before it melts. To do this, he must fight off Oscar, Angelo, Jacques, and Zorba, the four mean-looking chefs who rise from holes and throw food at him.

Each of the chefs wears a different hat: Oscar wears a big hat Angelo wears a small hat Jacques wears a curved hat and Zorba wears a tall hat.

Charley must not be caught by a chef, get hit by food thrown by a chef or walk onto an open hole or else he is a goner.

On some stages, the food that Charley can throw at the chefs include peas, tomatoes, bananas and pies each in piles. On these stages, the supplies are limited, so you must try to use whatever you can to throw at the crazy chefs before they run out.

On other stages, the food that he can throw are watermelons. On these stages, Chuck can throw pieces of watermelon continuously because the supplies are absolutely unlimited.

Whenever Charley makes a direct hit at a chef, the chef is temporarily stunned.

Chuck must eat the ice-cream cone before it melts in order to proceed to the next stage. When Chuck eats the cone, the ice-cream flavor changes and the game difficulty increases.

If the round lasts a long time and Charley has a lot of narrow escapes or close calls before successful completion, the game may award an "Instant Replay" - when this happens silly music plays there is no background music during gameplay and the entire round is played back on the screen. The music is synchronized to the replay so that the last few notes correspond perfectly to the point where Charley eats the cone. Getting an "Instant Replay" does not add to the player score, but it sure is fun to see. When the chefs pop up they also leave holes on the screen, you fall in a hole you die! Avoid the holes.

Game Play

There are 125 total levels. Once you reach level 80 or so, the game is so fast that you are pretty much just running for the cone.

Food Fight KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.53 (14 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.44

Overall Like	3.62
Fun (Social)	3.00
Fun (Solo)	3.54
Collector Desire	3.86

Technical Rating: 3.81

Gameplay	3.85
Graphics	3.85
Originality	3.92
Sound/Music	3.38

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

Trivia

The game is labeled "Charley Chuck's Food Fight" on the marquee and the manual.

An upright version of the game appears in the movie "Real Genius".

Cabinet Information

There are two known types of marquees: a flexible vinyl paper type and a dedicated solid plastic type. The artwork on the upright is classic Atari.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Food Fight 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).

Very Common - There are 165 known instances of this machine owned by Food Fight collectors who are active members. Of these, 149 of them are original dedicated machines. One is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 13 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 5 active VAPS members with a Food Fight machines for sale. There is one active VAPS member with an extra Food Fight circuit board for sale.

Wanted - Very Popular - There are 41 active VAPS members currently looking for Food Fight.

This game ranks a 41 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 67 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

Manuals

Operator's Manual - Food Fight Manual — **Operator's Manual**
(59 pages, 9.5 MB File)

Foto-Finder® (Books)

The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 151; Color photo Price guide: No
Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 151; Color photo

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Dedicated (b18b727f52fd5bbf15000ab5e56184f5)

Arcade Map - Play This Game

Our members have reported that Food Fight is playable at 1 locations:

Name	Location	State	Country	Details	Check-ins
Bartari	101 Adams Ave, Scranton	Pennsylvania	United States	Bar	0

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