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Block Fever

ブロック・フィーバー
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Description

Nintendo's Breakout-esque game with three differing styles of play to choose from.

Block Fever was produced by Nintendo in 1978.

Nintendo released 106 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1970. Nintendo was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Nintendo during the time period Block Fever was produced include: Wild Gunman (1974), Shooting Trainer, Wild Gunman - Shooting Trainer, Sky Hawk, Computer Othello, Battle Shark, Space Launcher, Head On N, and Monkey Magic

Specs

Name Block Fever
Developer Nintendo (Japan)
Year 1978
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 7155
Class Wide Release
Genre Ball and Paddle - Breakout
Monitor
Conversion Class unique
# Simultaneous Players 1
# Maximum Players 2
Game Play Alternating
Control Panel Layout Single Player
Sound Unamplified Mono (requires one-channel amp)
Cabinet Styles
  • Cocktail

Game Play

Game Mode A; Four flashing blocks appear within the playfield. Hitting one causes the whole playfield to slowly descend.
Game Mode B; The playfield shifts to the right periodically.
Game Mode C; Standard play.

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Trivia

For years this game was listed under the title Block Fiber, with Katakana ブロック・ファイバー, [romaji: burokku fuaibā (fuai-ba or fuai-va)]. It was later determined that both the English and Katakana names are in error, but not before these errors were copied by other sites. It seems most likely that no such 'Block Fiber' game exists, and that the game is Block Fever. The name has been updated. And the Katakana, taken directly from a Japanese language flyer, has been updated to ブロック・フィーバー [romaji: burokku (block) and fuībā (fe-va or fever)].

Katakana is a Japanese phonetic alphabet typically used to write words of foreign origin, like English words. Romaji is the system for writing Japanese phonetics with Romanized characters. The dot in the middle of the Katakana doesn't appear on the flyer. The interpunct ・ (中黒, nakaguro, "middle black") or "katakana middle dot" (as the Unicode consortium calls it) is a small dot used for inter-word separation, and often used for clarity to separate foreign (non-Japanese) words.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Block Fever Census

There are 15,440 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,743 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 168,478 machines (7,050 unique titles).

Very rare - There is one known instance of this machine owned by an active member Block Fever collector. It is an original dedicated machine (not another machine converted with a kit).

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.

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

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