Museum of the Game ®

International Arcade Museum® — Killer List of Videogames®

Dec 27-31, 2024 Year End Appeal: The Museum of the Game and The International Arcade Museum Library both launched great initiatives in 2024, but each is spending more doing so than they bring in. We're asking for your direct support for the New Year, as we'd like to sustain our momentum in 2025! Learn More

We are asking you to reflect on how valuable you find our offerings, whether you believe in arcade, coin-op, and video-game preservation, and whether you would be able to give at least $5. If you have given in the past and we still provide you with value, please kindly donate again. If you have never contributed, please consider joining our efforts today. If everyone reading this gave just $5, we'd be well on our way to reaching our goals. All that matters is that you choose to support our preservation efforts. Every contribution helps, whether it's $2 (a common first donation), $5 (the most common donation amount), $12 (the average), $20, $50, $100, or more.

Contribute To The Museum to support the encyclopedia, Arcade Map, Forums, and more --- Donate To The Library (501c3) to support eLibrary scanning projects and more

Chiller

チーラー

Description

Shooting game with horror/torture motif. Player uses the mounted gun to try and hit a specified number of targets within a given time limit. There are four basic scenes, plus two types of "bonus" levels.

Chiller was produced by Exidy in 1986.

Exidy released 59 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1974. Exidy was based in United States.

Other machines made by Exidy during the time period Chiller was produced include: Combat, Vertigo, Cheyenne, Astro Chase, Boulder Dash, Clay Pigeon, Top Gunner, 0077, Top Secret, and Crackshot

Specs

Name	Chiller
Developer	Exidy (United States)
Year	1986
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	7328
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Shooter
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	Exidy Crossbow
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Gun: Optical
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

Video Clips

Chiller

Game Introduction

The game's four basic screens are a vice/guillotine room (or torture chamber), rack room (with a river of blood), haunted house hallway, and graveyard. Between each level there is a slot-machine bonus screen, where one tries to match up 3 identical characters by shooting the fast-moving scrollers. If all of the levels are completed successfully, a target-practice bonus round ensues, wherein one tries to shoot various objects (decapitated heads, etc) that move at increasingly faster rates.

Game Play

Inaccurate shooting is punished by a faster rate of time decay. The game is generally considered quite gory, perhaps not by Mortal Kombat standards, but certainly for its time. The player is supposed to shoot apart people's body parts (exposing bones and blood, and resulting in realistic-sounding shrieks of horror). Various special situations are created as well. For example, shooting the edge of torture racks, to pull human targets apart into two pieces, or shooting the handle of a guillotine in order to drop the blade across someone's neck.

Chiller KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.36 (9 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.26

Overall Like	3.67
Fun (Social)	2.13
Fun (Solo)	3.38
Collector Desire	4.00

Technical Rating: 3.20

Gameplay	3.38
Graphics	3.22
Originality	3.67
Sound/Music	2.67

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 Information

This game is housed within a large black cabinet approx. 77 inches tall at the highest point that is shaped somewhat like a coffin. Exidy is written on the sides in white letters. The control panel is a mix of green, purple and blue that depicts a graveyard scene with decapitated heads and the like.

Conversion

Supposedly, converting this boardset to other Exidy shooting series games such as ICrossbowI and ICheyenneI can be done by swapping ROMs and exchanging the 74LS368 at position A1 on the audio board with a 74LS367.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Chiller Census

There are 15,387 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,716 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 167,516 machines (7,025 unique titles).

Common - There are 35 known instances of this machine owned by Chiller collectors who are active members. Of these, 29 of them are original dedicated machines. 4 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 2 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 a Chiller machine for sale.

Wanted - Popular - There are 15 active VAPS members currently looking for Chiller.

This game ranks a 6 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 25 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 Exidy shooters generally used large number of EPROMs in order to create the smoothflowing graphics and moving characters.

Manuals

Addendum to Crossbow or Cheyenne Manual V 1.0 - Chiller Manual — **Addendum to Crossbow or Cheyenne Manual V 1.0**
(2 pages, 0.41 MB File)

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Upright (69ec1725de91c694d06e6be4f8954ac)

eBay Listings

Click to search eBay for Chiller Videogame machines and related items.

Click to search eBay for Exidy for machines and parts.

When you click on links below to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Such revenue helps to fund this site's operations. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.

TOP WATCHED LISTINGS FOR: Chiller