A fishing game where the goal is to catch the biggest large mouth bass. There are three experience levels to select from: Beginner, Training, and Tournament. The first two levels help teach the game.
Fisherman's Bait: A Bass Challenge was produced by Konami in 1998.
Konami released 435 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978. Konami was based in Japan.
Other machines made by Konami during the time period Fisherman's Bait: A Bass Challenge was produced include: Poly Stars - Tobe!, GTI Club, Konami System 573, Hang Pilot, Operation Thunder Hurricane, Gradius IV - Fukkatsu, Beatmania, Beatmania 2nd Mix, Fighting Bujutsu Fighting Wu-Shu, and Evil Night
Name | Fisherman's Bait: A Bass Challenge |
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Developer | Konami (Japan) |
Year | 1998 |
Type | Videogame |
KLOV/MOG # | 7817 |
Class | Wide Release |
Genre | Sports |
Monitor |
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Conversion Class | unique |
# Simultaneous Players | 1 |
# Maximum Players | 1 |
Game Play | Single |
Control Panel Layout | Single Player |
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This is the first Fisherman's Bait. In 1999, the sequel came out as The Marlin Challenge which updates Bass Challenge.
There are 15,364 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,708 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 167,365 machines (7,023 unique titles).
Common - There are 23 known instances of this machine owned by Fisherman's Bait: A Bass Challenge collectors who are active members. Of these, 7 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. 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 Fisherman's Bait: A Bass Challenge machines for sale. There are 3 active VAPS members with a Fisherman's Bait: A Bass Challenge circuit boards for sale.
Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.
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.
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