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Heavy Barrel

Description

The object of this one- or two-player game is to kill a wide range of enemies by shooting or throwing grenades at them. Collect keys to open locked chests and receive a surprise! Collect all six parts of the "Heavy Barrel" to assemble and use the super weapon.

Heavy Barrel was produced by Data East in 1987.

Data East released 175 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1979. Data East was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Data East during the time period Heavy Barrel was produced include: Break Thru, Fire Trap, Slap Shot, Express Raider, Western Express, Wonder Planet, Garyo Retsuden, Laser War, Captain Silver, and Real Ghostbusters, The

Specs

Name	Heavy Barrel
Developer	Data East (Japan)
Year	1987
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	8094
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Shooter
Monitor	Orientation: Vertical Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	JAMMA
Game Specific	Heavy Barrel Pinout
Dipswitch Settings	Heavy Barrel Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	2
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Joint
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Rotary - LS-30 Buttons: 2 - FireGrenade
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard
Control Panel	Heavy Barrel Control Panel Image

Video Clips

Heavy Barrel, Arcade, Data East, 1987

Heavy Barrel KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.54 (8 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.58

Overall Like	4.29
Fun (Social)	3.63
Fun (Solo)	4.00
Collector Desire	3.14

Technical Rating: 3.86

Gameplay	4.29
Graphics	4.00
Originality	3.71
Sound/Music	3.43

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

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Heavy Barrel 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 130 known instances of this machine owned by Heavy Barrel collectors who are active members. Of these, 45 of them are original dedicated machines. 26 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 59 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 3 active VAPS members with a Heavy Barrel machines for sale. There are 4 active VAPS members with a Heavy Barrel circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There are 7 active VAPS members currently looking for Heavy Barrel.

This game ranks a 34 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 13 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

Installation & Service Manual - Heavy Barrel Manual — **Installation & Service Manual**
(12 pages, 3.8 MB File)

Service & Operation Manual - Heavy Barrel Manual — **Service & Operation Manual**
(28 pages, 2.9 MB File)

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Upright (cb936bde3df990479938207d9cf379ee)

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