Insector
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Description
You are a can of bug spray. Collect the jewels on the screen and destroy all the bugs.
Insector was produced by Gottlieb, D., & Co., a Columbia Pictures Industries Co. in 1982.
Gottlieb, D., & Co., a Columbia Pictures Industries Co. released 59 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1970. Gottlieb, D., & Co., a Columbia Pictures Industries Co. was based in United States.
Other machines made by Gottlieb, D., & Co., a Columbia Pictures Industries Co. during the time period Insector was produced include: Caveman, Pipeline, Mars God of War, Tidal Wave, Force II, Combination Rotation (never produced), Punk!, Q*bert, Reactor, and Snots And Boogers
Specs
| Name | Insector |
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| Developer | Gottlieb, D., & Co., a Columbia Pictures Industries Co. (United States) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Type | Videogame |
| KLOV/MOG # | 8193 |
| Class | Wide Release |
| Genre | Shooter |
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| Conversion Class | Gottlieb |
| Game Specific | Insector Pinout |
| # Simultaneous Players | 1 |
| # Maximum Players | 2 |
| Game Play | Alternating |
| Control Panel Layout | Single Player Ambidextrous |
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| Sound | Amplified Mono (one channel) |
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Game Introduction
The gameplay utilizes a top-down view. Your character is a can that has a limited spray area. The playfield begins as a tiled surface and you have mines that can be used to blow away the tiles, exposing the dirt underneath. Insects, programmed to behave in various ways, are revealed along with the dirt. The bugs can kill you if you touch them, but points are awarded by either blowing them up or spraying them. Power-ups and points also appear when the dirt becomes visible.
The round ends after the Queen has been destroyed, so the first rule is to try to find the Queen as soon as possible, or immediately after you have collected all the goodies you can. You have three lives.
Game Play
As you move, you spray bug killer in whatever direction you are headed. Try to destroy all the insects on the screen and collect as many jewels as you can. If you press the fire button you will send out two blasts of bug killer in opposite directions for those times when you are surrounded.
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Trivia
This was Tim Skelly's second game for Gottlieb/Mylstar, but it was never released. The game was finally released in April of 2000, but the sound ROMs are assumed lost.
Cabinet Information
The black prototype cabinets are the typical Gottlieb enclosures from that era
VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Insector Census
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Technical
This game runs on the same hardware as Qbert, Mad Planets and Krull.
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