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Magic Maggot

マジック・メゴット
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Description

The player controls a gun that can only move in the bottom fifth of the screen. The object is to shoot a centipede that works its way down to the player area through a field of mushrooms. Other attacking enemies are fleas, spiders, and scorpions.

Magic Maggot was produced by Digimatic Italia in 1980.

Digimatic Italia released 3 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1980. Digimatic Italia was based in United States.

Other machines made by Digimatic Italia during the time period Magic Maggot was produced include: Missile Defend, and Millepiedi

Specs

Name Magic Maggot
Developer Digimatic Italia (United States)
Year 1980
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 8495
Class Bootleg
Genre Shooter
Monitor
Conversion Class unique
# Simultaneous Players 1
# Maximum Players 2
Game Play Alternating
Control Panel Layout Single Player
Controls
  • Trackball: Optical
  • Buttons: 1 - Fire
Sound Unamplified Mono (requires one-channel amp)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard

Game Introduction

This is an obvious bootleg of Atari's Centipede.

Magic Maggot KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

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Images

Cabinet Information

The Zaccharia cabinet is a copy of Atari's Centipede. The marquee and sideart are ripped off from the Atari designs.

Miscellaneous

COPY OF: Centipede

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Magic Maggot Census

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).

Very rare - There is one known instance of this machine owned by an active member Magic Maggot collector. It is a set of circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

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

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

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

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