Pairs

Description

An adult version of the classic game "Memory". From a deck of 54 face-down cards, players flip two cards at a time and if a match is found, those cards are removed, revealing part of a picture underneath. A level is complete when no more cards remain.

Pairs was produced by Strata/Incredible Technologies in 1994.

Strata/Incredible Technologies released 3 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1991. Strata/Incredible Technologies was based in United States.

Other machines made by Strata/Incredible Technologies during the time period Pairs was produced include: Peggle, and Shuffleshot

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Specs

Name	Pairs
Developer	Strata/Incredible Technologies (United States)
Year	1994
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	8968
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Puzzle
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	JAMMA
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 1 - Select Card
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

Game Introduction

The game uses a 54-card deck that contains two wildcards. The cards are placed across the screen and each time a match has been made (a 2 matches a 2, a king matches a king, etc.), the two cards are removed.

Underneath all of the cards is picture of a woman. If the player completes a stage by matching all the cards, the picture is completely visible. As the stages progress, the pictures of the women become more and more revealing.

At the beginning of the game there are eight women to choose from, each with four stages to complete. If all 32 stages have been completed, two extra bonus stages and a final stage, called "Pairs", become available. These final stages contain two or more women in each picture.

Game Play

Players select from eight women from the start, gameplay is trying to complete and find matching pairs from a card deck. Choosing a wrong match will cause you to lose a heart. Choosing a correct match will award the player a extra heart. Complete four stages for each woman.

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

Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

If a player is lucky enough to match both wild cards in a single turn, the entire board will be completed, awarding tons of bonus points.

Images

Trivia

In the operators menu, there is a modesty level setting. The settings on this allow an opereator to add bandages (plasters) to the pictures of the girls, to cover up the exposed areas of the girls. It also allows for them to be on the bottom of them, the top, both or none!

Miscellaneous

The title screen shows the game as being manufactured by Strata, but both Incredible Technologies and Strata appear on the board set.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Pairs 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).

Uncommon - There are 6 known instances of this machine owned by Pairs collectors who are active members. Of these, 6 of them are only 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 3 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]

Manuals

Operation Manual - Pairs Manual — **Operation Manual**
(20 pages, 4.3 MB File)

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