Phraze Craze

Description

Attempt to guess the letters of the words for a given topic. A spinning wheel determines the points per letter guessed. Lose turns by incorrectly guessing letters or spinning "ZAP" or "ZILCH".

Phraze Craze was produced by Merit Industries in 1986.

Merit Industries released 77 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1980. Merit Industries was based in United States.

Other machines made by Merit Industries during the time period Phraze Craze was produced include: Sex Trivia, Tic Tac Trivia, Trivia Whiz, Chicken Draw, Casino Five, Match'em Up, Mad Adder, Merit Trivia, Riviera, and Sex Match em Up

Specs

Name	Phraze Craze
Developer	Merit Industries (United States)
Year	1986
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	9007
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Puzzle
Monitor	Orientation: Vertical Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	unique
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Buttons: 5 - Select 1\|Select 2\|Select 3\|Select 4\|Select 5
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

Game Introduction

This game is similar to the popular TV game show Wheel of Fortune.

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

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Conversion

This board runs on a common platform from Merit that allows you to change games by swapping a few EPROMs and a daughterboard. This platform plays other Merit games such as Trivia Whiz and Tic Tac Trivia.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Phraze Craze 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).

Scarce - There are 5 known instances of this machine owned by Phraze Craze collectors who are active members. Of these, It is an original dedicated machine. One is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 3 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 2 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

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Technical

Uses an AY-3-8912 sound chip, a Z80 processor and a 3.4V Lithium battery for memory.

Manuals

Installation Instructions - Phraze Craze Manual — **Installation Instructions**
(3 pages, 303 kB File)

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