Pickin'
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Description
You must move all the colored blocks into the same color corral. Avoid hitting the Disrupter and the Killer.
Pickin' was produced by Valadon Automation in 1983.
Valadon Automation released 6 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1980. Valadon Automation was based in France.
Other machines made by Valadon Automation during the time period Pickin' was produced include: Bagman, Le Bagnard, Millpac, Squash, and Tank Busters
Specs
| Name | Pickin' |
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| Developer | Valadon Automation (France) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Type | Videogame |
| KLOV/MOG # | 9008 |
| Class | Wide Release |
| Genre | Labyrinth/Maze |
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| Conversion Class | unique |
| Game Specific | Pickin' Pinout |
| Dipswitch Settings | |
| # Simultaneous Players | 1 |
| # Maximum Players | 2 |
| Game Play | Alternating |
| Control Panel Layout | Single Player |
| Controls |
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| Sound | Amplified Mono (one channel) |
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Game Play
You need to get all of the like-colored blocks into their matching corrals. Each time a corral is completed 500 points are added to the bonus, and the player is given a net block which may be used to temporarily trap the Disruptor or Killer. When all of the blocks are in the proper locations, the level ends, an the player is awarded the remaining bonus. If the Picker collides with the Disrupter or Killer, you lose a life. The Disruptor moves around randomly picking up and moving blocks, and will often undo your work. The Killer can only kill you, but only appears when there is no bonus remaining. Neither the Picker nor the Disrupter may move though a block, while carrying a block, but the player still dies if he collides with the Disrupter when both are carrying blocks. The Transposer is simply a pest in that it will move you to a different part of the screen if it touches you. For a limited time after the transposer moves you, you are invincible. After levels three and six, there is a little bonus game where the Picker slides tiles to unscramble a picture.
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Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs
If the game is set to free play and five pickers, the game will not take away a picker when you die.
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Trivia
A high score of over 58,000 points was established for this game at the 2001 Twin Galaxies - Funspot World Arcade Game Championships.
Conversion
With a little bit of hacking, this game can be played on Bagman hardware. The games share the same hardware resources, but required slightly different memory maps.
Miscellaneous
Unlike Bagman, this game was likely not licensed by Stern or Konami.
VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Pickin' 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 4 known instances of this machine owned by Pickin' collectors who are active members. Of these, 4 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 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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