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Pleiades

プリアディズ

Description

In this multi-wave space shooter, enemy ships come at you in scrolling waves. Growing bird-like ships swoop down at the player's ship as more enemy ships spring forth from the mothership. During the final wave, the player must navigate around parked ships to hit landing pad right on.

Pleiades was produced by Tehkan in 1981.

Tehkan released 16 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1981. Tehkan was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Tehkan during the time period Pleiades was produced include: Voyager, Main Flame, Swimmer, Guzzler, and Senjyo

Specs

Name	Pleiades
Developer	Tehkan (Japan)
Released by	Tehkan - Japan (April 1981), Europe (1981) Centuri - United States (June 1981) for release in North America IRECSA (Inversiones Recreativas, S.A - Madrid) - Spain (1981)
Year	1981
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	9045
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Shooter
Monitor	Orientation: Vertical Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	unique
Game Specific	Pleiades Pinout
Dipswitch Settings	Pleiades Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Buttons: Rotational (left, right) Buttons: 1 - Fire
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard Cocktail Cabaret/Mini

Video Clips

Pleiades short play by Ivan Paduano

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

Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

Bug When the final alien is killed on the very first wave, the game says that you be rewarded x amount of points, but this bonus is never added to your score.PCheat on the second round, shoot all but one alien. Then move the ship to the far left, wait for the alien to be in a firing line, then shoot. Its bullets will now go through you as long as you keep him in that position. You can quickly dart left and right, shooting it to death, racking up points very quickly. After about three minutes of this, the alien becomes highly annoyed and will hover right below you, and do all kind of neato moves. It is quite a sight to see

Images

Trivia

The Centuri marquee incorrectly spells the game as Pleiades but the software ROMs and main screen spell the game as Pleiads.

This game can be seen in the movie Nightmares starring Emilio Estevez as J.J. Cooney in the segment "Bishop of Battle". In one section, he attempts to scam some other video game players by playing Pleiades. The movie was made in 1983.

Miscellaneous

LICENSOR Tehkan

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Pleiades 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 Common - There are 139 known instances of this machine owned by Pleiades collectors who are active members. Of these, 76 of them are original dedicated machines. 5 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 58 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 8 active VAPS members with a Pleiades machines for sale. There are 5 active VAPS members with a Pleiades circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There are 7 active VAPS members currently looking for Pleiades.

This game ranks a 42 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 12 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

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

Flyers

Technical

DIP switches one through four set the initial number of lives a player is given. DIP switch five sets the number of coins per credit. DIP switch eight sets either cocktail or upright mode.

Legacy or Series

Phoenix
Pleiades

Manuals

Service Manual - Pleiades Manual — **Service Manual**
(25 pages, 2 MB File)

Foto-Finder® (Books)

The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 103; Color photo Price guide: No
Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 103; Color photo

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Upright (770b7991968b1f36cfe893744630a6b9)

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