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Power Spikes

パワー・スパイクス

Description

An indoor competitive volleyball game where the player can play world men's or world women's teams. The player plays the final set of the game and controls bumping, spiking, blocking and serving.

Power Spikes was produced by Video System Co. Ltd. in 1991.

Video System Co. Ltd. released 30 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1989. Video System Co. Ltd. was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Video System Co. Ltd. during the time period Power Spikes was produced include: F-1 Grand Prix, Hatris, Mahjong Daiyogen, Pipe Dream, Welltris, Turbo Force, Super Volley '91, Karate Blazers, Aero Fighters, and Crash Race

Specs

Name	Power Spikes
Developer	Video System Co. Ltd. (Japan)
Year	1991
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	9111
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Sports
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	JAMMA
# Simultaneous Players	2
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Competitive
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 1 - Serve/Spike/Block
Sound	Amplified Stereo (two channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

Video Clips

Arcade - Power Spikes (1991)

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

Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

There are 2 special serves in the game: Phantom serve and Thunder serve.

Thunder serve: bottom-left joystick and attack to lift the ball and top-left joystick and attack to serve

Phantom serve: bottom-right joystick and attack to lift and top-right joystick and attack to serve

Images

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Power Spikes Census

There are 15,387 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,716 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 167,516 machines (7,025 unique titles).

Uncommon - There are 18 known instances of this machine owned by Power Spikes collectors who are active members. Of these, One is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 17 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with an extra Power Spikes circuit board for sale.

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

This game ranks a 6 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]

Flyers

Legacy or Series

Manuals

Operators Manual - Power Spikes Manual — **Operators Manual**
(4 pages, 619 kB File)

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