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Punky Doodle Punky Doodle - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

Punky Doodle - Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Description

A classic maze style game single screen, non-scrolling. The player navigates a pumpkin patch, chased by a variety of monsters. Draw trails with a marker which, when attached to a pumpkin, launches the pumpkin, destroying everthing in its path.

Punky Doodle was produced by Sunsoft in 1993.

Sunsoft released 17 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1985. Sunsoft was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Sunsoft during the time period Punky Doodle was produced include: Bay Route, Shanghai II, Shanghai, VS. Lionex / Vs. Madura no Tsubasa, Boomerang, Shanghai III, Shanghai - The Great Wall, Waku Waku 7, Karaoke Quiz Intro Don Don!, and Intro Dondon

Specs

Name Punky Doodle
Developer Sunsoft (Japan)
Year 1993
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 9158
Class Wide Release
Genre Labyrinth/Maze
Monitor
Conversion Class unique
# Simultaneous Players 2
# Maximum Players 2
Game Play Joint
Control Panel Layout Multiple Player Ambidextrous
Controls
  • Joystick: 8-way
  • Buttons: 1 - Draw
Sound Amplified Stereo (two channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard

Game Play

The player navigates a pumpkin maze while being chased by a variety of evil creatures. Using a drawn trail, the player can launch pumpkins that destroy all the creatures along the path.

Rounds take place on a single screen with no scrolling. The game's difficulty increases with different pumpkin layouts containing a variety of mutant monsters.

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Cabinet Information

The prototype has a unique black upright design. The wooden sides are two inches thick and have rounded edges.

Miscellaneous

This game was never completed or released, but a playable prototype was displayed at a arcade coin-op tradeshow in San Antonio Texas, in 1994 or 1995. About twenty of the unique custom cabinets were built.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Punky Doodle Census

There are 15,211 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,644 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,563 machines (6,981 unique titles).

Rare - There are 2 known instances of this machine owned by Punky Doodle collectors who are active members. Of these, 2 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 Punky Doodle circuit board for sale.

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

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

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Technical

Developed in C on a custom TI34020 graphics processor-based system.

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