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Thief

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Description

Players drive a car around a maze collecting greenbacks while being pursued by a number of police cars. Use dollar symbols to make your car invincible and put police cars temporarily out of action. The game uses a continuous loop tape with actual police band radio banter.

Thief was produced by Pacific Novelty in 1981.

Pacific Novelty released 8 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1980. Pacific Novelty was based in United States.

Other machines made by Pacific Novelty during the time period Thief was produced include: Deep Death, Shark Attack, Mr. F. Lea, NATO Defense, Pop-A-Ball, and Pop-A-Ball II

Specs

Name	Thief
Developer	Pacific Novelty (United States)
Year	1981
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	10086
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Labyrinth / Maze
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	unique
External Device	CTD - Plays background audio
Dipswitch Settings	Thief Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Joystick: 8-way
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard Cocktail

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

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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Thief 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).

Common - There are 48 known instances of this machine owned by Thief collectors who are active members. Of these, 40 of them are original dedicated machines. 8 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 2 active VAPS members with a Thief machines for sale.

Wanted - There are 6 active VAPS members currently looking for Thief.

This game ranks a 9 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 8 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

Manuals

Owner's Manual - Thief Manual — **Owner's Manual**
(34 pages, 2.3 MB File)

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Upright (9dd59cfc-9c69-44ac-8340-74e771aa4f4d)

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