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Monkey Magic by Nintendo
« on: February 18, 2014, 02:24:07 PM »
....and I thought I knew all Nintendo arcade games by now.....


Looks like a cool Breakout clone:




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Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2014, 02:51:12 PM »
never heard of it, looks pretty cool indeed, the control panel looks like the ones they use on their cocktails.

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Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2014, 02:53:34 PM »
There actually also was a cocktail:




The game was only released in Japan so finding one is close to impossible, if any already survived....

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Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2014, 03:02:50 PM »
I think the cab is cute

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Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2014, 03:56:20 PM »
There was a PCB + cocktail panels on Yahoo! Japan auctions 3 or so years ago - sold for around $750USD as I recall.

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Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2014, 04:45:22 PM »
I can only imagine what a full working upright would be worth....prices have risen quite a bit since then....

Some cool info here, it surely is not a direct clone of Breakout, in fact, you can never completely "erase" the money as tiles return after some time...

http://blog.beforemario.com/2012/08/nintendo-monkey-magic-1979.html
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Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2014, 04:55:32 PM »
Hit one of the monkey's eyes and it would close, scoring extra points. After some time the eye would open again. If you managed to get both closed at he same time, you would score extra points
Move the arrows labbled '1', '2' and '3' up, to open the monkey's mouth. Now you can start hitting his teeth (ouch)
Touch his nose and the ball speeds up
Avoid the little monkey heads dropping down, as they will bounce the ball back before it can hit any of the blocks



Monkey Magic does not have multiple screens or stages. Blocks that have disappeared reappear again after some time. It is all about racking up the highest score. The game becomes gradually more difficult, as the ball speeds up and the number of small monkey heads dropping down increases.

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Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2014, 05:35:51 PM »
Wow, that is cool looking!! thanks for sharing!

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Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
« Reply #8 on: February 18, 2014, 05:48:47 PM »
Wow, that is cool looking!! thanks for sharing!
Remove that russian idiot from your signature please. ;D

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Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
« Reply #9 on: February 18, 2014, 05:49:59 PM »
Yes it was funny the first couple of times but not anymore now....

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Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
« Reply #10 on: February 18, 2014, 06:00:28 PM »
Happy??

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Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
« Reply #11 on: February 18, 2014, 06:59:01 PM »
LOL..........for now..... ;D

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Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
« Reply #12 on: February 18, 2014, 07:21:21 PM »
thanks god you did not replaced it with this  ;D


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Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
« Reply #13 on: February 18, 2014, 07:35:35 PM »
or this


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Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
« Reply #14 on: February 18, 2014, 07:53:34 PM »
LOL guys!
Now - back on topic please  ;) ;D

Hehe - this i exactly why this is my favorite forum!!! :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace:
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