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General Chat => Arcade Lifestyle => Topic started by: level42 on February 18, 2014, 02:24:07 PM

Title: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: level42 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:

(http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/flyers_video/nintendo/22004201.jpg)

Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: gyruss 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.
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: level42 on February 18, 2014, 02:53:34 PM
There actually also was a cocktail:

(http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/flyers_video/nintendo/22004301.jpg)


The game was only released in Japan so finding one is close to impossible, if any already survived....
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: anunaki on February 18, 2014, 03:02:50 PM
I think the cab is cute
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: ataritoobin 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.
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: level42 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
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: level42 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.
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Muerto on February 18, 2014, 05:35:51 PM
Wow, that is cool looking!! thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Belike 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
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: level42 on February 18, 2014, 05:49:59 PM
Yes it was funny the first couple of times but not anymore now....
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Muerto on February 18, 2014, 06:00:28 PM
Happy??
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: level42 on February 18, 2014, 06:59:01 PM
LOL..........for now..... ;D
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Etienne MacGyver on February 18, 2014, 07:21:21 PM
thanks god you did not replaced it with this  ;D

(http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view/201665/trololo-o.gif)
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: anunaki on February 18, 2014, 07:35:35 PM
or this

(http://s.buzzfed.com/static/imagebuzz/web02/2009/1/13/13/anigif_do-not-look-directly-at-the-hasselhoff-6742-1231872453-4.gif)
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Muerto 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:
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: ataritoobin on March 03, 2014, 09:24:59 PM
Gameplay video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJGNZ884e6U
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Chuckie egg on March 11, 2014, 08:02:09 PM
This is a awesome game
And could possibly be just a rom swap on a space fever pcb
I would love  to own this game
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: level42 on March 11, 2014, 08:13:27 PM
Yes I agree, this looks pretty damn cool for its time, definitely not just a stupid clone....
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: 89forver on December 05, 2014, 10:52:20 AM
sorry to rebump an old topic, what cabinet is this.. did Nintendo use it for any other games?
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Chuckie egg on December 06, 2014, 12:27:01 PM
Well the actual cabinet yes
But inside the control panel is different
But most early cocktails left spaces on the inside of the buttons for over games
In other words they used the same CPo but just covered the spaces the didn't need .
I think this game only had a jap release
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Muerto on December 30, 2014, 01:04:58 AM
Borrowed from UKvAC:

 
Quote from: Chuckie egg
Today I got tweeted by a Japanese collector of a very rare Nintendo game no one had ever seen before only in flyers.
So like my sheriff trimline this game has only ever been seen on a flyer so it was amazing to see one actually existed.
Unfortunately the picture was taken 20 years ago and the game may not even exist any more, nevertheless it's amazing to see.
Monkey magic is a simple breakout game which features a monkeys face as the center point of game play
Japan release only in 1979

(http://i.imgur.com/rgHslVg.jpg)
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: level42 on December 30, 2014, 01:35:32 AM
I'll take it!


;)


Saw it on KLOV forum too....Nice Lets hope it still exists.....
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Laszo on December 30, 2014, 01:42:49 AM
The controls differ from the flyer  ???
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Chuckie egg on December 30, 2014, 10:25:00 AM
Yea the controls you would have thought would be a spinner for a break out clone
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: level42 on December 30, 2014, 10:26:52 AM
Oops.....must be converted....
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Chuckie egg on January 01, 2015, 08:58:29 PM
Finally I have found some game play footage on YouTube

http://youtu.be/dJGNZ884e6U
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: lesoleil70 on January 01, 2015, 10:13:16 PM
wow, have you let Tighe know, he'll love this.
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Chuckie egg on January 01, 2015, 10:17:11 PM
wow, have you let Tighe know, he'll love this.

Yes mate constantly updating him
Top bloke
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: level42 on January 02, 2015, 01:01:40 AM
Yo Chuckie, looks like you missed Ataritoobin's post....right on top of this page.....already has a link to that video.
The question is: why does this guy seem to have a running board so why aren't the ROMs in MAME yet ? :D

Love the sounds and the laughing monkey when he is Game Over.
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Chuckie egg on January 02, 2015, 01:35:15 AM
Yea sorry level 42 I missed that  :oops:

It's very strange set up there
It's probably In Japan where they don't have the room for the cab which is probably destroyed.
Hopefully I can track it down this year that's my goal.
And to at least get the owner to burn it on to mame
Does look like a great game
Great post buddy  :)
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Vond on January 02, 2015, 10:25:35 AM
Thats an interesting cab!
Gameplay looks fun as well!
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: level42 on January 02, 2015, 10:45:57 AM
Yea sorry level 42 I missed that  :oops:

It's very strange set up there
It's probably In Japan where they don't have the room for the cab which is probably destroyed.
Hopefully I can track it down this year that's my goal.
And to at least get the owner to burn it on to mame
Does look like a great game
Great post buddy  :)

Waha, no problem Chuck....yeah I think so too that cardboard looks weird :) it's also sad he doesn't play a bit better (but I guess he is also filming at the same time) but I'd love to see what the monkey does when an eye is hit. I really like the sounds, simple but still pretty effective.

Would love to have a look at the PCB....
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Thwocker on May 16, 2015, 12:59:02 AM
Looks like there's a Monkey Magic in The Netherlands:

http://blog.beforemario.com/p/list-of-toys-and-games.html

(scroll down the page to the arcade cocktail tables...)
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: nilfisk on May 16, 2015, 07:22:18 AM
From what I read, the page you linked to is meant to be a timetable of Ninty products, not the guy's actual collection.
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Chuckie egg on May 16, 2015, 07:30:27 AM
Looks like there's a Monkey Magic in The Netherlands:

http://blog.beforemario.com/p/list-of-toys-and-games.html

(scroll down the page to the arcade cocktail tables...)

That's just Eric's  blog
The only monkey magic I've seen went on sale 2 months ago and sold for £2500 and that was just the kit
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Thwocker on May 16, 2015, 10:54:36 AM
ah yes, now I see, sorry guys, got overexcited!   :-[
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: nilfisk on June 14, 2015, 07:29:34 PM
Andy from Andys Arcade (UK) just posted a new gameplay video, it seems:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiWIWV-Jues&feature=youtu.be

Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: level42 on June 14, 2015, 08:29:56 PM
and this !


https://youtu.be/wuWT5kMgHNM?t=10


Anyone else notice something about the sound ? The sound when one of the three arrows is hit sounds very very very like the Arkanoid sound when a tile is hit !!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkTn_7tCJso
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Chuckie egg on June 14, 2015, 10:59:05 PM
Waited ages for this
Very exciting
Looks fun can't wait to play it
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: level42 on October 06, 2016, 10:50:57 PM
Holy mother of........


http://page22.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/l364942797
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: slowcade on October 06, 2016, 11:05:08 PM
Holy mother of........
http://page22.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/l364942797

I was just looking at that auction 2 minutes ago.  :o :o
Someone should get this to Europe!  :)
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: lesoleil70 on October 06, 2016, 11:25:01 PM
Just logging the pics for the record.
(http://i64.tinypic.com/ypi1f.jpg)
(http://i66.tinypic.com/jutt9w.jpg)
(http://i64.tinypic.com/28sn1wp.jpg)
(http://i67.tinypic.com/2z68f9u.jpg)
 :spaceace:


Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Chuckie egg on October 06, 2016, 11:39:33 PM
It's such a incredible find
I knew one was out there as I've seen a picture before but it's always nice to see it up for sale to know it exists still.
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Franzy21 on October 07, 2016, 08:46:05 PM
Too bad Valentin has not sorted out yet a container shipping solution from Japan!!!
 ;D
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: slowcade on October 08, 2016, 07:17:32 AM
It's not that difficult to ship from Japan. Shipping companies offer to share a container, and you only pay for the space that the cabinet takes up.
If someone wants to buy this and bring it over here it can be done.
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Thwocker on October 09, 2016, 10:15:24 PM
same guy also has a Cosmic Monsters and a Sheriff

http://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/n186772758
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Superully on October 09, 2016, 10:19:57 PM
Although the game and the sounds sucks,  i'd take Sheriff simply for the looks of the cabinet. It's a piece of Art!
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Chuckie egg on October 09, 2016, 10:26:20 PM
Wow another sheriff and in japan too,unbelievable.
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Franzy21 on October 10, 2016, 12:15:50 AM
same guy also has a Cosmic Monsters and a Sheriff

http://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/n186772758


Screen & PCB are missing in this Sheriff, no?
And Monkey Magic price slowly but steadily increasing : 837 Euros now...

By the way, for my enlightenment, how is shipping from Japan arranged?
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Chuckie egg on October 10, 2016, 06:48:37 PM
Are you going for the sheriff Franz ?
You've got the pcb I think you should.
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Thwocker on October 11, 2016, 02:43:40 PM
3300 Euros
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Franzy21 on October 12, 2016, 10:57:54 PM
Are you going for the sheriff Franz ?
You've got the pcb I think you should.

If I knew the way to do it and also had  a long term storage somewhere around Paris I would jump for it.
 ::)

Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Alpha1 on October 13, 2016, 01:34:51 PM
3300 Euros


Dammit that was a price that I would have considered but the language barrier and shipping costs on top just made it unobtainable.

Let's hope whoever bought it keeps the game complete! I know some Japanese collectors due to space covet the PCB and control panel and dump the cabinet!!!
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: joeks on October 13, 2016, 02:09:54 PM
The Monkey Magic from the Yahoo auction is coming to the Netherlands. Spoke Ronnie (Rklok) two days ago.
He doesn't have a buyer for it yet though...
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: level42 on October 13, 2016, 07:34:16 PM
Awesome news :D

Hope to see and play it one day....
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Chuckie egg on October 13, 2016, 08:28:25 PM
If it is going to the Netherlands I would love to see and play it .
Title: Re: Monkey Magic by Nintendo
Post by: Franzy21 on October 13, 2016, 09:25:41 PM
The Monkey Magic from the Yahoo auction is coming to the Netherlands. Spoke Ronnie (Rklok) two days ago.
He doesn't have a buyer for it yet though...

Excellent news!!!!