![]() Very Common - There are approximately 59 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. Census data currently includes 160,122 machines ( 6,702 unique titles). VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Timber CensusThere are 12,166 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,550 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. The surface you stand on gets smaller in the higher levels. There is a bonus screen where the object is to stay balanced on a log spinning back and forth in the water. The round is finished after all the tress have been cut down and the player with the highest tree count gets a bonus the other player gets slapped around or drilled into the ground by the brute boss. You must finish in the specified length of time or the cigar smoking boss will blow the whistle and you will lose one life. (Example: Pushing a tree over on him just before he finishes cutting it down). ![]() You can cooperate to get finished quick, or stiff your partner to clean up on points. This game is best experienced with two players. The music will also be familiar to those acquainted with Tapper. The resemblences between the bartender and the lumberjacks are unmistakable. Game PlayThe same artist who created the characters for Tapper created the characters for this game. The control panel itself looks like a log. From the control panel down (in front and on the sides) it looks like rough wood paneling. The upper side has a large drawing of a lumber jack with an axe over his shoulder and a log cabin and trees in the background. This cabinet is nice looking and well done. If the pieces of wood are not there, the cabinet was a Root Beer Tapper. If there is a rectangular black piece of wood on each side, as seen in the cabinet picture to the right, you have a the "Budweiser" version. ![]() You can tell which the style by examining the sides of the control panel area. Some cabinets were originally Root Beer Tapper and others were the original "Budweiser" variety. A square Timber sticker was added just below the control panel. If you peel away the lumberjack sideart you will find original Tapper sideart underneath (we are not advocating you try this, however!). Log in to rate this game! Cabinet InformationAll dedicated machine housings were originally Tapper cabinets. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors. Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Timber - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.05 (3 votes) Other machines made by Bally Midway during the time period Timber was produced include Granny and the Gators, Black Pyramid, Ten Pin Champ, Spy Hunter, Kings of Steel, E2088, Gold Ball, Grand Slam (4 player version), Discs Of Tron, and Domino Man.Ĭontrolling one of two lumberjacks, you run madly around the screen chopping down trees as they sprout suddenly out of the ground while racing the clock and avoiding beehive throwing bears. Timber was produced by Bally Midway in 1984.īally Midway released 96 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1980. Timber Control Panel Image Timber Side Art Image ![]() Sound: Unamplified Stereo (requires two-channel amp)
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