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Tapper

Developer: Marvin Glass and Associates Publisher: Bally Midway
December 1983
Arcade
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27 Ratings / 1 Reviews
#3,244 All-time
#7 for 1983
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Action Arcade#116 Advergame#8
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Tapper
1983 • MGA Bally Midway  
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Tapper is a good micromanagement idea that starts easy enough, serving beer mugs to bar patrons in order to push them back, but once the sports stadium stage arrives you're in for a hurricane of demands that can't be placated because more thirsty patrons come in massive waves at fixed periods. If you make it past the first three levels, consider that you have beaten it.

A big, big flaw of the formula is the levels have no sense of adjusting these refresh rates of spawning drinkers, which makes it extremely easy to nullify anyone's hard work of trying to level the bars, on top of which you have to juggle a convoluted mess of empty mugs coming back(not picking them up results in a lost life), as well as getting a tip that saves your skin, but only in the short term. If this formula had been curbed not to spawn patrons on all four bars simultaneously, or at least limited to a time frame before the waves stop coming, this would've been less frustrating.
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ernumpo Tapper 2024-05-06T09:40:17Z
Arcade
2024-05-06T09:40:17Z
6.5
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hevykofe Tapper 2024-01-29T01:41:10Z
Arcade
2024-01-29T01:41:10Z
In collection Want to buy Used to own  
hazardintherain Tapper 2023-11-02T12:15:19Z
Arcade
2023-11-02T12:15:19Z
3.5
In collection Want to buy Used to own  
ColdVein Tapper 2022-12-10T22:43:56Z
Arcade
2022-12-10T22:43:56Z
3.0
In collection Want to buy Used to own  
goddamruskies Tapper 2022-12-09T06:34:42Z
Arcade
2022-12-09T06:34:42Z
3.0
In collection Want to buy Used to own  
CrashV1978 Tapper 2022-11-14T17:34:45Z
Arcade
2022-11-14T17:34:45Z
3.0
In collection Want to buy Used to own  
wheelchair_balls Tapper 2022-11-01T19:55:00Z
Arcade
2022-11-01T19:55:00Z
3.5
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RavenGenevore Tapper 2022-06-07T13:51:03Z
Arcade
2022-06-07T13:51:03Z
3.5
1
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arcade
EelSedaka Tapper 2022-05-16T20:08:33Z
Arcade
2022-05-16T20:08:33Z
5.0
1
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chumlum Tapper 2021-12-23T19:04:32Z
Arcade
2021-12-23T19:04:32Z
2.5+
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vrsk Tapper 2021-10-13T21:15:16Z
Arcade
2021-10-13T21:15:16Z
2.5
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Vaxen Tapper 2021-09-05T22:10:20Z
Arcade
2021-09-05T22:10:20Z
In collection Want to buy Used to own  
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1-2 players
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Midway's Greatest Arcade Hits Volume 1 Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Midway Collection 2 Midway Arcade Origins Midway Arcade Treasures

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  • Farboro 2021-05-08 06:43:36.486249+00
    best arcade game of all time
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