Playing Tapper on the IBM PC

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Jim Leonard

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Published on October 22, 2017 11:00:02 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkBX8_svA3k

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Tapper (1983)

Duration: 16:13

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The following is footage of Tapper, published for the IBM PC by Bally Midway in 1983. It is not a complete playthrough, but rather just enough gameplay to serve as a reference for how the game performs on the original hardware it was developed for.

This footage was recorded from an IBM PC (8088 CPU running at 4.77MHz) with a ("new-style") CGA card. The audio was tapped from the PC speaker and the video was recorded from the CGA composite output. The result was post-processed from 30i to 60p; all source frames are intact.

Personal notes: This is a very faithful port of the arcade game Root Beer Tapper. One of the better arcade ports at the time; very nice composite color graphics.

Even on Novice level, this game is really hard! (That, or my game strategies were terrible.)

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