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[Ikrananka]

Root Beer Tapper





Sam's customers really know how to put it away the root beer!  In fact, they drink it down as fast as you serve it up . . . sometimes even faster!  You're the only soda jerk on duty, so you have to really hustle to keep up with the orders.  Things get pretty messy if you don't do it just right.  Mugs crash off the counter if you serve too fast or grab the empties too slowly.  And if drinks don't come pronto, the customers get downright mean.  They'll pick you up and toss you out of the fountain!
Ah, but soda jerking does have its rewards.  Pick up the tips to set off colorful floor shows.  And if you're good, you'll roll out the root beer in four colourful screens!  Tie on your apron and go with the flow; fun for the whole family is always on tap at Sam's place!

Game Information

Game Name: Root Beer Tapper
Released by: Coleco, 1984
Original arcade game by: Bally Midway, 1984
CV HSC High Score: N/A
TwinGalaxies High Score: 226,275 by Ryan (Feb 2005)
Settings: Skill 3
This game was suggested by: Random Selection


Contest Starts/Ends

Commences: Sunday, 15 January 2012 at 1:00AM EST
Ends: Sunday, 22 January 2012 at 1:00AM EST

Tournament Rules

Anyone can jump in and play a Knockout round game if they like (this includes players who have been Knocked out of the tournament!). This is just for fun and to show off high scores though and will NOT to be counted in the contest.

You need not win, just not finish LAST! Let the battle begin...


Final Positions

1. jblenkle 453,875
2. cparsley 410,300
3. patbb 247,025
4. skosh 228,125
5. JacobZu7zu7 128,075
6. ed1475 106,200
7. roadrunner 49,850 - ELIMINATED

Non-Tournament Player Scores (up to post#29)

Darrin9999 26,875


Player List
JacobZu7zu7
jblenkle
roadrunner
patbb
skosh
ed1475
cparsley
ColecoDan (eliminated Round 2)
Ikrananka (eliminated Round 1)

Attached Files

•  Tapper (1984) (Midway).zip   21.95K   32 downloads

Edited by Ikrananka, Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:22 PM.

[roadrunner]

I'll lead things off,

49,850 i got to screen 9

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[skosh]

118,225

[jblenkle]

Tapper - 123,100

[Ikrananka]

Just a reminder - make sure that you're playing on Skill 3.

[JacobZu7zu7]

SKILL 3... TAPPER, is it the same as root beer tapper? I think so...

23,950

This game is somewhat easy to play when sick... no heavy scrolling...

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[skosh]

Level 3
228125

[cparsley]

Root beer tapper was the child version to strip the beer references the arcade game "Tapper" had... Love serving from the actual TAPPER the console had on the machine

[cparsley]

Can I get someone to post the rom to Root Beer tapper plz

[jblenkle]

Tapper - 399,125



Caught the Game Over square between blinks!!!

Edited by jblenkle, Mon Jan 16, 2012 1:41 AM.

[JacobZu7zu7]

cparsley, on Sun Jan 15, 2012 10:46 PM, said:

Can I get someone to post the rom to Root Beer tapper plz

I can through email... it doesn't allow here at AA though, probably because it's not-Atari.
Pretty racist I know.. What's ur address chris?

[Ikrananka]

JacobZu7zu7, on Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:24 AM, said:

cparsley, on Sun Jan 15, 2012 10:46 PM, said:

Can I get someone to post the rom to Root Beer tapper plz

I can through email... it doesn't allow here at AA though, probably because it's not-Atari.
Pretty racist I know.. What's ur address chris?

Rom files need to be zipped before attaching otherwise AA blocks them. I have attached the rom to the first post. Enjoy

[JacobZu7zu7]

Ikrananka, on Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:14 AM, said:

JacobZu7zu7, on Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:24 AM, said:

cparsley, on Sun Jan 15, 2012 10:46 PM, said:

Can I get someone to post the rom to Root Beer tapper plz

I can through email... it doesn't allow here at AA though, probably because it's not-Atari.
Pretty racist I know.. What's ur address chris?

Rom files need to be zipped before attaching otherwise AA blocks them. I have attached the rom to the first post. Enjoy

Not all ROMs, all Atari ROMs I was able to attach without being zipped. So far 2600 / 7800 I attached without zipping and it goes right through.

[Ikrananka]

JacobZu7zu7, on Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:02 AM, said:

Ikrananka, on Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:14 AM, said:

JacobZu7zu7, on Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:24 AM, said:

cparsley, on Sun Jan 15, 2012 10:46 PM, said:

Can I get someone to post the rom to Root Beer tapper plz

I can through email... it doesn't allow here at AA though, probably because it's not-Atari.
Pretty racist I know.. What's ur address chris?

Rom files need to be zipped before attaching otherwise AA blocks them. I have attached the rom to the first post. Enjoy

Not all ROMs, all Atari ROMs I was able to attach without being zipped. So far 2600 / 7800 I attached without zipping and it goes right through.

I believe it is to do with the file extension used.  The .rom extension is most certainly blocked.

[patbb]

247,025

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[ed1475]

106,200

[jblenkle]

I wasn't going to submit another high score for this game unless someone went ahead of me, but then I decided to do one on the real machine instead of the emulator.

Tapper - 453,875

[cparsley]

Stage #13... 72,300

[JacobZu7zu7]

91,750

Oh, you can pick up tips! That helps... lol. I thought it was a tip, but I didn't go for it on my first few plays, because I didn't know it would freeze the costumers, nice...

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[cparsley]

Since we haven't had an update for awhile... unofficial update (feel free to delete post when u update)

Jblenkle    453,875
patbb        247,025
skosh        228,125
ed1475        106,200
JacobZu7     91,750
cparsley     72,300
roadrunner     49,850

[cparsley]

Very likely my last speak on this game (due to the VCS/INTV Ko's)

410,300
Level : 26


This game made me cry, really... my death were due to boredom it was sooo easy to rape and pillage this seriously inferior port of the arcade... (okay getting off the soap box)

[jblenkle]

Yes, it is very easy to run up the score on this game...but seemingly only a couple of us caught on to that...

cparsley, on Sat Jan 21, 2012 12:24 AM, said:

Very likely my last speak on this game (due to the VCS/INTV Ko's)

410,300
Level : 26
tapper410300.JPG

This game made me cry, really... my death were due to boredom it was sooo easy to rape and pillage this seriously inferior port of the arcade... (okay getting off the soap box)

[JacobZu7zu7]

Skill level 3 is somewhat tricky,... to me anyway. I did catch on to getting more tips as I go.

[Darrin9999]

What`s a good Colecovision emulator to use?

[JacobZu7zu7]

Darrin9999, on Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:37 AM, said:

What`s a good Colecovision emulator to use?

I use MEKA, it emulates CV very well.. no problems like I had with VirtualColecovision.
MEKA is made for Sega, but one of it's Consoles it plays is Colecovision...