Whac-A-Mole
Sign in to saveWhac-A-Mole is a Japanese arcade game that was created in 1975 by the amusements manufacturer TOGO in Japan, where it was originally known as or .
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It sits within the topics Carnival games, Japanese inventions and KLOV game ID not in Wikidata.
Its subject is documented across 15 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Game.italic title
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- Game.title
- Whac-A-Mole
- Game.image_link
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- Game.image_caption
- A pair of Whac-A-Mole machines
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video game
- Genre
- arcade
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Platform
- Nintendo DS
- Game mode
- single-player video game
- Image
- Whac-A-Mole-Dog.jpg
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- Commons category
- Whac-A-Mole
- publication date
- 1975-00-00
- native label
- モグラ退治
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Play
- History
- Variations
- Design
- Colloquial usage
- See also
- References
- External links
Whac-A-Mole is a Japanese arcade game that was created in 1975 by the amusements manufacturer TOGO in Japan, where it was originally known as or .
A typical Whac-A-Mole machine consists of a waist-level cabinet with a play area and display screen, and a large, soft mallet. Five to eight holes in the play area top are filled with small, plastic, cartoonish moles, or other characters, which pop up at random. Points are scored by, as the name suggests, whacking each mole as it appears. The faster the reaction, the higher the score.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Whac-A-Mole” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.