Tag Play (lost arcade game; 1979)

Flyer showing both variants of the game, taken by Twitter user @onionsoftware.

Status: Lost

Tag Play (aka タッグプレイ, Taggu purei, T.S. Tag Play) was an arcade game developed and released in Japan in 1979 by the company "Sankyo". Apparently there had been both upright and cocktail style cabinets produced for it, but neither have surfaced in the modern age. No readable screenshots of the game have surfaced online, either.

Gameplay

It is assumed it played similarly to the children's game "tag" where players must run around the screen "tagging" their opponents. The game also appears to have it's playing field structured like a "maze", predating Pac-Man by a year. The graphics appear to be extremely basic shapes against a dark blue background for it's playing field.

Gallery

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  Front cover of the service manual.

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  Game instructions page of the service manual.

Sources

• Source of the flyer. Retrieved 8 Sept '24
• Source of the instruction manual. (Archived) Retrieved 8 Sept '24

See Also

Castle Take (lost arcade game; 1978)
Pyramid (lost arcade game; 1978)