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|title=<center>Arm Champs I </center>
|title=<center>Arm Champs I </center>
|image=Arm Champs I Logo.jpg
|image=Arm Champs I Arcade Title Screen.png
|imagecaption=The logo for the Arm Champs 1988 arcade game.
|imagecaption=Title Screen.
|status=<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span>
|status=<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
|datefound=30 Sep 2022
|foundby=[https://github.com/mamedev/mame/commit/8cde357c1534e45cefc0c920171b61d1ae11d54f Phil Bennett]
 
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'''''Arm Champs''''' was an arm wrestling arcade game released by Jaleco in 1988. The game was later followed by it's more popular 1992 sequel '''''Arm Champs II'''''.
'''''Arm Champs''''' was an arm wrestling arcade game released by Jaleco in 1988. The game was later followed by its more popular 1992 sequel ''Arm Champs II''.


==Gameplay==
==Gameplay==
The objective of the game is to beat your opponent in an arm wrestling match with the arm strength of the player being measured during each round. The game has two modes. One mode allows the player to freely select an opponent to arm wrestle against. The second mode is a tournament mode where the player cannot select an opponent and instead must arm wrestle each opponent in order of difficulty. The game has five opponents each representing a country from around the world. There is '''Nessie Papillon''' (a female champ and a British professional wrestler), '''Mad Foreman''' (an unemployed man from Germany), '''Cho Yeongping''' (a Chinese fisherman), '''Mike Robinson''' (a South African miner), and '''Wolf Adams''' (an American convoy driver).
The objective of the game is to beat your opponent in an arm wrestling match with the arm strength of the player being measured during each round. The game has two modes. One mode allows the player to freely select an opponent to arm wrestle against. The second mode is a tournament mode where the player cannot select an opponent and instead must arm wrestle each opponent in order of difficulty. The game has five opponents each representing a country from around the world. There is Nessie Papillon (a female champ and a British professional wrestler), Mad Foreman (an unemployed man from Germany), Cho Yeongping (a Chinese fisherman), Mike Robinson (a South African miner), and Wolf Adams (an American convoy driver).


==Availability==
==Availability==
While there are ROM dumps of '''''Arm Champs II''''' available online, '''''Arm Champs''''' on the other hand can only be played in arcades that have the arcade machine. There are currently no ROM dumps of '''''Arm Champs''''' online and it cannot be found through MAME or any arcade emulating website.
While there are ROM dumps of ''Arm Champs II'' available online, due to how uncommon the original ''Arm Champs'' was, it never received a ROM dump for many, many years. It wasn't until September 29th, 2022 when Twitter user ''Phil Bennett'' announced that he had acquired the Japanese boardset of ''Arm Champs'' and had it dumped and running on MAME within a day.<ref>[https://twitter.com/PhilBennett3D/status/1575365588846751744 Tweet announcing the game was dumped]</ref>


==Videos==
==Videos==
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   |description1 =Footage of an Arm Champs arcade machine in Wales.
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   |description2 =Footage of the Arm Champs arcade machine being played at the 1988 Amusement Machine Show in Tokyo, Japan. (Skip to 5:28)
   |description2 =Footage of an ''Arm Champs'' arcade machine being played at the 1988 Amusement Machine Show in Tokyo, Japan (Skip to 5:28).
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==References==
==External Links==
*[http://www.wikiwand.com/ja/ARM_CHAMPS Wikiwand description of Arm Champs and Arm Champs II (Japanese Only)]
*[http://wikiwand.com/ja/ARM_CHAMPS Wikiwand description of ''Arm Champs'' and ''Arm Champs II'' (Japanese Only)]
*[http://unmamed.mameworld.info/non_jaleco.html#ArmChamps Arm Champs listed on a category of "unMAMEd Jaleco Games"]
*[http://unmamed.mameworld.info/non_jaleco.html#ArmChamps ''Arm Champs'' listed on a category of "unMAMEd Jaleco Games"]
*[https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=2911&image=1 The arcade flyer for the Arm Champs 1988 Jaleco arcade game.]
*[https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=2911&image=1 The arcade flyer for the ''Arm Champs'' 1988 Jaleco arcade game.]
*[https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=2911&image=2 Another arcade flyer showing the five opponents and how to play the game.]
*[https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=2911&image=2 Another arcade flyer showing the five opponents and how to play the game.]
*[https://thearmwrestlingarchives.com/armwrestling-amusement-devices.html A page from The Armwrestling Archives that lists ''Arm Champs'' and ''Arm Champs II''.]
==Reference==
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Latest revision as of 05:45, 19 March 2023

Arm Champs I Arcade Title Screen.png

Title Screen.

Status: Found

Date found: 30 Sep 2022

Found by: Phil Bennett

Arm Champs was an arm wrestling arcade game released by Jaleco in 1988. The game was later followed by its more popular 1992 sequel Arm Champs II.

Gameplay

The objective of the game is to beat your opponent in an arm wrestling match with the arm strength of the player being measured during each round. The game has two modes. One mode allows the player to freely select an opponent to arm wrestle against. The second mode is a tournament mode where the player cannot select an opponent and instead must arm wrestle each opponent in order of difficulty. The game has five opponents each representing a country from around the world. There is Nessie Papillon (a female champ and a British professional wrestler), Mad Foreman (an unemployed man from Germany), Cho Yeongping (a Chinese fisherman), Mike Robinson (a South African miner), and Wolf Adams (an American convoy driver).

Availability

While there are ROM dumps of Arm Champs II available online, due to how uncommon the original Arm Champs was, it never received a ROM dump for many, many years. It wasn't until September 29th, 2022 when Twitter user Phil Bennett announced that he had acquired the Japanese boardset of Arm Champs and had it dumped and running on MAME within a day.[1]

Videos

Footage of an Arm Champs arcade machine in Wales.

Footage of an Arm Champs arcade machine being played at the 1988 Amusement Machine Show in Tokyo, Japan (Skip to 5:28).

External Links

Reference