Lost In Translation/Electric Yo-Yo, The

The Electric Yo-Yo
Manufacturer	Taito America Corporation
Released	1982
Control; Method	4-way Joystick
Main CPU	(2x) M6809 (@ 1.250 MHz); M6802 (@ 921.600 kHz); M68705 (@ 1.000 MHz)
Sound CPU	Stereo; Discrete
Video; Details	Raster (Vertical); 256 x 256 pixels; 76.29 Hz; 1,024 Palette colours
Screens	1
ROM Info	14 ROMs; 53,248 bytes (52.00 KiB)
MAME ID	elecyoyo · elecyoy2

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About The Game

The Electric Yo-Yo is an arcade video game.

Guide your yo-yo to clear each level by collecting dots and avoidving enemies.

Trivia

Released in June 1982.

Jim Matson holds the official record for this game with 1,079,270 points.

An Electric Yo-Yo machine was shown at the 2003 classic arcade games show 'California Extreme' in San Jose, California.

Tips and tricks

The longer the yoyo's string is when it is latched to a Blox, the greater the score will be when the Blox is cleared.

Staff

Designed and Programmed By: Sandy Pfeiffer; Randy Pfeiffer

Cabinet and Artwork

The Electric Yo-Yo cabinet.

Ports

Consoles: Sony PlayStation 2 (2005, "Taito Legends"); Microsoft XBOX (2005, "Taito Legends")

Computers: PC [MS Windows] (2005, "Taito Legends")

The contents of this page are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
The sources used include MAME (version 0.113u2) and history.dat (revision 1.28 - 2008-10-18).
Please see http://www.arcade-history.com for credits.