Lost In Translation/Tumble Pop

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Tumble Pop
Tumble Pop marquee.
No screen shot.
Tumble Pop control panel.
Manufacturer Data East Corporation
Released 1991
Control
Method
8-way Joystick
2 Button(s)
Main CPU 68000 (@ 14.000 MHz)
HuC6280 (@ 4.028 MHz)
Sound CPU Stereo
YM2151 (@ 3.580 MHz)
OKI6295 (@ 1.024 MHz)
Video
Details
Raster (Horizontal)
319 x 240 pixels
58.00 Hz
1,024 Palette colours
Screens 1
ROM Info 7 ROMs
2,293,760 bytes (2.19 MiB)
MAME ID tumblep · tumbleb · tumbleb2 · tumblepj

About The Game

Tumble Pop is an arcade video game where the player has to catch all the enemies in a vacuum cleaner and then throw them at each other. The game-play is quite easy, repetitive and addictive.

Trivia

Released in November 1991.

"Karnov" (Data East trademarks) appears one more time...

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Wolf Fang, Tumble Pop - PCCB-00084) on 21/03/1992.

Updates

Bootlegs don't use the HuC6280 @ 4.0275 Mhz :-)

Tips and tricks

You can't hold enemies in your vacuum cleaner for more than 4-5 seconds.

Staff

Planner
Makoto Kikuchi
Programmers
Hidemi Hamada
Kei Ichikawa
M. Sano
Designers
Atsushi Takahashi
Ryohey Hirakata
Touma Arakawa
Sanomi Kiyota
Chie Kitahara
Oguri
Noriyuki Morita
Yasuko Kurohiji
Hiroshi Tada
Sound
Tom Sato
Seila
Tatsuya Kiuchi (Mr.K)
Hardware
T. Kanayama

Cabinet and Artwork

Ports

Consoles
Nintendo Game Boy

Soundtrack Releases

Album Name Catalogue No. Released Publisher Comments
WOLF FANG / TUMBLE POP PCCB-00084[1] 1992-03-21 Pony Canyon/Scitron CD version.
Data East 1500 Collector's Box PCCB-00129[2] 1993-09-17 Pony Canyon/Scitron 5 CD version.

References

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.