The fire button activates the beer tap, and holding it down fills a glass with beer and releasing it launches the glass along the bar. You move up and down to get from one bar to another and left and right to walk along the bar to collect empty glasses and tips left for you.
You must also collect the empty glasses as they slide back to you before they fall off the end of the bar and smash. You must activate the beer pump and slide a glass of cool Bud down towards them before they reach your end of the bar, or else they grab you and slide you down the bar into the wall at the far end! The barman stands at the end of 4 bars, with a beer pump located by each one, and your customers come running towards you demanding their beer.
They are a persistant lot and love to come back for more! This is what I am hoping the super-deluxe Opcode version of the CV RBT will have.ĭuring the time the girls are dancing, sometimes a person may turn his back on the beer glass.Your mission as a barman is to serve your thirsty patrons with cool refreshing beer. Now, the ColecoVision version of RBT omits the Punk Rockers stage as well as moments where a bunch of girls dance after you collect tips from the people you serve the root beer to, and, on the stadium stage, Sam throwing a mug into the air and it hits a flying duck, and the duck falls on him. Besides Root Beer Tapper, another version of Tapper was released, with an endorsement by Mountain Dew. In fact, some of the very first arcade cabinets of this game, were designed to look like real bars, with real brass footrests and drink holders, and the game controls taking the form of Budweiser beer tap handles.Īlthough well-received by adults in '83, the game's early marketing didn't sit with the children and young teens (the actual demographic which arcade games are often geared towards), who were the sons and daughters of the target demographic, which prompted Midway the next year to release Root Beer Tapper, which IMHO could've benefited from an A&W endorsement, being that A&W is one of the most popular brands of root beer.
The original version (gameplay video below), intended for sale to taverns and dive bars, was sponsored by Anheuser-Busch's Budweiser, and even featured the then jingle of Bud, heard in the game's bonus round (who doesn't remember the slogan "This Bud's for You"?). But this version is the more kid-friendly version of the 1983 original, titled simply Tapper. I'm sure some of you may have heard of this.
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