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Sega Flipper

System(s): SG-1000

Publisher: Sega

Developer: Sega

Genre: Action

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	1983	¥3,8003,800	G-1018
EU	1983
AU	1983
NZ	1983
TW	198x

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Sega Flipper (セガフリッパー) is a pinball game released for the SG-1000 in 1983. In New Zealand it is known as Video Flipper.

It was one of the first pinball video games to be released, being released one year earlier than attempts from Jaleco and Nintendo but four years after Atari's Video Pinball. Unlike Video Pinball, however, Sega Flipper makes use of color.

Gameplay

Sega Flipper is a very basic pinball game, with the sole objective being to score as many points as possible.

and control the left and right flippers (and activate the plunger (or "shooter" as the manuals call it)), while and can set the force of the plunger at the beginning of a ball. There are no means of moving the table, although pausing the game causes TILT to flash (even on the title screen). The player is given five balls at the start of the game which are played one at a time (meaning no multiball options exist).

There is only one table in Sega Flipper, however it features a set of mini-flippers in the top left. The table features four bumpers, two spinners, seven drop targets, two kicker holes and three "unstable bumpers" in the centre which can be are activated by using the flippers. Hitting all the drop targets grants the player an extra ball. Passing through the three gates at the top of the playfield increases the score multiplyer.

As is typical for a video game implementation of pinball from this era, the physics are far from accurate. The system is such that the ball can only travel on pre-calculated routes, meaning flipping a ball in a certain position is guaranteed to produce the same angle and velocity every time (in real life, the "spin" of the ball would affect its movements, among other factors). The erratic nature of the physics can be seen when attempting to "trap" a ball with a flipper - in a more realistic simulation, the ball would remain at rest, however in Sega Flipper it jumps around.

Possibly acknoledging the physics concerns, the table is designed in such a way that the ball should not drain unfairly for skilled players. The unstable bumpers can be activated to block each route, although unreliable collision detection makes accessing certain parts of the table very difficult.

Magazine articles

Main article: Sega Flipper/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

SG-1000, JP
Cover
Cart

SG-1000, AU
Cover
Cart Manual Inside

SG-1000, NZ
Cover
Cart Manual Inside

SG-1000, EU
Cover

SG-1000, FR
Cover

SG-1000, IT

SG-1000, TW

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

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CRC32	8efc77bc
MD5	3f2acc9de65c8496c3d8470ef12dc210
SHA-1	e0605e23d80b8b975743d3417f548b28810e0ba3

16kB

Cartridge (EU/JP)

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CRC32	fd76ad99
MD5	49c7c14879a437e60730b62a7550cdf6
SHA-1	d713dcbd79a3db8f1ef2cfb27da31a286fff16d1

40kB

Cartridge (JP)

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CRC32	042c36ba
MD5	3cfec6aa7bfdf81b40b7ee6d630f5c03
SHA-1	b7eb254a014772a83829e1991dcd32396e8dd9cc

16kB

Cartridge (TW)

References

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 ''Sega Flipper'' is a very basic pinball game, with the sole objective being to score as many points as possible.
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+{{1}} and {{2}} control the left and right flippers (and activate the plunger (or "shooter" as the manuals call it)), while {{up}} and {{down}} can set the force of the plunger at the beginning of a ball. There are no means of moving the table, although pausing the game causes TILT to flash (even on the title screen). The player is given five balls at the start of the game which are played one at a time (meaning no multiball options exist).
 There is only one table in ''Sega Flipper'', however it features a set of mini-flippers in the top left. The table features four bumpers, two spinners, seven drop targets, two kicker holes and three "unstable bumpers" in the centre which can be are activated by using the flippers. Hitting all the drop targets grants the player an extra ball. Passing through the three gates at the top of the playfield increases the score multiplyer.