Root Beer Tapper
Root Beer Tapper is a rebranding of the game Tapper. It was released by Bally Midway for arcades. The goal of the game is to root beer and collect empty mugs and tips. All references to alcohol were removed…
Root Beer Tapper is an arcade developed by Marvin Glass and Associates, released 31 December 1984 on Xbox 360 and Arcade.
What Root Beer Tapper is
Root Beer Tapper is an arcade game developed by Marvin Glass and Associates and released in 1984. It was published by Bally Midway. It is available on Xbox 360 and Arcade.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Root Beer Tapper is a rebranding of the game Tapper. It was released by Bally Midway for arcades. The goal of the game is to root beer and collect empty mugs and tips. All references to alcohol were removed from this version.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Root Beer Tapper holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 17% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1984 averaged 73, so it scored 13 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Root Beer Tapper launched on 31 December 1984, within three weeks of Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, 3D Starstrike and Bomb Jack. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, 3D Starstrike, Bomb Jack.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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Quick answers
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