![]() Collecting a tip causes a group of female dancers to appear for a few seconds, distracting a portion of the customers so that they will stop advancing. Customers occasionally leave tips on the bar, which the player can pick up for bonus points. If not, they stop after a certain distance, consume the drink, and resume their advance while sliding the empty mug back toward the keg. When the tap handle is pulled down, the bartender instantly moves to the keg (if he is not already standing there) and fills a mug releasing it causes him to slide the mug along the bar.Ĭustomers slide back toward the doors upon catching a full mug, and disappear through the doors if they are close enough. Pushing the joystick up or down instantly moves the bartender to the keg at the next bar in the chosen direction, with the top and bottom of the screen wrapping around to one another, while pushing left or right causes him to run along the bar where he is stationed. The player controls a bartender who must pour drinks and slide them down the bar for the customers to catch. Customers enter through the doors and slowly advance toward the kegs, demanding service. The game screen features four bars, each with a keg at one end and a door at the other. The controls consist of a four-position joystick and a tap handle. Root Beer Tapper replaces the bartender with a soda jerk serving non-alcoholic root beer. The re-themed Root Beer Tapper followed in 1984, which was developed specifically for arcades because the original version was construed as advertising alcohol to minors. Early machines had game controllers that were actual Budweiser beer tap handles, which were later replaced by smaller, plastic versions with the Budweiser logo on them. It was intended to be sold to bars, with cabinets sporting a brass rail footrest and drink holders. Originally sponsored by Anheuser-Busch, the arcade version features a Budweiser motif. It was distributed in Japan by Sega in 1984. Tapper puts the player in the shoes of a bartender who must serve eager, thirsty patrons (before their patience expires ) while collecting empty mugs and tips. Tapper, also known as Root Beer Tapper, is a 1983 arcade game developed by Marvin Glass and Associates and released by Bally Midway.
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