ABOUT
Programmer Ed Suchocki shares this story about Bad Cats:Dan Forden and I had several discussions about the music and sound effects for this game. At the time, I was a fan of the band Alice Cooper. I felt the game would be right with the music style of their tune, "Gutter Cat vs. the Jets". There is a section that has that "West Side Story" feel to it and I thought it would be great in the game. Dan went and created a version of the theme for the game. The flavor of this inspiration can be heard during the activation of the spinning of the playfield wheel as well as other shots on the game. Mark Ritchie told us that he had a slight role as a singer for the audio track in the "Seafood" segment.
Production Run Records for Bad Cats:
Production Start Date: Nov-6-1989
Production End Date: Dec-22-1989
Production Run Quantity: 2500
First ship date: Nov-7-1989
Last ship date: Feb-23-1990
IMAGES
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Pinside ID31
Manufactured ByWilliams Electronic Games, Inc.
DateJanuary 1989
TypeSS
IPDB ID127
Players4
HIGH SCORES
PINTIPS
On the last ball of 3 ball game, shoot Tiger Ramp (left) consecutively 5 times to get a 20 Million shot
Hit the vari-target in the back enough to max out the fish bone-us at 500k. Right inlane rollover makes saucer collect 10x (5 mil). Repeat.
Repetitive shots on the fishbowl are doable, depending on game, 5 gets an extra ball.