Three Wonders Game Mac
An unusual coin-op made by Capcom in 1991, composed of three different games among which the player could choose: a Puzzle Game (Don't Pull), a Platform Game (Midnight Wanderers: quest for the Chariot) and a Shoot 'em Up (Chariot - adventure through the. The 3 Wonders coin-operated Videogame by Capcom (circa 1991), and it's history and background, photos, repair help, manuals, for sale and wanted lists, and census survey is brought to you by The International Arcade Museum at the Museum fo the Game.
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3 Wonders
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| Name: 3 Wonders Manufacturer: Capcom Year: 1991 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Settings: 3 Wonders Dipswitch Settings Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel) Cabinet Styles:
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3 Wonders Description3 Wonders was produced by Capcom in 1991. Capcom released 227 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1984. Other machines made by Capcom during the time period 3 Wonders was produced include Block Block, Street Fighter II: The Tournament Battle, Street Fighter II - Champion Edition, Capcom Golf, Street Fighter II, Chiki Chiki Boys, Senjou No Ookami II, Mega Man 3, 1941: Counter Attack, and Mercs - Turtle Killer. 3 Wonders - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.41 (3 votes)
Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, 'Like' carries a little more weight than the other factors. Log in to rate this game! Cabinet InformationThis game was only sold as a kit in the US. The sideart was just the basic red rectangular generic Capcom USA logo sideart with the white lettering. The control panel overlay is black and has icons and powerups from each of the three games scattered about. The marquee is divided into three sections and shows an artistic drawing of a scene from each of the games.Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
Game IntroductionMidnight Wanderers: This is your basic run-n-jump platform game but the big difference here is the graphics - they are beautiful! You control an elf and run through the levels killing all the bad guys and picking up the power-ups left behind.Chariot: This game is your basic side-scrolling shooter but again, with awesome graphics. You control an elf in a hang-gliding outfit and destroy wave upon wave of enemies and grab the power-ups to increase your weapon strength. Don't Pull: I would classify this as a Pengo clone. You control a rabbit, or a chipmunk if you're player two, who run around a maze pushing blocks into the bad guys to smush them. No elves here! Very colorful and overly cutesy graphics. VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op 3 Wonders CensusThere are 10,975 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 8,799 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 147,098 machines (6,415 unique titles).Very Common - There are 60 known instances of this machine owned by 3 Wonders collectors who are active members. Of these, 3 of them are original dedicated machines, and 57 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There are 3 active VAPS members with extra 3 Wonders circuit boards for sale. Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list. This game ranks a 20 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.
TriviaThe elves in this game appear in Capcoms IMarvel Vs. CapcomI as helpers.FixesThis game uses a suicide battery, located on the cboard of the PCB. When this battery dies, the game will no longer operate. You will be greeted with a blank screen upon powerup. A hack exists to revive the game, involving burning one or more new EPROMs and using the cboard from a different CPS1 game one that doesnt have a suicide battery.Manuals
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| Developer(s) | Capcom |
| Publisher(s) | Capcom Xing Entertainment (PSX, Saturn) |
| Director(s) | Kihaji-O |
| Designer(s) | Udatoshi |
| Programmer(s) | Koma Chan |
| Composer(s) | Masaki Izutani |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, PlayStation, Sega Saturn |
| Release | Arcade Saturn & PlayStation
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| Genre(s) | Multiple |
| Mode(s) | Up to 2 players simultaneously |
| Cabinet | Upright |
| Arcade system | CPS-1 |
| Sound | YM2151 |
| Display | Horizontal, Raster, resolution 384 x 224 |
Three Wonders, known in Japan as Wonder 3 (ワンダー3) is an arcade game made by Capcom in 1991 using the Capcom Play System (CPS1) platform. It was ported in 1998 to the Sega Saturn and PlayStation. Capcom rereleased this collection of games in 2006 onto Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 2 on the PlayStation 2 and Xbox and Capcom Classics Collection Remixed on the PSP.
Gameplay[edit]
Three Wonders contains three games from which a player may choose:
- Midnight Wanderers: Quest for the Chariot (known in Japan as Roosters: Chariot no Sagashite (ルースターズ ～チャリオットを探して～)) - A platform game that sees the player control a hobbit named Lou and his travelling companion, Siva, to run, climb, and shoot at enemies.
- Chariot: Adventure through the Sky (known in Japan as Chariot: Tenkuu he no Tabi (チャリオット ～天空への旅～)) - A shoot 'em up game featuring the characters from Midnight Wanderers, but in a Gradius-esque game.
- Don't Pull (ドンプル) - A puzzle game similar to games like the Eggerland series, Pengo and Capcom's own puzzle game Pirate Ship Higemaru that involves you controlling either a rabbit named Don (Player 1) or a squirrel called Pull (Player 2), pushing blocks to crush monsters.
Plot[edit]
In Midnight Wanderers, the two Midnight Wanderers Lou and Siva go on a rampage through their enemy infested kingdom as an evil widespread magic is turning their people into wooden statues. The Midnight Wanderers infiltrate the castle to defeat Gaia, who orchestrated the invasion and to liberate the chariots which will help restore their people.
In Chariot, Lou and Firestorm fly in their chariots across the Celestial planes to battle the evil elements led by Lar that threaten their home planet and rescue princess Sena.
In Don't Pull, the rabbit Don and the squirrel Pull navigate through numerous mazes to rid the place of monsters.
Reception[edit]
Retro Gamer regarded 3 Wonders as a good alternative to Biomechanical Toy.[1]GameFan reviewed the PlayStation version as inferior to the original arcade game due to bad quality converted graphics.[2]
References[edit]
- ^'Converted Alternative - 3 Wonders'. Retro Gamer. No. 74. Imagine Publishing. p. 20.
- ^'R Review - Three Wonders'. Retro Gamer. Vol. 6 no. 6. June 1998. p. 91.
External links[edit]
- Three Wonders at MobyGames
- Three Wonders at the Killer List of Videogames
- Three Wonders playable at the Internet Archive