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==Reception== The game was a success, selling 12,337 [[video game arcade cabinet]]s in the [[United States]] in four months, by October 2, 1981, becoming Stern's third [[List of best-selling video games|best-selling]] [[Golden age of arcade video games|arcade classic]] after ''[[Berzerk (video game)|Berzerk]]'' and ''Scramble''. ''Scramble'' sold 15,136 cabinets in the US in five months earlier that year, adding up to 27,473 US cabinet sales for both.<ref name="stern_production_numbers">{{cite web|title=Stern Production Numbers and More CCI Photos|url=http://www.tokensonly.com/2012/05/misc/stern-production-numbers-and-more-cci-photos/|accessdate=21 July 2013|date=1 May 2012}}</ref> The stand-alone portable Entex Adventure Vision version of the game received a positive review from ''[[Bill Kunkel (gaming)|Arcade Express]]'', in its [[newsletter]] issue published on November 7, 1982. They gave the game a score of 9 out of 10, stating that, "based on the Konami coin-op classic," it "can challenge even an experienced arcader." They concluded that it "takes real skill to master, and represents the state-of-the-art [[Side-scrolling video game|scrolling]] [[Shoot 'em up|shoot-outs]] for stand-alones."<ref>https://archive.org/stream/arcade_express_v1n7#page/n5/mode/2up</ref>
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