General:

Date of Release: 5^th June 1983

Model Nr: SM-73
Acronym: Snoopy Melody
Rating: DC3V 0.0002W
Battery: 'C' batteries x 2
Manufactured: Japan
Sold: Less than 250,000 Worldwide
Nr. of players: 1
Lives: 3
Modes: Game A & Game B
Controls: Left and Right Control Lever. Hit Button.
Other Buttons: Game A, Game B, Time, Alarm & ACL

Game-Play:

Snoopy is the same as the Panorama version (SM-91). You operate Snoopy left and right to strike down the notes that come from Schroeders piano with his hammer, so Woodstock may sleep in peace.

Game differences:

Game B has 4 lines of notes instead of 3.

Trivia:

Highest possible score is 999. At 300 points all your misses clear and if you don't have any you will score double until you get a miss.

Cheats and tricks:

Watch out that you don't jump too far left or right or you will fall down. Snoopy can hit down a note only when he is standing on a platform of the same colour.

Points:

1 point for each note knocked down. Lucy wakes up every 100 points, kicks  Schroeders piano, then goes to sleep again.

Misses:

You get one miss when you let Snoopy go too far left and fall from the orange platform or too far right and fall from the pink platform. One miss is also scored when Snoopy lets a note get by to wake up Woodstock. When you have 3 misses (shown by falling snoopy's on the lower left side of the screen.), the game ends.

Other notices:

If you hold in Game A or Game B key the highest previous score will be displayed. If the unit is left as it is after game is over, time display will appear in about five minutes. A game is not interrupted even if TIME key or other game keys are depressed during game playing. Pressing ACL switch or removing batteries erases high score from memory.

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The battery covers seem to have a number on the back, but they seem to vary a lot and I won't even speculate what the difference is.

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