Face Off (video game)

Face Off[lower-alpha 1] is a hockey arcade game developed and released by Namco for Japan only in 1988. Up to four players control players from one of eight hockey teams against each other, the objective being to score the most points before the timer ends. Similar to Namco's own Final Lap, multiple cabinets can be linked together to enable multiplayer play. It ran on the Namco System 1 arcade board. Face Off received a favorable critical reception for its visuals and gameplay. A digital re-release for the Wii Virtual Console was released in Japan in 2009.

Face Off
Face Off arcade title screen
Developer(s)Namco
Publisher(s)Namco
Platform(s)Arcade
Release
  • JP: December 1988
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer
CabinetUpright
Arcade systemNamco System 1

Gameplay and development
Arcade version screenshot.

Face Off is an ice-hockey arcade game. Players select one of eight hockey teams - Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Japan, the Soviet Union, Sweden and the United States[1] in two gameplay modes - Tournament Mode has one to two players face four CPU-controlled teams, while the Versus Mode enables up to four players competing against each other. Players can select how many players their team has.

Face Off was released in Japan in December 1988, and was made to run on the Namco System 1 arcade system.[2] Much like Namco's own Final Lap series, Face Off allowed the linkage of cabinets to enable four-player multiplayer.

Reception

In Japan, Game Machine listed Face Off on their February 1, 1989 issue as being the eighteenth most-successful table arcade unit of the year.[3] The July 1991 issue of Gamest magazine was highly positive of the game, calling its character designs "cute" and labeling it one of Namco's more impressive titles in their late 1980s game output.[4]

Notes
  1. Japanese: フェイスオフ Hepburn: Feisu Ofu
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References
  1. "Wii Virtual Console Arcade - Face Off". Bandai Namco Entertainment. Retrieved 27 October 2009.
  2. "Face Off". Killer List of Video Games. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
  3. "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型TVゲーム機 (Table Videos)". Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 349. Amusement Press, Inc. 1 February 1989. p. 25.
  4. "和書| ビデオゲーム フルリスト". ザ・ベストゲーム 月刊ゲーメスト7月号増刊. 新声社. 6 (7): 175–216. 1991-07-01. Magazine 03660-7
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