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The company later developed other products and concepts, but they failed to gain commercial interest. Fechter also claims to have been instrumental in the early development of Whac-A-Mole, an arcade game from Bandai that became popular in the late 1970s, but his involvement was never officially recognized. [2]
William Lyttle (1931 – June 2010) was an Irish eccentric, notable for digging an extensive network of tunnels under his home in De Beauvoir Town, London. [1]Lyttle was dubbed "The Mole Man of Hackney" by the Hackney Gazette due to his digging, a nickname that was later adopted more widely by the press.
Whac-A-Mole is an arcade game. It was created in 1975 by the amusements manufacturer TOGO in Japan, where it was originally known as Mogura Taiji ( モグラ退治 , "Mole Buster") or Mogura Tataki ( モグラたたき , "Mole Smash") .
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The first whac-a-mole game, Mogura Taiji ("Mole Buster"), was released by TOGO in 1975. [67] Mogura Taiji became the second highest-grossing EM game of 1976 in Japan, second only to Namco's F-1 that year. [68] In the late 1970s, arcade centers in Japan began to be flooded with "mole buster" games. [69]
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The first whac-a-mole game, Mogura Taiji ("Mole Buster"), was released by TOGO in 1975. [49] In the late 1970s, arcade centers in Japan began to be flooded with "mole buster" games. [50] Mogura Taiji was introduced to North America in 1976, which inspired Bob's Space Racers to produce their own version of the game called "Whac-A-Mole" in 1977. [51]
In more recent times, traditional molecatching has given way to the use of poison. [5] [6] Poison resulted in moles dying much more quickly and in greater numbers.For some time, strychnine was used to kill moles; its purchase was cheaper than paying molecatchers, [7] but sometimes other animals that shared the environment or interacted with moles were accidentally poisoned as well.