You are the game-happy owner of the Spare Change Arcade. Two fun-loving, but overworked Zerks--the main characters in your most popular game--have broken loose and are trying to retire from the business. You try madly to stop them. If you can get a coin into the juke box, the Zerks get so caught up in the music, they drop everything and start dancing. You also try popping popcorn and making a pay phone ring--which immediately makes the Zerks stop, answer and start a wild conversation. If you "win" the game, there are rib tickling cartoons by the Zerks to reward your efforts. It's a game full of sight gags, surprises and comedy. From the best. Brøderbund! For the Apple® II, II+ and IIe. Coming soon for the Atari® home computers in disk format.

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Advertisement in Ahoy! Issue #1 (January 1984)

Spare Change™

Arcade Action and Antics

For the APPLE by Dan and Mike Zeller DISK VERSION

Get Ready To Laugh. There Are Zerks On The Loose! You are the game-happy owner of the Spare Change Arcade, and business is better than ever. You've just put in an amazing new arcade machine that's breaking all records. But zikes! The two fun-loving Zerks who are the zany main characters of the game have broken loose and are trying to save up enough tokens in their piggy bank to retire! You're desperately trying to stop them, using every trick in the book to keep them around— from playing their favorite tunes on the juke box, to popping popcorn and ringing the pay phones (Zerks are incurable gabbers). And each time you fill their game's coin slot with tokens, the rib-tickling Zerks ("Ozzie" and "Zeke") can't help returning to the screen to perform yet another of their hilarious slapstick routines. There's never been a game as full of sight gags, surprises, and humor as Spare Change. It will keep you and your Zerk-loving loved ones rolling in your own arcade aisles for hours.

• An arcade style game for all ages
• For the Apple II/II+ /IIe with at least 48K memory
• A dozen different animated cartoons
• Many levels of play
• Joystick or keyboard controlled

This program is fully guaranteed. If it ever fails to boot, return the original disk to Brøderbund Software for a free replacement. Please specify Apple version. If the disk has been physically damaged, please include $5 for replacement.

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Back of Box - Appe II (US)