Click "Smash Time"" on the game window, your mouse will change to a Hammer
Hammer down the moles that show up from the ground, but be careful, they are fast!
For each mole that you hit you score 01 point, see how many points you can score by the end of the time
About Whac a mole
Facts and a bit of the history of the game
Whac a Mole was invented in 1975 by Kazuo Yamada of TOGO, based on ten of the designer's pencil sketches from 1974.
TOGO released it as Mogura Taiji to Japanese amusement arcades in 1975.
It was later licensed to Bandai in 1977.
In the late 1970s, arcade centers in Japan began to be flooded with "mole buster" games, where players used a
foam mallet to hit plastic moles that popped out of the machine.Whac a Mole has since been commonly found at
Japanese festivals.
Whac a Mole made its North American debut in November 1976 at the International Association of Amusement Parks
and Attractions (IAAPA) show, where it drew attention for being the first mallet game of its type.
Gerald Denton and Donny Anderson saw the Japanese game, and decided they wanted to adapt it into a carnival
game by putting it in a trailer, with Denton also showing it to Aaron Fechter at the same show.
Denton assigned Fechter the task of building their own version of the game, with Fechter coining the name
"Whac-A-Mole" and adding air cylinders, "so that when air pushed up the moles,
the air acted as a cushion."
Fechter developed the prototype in 1977, with Denton and Anderson
presenting it to the founder of Bob's Space Racers, Bob Cassata, the same year. After Bob made further
refinements to the game, Bob's Space Racers made its first sale of the game in 1977.
In 1978, it debuted at a midway exhibition show, where it was the most popular game. The following year,
it debuted at pinball parlours. In 1980, it was sold in the carnival, amusement park and coin-op arcade markets.
Whac-A-Mole has since become a popular carnival game.
