

The Suntory version changes the number of supports on the counter's railing and breaks up its shadow, and extends the back wall down so that the floor can't be seen. Root Beer Tapper and the Suntory version have a graphical glitch on the object on the foreground object on the right that isn't in the original version or its revision. Each of the cans have been edited to fit the game's theme. The doors are also slightly different in each version.īefore the minigame, each version flashes their own sponsor logo.Īnother standard logo replacement. The colors of the counters and their shadows were swapped in Root Beer Tapper and the Suntory version. The kegs have an extra detail in Root Beer Tapper and the Suntory version. The Suntory version keeps the "BAR", but makes the text taller.

The window in Root Beer Tapper has been changed from "BAR" to "SODA". Tapper uses the Budweiser logo, the Suntory version uses the Suntory logo, and Root Beer Tapper uses a generic root beer sign. In Tapper, the "Tapper" fills up, while in Root Beer Tapper the mug fills up.Įach version of the game uses their own logos for the back wall. The logo was completely redesigned for Root Beer Tapper, and the copyright information was updated from 1983 to 1984. The Suntory release is something of a mix between Tapper and Root Beer Tapper, since it keeps the beer theme of the original, but uses the same censorship of Budweiser that Root Beer Tapper does. There is another version of the game which replaces the Budweiser beer references to that of the Japanese beer brand Suntory, though it has an odd history - despite being based on the original Tapper, even sharing its copyright information, the Suntory version supposedly surfaced in the 1990s on arcade boards made by Sega, who have denied any involvement. The most notable change in this besides the beer removal is that the bartender the character plays as became a soda jerk. Tapper underwent several revisions besides the original release, there was a revision to that version, as well as Root Beer Tapper, a version of the game which replaced all references to beer with root beer after Bally Midway received complaints about supposedly advertising alcohol to children.
