originally sponsored by anheuser-busch, the arcade version features a budweiser motif. it was intended to be sold to bars, with cabinets sporting a brass rail footrest and drink holders. early machines had game controllers that were actual budweiser beer tap handles, which were later replaced by smaller, plastic versions with the budweiser logo on them. the re-themed "root beer tapper" followed in 1984, which was developed specifically for arcades because the original version was construed as advertising alcohol to minors.