Former employee accused of writing virus to target Whac-a-Mole machines
Whac-A-Mole seems like it could be endless fun. Moles pop out of five holes in the arcade game and a soft mallet is used to force them back into the holes to score points.
Children and adults alike could whack the moles for hours at a time. Or at least they could until a worker programmed a virus into the machines to make them shut down after a pre-determined number of plays, Holly Hill police said.
Now they have arrested that man, Marvin Walter Wimberly Jr., 61, of Orlando, who faces a charge of offenses against intellectual property. It was all a scheme by Wimberly to insure job security, according to an arrest affidavit. Bob's Space Racers, an amusement game manufacturer, was established in 1970 and created Whac-A-Mole, police said.
