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Mutawarrior

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I know most of these are a longshot, but I wanted to post a list of PCBs I'm looking to buy (original/non-conversion PCBs in working condition w/ original roms if possible) in case anyone has them for sale:

Kaneko:
-Boggy '83 / Boggy '84 (1983, Kaneko developed this for Taito to distribute)
-Jump Coaster (1983, Kaneko developed this for Taito to distribute)
-Fighting Roller (1983, Kaneko developed this for Taito to distribute)
-Highway Jumper (1984, Kaneko developed this for Taito to distribute)
-Go Go Mr. Yamaguchi (1985, Kaneko developed this for Taito to distribute)
-The Berlin Wall (1990)
-Bonk's Adventure / Kyukyoku!! PC Genjin / B.C. Kid (1994)
-Fast Freddie (Kaneko/Atari, 1982, already have the Fly Boy version that was sold in Japan so I'm looking specifically for Fast Freddie)

Artic/ATW:
-Mr. Kougar (1983 non-bootleg version, I have the 1984 version already)
-Devil Fish (1982, looking for the one that runs on Scramble hardware)
-New SInbad 7 (1983)
-Defend The Terra Attack On The Red UFO (1981)
-Mars (1981)

Universal PCBs:
-Mrs. Dynamite (1982)
-Go Go Coaster (1983?)
-Cheeky Mouse (1980)
-Snap Jack (1981)
-Jumping Jack (1984)

Sanritsu PCBs:
-Dr. Micro (1983)
-Dream Shopper (1982)
-Mermaid / Yachtsman (1982)
-Combat Hawk (1987)

Sigma Enterprises PCBs:
-Wanted (1984)
-Submarine (1985)
-Spiders (1981)

SNK PCBs:
-Pioneer Balloon (1982)

Sega PCBs:
-Spatter / Sanrin San Chan: Tricycle San (1984)
-Ali Baba and 40 Thieves (1982)
-Mister Viking (1984)
-Dynamite Dux [1988]
-Looney Tunes: By A Hare (1993)

Taito PCBs:
-Daikaiju no Gyakushu (1986, I bought one of these that were supposed to be shipped to me after it got dumped but was illegally sold to someone else)
-Jolly Jogger (1982, same story as Daikaiju)
-Chack'n Pop (1983)
-Dock Man (1982, I already have the Port Man version so I'm looking specifically for this one)
-Polaris (1980)
-Indian Battle (1980, same story as Daikaiju)
-Round-Up / Fitter (1981)
-Sea Fighter Poseidon (1984)

Jaleco PCBs:
-Big Run (1989)
-Plus Alpha (1989)
-Chameleon (1983, same story as Daikaiju)
-Top Roller (1983, same story as Daikaiju)
-Takeda Shingen (1988, looking strictly for the Japanese version)
-Grasspin (Zilec/Jaleco, 1983)
-Momoko 120% (1986)
-Ninja Kazan / Iga Ninjyutsuden [1988]
-Hachoo! (1989)

Konami PCBs:
-Kitten Kaboodle / Nyan Nyan Panic [1988]
-Pandora's Palace (1984)
-Devil World / Dark Adventure / Majuu no Ohkoku (1987)

Nichibutsu PCBs:
-Itazura Tenshi (1984)
-Roller Jammer (1984)
-Legion: Spinner-87 / Chouji Meikyuu Legion (1987)
-Kozure Ookami (1987)

Namco PCBs:
-Dig Dug II (1985)
-Phelios [1988]
-Dragon Spirit (1987)
-Exvania (1992)
-Hopping Mappy (1986)
-Sky Kid Deluxe (1986)
-Blazer (1987)
-Valkyrie no Densetsu (1989)

Nintendo PCBs:
-Donkey Kong 3 (1983)
-VS Balloon Fight (1985)

Mitchell PCBs:
-Cannon Dancer (1996, runs on Data East hardware)

Tehkan/Tecmo PCBs:
-Zing Zing Zip (Allumer/Tecmo, 1992)

Data East PCBs:
-Tatakae Genshizin Joe & Mac (1991, looking specifically for the Japanese version)
-Midnight Resistance (1989)
-Skull Fang (1996, MLC Hardware, looking for Japanese, US or European versions, same story as Daikaiju)
-Gun Ball / Nitro Ball (1992, prefer to buy the Gun Ball version especially if it comes with the original instruction cards)
-Heavy Smash (1993, same story as Daikaiju)
-World Cup Volley '95 (1995, same story as Daikaiju)
-Zippy Bug (1986, Coreland/Data East, I already have the Noboranka version, looking strictly for this one)
-Mausuke no Ojama the World / Kiss Off (1996, ST-V cart)

DECO Cassette games I don't have (looking for the cassette & dongle minimum, box & instruction cards would be nice too):
-Peter Pepper's Ice Cream Factory (1984)
-Manhattan (1980)
-Flash Boy / The DECO Kid (1981)
-Rootin' Tootin' / La-Pa-Pa (1983)
-Nebula (1981)
-Highway Chase (1980)
-Astro Fantasia (1981)
-Boulder Dash (1985)
-Disco No. 1 / Sweet Heart (1982)
-Ninja / Sengoku Ninja Tai (1980)
-Super Astro Fighter (1981)

Valadon Automation PCBs:
-Botanic (Itisa/Valadon, 1983)

Shoei PCBs:
-Streaking (1980)
-Sky Army (1982)
-Space Intruder (1980)

Sun Electronics/Sunsoft PCBs:
-BanBam / Pettan Pyuu (1984)
-Dai San Wakusei Meteor (1979)
-Funky Fish (1981)

Misc. PCBs:
-Anteater (Tago, 1982)
-Uncle Poo (Diatec, 1983)
-Swinging Singles / Utamaro (Yachiyo Denke/Entertainment Enterprises, 1983)
-Triple Punch (K.K. International, 1982)
-Launcher Z (Orca, 1982?)
-Dingo (Ashby Computers, 1983)
-Eeekk! (Epos, 1983, looking for the original version that's not on Pac-Man hardware)
-Abscam (GL/US Billiards, 1981)
-Yosaku to Donbei (Wing, 1979)
-Dracula Hunter (Teknon Kogyo, 1979)
-Woodpecker / Naughty Mouse (Amenip/Palcom Queen River, 1981)
-Block Buster / Crazy Blocks (Kiwako, 1983)
-Mighty Monkey (Universal Video Games, 1982)
-Dazzler (Century Electronics, 1982)
-The Pit (Zilec Electronics, 1982)
-Shark Attack (Pacific Novelty, 1980)
-Taxi Driver (Graphic Techno, 1984)
-Thunder Dragon 2 (NMK, 1993)
-Mahjong Club (Central Leisure System, this is a different game than Mahjong Club (BET) & Mahjong CLUB 90's seen in MAME)

Here's a screenshot of the Mahjong Club title screen:

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Hello Mutawarrior,

I have some of the titles you're looking for, although it will take me some time to search the warehouse and verify that they work. The most tedious part is creating a JAMMA adapter for them so I can fully test them. There are some originals, some bootlegs, and some conversions. Considering that many of these are from the era when I started in the arcade world, there will be more titles than you mentioned. I've attached a provisional list:

- Boggy'84 (bootleg)
- The Berlin Wall
- Prehistoric Isle in 1930
- Outrunners
- Plus Alpha (bootleg)
- S.P.Y.: Special Project Y
- City Bomber
- Ninja Emaki / Youma Ninpou Chou (by Tecfri)
- Moon Alien 1979 or 1980 (I'm not sure)
- Phelios (conversion)
- Valkyrie no Densetsu (conversion)
- The Outfoxies
- Donkey Kong 3 (bootleg Tecfri)
- Cannon Dancer (conversion)
- Rygar (bootleg)
- Zing Zing Zip (bootleg)
- Tatakae Genshizin Joe & Mac
- Skull Fang (conversion)
- Gondomania / Makyou Senshi (bootleg)
- Mausuke no Ojama the World / Kiss Off (1996, ST-V cart)
- Bagman
- Berzerk (I'm not sure if it's complete)
- Uncle Poo (bootleg)
- ...
 
Mrhide said:
That is quite a list for a first post!



and you've got very specific taste as well ;)

Can you tell us a bit more about yourself?!
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Well I started playing arcade games when I was very young circa 1982 (I definitely remember playing Pac-Man on a cocktail cabinet at the local pizzeria) and played arcade games throughout my childhood and teen years. Throughout the 80s, I remember playing Ms. Pac-Man, Jr. Pac-Man, Q*bert, Zaxxon, Galaga, Double Dribble, Pole Position I & II, Popeye, Out Run, Hang-On, Super Hang-On, Frogger, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Defender, Scramble, Time Soldiers, Commando, Punch-Out / Super Punch-Out, U.S. Championship V'ball, and many others. Until I got my NES (my first console) on Christmas 1988, I mainly played arcade games and games on consoles and computers of friends who owned them, like the Atari XE(GS), the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, and the Apple-IIc. The very first video game I ever owned (before my NES) was Galaxy II, which for those who don't know was a tabletop mini-arcade game made by Epoch based on Galaxian, which I played the crap out of and beat multiple times. I also had a battery operated motorized pinball game by Tomy prior to getting my NES.

Later on in the early 90's I played games like Batman (the Atari one based on the Burton film), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Big Run, Captain America and the Avengers, Spider-Man: The Video Game, T2: The Arcade Game, Shinobi, WWF Superstars, WWF WrestleFest, and others. On the console front in the 90s, I bought a Game Boy in January 1991 and a SNES in June 1993 but returned the SNES when I realized the games were a lot pricier than in the NES era and when it didn't have much I was interested in. I ended up getting a Genesis (model 2) later that year and a Sega CD in 1994 after being hyped to play Final Fight CD, which was my first Sega CD game. I ended up returning both (by some miracle) when the controls of the Genesis died (making both the Genesis & the Sega CD unplayable) and used the money I got back and some more that I saved up to buy a Genesis CDX in 1995 from Toys R Us which fully worked until 2011 (now only the Genesis part works).

Once the 3D generation of consoles came out (the PS1, Saturn & N64) and I saw the types of games being released, I completely lost interest (I did not like 3D at all back then) and left modern console gaming (I later returned during the PS3 era and even got some of the consoles I missed out on) and stuck to PC games and emulation which had been fairly new when I got into it in winter 1997. In the spring-summer 1998 I discovered arcade emulators like RAINE, MAME, Callus, Modeler, FinalBurn, NeoRageX, JustForFun, etc. and my world changed as I was blown away by the ability to play arcade games I grew up with on my very own PC.

It was in the era when the only home games I played were those on the Game Boy (which were still 2D of course) that I got into arcade PCB collecting in 2000. Around that time, I had been buying old console games that I missed out on, for platforms like the NES, Game Boy, Genesis, Sega CD, SNES (which my brother bought in 1995 after I returned mine), and the Atari Lynx. I stumbled onto an arcade emulation site that caught my eye and saw screenshots of a certain game that was unemulated at the time (one that I never played back when it was out since I never saw a cabinet of it) and when I happened to find one on auction on Ebay, I decided to bid on it and won (I still remember how hard my heart was pounding in the closing moments of the auction). I had it sent to a dumper and was hooked up with a very nice member of the MAMEdev who got it emulated in a fairly short amount of time.

I ended up buying more boards that weren't emulated (and had them sent off to be dumped) and bought a MAS SuperNova supergun (RIP Thao & Reynalda) around that same time (2000-2001) to play my PCBs on. My collection grew and I ended up taking over the very website that got me to buy the very first PCB I bought in 2000 when the founder got busy with real life and asked me to take it over (it lost its hosting a handful of years later though I had backed everything up). The site had well over 2000 arcade games & prototypes documented in the database that the 2 of us built up over the years, plus sections that documented arcade games of certain companies and arcade driving games.

I assisted greatly with the MAME dumping project and bought a lot of boards in 2003-2006 that were all sent to a certain dumper & supposed to be sent back to me once they were no longer needed (many had MCU and other encryption devices that took a while to get fully decapped and emulated), but received not one of them back after 10 or so years passed by and I found out they were being sold with me having never been contacted that they were finished with after I specifically told him not to sell them and him having them marked as Not For Sale for years. That resulted in me no longer helping with that effort other than a certain friend who I do trust that I will send some undumped games I have now for dumping since he is trustworthy.

As for arcade games, I'm a huge fan of games made by companies such as Data East, Sega, Taito, Konami, Namco, Irem, Capcom, Kaneko, Artic/ATW, Jaleco, Technos, Tecmo/Tehkan, Sigma Enterprises, Orca, SNK, Tatsumi, Gottlieb, Midway, Stern, Tatsumi, Universal, Nichibutsu, Sanritsu, Nintendo, etc. The story behind Boggy '84 is that I remember seeing it on Bobby Tribble's unMAMEd page and the screenshots always infatuated me. Once I realized it got emulated, I gave it a try and loved the game despite its sound effects not being the easiest on the ears. It became a meme among my online friends and I had been looking for a PCB ever since. I grew fond of Kaneko and their other games (like Jump Coaster, Samurai Nihonichi, Fast Freddie, and many others).

A similar thing happened with Mr. Kougar after I found screenshots of it on an obscure Japanese website back when it was not emulated. I always loved that game too once I got to play it after it got dumped and got stiffed on a trade that was supposed to result in me getting the 1983 version. I've looked for the original board of that version ever since. Other Artic games like Devil Fish and New Sibad 7 grew on me as well and that's how & why I like and am looking for those games.

My favorite arcade games are the action games from the late 70s & 80s (even some in the early 90s) where the player has to get as high a score as possible because I love trying to top my personal best and I find myself playing those games the most as they are just very addicting to me. That is why so many games from that era are on my list. I especially love the obscure ones because they offer different experiences than the popular ones. One such example is Join Em, which is a unique take on the maze genre where you try to merge 4 small guys who move in tandem into one big guy and then get to chase and kill the enemies.

Right now I have well over 100 arcade boards and/or carts like Neo Geo MVS carts (probably close to 200 if not even above that) and still have to document many of the newer ones I picked up (I'm like 3-4 years behind). My dream is to one day open an arcade where I get some machines (best idea would be getting ones like the Astro City or Egret) and house my PCBs in them and rotate at least some of them out on a monthly basis so players can play different games each time they visit.

One last thing, I will go edit my list because of how many there are on it right now. I'd like to trim it down to the ones that I place the highest priority on.
 
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