Anyone ever heard of a game called "Born to Kill"?

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Anyone ever heard of a game called "Born to Kill"?

While scanning stuff I came across the pinouts and DIP switch settings for a game called "Born to Kill". I couldn't find any info on it, no KLOV entry, no flyer, no Mame Rom (it's not even listed on the undumped games page), no PCB pic, just nothing. Looking at the pinout it's definitely a Jamma video game, there is a gun and a joystick version.
Anyone ever heard of it or seen one?
Scan attached. It has "Konami" stamped on it, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they made it, AFAIK Konami Europe also distributed stuff (but I might be worng on that).
 

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I searched for this, I really did. Here's my ideas and leads from where I left off:

1. Its a JAMMA game that has both gun and joystick (as noted above)
2. It was released/resold by Konami Europe (above)
3. It can be a bootleg/clone/knock-off?
4. Born to Kill may be a European/localised release name
5. Born to Kill may be a code-name
6. Dipswitch has a continue option...

All my searches kept pointing to NAM-1975, even tho that is an SNK game and apparently didn't have a gun version.

Not knowing enough places to look besides google, is there an easy way to find games that had both gun and joystick versions? Even searching for them on IAM seems difficult, and some games that have guns cannot be found by using the several gun control types.
 
While scanning stuff I came across the pinouts and DIP switch settings for a game called "Born to Kill". I couldn't find any info on it, no KLOV entry, no flyer, no Mame Rom (it's not even listed on the undumped games page), no PCB pic, just nothing. Looking at the pinout it's definitely a Jamma video game, there is a gun and a joystick version.
Anyone ever heard of it or seen one?
Scan attached. It has "Konami" stamped on it, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they made it, AFAIK Konami Europe also distributed stuff (but I might be worng on that).

Good stuff!

There is a game in MAME called "Born to Fight" (borntofi) which even though it has a title screen signifying this title as well as a company name on the title screen, if you start a game the voice says: "You are starting the mission Born to Kill. Good Luck", despite the dialog printed. It has always been an oddity of a set and knowing more about the source or even a romset of this game might very well answer questions.

As it stands, the dip sheet alone is helpful. I'll make sure the info from that and the other sheets get transferred into the driver for the game :)
 
Good stuff!

There is a game in MAME called "Born to Fight" (borntofi) which even though it has a title screen signifying this title as well as a company name on the title screen, if you start a game the voice says: "You are starting the mission Born to Kill. Good Luck", despite the dialog printed. It has always been an oddity of a set and knowing more about the source or even a romset of this game might very well answer questions.

Sounds like we have a winner here :D;)
Maybe Born to Kill was a working title or maybe it's simply a typo...
A rough hint to the timeframe: the Konami stamp still uses the 4 digit ZIP code which was replaced with a 5 digit code in 1993, so it shouldn't be newer than that (though they could have used that stamp after the change...).
 
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