Early Nintendo Machines

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Anyway have or played the following stuff:

Head On N
Monkey Magic
SF-Hisplitter
Sheriff
Sky Skipper
Space Fever
Space Firebird
Space Launcher

Are all these Japanese exclusives? Are there others that arcade flyers just doesn't have flyers of yet? Any place in the US with these?

That Monkey Magic cabinet is ridiculous. Would be such a great piece to own. Also, those old style Nintendo Cocktails with the red graphic patterns are also pretty insane.
 
Did some searching and found:

EVR Race, Wild Gunman, Sky Hawk, Shooting Trainer, Battle Shark, Test Driver, Computer Othello, Block Fever and Battle Shark
 
Space Firebird

I owned/played several Space Firebird cocktails they were very generic japanese type cabinets very cheaply made. they looked like bootleg games. great game play.
 
Head On = Sega License
Sheriff = Exidy License
Space Firebird = Licensed to Sega

Seen Space Fever, but not any of the others.

When you say "License" do you mean that these are the companies that brought these games outside of Japan? Or that Nintendo just licensed the games from the stated company?
 
Or that Nintendo just licensed the games from the stated company?

This one....Head On and Space Firebird are Sega games. Nintendo licensed them from Sega for various parts of the world. On Sheriff, Nintendo also changed the name. Look up Exidy's Bandido.

Edward
 
This one....Head On and Space Firebird are Sega games. Nintendo licensed them from Sega for various parts of the world. On Sheriff, Nintendo also changed the name. Look up Exidy's Bandido.

Edward


Are you sure it's not the other way around? Because there are Japanese language fliers for the games in question, so it seems strange that they would be licensing games from Sega inside Japan when Sega had its own arcade game business at the time.
 
I have played space fever and firebird (I have the boards and cocktail control panels still)
 
I thought Sheriff came first and when it was brought over from Japan, Exidy licensed it and it was released as Bandido.

From http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=bandido&page=detail&id=178:
"After Sheriff's release by Nintendo in 1979, it was licensed to Exidy for re-release as Bandido in January 1980 (even if title screen says 1979)."

Either way, I've played Bandido and it's actually kind of a cool game. Uses a metal joystick and almost like a spinner type control for aiming your shots.
 
I thought Sheriff came first and when it was brought over from Japan, Exidy licensed it and it was released as Bandido.

From http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=bandido&page=detail&id=178:
"After Sheriff's release by Nintendo in 1979, it was licensed to Exidy for re-release as Bandido in January 1980 (even if title screen says 1979)."

Either way, I've played Bandido and it's actually kind of a cool game. Uses a metal joystick and almost like a spinner type control for aiming your shots.

Thanks for clearing that up. Figured it was a lot more likely to be that way. The japanese flier for Sheriff has a pretty cool dedicated upright on it.

I searched Yahoo Auctions Japan for that early Nintendo cocktail table but they didn't have any. I want one of those bad now to play the early nintendo boards on.
 
Another cool game that is not necessarily "early" but probably very rare is the dedicated Mario Bros. cocktail only released in Japan.

Ataritoobin did a thread on it a while back: http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=67889

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Thanks for clearing that up. Figured it was a lot more likely to be that way. The japanese flier for Sheriff has a pretty cool dedicated upright on it.

I searched Yahoo Auctions Japan for that early Nintendo cocktail table but they didn't have any. I want one of those bad now to play the early nintendo boards on.

These work in the standard DK cocktail, with a different power supply.

I have the power supply, control panels, boards for Space Fever, Space Fever II, Space Firebird and the control panels. Need to dig them out as I no longer have a cocktail to play them in.
 
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I just spent like an hour going through all that guy's photos. Basically, his site is dedicated to Japanese arcades. He is especially interested in 1980 to the early 1990s and goes around searching for arcades that haven't changed in 20 years.

There are a lot of cool pictures, but out of hundreds of pics I couldn't find many dedicated uprights for old games. There were a couple Space Invaders, a Puckman, Japanese Sega cab Asteroids machine, Japanese Taito-cab defender machine, Nintendo Sheriff cocktail etc.

But I didn't even find any Donkey Kong style Nintendo cabs not to mention any of the rarer stuff that was Japanese only.

I didn't even find that early Nintendo cocktail table with the red graphic pattern on the side.

The site layout is absolutely atrocious, however, and I am not sure I got to everything. I'm going to go through again later and save any interesting pics.
 
Are you sure it's not the other way around? Because there are Japanese language fliers for the games in question, so it seems strange that they would be licensing games from Sega inside Japan when Sega had its own arcade game business at the time.

Head On is a Sega game...
Space Firebird is a Nintendo game, licensed to Sega.
 
I just spent like an hour going through all that guy's photos. Basically, his site is dedicated to Japanese arcades. He is especially interested in 1980 to the early 1990s and goes around searching for arcades that haven't changed in 20 years.

There are a lot of cool pictures, but out of hundreds of pics I couldn't find many dedicated uprights for old games. There were a couple Space Invaders, a Puckman, Japanese Sega cab Asteroids machine, Japanese Taito-cab defender machine, Nintendo Sheriff cocktail etc.

But I didn't even find any Donkey Kong style Nintendo cabs not to mention any of the rarer stuff that was Japanese only.

I didn't even find that early Nintendo cocktail table with the red graphic pattern on the side.

The site layout is absolutely atrocious, however, and I am not sure I got to everything. I'm going to go through again later and save any interesting pics.

Unfortunately there's very few pictures (let alone good/large) of machines from Japan. Unfortunately due to space restraints very few original uprights exist over there anymore.

Cocktail machines were also very popular there and later on a lot of their uprights were designed more for export, though Japan specific cabs/artwork for Donkey Kong Jr., for example, exist.

Japan was also an early adopter of generic/convertable cabinets, so most everything past 1982 that wasn't a deluxe game of sorts was released as a kit for cocktail or candy cabs.

Your best bet for pics is from magazines or books from the time. There are some pretty thorough books out there if you can read Japanese.

I do have Japanese manuals and instruction cards for the cocktail Mario Bros. and Computer Othello.
 
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Unfortunately there's very few pictures (let alone good/large) of machines from Japan. Unfortunately due to space restraints very few original uprights exist over there anymore.

Cocktail machines were also very popular there and later on a lot of their uprights were designed more for export, though Japan specific cabs/artwork for Donkey Kong Jr., for example, exist.

Japan was also an early adopter of generic/convertable cabinets, so most everything past 1982 that wasn't a deluxe game of sorts was released as a kit for cocktail or candy cabs.

Your best bet for pics is from magazines or books from the time. There are some pretty thorough books out there if you can read Japanese.

I do have Japanese manuals and instruction cards for the cocktail Mario Bros. and Computer Othello.

ty for the information. Any titles on those arcade books?

Yeah, it seems as if most of the remaining pre-candycab machines are generic cocktails with at most a unique control panel.
 
It'll be hard to find any old Japanese cabinets in Japan. Space is at a premium so unless they got into the hands of a collector somehow they were likely smashed when they outlived their usefulness.
 
Well, at least there's a Nintendo Sheriff somewhere on an Italian porch....bathing in sunlight (yikes).....

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I thin the surrounding does look perfect for the Sheriff cab, but the Pong looks a bit out of place there.

The Sheriff came from Austria and I saw it for sale in the very first days of my collecting hobby. I loved it but thought it was WAY too far for me to get.....

By the way that pictures was made by Superully on one of his better looking road-trips:http://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=723.0
 
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