How many Nichibutsu UR CC cabinet TYPES were there?

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How many Nichibutsu UR CC cabinet TYPES were there?

I would have sworn I saw a flyer showing 3 different UR Nichibutsu Crazy Climber cabinets (Standard, Deluxe and something else). Anyone seen this or know what the other cabinet is? I have been googling, looking at other flyers and can only find the two. I am not talking about the white mini, but a normal UR. I am also not talking about the Taito version. Thanks.

Scott C.
 
As far as I know there are only the standard, deluxe, mini, and cocktail Nichibutsu cabinets.

There are only the standard and mini taito uprights.

I know of a collector who has this one. It might be proto. if not, its a really well done kit..

crazyclimberjoust.jpg
 
Isn't that the Cabaret?
The Nichibutsu mini is white, so I am guessing that is a conversion or bootleg. Both Taito and Nichibutsu put artwork on the bezel, marquee and CP.

Thanks for the feedback, gentlemen.

Scott C.
 
If we're talking true Japanese Nichibutsu made Crazy Climbers, there appears to be four basic models (some with variations):

- The white deluxe cabinet
- The white standard cabinet

NOT a mini, roughly the height of a DK machine.
There are some cabinet variations depending on when these were built.

*The first run has a cabinet with the marquee tilting towards the player, no molding
above and below the marquee. Brown t-molding. Trap door for coin box at the
bottom. Marquee holes I believe are in different places from the deluxe.
These have red, orange/yellow and white silkscreened art on a black metal panel vs. the curved plexi.

*The next has orange t-molding, trap door, marquee is flat facing the player. T-molding
above and below marquee. Marquee holes I believe are in different places from the deluxe.
These have red, orange/yellow and white silkscreened art on a black metal panel vs. the curved plexi.

*The next and probably last has orange t-molding, NO trap door, marquee is flat facing
the player. T-molding above and below marquee, larger coin door. Marquee holes I believe
are in different places from the deluxe. These have red, orange/yellow and white
silkscreened art on a black metal panel vs. the curved plexi.Lip on control panel.


- A red mini (I'll post a pic of one of these). Uses a cocktail CP mounted in the middle of the CP.
- Cocktail (some variations with these as well).

My blog post at coinopspace shows examples of these: http://www.coinopspace.com/profiles/blogs/moon-shuttle-multinichibutsu

The mini Bill posted looks to be almost of European descent, very European looking joysticks, coin-co style door. The other mini is a U.S. made Taito mini.
 

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That is a beautiful CC!

its not mine, stole the pic off the website link. The taito mini its the only version of CC that I have never owned.

As for the one I posted earlier, the owner said it was proto. I did not look at it any closer than the pic (ugly) and I had zero plans to own it.
 
Anyone have a pic of the prototype cc with the clear plastic attachment to the cp? That one looked pretty cool.
 
I will kindly diagree with you about the white Nichi CC mini, since I have seen it myself, in person. The artwork, cabinet design, colors, etc. all matched the standard Nichibutsu UR cabinet. I just wish I had a camera that day, since this cabinet seems to be very elusive.

Please post pics of the red Nichi CC mini, so I have not seen one of those.

Here is a Nichi Frisky Tom mini in the orange cabinet. Clearly, Nichi was making minis.
http://forums.arcade-museum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=19851&d=1258461214

Scott C.
 
Here is a pic of a CC Mini.

Sorry for the quality, I took the picture out of a Japanese book I have (帰って来た名作ゲーム 1978~1987).

The Deluxe CC appears to be a little taller than the "standard" upright (deluxe according to manual is 5.57ft, "standard" cab in Frisky Tom manual is 5.3ft). Evidently Moon Quasar came in a woodgrained "Deluxe" cabinet as well. This could explain why the CC shown in some flyers is in the woodgrain deluxe cabinet (leftovers?).

Both CC and MQ use the same "A" suffix in the model number as other Nichibutsu games matching the "standard" cabinet (e.g. Frisky Tom upright is FTA and Moon Shuttle upright is MSA). I wonder what Crazy Climber's model number was for the "standard" upright? The dedicated Nichibutsu Moon Shuttle cabinet I have is different from what's listed in the manual and shown on the flyer. If anything, Nichibutsu seemed to pretty much use whatever was in current production/on hand.

Hypothetical: Maybe when they ran out of Deluxe CC cabinets or wanted to cut costs they used the "standard" one instead. I should ask a couple of people with the "standards" and see what the model number is.

Scott is correct, the artwork between the two are identical, though I should add the marquee screw hole placements are likely different between the two.

The deulxe and standard bezels have the same artwork, but cropped differently. The "standard" bezel has paper instructions taped under the Nichibutsu logo. The deluxe is cropped higher so the entire gorilla's face is seen, and the instruction card is on the curved plexi control panel.

I too would be interested in seeing the white mini.

FWIW, Nichibutsu flyers refer to the mini as "Child Upright Model."
 

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Here's an image showing some differences along with my hypotheses.

Also for fun are screenshots of a "deluxe" CC in Rocky III and a later production CC from "Alan: A Video Game Junkie" ;)
 

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Here is a pic of a CC Mini.

Sorry for the quality, I took the picture out of a Japanese book I have (帰って来た名作ゲーム 1978~1987).

The Deluxe CC appears to be a little taller than the "standard" upright (deluxe according to manual is 5.57ft, "standard" cab in Frisky Tom manual is 5.3ft). Evidently Moon Quasar came in a woodgrained "Deluxe" cabinet as well. This could explain why the CC shown in some flyers is in the woodgrain deluxe cabinet (leftovers?).

Both CC and MQ use the same "A" suffix in the model number as other Nichibutsu games matching the "standard" cabinet (e.g. Frisky Tom upright is FTA and Moon Shuttle upright is MSA). I wonder what Crazy Climber's model number was for the "standard" upright? The dedicated Nichibutsu Moon Shuttle cabinet I have is different from what's listed in the manual and shown on the flyer. If anything, Nichibutsu seemed to pretty much use whatever was in current production/on hand.

Hypothetical: Maybe when they ran out of Deluxe CC cabinets or wanted to cut costs they used the "standard" one instead. I should ask a couple of people with the "standards" and see what the model number is.

Scott is correct, the artwork between the two are identical, though I should add the marquee screw hole placements are likely different between the two.

The deulxe and standard bezels have the same artwork, but cropped differently. The "standard" bezel has paper instructions taped under the Nichibutsu logo. The deluxe is cropped higher so the entire gorilla's face is seen, and the instruction card is on the curved plexi control panel.

I too would be interested in seeing the white mini.

FWIW, Nichibutsu flyers refer to the mini as "Child Upright Model."
Thank you. That was the piece of the puzzle I was missing. If memory serves, the 3rd game on that CC UR flyer was the mini, AKA Child Upright Model. Now to find that flyer.

Scott C.
 
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