Kasco Smaxx arcade boxing game on eBay *not mine*

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It looks like Randy is selling an extremely rare Kasco boxing game called 'Smaxx'


It's an obvious project, and no way I would pay the price he is asking, but I have NEVER seen or heard of this game before, and have found nothing online about it.

Looks like a fun game when it was assembled and working! Anyone know anything about this game???
 
ebay photos make it look like a pile of parts more than a game. :)

AFAIK Smaxx is an ICE game that Kansai Seiki brought to Japan. Unsure how extensively it went to other markets. From my research, here are when the ICE games first were seen in the Japanese trade papers:
1983 Chexx Hockey - チェックス by ICE and 関西精機 (Kansai Seiki)
1984 Smaxx - スマックス by ICE and 関西精機 (Kansai Seiki)
1985 Kixx by ICE and 関西精機 (Kansai Seiki)

you can see some footage of one in Japan circa 1990 in this tweet: You'll quickly understand why few survived :)

I hope someone gets it working! Please post if you do

smaxxiceandkansaiseiki.jpg
 
ebay photos make it look like a pile of parts more than a game. :)

AFAIK Smaxx is an ICE game that Kansai Seiki brought to Japan. Unsure how extensively it went to other markets. From my research, here are when the ICE games first were seen in the Japanese trade papers:
1983 Chexx Hockey - チェックス by ICE and 関西精機 (Kansai Seiki)
1984 Smaxx - スマックス by ICE and 関西精機 (Kansai Seiki)
1985 Kixx by ICE and 関西精機 (Kansai Seiki)

you can see some footage of one in Japan circa 1990 in this tweet: You'll quickly understand why few survived :)

I hope someone gets it working! Please post if you do
Awesome video, thanks!
 
PLEASE NOTE: ICE seems to have nothing to do with Smaxx.
It's totally just naming synchronicity! I was wrong.
Kansai Seiki did bring in Chexx and perhaps where they got the inspiration for the 'xx' but Smaxx seems to be 100% Kansai Seiki.
 
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