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Rare B-52 Bomber game Info needed
- Thread starter Cyberflexx
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I've never heard of it. I also fired up mame and see nothing on it (probably an obscure bootleg)
There is another thread where they mention seeing a B-52 with 1942 in it - Again, probably a bootleg 1942.
Anyone hear of B-52 Bomber?
I picked up a Vanguard cabinet that has a marquee and CPO for a game called B-52. I've found very little about the game online. Unfortunately the game doesn't have a B-52 board, instead it has a Capcom 1942 board. The CPO is in poor shape, but could be scanned for possible reuse. The marquee is...
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Thanks, I saw that several people mentioned it having a legit Capcom 1942 board. I'm just curious if this was a marketing thing or something like that.
This is truly a weird one.
It's also possible that they were imported PCBs from Japan or as they called them in the business, Parallels. Parallels were technically illegal for most of the arcade era. The legal (and sometimes not-so-legal) rationale was that they violated distribution agreements between Japanese and American companies. It's possible that someone was simply marketing these non-bootleg parallels 1942 boards as 'B-52' as a means to sell a load of them they got from Japan cheaper and attempt to stay under the legal radar.
Parallels became legal in December of 1990 and the legal provision expired about 5 years later.
Interesting 
