neorichieb1971 wrote:My wanted list gets smaller, but damn this month is just full of choice I think I added a Garegga kit, Cosmo gang the video and Ninja Baseball batman to my list of wants.
For neorichieb1971,
Are you looking for the original Japanese region Irem's 1993 Ninja Baseball Bat Man PCB or it's USA region counterpart? The JPN variant is the more desirable one to play/own.
You gotta love the Japanese voice actor when he says cool one liners like Marvelous, Cool, Wonderful, etc. in perfect English on the Armed Police Batrider PCB. I like activating the slow-motion mode just for kicks...most arcade PCBs, let alone shmup ones, don't have access to slow-mo mode anyways. Raizing/8ing's APB PCB is an very special exception though.
That Pyros PCB looks to be quite huge in terms of real estate space and not to mention all those socketed eproms making it a super heavy board. Take for instance, an Atari Games 1986 produced Tetris Jamma PCB is quite small & compact compared to say an behemoth Pyros PCB. Even the classic Capcom's 1986 Jamma PCB of Hyper Dyne Sidearms takes up room in terms of sheer size & weight due to it being a two-layered PCB setup anyways.
The CPS-1 version of Three Wonders is a three layered PCB affair at best. A typical Sega Model 2 Virtual On PCB is four layers of various miscellaneous PCBs sandwiched on top of each other + internal cooling fan & AC supply unit all enclosed inside a hefty metal caged box.
It used to be that the FCC required arcade operators/owners to place their arcade PCBs inside hefty RF shielded cages as not to generate unwanted interference back in the mid-1980s and even into the Jamma PCB era.
PC Engine Fan X! wrote:That Pyros PCB looks to be quite huge in terms of real estate space and not to mention all those socketed eproms making it a super heavy board. Take for instance, an Atari Games 1986 produced Tetris Jamma PCB is quite small & compact compared to say an behemoth Pyros PCB.PC Engine Fan X! ^_~
Same goes for Fighting Hawks (taito), which was realeased about the same time [1988] it's really tiny compared to Pyros; almost as small as the notoriously small SnowBros PCB.
Only the collective minds at Irem could come up with some really wacky concepts and title worthy of the "Ninja Baseball Bat Man" PCB. It'd sure be nice to look at some the concept sketches and characters developed for it. Irem should do a proper sequel to it. Yes, the original JPN region variant of NBBM PCB is the one to own/play despite it's uncommonality factor. Plus the fact that it supports up to four friends or foes simultaneously for an all-out comical brawler that really doesn't take it self seriously.
When one sees crazy octopus and squid characters donning shades, y'know something's definitely up. It's easy to see where the inspiration came from with Irem looking at Red/Hudson Soft's Air Zonk title and making a crazy coloful and wacky arcade brawler. Even playing it on Mame/Mame32 emulation doesn't do this game justice...you gotta play the real deal that is the NBBM PCB version.
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