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Kabuki


Kabuki details

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Manufacturer

Data East USA, Inc. (United States)

January 1st, 1995

2 units.

Kabuki on the IPSND.

Main details

4 player game

dot matrix display

normal cabinet

manual

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Unknown

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Popularity and ranking

467

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Playfield details

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Backbox & Videomode

It is unknown wether any backbox ornaments were available for this machine.

It is unknown if this machine had a videomode.

Noteworthy features

  • Blinder that cover the flipper pads.

Trivia

  • There are two stories about this machine:
  • Orin Day: "Kabuki was never intended to be a production game, and there was no original intention of building a second game. The sound package was basically four or five small sound effects plus a very long sample of some Kabuki music. It was a gift to the chairman of NAMCO who was very ill at the time. Seeing and playing a pinball game with a traditional Japanese theme really helped to lift his spirits..."
  • Herb Silvers: "According to Joe Kaminkow, they made Kabuki for the president of Namco as a gift for his office. Before Sega took over Data East, Namco was interested. This might have been a gesture to hope to make this a reality. As far as the second one, I have it. I donated money to Joe's favorite charity (No not himself) and got the blank playfield,translight and half the roms. I went ahead and made up a better version of the game. It is still in my shop were it gets played from time to time."



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