Stephenson, VA
Quoted from Tommy-dog:IPB bought Capcom out (all their remaining inventory, worth approx $1M) for only $20K when they went out of business. Gene got a lot of boardsets (approx 200 CPU boards, 500 driverboards, and several hundred misc boards) in this $20K Capcom deal. The $20K deal also included lots of plastic sets for the production Capcom games, misc hardware, a pallet of Coin Control coin doors, drop targets, a Capcom test fixture, and a handful of extra NOS Capcom playfields (Pinball Magic, Breakshoot, Airborn, Flipper Football). IPB sold the Capcom parts to PMI (Gene’s newly formed company to make the BBB games). PMI bought the Capcom parts from IPB and IPB sold the parts to PMI (on paper) as a profit. PMI took the capital gains loss on BBB but IPB made big profits on the Capcom parts that he sold to PMI. The true cost to make these new BBB games were around $3K according to Gene. Games were made with NOS original boardsets and the translite was NOS (supplied by Mike Pacak). The reason that Gene only made around 192 BBB games was based on how many NOS Capcom CPU boards that he had working.
At that rate of profit (~$1500/game), wouldn’t it have made sense to have reproduced additional CPU boards, or was there really something on the board that was not reproducible at the time?
Victoria, BC
