Arcade Archive
Art scans update – Hopper Robo / 19XX
As promised here’s something not Mahjong related. First of all are a pair of instruction cards for Hopper Robo – it’s a very rare game and the art is even harder to find. Fun trivia, locating the
New arrivals 12/07/2017
Another couple of things – I’m really into weird Nichibutsu systems right now. Mahjong Club 90’s – already had one of these but this one came with manual and more artwork that I needed. Turns out
Art scans update – Jang Taku / Mahjong Jogakuen
A manual and a couple of instruction cards added to the scans section. I’ll do some non-mahjong stuff next time as I’m sure people are more interested in normal games. Jang Taku cards look like they’ve been
Mahjong Vanilla Syndrome full English walkthrough
Welcome to my English language walkthrough of Vanilla Syndrome, one of Nichibutsu’s vs Mahjong titles. I picked this one for some special attention because it has great character design, excellent music and graphics, and a story based
Art scans!
I have quite a large library of arcade artwork and manuals, in fact the current count is a little above 800 original items. With copies there’s well over a thousand. I can’t scan all of this, but
New arrivals 10/06/2017
Quite a few things this time, a couple are really special and I’m quite pleased to have them now. Zenkoku Seifuku Bishojo Grand-Prix : Find Love – high-quality mini games and anime girls, one of the
New arrivals 30/04/2017
Another bunch of games with a couple of interesting items, some of which were obtained in an untested job lot. It’s been a while since I’ve had a chance to dig through a box of unknowns, and
Using MAME to assist with repairing Nova 2001
If you’ve seen my recent new arrivals post, you may have noticed a broken Nova 2001 PCB. I’d had a quick look at it when it arrived and managed to at least capture the error message, but
New arrivals 16/04/2017
Some moderately interesting games in this next batch, you’ll have to excuse minimal descriptions as I’m not able to type properly at the moment and using speech recognition. Getting old is the worst thing in the world,
Nichibutsu Mahjong visual glitches
I’ve seen this on three different boards now, and it turns out that certain families of Nichibutsu Mahjong hardware can have problems with colour bleeding and minor visual glitches. For example Club 90’s and The Lady Hunter