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Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja

Description

Two street fighters must battle their way past hordes of attacking enemies in their pursuit to defeat the evil Dragon Ninja and rescue president Ronald Reagan. Players must defeat end-of-level bosses, one of which is Karnov himself!

Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja was produced by Data East in 1988.

Data East released 175 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1979. Data East was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Data East during the time period Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja was produced include: Real Ghostbusters, The, Garyo Retsuden, Wonder Planet, Captain Silver, Heavy Barrel, Bloody Wolf, Battle Rangers, Birdie Try, Cobra Command 1988, and Chelnov: Atomic Runner

Specs

Name	Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja
Developer	Data East (Japan)
Year	1988
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	6991
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Scrolling Fighter
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	JAMMA
Dipswitch Settings	Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	2
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Joint
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player Ambidextrous
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 2 - AttackJump
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard
Instructions	Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja Instructions Image
Control Panel	Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja Control Panel Image
PCB	Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja PCB Image

Video Clips

Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja

Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja shortplay by Ivan Paduano

Bad Dudes Vs DragonNinja (Arcade) [Data East] Retro Danuart

Game Introduction

President Ronnie has been kidnapped by the Ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue Ronnie?

Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.80 (6 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.93

Overall Like	4.33
Fun (Social)	4.17
Fun (Solo)	4.00
Collector Desire	2.83

Technical Rating: 3.64

Gameplay	3.83
Graphics	4.00
Originality	2.83
Sound/Music	4.20

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

Images

Trivia

There is a NES home console version of this game. There is also a one-player Commodore 64 version of this game.

Cabinet Information

The side art shows Blade and Striker hitting bad guys.

Miscellaneous

The game is simply known as Dragon Ninja in Japan.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja Census

There are 15,264 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,669 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,973 machines (7,000 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 185 known instances of this machine owned by Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja collectors who are active members. Of these, 72 of them are original dedicated machines. 4 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 109 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 6 active VAPS members with a Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja machines for sale. There are 4 active VAPS members with a Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja.

This game ranks a 39 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 5 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Technical

Uses Data Easts HFT System hardware. The system consists of a DE0295 or DE0297 Main CPU PCB and a DE0293 or DE0299 Game Program PCB. The main CPU PCB utilizes a Motorola 68000 32bit microprocessor to control the game functions and a 65C02A microprocessor to control the Yamaha sound generator circuit. The Game Program PCB contains all game specific program devices and a OKI voice generator circuit.

Manuals

Operation and Service Manual - Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja Manual — **Operation and Service Manual**
(14 pages, 1.4 MB File)

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Upright (8d5b18ec7862fb5de66202687a227eab)

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