Batsugun
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Description
This space shooter has excellent music and it also adds a new kind of element to shooters: a level-up meter. The difficulty is extremely high and can be impossible to avoid getting hit.
Batsugun was produced by Toaplan in 1993.
Toaplan released 31 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1986. Toaplan was based in Japan.
Other machines made by Toaplan during the time period Batsugun was produced include: Dogyuun, Fixeight, Tatsujin Ou, Truxton II, Pipi & Bibis, Grind Stormer, Knuckle Bash, V-Five, Emma Daio, and Dynamic Trial 7
Specs
| Name | Batsugun |
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| Developer | Toaplan (Japan) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Videogame |
| KLOV/MOG # | 7030 |
| Class | Wide Release |
| Genre | Scrolling Shooter |
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| Conversion Class | JAMMA |
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| # Simultaneous Players | 2 |
| # Maximum Players | 2 |
| Game Play | Joint |
| Control Panel Layout | Multiple Player |
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| Sound | Amplified Stereo (two channel) |
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| PCB | Batsugun PCB Image |
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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Batsugun 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).
Common - There are 46 known instances of this machine owned by Batsugun collectors who are active members. Of these, 3 of them are original dedicated machines. One is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 42 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.
For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with an extra Batsugun circuit board for sale.
Wanted - There are 2 active VAPS members currently looking for Batsugun. There are 8 active VAPS members looking for Batsugun boards sets.
This game ranks a 8 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.
This game ranks a 15 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
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Flyers
1993
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Manuals
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