One or two players cooperatively destroy bouncing balls with a variety of weapons. The players may only fire up, but may move right and left, or up and down ladders. The large balls that have been shot split in two, creating smaller balls.
Buster Bros. was produced by Capcom in 1989.
Capcom released 229 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1984. Capcom was based in Japan.
Other machines made by Capcom during the time period Buster Bros. was produced include: F-1 Dream, CP System I, Daimakaimura, Capcom Bowling, Forgotten Worlds, Code Name: Viper, Area 88, Coors Light Bowling, Adventure Quiz Capcom World, and Capcom Baseball
Name | Buster Bros. |
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Developer | Capcom (Japan) |
Year | 1989 |
Type | Videogame |
KLOV/MOG # | 7249 |
Class | Wide Release |
Genre | Platform |
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Conversion Class | JAMMA |
# Simultaneous Players | 2 |
# Maximum Players | 2 |
Game Play | Joint |
Control Panel Layout | Multiple Player Ambidextrous |
Controls |
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Sound | Amplified Mono (one channel) |
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This game is also known as Pang.
There are 15,211 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,644 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,563 machines (6,981 unique titles).
Common - There are 44 known instances of this machine owned by Buster Bros. collectors who are active members. Of these, 3 of them are original dedicated machines. 10 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 31 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.
For Sale - There are 4 active VAPS members with a Buster Bros. machines for sale. There are 2 active VAPS members with a Buster Bros. circuit boards for sale.
Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.
This game ranks a 10 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.
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The PCB has two audio controls: one adjusts the volume of explosions and the other sets the main volume.
This game uses a "suicide battery" that, when it dies, will render the game inoperative. A hack exists to revive the game involving replacing the custom Z80 with a standard Z80, burning one or more new EPROMs and doing a bit of soldering.
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