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Punisher, The

Description

Play as either the Punisher or Nick Fury - Agent of SHIELD, together or alone, and fight your way through many battlefields of dangerous criminals and machines. Find and defeat the Kingpin of Crime in this punch-em, kick-em and shoot-em-up game. The game's graphics have a Marvel Comics-type look.

Punisher, The was produced by Capcom in 1993.

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 Punisher, The was produced include: Quiz & Dragons, Adventure Quiz Capcom World 2, Sangokushi II, Cadillacs And Dinosaurs, Knights Of The Round, Dungeons & Dragons: Tower Of Doom, Muscle Bomber Duo - Heat Up Warriors, Muscle Bomber - The Body Explosion, CP System II, and Cadillacs Kyouryuu-Shinseiki

Specs

Name	Punisher, The
Developer	Capcom (Japan)
Year	1993
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	9156
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Scrolling Fighter
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	Capcom CPS JAMMA
# Simultaneous Players	2
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Joint
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 2 - AttackJump
Sound	Capcom Q-Sound - Amplified Stereo
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard
Control Panel	Punisher, The Control Panel Image
Side Art	Punisher, The Side Art Image
PCB	Punisher, The PCB Image

Video Clips

The Punisher Arcade Review - MAMECADE 57

The Punisher shortplay by Ivan Paduano

Game Play

Both characters had a different way of defeating a boss. At the end of each level, the boss would be interrogated by the person who dealt the fatal blow. If Nick Fury dealt the fatal blow, he would interrogate, then knock out the opponent (if both characters were on screen for this, Punisher would usually make a "We should just kill him!" comment near the end of the interrogation). If The Punisher was the one who dealt the fatal blow, he would kill the opponent after the interrogation (if both characters were on screen at the time, Nick Fury would immediately scream "FRANK, NO!" or "Was that really necessary!?" as the kill happened.)

Punisher, The KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.89 (7 votes)

Fun Factor: 4.53

Overall Like	4.67
Fun (Social)	4.67
Fun (Solo)	4.33
Collector Desire	4.33

Technical Rating: 3.75

Gameplay	4.67
Graphics	3.71
Originality	4.00
Sound/Music	4.00

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.

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Trivia

This game features the main characters from the comic books respectively titled IThe PunisherI and INick Fury, Agent Of SHIELDI, both published by Marvel Comics. The acronym SHIELD stands for Surpreme Headquarters International Espionage Lawenforcement Division.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Punisher, The Census

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).

Very Common - There are 81 known instances of this machine owned by Punisher, The collectors who are active members. Of these, 11 of them are original dedicated machines. 6 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 64 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 2 active VAPS members with a Punisher, The machines for sale. There are 2 active VAPS members with a Punisher, The circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There are 5 active VAPS members currently looking for Punisher, The. There are 3 active VAPS members looking for Punisher, The boards sets.

This game ranks a 21 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.

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

Flyers

Fixes

This game uses two suicide batteries. One is located on the Cboard of the PCB and the other is located on the QSound board. When either of these batteries die, the game will no longer operate. You will be greeted with a blank screen upon powerup, usually blue or green, sometimes black. A hack is possible to revive the game, even if both batteries are dead, involving burning two or more new EPROMs, using the cboard from a different CPS1 game one that does not have a suicide battery, replacing the custom Z80 with a standard Z80 and doing a bit of soldering.

Manuals

Manual Non US-JAP - Punisher, The Manual — **Manual Non US-JAP**
(7 pages, 1.1 MB File)

Manual US - Punisher, The Manual — **Manual US**
(12 pages, 1.5 MB File)

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Dedicated (e1d588e0c30ac24993295cd37eb627b)

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