Sonic Blast Man

Description

The player dons real boxing gloves and punches a padded target as on-screen opponents react.

Sonic Blast Man was produced by Taito in 1990.

Taito released 486 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1967. Taito was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Taito during the time period Sonic Blast Man was produced include: Twin Hawk, Flipull, Asuka Asuka, Nastar, WGP, Aa Eikou No Koushien, Air Inferno, American Horseshoes, Aqua Jack, and Double Axle

Specs

Name	Sonic Blast Man
Developer	Taito (Japan)
Year	1990
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	9621
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Sports
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Medium Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	Taito Classic
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	1
Game Play	Single
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Buttons: 1 - Select Boxing Gloves Punching Pad (one)
Sound	Amplified Stereo (two channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

Game Introduction

You play a superhero called Sonic Blast Man. There are five different stages to choose from:

save a woman in distress from a vicious hoodlum
save a baby in a carriage from being hit by a speeding semi-truck
save a city from enemy attacks by destroying the enemy fortress
save a cruise ship from a giant crab
save the Earth from a shooting meteor.

Choose one of the five stages and begin play.

Speech: "Thank you, super Sonic Blast Man!", "Ahh! Help Me!", "Take That!".

Game Play

After the target appears and the punch pad has risen completely, begin straight-punching in the middle of the pad as hard as you can.

You are allowed three punches for each game. When the score in the upper right of the screen shows the remaining target resistance as zero, you have knocked out your opponent.

If you succeed in defeating your opponent with three punches, there will be a winning ending. If not, there will be a losing ending. The game ends after three punches, regardless of the results.

Sonic Blast Man KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

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Trivia

Taito lost a class action suit for 50,000 to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission CPSC because of injuries sustained by players of ISonic Blast ManI. The CPSC alleges that between 1991 and 1994, Taito failed to report about 70 cases in which young players fractured or injured wrists and arms as a result of hitting the Blast Mans punching pad. More info is available at httpwww.bubandbob.comfaqsblastman.txt

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Sonic Blast Man 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).

Scarce - There are 3 known instances of this machine owned by Sonic Blast Man collectors who are active members. Of these, It is an original dedicated machine (not another machine converted with a kit). 2 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.

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