Episode 17 ブー冠・王冠・とんちんかん of 快獣ブースカ (Kaiju Booska) has a scene in arcade where a magical crown ends up on a woman who momentarily becomes a superhuman puncher and an excellent shot with a cork pistol. Thank you to TOO_yoshikawa for first posting about this. Thanks to tweakbod for getting me the clip. (it will be includes in the next Videos pack).
She is playing pinball when the magic hat plops on her.
We can't see any details of the left-most machine, but the next machine is Star Jet, followed by Sea-Shore and Thoro Bred.
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| this version of Punching Bag has a sign above the dial. I wonder if this is a revamped version? Or did someone else place the sign there? |
Classic kind of scene with Sega's Punching Bag maxing out at the meter.
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| 1962 Punching Bag - パンチングバッグ by 日本娯楽物産 (Nihon Goraku Bussan) & 日本機械製造 (Nihon Kikai Seizo — Sega) |
Next we cut to seeing TWO active shooting galleries. The primary one has a camouflage wall with the guns mounted on it, and cutouts of soldiers decorating the outside.
I have put 3 images so you can step through the frames and see the movement.
The shooting gallery to the right appears to be a general "knock the prize off the shelf' style rotating shooting gallery.
Adding it to the database:
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| unknown shooting gallery [seen in 快獣ブースカ] by unknown |
Now let's look at the military shooting game:
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| here we see her shooting the mounted gun. The chain is told hold the muzzle to a limited range. |
Then we get some nice closeups of the targets being downed.
There is also an army cutout we can see in a very quick cut later in the battle. It might be the same cutout we see hanging above the shooting gallery.
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note the army guy behind her, on the right.
We will look to the other machines later. |
More shots of this game:
I will be adding this entry to the database:
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| unknown military shooting gallery [seen in 快獣ブースカ] by unknown |
Then a genie and a large stuffed monster thing attack her with cork guns, giving us a different view of arcade. I should note that the guns they are shooting are cork guns, probably from the "rotating target" shooting gallery.
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| gun game on the left... |
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| 1955 Ranger by Keeney |
Adding that water racer game to the database...
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| unknown water race shooting game [seen in 快獣ブースカ] by unknown |
We see (maybe) 5 gun games here. This is the only shot of them to work from. It's not much, but let's dive in.
The first gun game is a bit of a mystery. It has a very unique paint job that I have been unable to find anywhere else. I will be adding it to the database in hopes we one day see another angle.
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| unknown gun game [seen in 快獣ブースカ] by unknown |
This game stands on legs. The cabinet angles forward, has a small control panel with either a gun or control stick. It is too blurry to be sure what is there, but it does look more like a gun.
There are very few games I know of that fit this design profile. This might be one of these 3 machines, but with a repainted cabinet? These are the 2 games I suspect the most:
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| 1960 Shooting Gallery by Midway |
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| 1961 Pro Basketball by Chicago Coin |
Rifle Gallery is another game that fits the profile, but I do not think the blur above is a long rifle. But I could be wrong!
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| 1961 Rifle Gallery by Midway |
There are two other games with similar cabinet fronts, but the cabinet line descends. In the screencap we see the top of the cabinet continues parallel to the floor.
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| 1961 Sharpshooter by Bally |
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| 1961 Marksman by Bally |
The next 2 games are Sega classics!
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| Sega's Space Ace & Jungle Gun |
Now let's look at the last 2 games:
On the left, the 4th gun game has a distinctive thick dark line. But it's actually a dark line, a white line, and another dark line.
At first I thought it might be Circus by Genco, since that has a thick line and the front cabinet art contains a circle.
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| 1957 Circus Rifle Gallery by Genco |
The game to the right (5th gun game) might be a "false positive", but I think it's a game. What I see as a gun is rising from the genie's head, and to the right of the mounted gun there we see a 3x2 grid of squares.
It makes me think of a game like Burp Gun, but that does not match.
I will add them to the database as such:
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| unknown gun games [seen in 快獣ブースカ] by unknown |
And the final games to look at are both mysteries!
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| this frame is taken from TOO_yoshikawa because it is of higher resolution that the source I found. |
The women takes corks to the face and the crown is knocked off, but behind her we can see two more machines. As she falls the scene cuts with a sweep from left-to-right.
I will add them to the database:
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| unknown game with polkadot dome [seen in 快獣ブースカ] by unknown |
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| unknown game with marquee [seen in 快獣ブースカ] by unknown |
The 2nd game here appears to have a very similar cabinet to
1966 Bombing by unkown.
And in case there was any mystery as to where this was filmed....
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| Hotel Kowaki-en |
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