Mike Minchew has provided us with some incredibly rare flyers from Japan from the late 1960s and early 1970s. Taito's Crazy Ball is one I have never seen before, and it's always exciting to pull together tidbits of history from a massive company like Taito that might've otherwise been lost to time. As of writing this, there are 3 Taito games from the 1960s that we do not have any photograph of. (link is to the full Taito timeline)
1967 Crown Soccer Special - サッカーゲーム701 (soccer game 701) by 太東 (Taito) |
~1967 サッカー8 [エイト] (Soccer 8) by カトウ (Kato) |
1968 Crazy Ball - クレージーボール by 太東 (Taito — Crown) |
1969 Let's Go! Bazooka - レッゴー・バズーカ by ホープ自動車 (Hope Motor Co — Hope Star) |
1970 Baby Gang - ベビーギャング by ホープ自動車 (Hope Motor Co — Hope Star) |
1970 Torpedo Shark - 魚雷シャーク by ホープ自動車 (Hope Motor Co) |
~1975 Play-Mate - プレイメイト by コパルマシン (Copal Machine) & 新潟ジューク (Niigata Juke) |