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)
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| 1967 Crown Soccer Special - サッカーゲーム701 (soccer game 701) by 太東 (Taito) |
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| ~1967 サッカー8 [エイト] (Soccer 8) by カトウ (Kato) |
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| 1968 Crazy Ball - クレージーボール by 太東 (Taito — Crown) |
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| 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) |
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| 1970 Baby Gang - ベビーギャング by ホープ自動車 (Hope Motor Co — Hope Star) |
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| 1970 Torpedo Shark - 魚雷シャーク by ホープ自動車 (Hope Motor Co) |
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| ~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) |
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For my readers in the USA: The only way for this blog to continue in the face of the crushing authoritarian moral panic against trans people in your country is for me to continue to make space for the struggles of my friends and family staring down the horrors of hundreds of millions of dollars funneled into hate campaigns to vilify and lie about them. Trans people have existed across all recorded civilizations, and suddenly the Christofascist powers have decided they want to eradicate trans people from society by whatever means necessary.
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