Gun Ball (Japan)

Arcade Video game published 33 years ago:

Gun Ball (c) 1992 Data East.

Futuristic, fast and furious vertical action game, it's a sort of "Smash T.V." in a pinball environment.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU: Motorola 68000 (@ 14 Mhz)
Sound CPU: Hudson Soft HuC6280 (@ 8.055 Mhz)
Sound Chips: Yamaha YM2151 (@ 3.58 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 7.627 Khz), OKI6295 (@ 15.255 Khz)

Players: 3
Control: 8-way joystick
Buttons: 2

- TRIVIA -

Gun Ball was released in November 1992 in Japan.

Export releases:
This game is known outside Japan as "Nitro Ball".

With so many similarities between this game and "Smash T.V.", it makes you wonder how Data East managed to avoid a lawsuit from Williams for copyright infringement (they were sued by Capcom a year later for the similarities between "Fighter's History" and "Street Fighter II - The World Warrior" but Capcom lost the case in the end)

The game was developed in Japan but the voices were recorded at Orio Sound Production Studio, San Jose, California.

- STAFF -

Director: Jinbo
Game designer: Marukin
Graphic designers: K.E, T.E, M.K, Y.T, S.M, Masayuki Inoshita, Fujimi Onishi, H.N
Sound: Hiroaki Yoshida (MARO), Akira Takemoto (Raika)
Hard: S.M, M.Y
Soft: Osapan, K. Minegishi, Mya, M.S

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