[Oct/08/97]

Rolling Crash by Nichibutsu (1978)

At first I thought it was a conversion of a Space Invaders cabinet but in
fact it is a dedicated machine manufactured by Nichibutsu and artwork appart is
almost identical to it. The board set is virtually the same as the Taito three
board SI Part II, but it has an extra sound daughter card and an extra
sparse video card (video comes off this board on a fly lead). Since the game 
is colour, I think this gives true programmable colours rather than the 
original SI fixed colours. The machine has a colour monitor, and is back glass
reflected like the original SI.

It's actually a two in one game - if you coin it with the joystick left it
plays a Nichibutsu version of Space Invaders. This is advertised on the
game instructions.

Alas, my game is in very poor condition. 

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