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Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja


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Name: Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja Developer: Data East Year: 1988 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Settings: Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja Dipswitch Settings Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)
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Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja DescriptionTwo street fighters must battle their way past hordes of attacking enemies in their pursuit to defeat the evil Dragon Ninja and rescue president Ronald Reagan. Players must defeat end-of-level bosses, one of which is Karnov himself!Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja was produced by Data East in 1988. Data East released 174 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1979. Other machines made by Data East during the time period Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja was produced include Bloody Wolf, Battle Rangers, Birdie Try, Cobra Command 1988, Chelnov: Atomic Runner, Real Ghostbusters, The, Garyo Retsuden, Wonder Planet, Captain Silver, and Heavy Barrel. Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.67 (5 votes)
Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors. Log in to rate this game! Cabinet InformationThe side art shows Blade and Striker hitting bad guys.Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
Game IntroductionPresident Ronnie has been kidnapped by the Ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue Ronnie?MiscellaneousThe game is simply known as Dragon Ninja in Japan.VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja CensusThere are 12,133 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,623 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 163,035 machines (6,848 unique titles).Very Common - There are approximately 188 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 59 of these machines are owned by our active Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja collectors. And of these, 22 are original dedicated machines, 2 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 35 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There are 2 active VAPS members with Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja machines for sale. There are 2 active VAPS members with extra Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja circuit boards for sale. Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list. This game ranks a 39 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.
TechnicalUses Data Easts HFT System hardware. The system consists of a DE0295 or DE0297 Main CPU PCB and a DE0293 or DE0299 Game Program PCB. The main CPU PCB utilizes a Motorola 68000 32bit microprocessor to control the game functions and a 65C02A microprocessor to control the Yamaha sound generator circuit. The Game Program PCB contains all game specific program devices and a OKI voice generator circuit.TriviaThere is a NES home console version of this game. There is also a one-player Commodore 64 version of this game.Manuals
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