Crude Buster - Videogame by Data East

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Crude Buster

Name: Crude Buster
Manufacturer: Data East
Year: 1990
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Scrolling Fighter
Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: JAMMA

Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Joint
Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard

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Crude Buster Description

Crude Buster was produced by Data East in 1990.

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 Crude Buster was produced include Back To The Future, Al Unser Jr.'s Turbo Racing, Boulder Dash, Phantom of the Opera, Simpsons, Playboy, Act-Fancer: Cybernetick Hyper Weapon, Hippodrome, Kuhga - Operation Code 'Vapor Trail', and Fighting Fantasy.

The player 'clears the streets' of a future city. Bad guys are killed off by punching or jumping on them. The game also lets you pick up parts of the scenery and throw them at bad guys. There are the usual end-of-level boss bad guys.

Crude Buster - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 2.84 (2 votes)

Personal Impressions Score: 2.50

     Overall 'Like': 2.50
     Fun (Social): 1.50
     Fun (Solo): 2.50
     Collector Desire: 2.50

Technical Impressions Score: 3.13

     Gameplay: 4.00
     Graphics: 3.50
     Originality: 3.00
     Sound/Music: 2.00

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.

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Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

Game Play

This is a typical beat-em-up, with some unusual additions. Firstly, you can move around 'climbing' the background scenery (i.e. jumping up or down layers) like a platform game, and secondly, you are allowed at certain times to pick up scenery and background objects and throw them at the enemy. The sound and speech are particularly cheesy!

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Crude Buster Census

There are 11,774 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,265 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 155,180 machines (6,604 unique titles).

Common - There are approximately 26 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 13 of these machines are owned by our active Crude Buster collectors. And of these, 13 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 2 active VAPS members with extra Crude Buster circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.

At any given time, our active members are listing on VAPS on average of 4,400 games they are looking for, and 3,600 games for sale.

This game ranks a 8 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are NOT necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Manuals

Pinout and DIP Switch Settings 2 Pages, 502 kB File.

Additional References
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The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Crude Buster Flyer #1849

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