Bisboch

Location	Milano, Milano, Italy
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Web Site	https://lostcave.wordpress.com
Contact Method	The best way to reach me is via email
First Piece Collected	Bomb Jack original Spanish Tecfri PCB
Favorite Piece	Bubble Bobble
Why It Is My Favorite	Shiny original Japanese PCB. Nothing else to say.
Current Project(s)	videogames development @ Ubisoft Italy
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Games Owned

* = High Scores are simply self-reported, unverified, and un-official.
Name	Type	Cabinet	Condition	High Score*	Knowledge	Comment	Accessible	For Sale	KLOV Info	Search eBay
1942	Videogame	Board Only	C+		Average	Bootleg. Works. Strange swap between some sprite graphics. Must be something quite stupid to fix.	N	N	Info	Search
1943: The Battle Of Midway	Videogame	Board Only	B-		Player	Bootleg from the Japanese regular version. Works great and its so much better than his predecessor.	N	N	Info	Search
3 Wonders	Videogame	Board Only	A-		Average	Works great albeit sound is clunky as you would expect in a CPS1 bootleg. A totally wrong formula that takes three cool games and let them overshadow each other. Still three cool games. Never understood how Sega did not sue Capcom for Dont p	N	Y	Info	Search
Ambush	Videogame	Board Only	D		Average	Original Tecfri. Which is more original than the nippon amuse version as this is the first spanish game ever AFAIK. Present of Lorenzo Ceccotti. Seems totally fried but who knows	N	N	Info	Search
Amigo	Videogame	Board Only	B-		Player	Bootleg. Works like a carm. I think I never saw a proper Amidar coinop. Here in Italy it was Amigo all the way. Could really do that easy hack to enable the correct title back.	N	N	Info	Search
Argus	Videogame	Board Only	B		Average	Bootleg. This game has so many design flaws that it is almost incredible. And yet, all together, they create a unique experience. A good one. Really.	N	N	Info	Search
Black Tiger	Videogame	Board Only	A-		Average	Bootleg. Yeah, THAT Black Tiger. Aged quite gracefully if you ask me.	N	N	Info	Search
Bobble Bobble	Videogame	Board Only	B-		Expert	Bootleg converted into Bubble Bobble Lost Cave, the ROMhack I created with fellow coder Aladar. Check my website for more info, you are gonna like it if you are a BB fan.	N	N	Info	Search
Bobble Bobble	Videogame	Board Only	C+		Average	Bootleg. This is going to be converted in Lost Cave too. Sooner or later. Or maybe into Bubble Bobble Aladar redux. Lets see.	N	N	Info	Search
Bomb Jack	Videogame	Board Only	A	1490610	Expert	Original Spanish PCB, Licensed by Tehkan to Tecfri. Bomb Jack is one of the games to bring to God on Judgement Day to prove to him that videogames are not a sin.	N	N	Info	Search
Bubble Bobble	Videogame	Board Only	A		Expert	Original Jap PCB. The best piece of my humble collection. My 40th birthday present from my friends. I love you all, guys.	N	N	Info	Search
Car Action	Videogame	Board Only	C+		Average	Bootleg of course as Car Action exsists just as a bootleg. Super shitty colors on this one and control problems probably because of a CRAZY FOOLISH ADAPTER. Right now it stopped working and I am pretty sure its the adapter.	N	N	Info	Search
Circus Charlie	Videogame	Board Only	B		Average	Bootleg. Works flawlessly. Unmodified so you can get the easy extra life in the first stage. One of my favourite Konami games ever. Konamis circus sekaikan is perfect.	N	N	Info	Search
City Connection	Videogame	Board Only	B-		Expert	Bootleg. Built an adapter for it, unfortunately colours and sound are bad, still playable tho. One of the games with the best sekaikan ever.	N	N	Info	Search
City Connection	Videogame	Board Only	C+		Average	Bootleg. Since the first one I got did not work properly I took this one. The board works if you align correctly the adaptor which is not trivial.	N	N	Info	Search
Commando	Videogame	Board Only	B		Average	Bootleg. Halts at boot caps maybe. For me this game raised the bar of what to expect from an arcade game in terms of adrenaline.	N	N	Info	Search
Dangar Ufo Robo	Videogame	Board Only	B		Average	Bootleg. Oh Dangar. How much I love your noisy drum set. More than the game itself. Enough to buy a bootleg PCB actually. Which works perfectly APART FROM OUTPUTTING NO SOUND AT ALL. Paxadoxical.	N	N	Info	Search
Do! Run Run	Videogame	Board Only	A-		Average	Bootleg. Working flawlessly. Thank God Universal decided to say goodbye with a proper sequel to the original Mr Do. Intruguing even being already old skool in 1984.	N	N	Info	Search
Double Dragon	Videogame	Board Only	B+		Average	Bootleg. Strange that 1p punch is on 2p controls and viceversa. I love slowdowns of DD. They make everything so heavy, so right.	N	N	Info	Search
Dragon World II	Videogame	Board Only	A		Average	Original. Misses BLUE out of RGB. I have the first episode. But its not listed on VAPS so I cannot add it. So I guess its ultra rare. Ultra Rare Shangai Crap.	N	Y	Info	Search
Euro League	Videogame	Board Only	C		Average	Boot. But does not boot. Pun intended. Still a good mine for EPROMS I guess.	N	Y	Info	Search
Euro League	Videogame	Board Only	B		Average	Bootleg. Good game after all. But Tehkan World Cup is sooo much more thrilling, then.	N	Y	Info	Search
Exerion	Videogame	Board Only	B-		Player	Bootleg. Only sound, black screen. One of the best JALECO games ever. Perfect game system. Brutal yet effective graphics. Something is broken on the PCB. Shame on the guy who sold it to me and packed it like a caveman.	N	N	Info	Search
Exerizer	Videogame	Board Only	B-		Player	Bootleg. A cheap one. Need Exerion badly. JALECO FTW.	N	N	Info	Search
Exerizer	Videogame	Board Only	C+		Average	Bootleg. Untested yet. Its always good to have two copies of Exerizer. You never know.	N	Y	Info	Search
Extreme Downhill	Videogame	Board Only	A		Average	Original. What a crappy interesting game. It could have been a nice game if it was not for the zoomed view on the player which turns it almost into a laser game. GFX and SFX are craptastic Nineties Jap stuff at its best.	N	Y	Info	Search
Flicky	Videogame	Board Only	A		Average	Original. Repaired, works like a charm only EXACTLY at 4.75v. Tsk. Sega. Some Italian criminal reprogrammed one eprom to make the game insanely difficult, gotta change that.	N	N	Info	Search
Football Champ	Videogame	Board Only	B-		Average	Bootleg. For some unknown reason, Football Champ seems to have the only reason of exsistance in being a good PCB to potentially sacrifice when you have to test a faulty JAMMA harness.	N	Y	Info	Search
Frog	Videogame	Board Only	A-		Average	Bootleg of course. Needs to be tested. Bought for my little daughter.	N	N	Info	Search
Gals Panic 3	Videogame	Board Only	B		Average	Original. Untested. Kaneko goes on reinventing Qix in very cool ways. Too bad they were good almost just at that, apparently.	N	Y	Info	Search
Gals Panic II	Videogame	Board Only	B		Average	Original. Untested. Forget the gals. It is a truly great Qix variant, made by the same people who developed Super Qix. Which I still like the most.	N	Y	Info	Search
Gemini Wing	Videogame	Board Only	A-		Expert	Bootleg. Works almost flawlessly. A wonderful audiovisual experience. A nice gameplay system. Weird it really did not spawn any sequel.	N	N	Info	Search
Ghosts 'n Goblins	Videogame	Board Only	C		Average	Bootleg. Bought for cheap. Because it looked like it did not work, I guess. But it worked. Just a matter of getting the right voltage on the PSU. Still some weird control issue. Huge satisfaction. We all now that PCBS are a pain in the ass for most of the	N	N	Info	Search
Ghouls 'n Ghosts	Videogame	Board Only	A		Expert	Original board. Its the Resale version less valuable, but more buxfixes and less slowdowns. The perfect GnG, I dare to say.	N	N	Info	Search
Gigas	Videogame	Board Only	?		Average	Bootleg. God knows why I bought this one. I mean I dont even have a spinner. Neither have the adapter to JAMMA which is different from standard Sega System 1.	N	N	Info	Search
Green Beret	Videogame	Board Only	B		Expert	Italian Bootleg. Audio sounds like capacitors need some help but stil perfect bootleg arcade experience .	N	N	Info	Search
Gyruss	Videogame	Board Only	B		Expert	Bootleg board, works like a charm and retains the glorious stereo sound of the original. One of my favourite shooters ever.	N	N	Info	Search
Hissatsu Buraiken	Videogame	Board Only	B		Expert	Bootleg. Resets at start now. Trivial.	N	Y	Info	Search
Hot Shots Tennis	Videogame	Board Only	A+		Average	Bootleg or original I cannot really tell but it is so shitty	N	N	Info	Search
Hyper Olympic	Videogame	Board Only	A		Average	Bootleg. NEED CUSTOM KONAMI ADAPTER TO PLAY THIS AND HYPER SPORTS PROPERLY	N	Y	Info	Search
Hyper Sports	Videogame	Board Only	B+		Player	Original. Skeet Shooting alone is well worth the cost of this PCB. I love how the different discipline are different and well balanced. Always interesting. Konami. Please come back.	N	N	Info	Search
Iron Horse	Videogame	Board Only	A		Average	Bootleg. Another excellent boot. Cheap. Flawless.	N	N	Info	Search
Jail Break	Videogame	Board Only	B-		Average	Bootleg. Works with proper voltage. I want that VLM5030 speech synthesis to speak gibberish again for Christs sake.	N	Y	Info	Search
Jumping	Videogame	Board Only	B-		Average	Bootleg. Bought for a future project. The idea is obviously converting it in Rainbow Islands.	N	N	Info	Search
Jumping	Videogame	Board Only	B-		Average	Bootleg. Bought for a future project. The idea is obviously converting it in Rainbow Islands. And its always better to have TWO copies just in case.	N	N	Info	Search
Jungle King	Videogame	Board Only	A		Average	Original. A present from Lorenzo Ceccotti. Not working but probably halts at boot just for some watchdog and it is easy to overcome the problem. Clearly wishful thinking.	N	N	Info	Search
Knuckle Joe	Videogame	Board Only	B		Average	Bootleg. Taito set. A shockingly important game for the evolution of the concept of fighting system. Seibu is not only Raiden, guys	N	N	Info	Search
Kung-Fu Master	Videogame	Board Only	B		Player	Bootleg. Perfect. Hard as hell and this is like a kanfu game should be.	N	N	Info	Search
Lady Bug	Videogame	Board Only	B+		Player	Bootleg with no logo. Wonder if a simple ROM swap will do. Anyway an amazing game. Then and now. Obnoxious horizontal stripes and it seems like I cannot fix them even if it is supposed to be just a voltage problem according to the seller.	N	N	Info	Search
Legendary Wings	Videogame	Board Only	C+		Player	Bootleg. It looked soo cool back then. And it still does even if it is so boring gamewise. Another astounding Tamayo Kawamoto score.	N	N	Info	Search
Magix	Videogame	Board Only	B-		Average	Original. God why do you always have to find this crappy shit tied together with the cooler games into stocks or bundles. Well it is the LAW. You have to accept it.	N	Y	Info	Search
Masao	Videogame	Board Only	B+		Average	Bootleg of course. Otherwise it would be called MARIO BROS you know. Non a great bootleg I have to say. Awful sound. Should have checked on MAME where it has awful sound too. It uses a AY8910 instead of that goddamn Nintendo magic of the original PCB.	N	N	Info	Search
Mega Zone	Videogame	Board Only	A		Average	Bootleg. Again Konami. Again Tokuro Fujiwara. Does not work because of a big cap that got broken during the shipment. Just need to change it.	N	N	Info	Search
Mikie, High School Graffiti	Videogame	Board Only	B+		Average	Bootleg. Working flawlessly after reprogramming one of the eproms. Another stunning example of the tight sekaikan Konami was able to depict in any mid eighties game. Little worlds.	N	N	Info	Search
Momoko 120	Videogame	Board Only	A		Expert	Jaleco at its best. Flawed but full of personality. Gotta love that black outline. One of the early examples of this technique.	N	N	Info	Search
Moon Ranger	Videogame	Board Only	B+		Average	Bootleg. Moon Patrol thats it. I have not played it enough in my youth quite strangely. No sound because of a broken condenser. Everything else is just fine.	N	N	Info	Search
Mr. Do!	Videogame	Board Only	B+		Average	Bootleg of the Taito version. I really had to have this game. Getting the Diamond on the very first match of my life is one of my most beloved videogame memories.	N	N	Info	Search
Nibbler	Videogame	Original/dedicated	A-		Average	Bootleg. Strange adapter. I must understand if its JAMMA or not but Im lazy	N	N	Info	Search
Oscar - Psycho-Nics	Videogame	Board Only	B-		Expert	Bootleg. Another of my teenage obsessions. I could 1CC it and its not easy at all. By the way, there is this klov freak who puts wrong developer names for games. This is pure Data East. No Nihon Bussan. Sorry.	N	N	Info	Search
Pac-Land	Videogame	Board Only	A		Average	Original. Japanese new version, my favourite one. Did not know how much I wanted this pcb until I finally got it. I enjoy playing this sooo much	N	N	Info	Search
Penguin-Kun Wars	Videogame	Board Only	B-		Average	Bootleg. I picked it up for cheap, it works great, its a zany game but I played it a lot as a kid because of the kawaii characters and cute music a cover of Motto sekkin shimasho by Hidemi Ishikawa.	N	N	Info	Search
Penta	Videogame	Board Only	A-		Average	Bootleg. One of the first games I played in my life. I really wanted PENTA and not PENGO because its the bootleg I played back then in a camping in Grado.	N	N	Info	Search
Perfect Billiard	Videogame	Board Only	A		Average	Bootleg. This game was everywhere in Northern Italy and I do not even know WHY. So dull. Comes with a rare adapter.	N	Y	Info	Search
Phoenix	Videogame	Board Only	C+		Average	Bootleg. Works partially. Sound is no more there because of a broken condenser. So sad. I love the analog components and how they sound on the bootleg.	N	N	Info	Search
Pinbo	Videogame	Board Only	C+		Average	Bootleg. Green is missing but I shall wash the PCB. Does not match the greatness of Pinball Action. Yet it is a meaningful digital pinball in that it haves some kind of features that simply would not be possible on a phisical table.	N	Y	Info	Search
Pit Run	Videogame	Board Only	A		Average	This is the best driving videogame of 1984. If you do not acknowledge that, you have some bad, bad problem. It is perfect. Game design unbalanced with no mercy at all. All I want from an arcade.	N	N	Info	Search
Pitfall II - The Lost Caverns	Videogame	Board Only	B		Average	Bootleg. Perfection. Best hidden secrets of 1984.	N	N	Info	Search
Pootan	Videogame	Board Only	B-		Average	Bootleg. Going to change the name back to Pooyan via ROM swap. Game design by Tokuro Fujiwara of Ghosts n Goblins fame.	N	N	Info	Search
Pootan	Videogame	Board Only	A		Average	Bootleg. Second Copy.	N	Y	Info	Search
Popeye	Videogame	Board Only	A		Average	Bootleg. ADAPTOR NEEDED as the one board boot does not use the same Nintendo to JAMMA adapter I use for Masao. I put this game in the same tier of Kung Fu Master. Not so enjoyable to play nowadays but still so enjoyable to remember. So now I need also a K	N	N	Info	Search
Psychic 5	Videogame	Board Only	B-		Expert	Bootleg. How comes that this gem is not one of the most revered coinops ever is a mistery to me. I love it. OST is Shinichi Sakamoto at his best	N	N	Info	Search
Q*bert	Videogame	Board Only	A		Average	Bootleg. Weird sync problem.Should have known that sound is shitty in the bootleg. SOUND IS EVERYTHING in QBERT. Sound and M C Esher.	N	N	Info	Search
R-Type	Videogame	Board Only	A		Average	Bootleg. Fully working. Everyone agrees that there is a shocking discrepancy between overall quality and poor enemy behavioral design. But fck it. R Type. Nothing more to say.	N	N	Info	Search
Return Of The Invaders	Videogame	Board Only	B+		Average	Bootleg. One the PCBs I wanted since the beginning. It took me like three years to get a bootleg working one It is one of the best games ever made and a totally underrated one too	N	N	Info	Search
Road Fighter	Videogame	Board Only	B-		Average	Original. And it was sold to me as bootleg. A wonderful present. The board is really a Hyper Sport one. I did not know that there were official conversion kits from HS to RF. Maybe I have an undumped MAME set. I should do something about it.	N	N	Info	Search
Rope Man	Videogame	Board Only	A		Expert	Bootleg. So lovely First grappling hook game of history, thanks to the man who gave us also the second grappling hook game of the history. And Ghosts n Goblins. Tokuro Fujiwara.	N	N	Info	Search
Rush & Crash	Videogame	Board Only	B-		Player	#SOLD as I have the original now# Bootleg. Amazing soundtrack by Tamayo Kawamoto who really brought swing into FM.	N	Y	Info	Search
Rygar	Videogame	Board Only	B		Average	Bootleg. Bad video sync. You can try to play but youre going to spit blood thru your eyes. Also missing DAC, but maybe its as the bootleg was meant to be.	N	N	Info	Search
Seibu Cup Soccer	Videogame	Board Only	?		Average	Bootleg known as Goal 92. I think I bougt a stock which had this one too but I cannot find it anywhere. Its a pity. Its always good to have a Seibu bootleg thing.	N	Y	Info	Search
Seibu Cup Soccer	Videogame	Board Only	A+		Average	Bootleg. Some artifacts. Funny game.	N	N	Info	Search
Shisenshou Joshiryou-Hen - Sichuan II	Videogame	Board Only			Average	DONT JUDGE ME. I LOVE THE MUSIC SO MUCH	N	N	Info	Search
Shot Rider	Videogame	Board Only	B		Expert	Bootleg. I loved this Traverse USA conversion kit basically because it had a flawed game design which allowed me to play for hours and hours with one credit.	N	N	Info	Search
Slap Fight	Videogame	Board Only	B-		Average	Bootleg. Not a game I play often. Just one match a year is ok for me. But that match is usually deeply satisfying. Toaplan and Taito at their best. Great sekaikan.	N	N	Info	Search
Space Pilot	Videogame	Board Only	A		Average	Bootleg. Second Copy.	N	Y	Info	Search
Space Pilot	Videogame	Board Only	?		Average	Bootleg. Tanks to EPROM programmer its now Time Pilot. YAY.	N	N	Info	Search
Speed Rumbler, The	Videogame	Board Only	A-		Player	Original. The Western version of Rush n Crash. So I guess that I can sell my Rush n Crash bootleg, after all. Best FM swing ever courtesy of Tamayo Kawamoto.	N	Y	Info	Search
Super Glob	Videogame	Board Only	B-		Average	Bootleg. Little game I always loved for the neat game mechanics which have been used many times ever since. Well not so many times. But still. This is the same bootleg board I played in my youth. ELSYS brand.	N	N	Info	Search
Super Qix	Videogame	Board Only	B		Average	Bootleg. Did not work. Washed. Works. Double satisfaction when playing it now.	N	N	Info	Search
Super Qix	Videogame	Board Only	B		Average	NonJAMMA 44 Pin Bootleg. RAM problems prevent it to work, apparently. The other is JAMMA, this is not. And it comes with an adapter.	N	Y	Info	Search
Super Shanghai	Videogame	Board Only	A+		Average	Original. Never knew I had this one The best of them all. Apart from Sichuan II of course.	N	N	Info	Search
Surprise Attack	Videogame	Board Only	B-		Player	Original. In the end by looking at the original PCBS I have it may seem I am a huge Konami fan. Well I am. This is Shinobi in space, more or less. Interesting game. But DOES NOT BOOT.	N	N	Info	Search
Teddy Boy Blues	Videogame	Board Only	B		Player	Bootleg. I hate buying stuff for cheap just HOPING it may work even if it is sold as untested. Well it does not work quite obviously. Such a pity.	N	Y	Info	Search
Tehkan World Cup	Videogame	Board Only	A		Average	Bootleg. NEEDS ADAPTER. Hope that I can finally put that Tsukasa Masuko tune out of my head. Just because I own a bootleg. Lets hope it works.	N	N	Info	Search
Terra Force	Videogame	Board Only	C+		Average	Bootleg. Graphical glitches here and there but still playable. I have two of them to multiply my Nichibutsu overall power.	N	Y	Info	Search
Terra Force	Videogame	Board Only	B-		Average	Bootleg. Works perfectly. I love the huge bomb craters. Nichibutsu. Its never enough for me. Mahjongs apart.	N	Y	Info	Search
Time Pilot '84	Videogame	Board Only	A-		Average	A blazing original PCB. Lovely game. A weird take on Time Pilot no one remembers fondly. No one except me.	N	N	Info	Search
Tutankham	Videogame	Board Only	A		Average	Bootleg. The moment when you understand that maybe you are trying to have ALL Konami 8 bit boards, bootleg or original does not matter.	N	N	Info	Search
Twin Cobra	Videogame	Board Only	A-		Average	Bootleg. UP direction does not work and this is bad for an eight way shooter. This must be one of the most popular bootlegs in Italy ever. Twin Cobra is a pretty average game for Toaplan standards. But it is way more playable than Tiger Heli for instance.	N	Y	Info	Search
Whoopee!!	Videogame	Board Only	C+		Average	Original. Works quite good, some minor sprite glitches which should be fixed by massaging the ICs a little bit. Weird, weak mix of Snow Bros and Dig Dug and naked gals. But its Toaplan after all. So DONT JUDGE ME	N	Y	Info	Search
Wonder Boy - Monster Land	Videogame	Board Only	B		Average	Bootleg. I. LOVE. THIS. GAME. I converted the Galaxy Electronics bootleg into the proper, unreleased English translation ripped from the Virtual Console Edition. Bufixed too. Wonder. Boy.	N	N	Info	Search
Wonder Boy - Monster Land	Videogame	Board Only	A	2644900	Expert	Original. In the end I had to do it. I mean, the ORIGINAL THING. The real one. Mine. Even if its a Choplifter conversion, who cares. SEGA board. Serial numbers. Love.	N	N	Info	Search
Wonder Boy	Videogame	Board Only	C+		Expert	AT LAST. A Wonder Boy PCB that works YAY Bootleg it may be, Im happy.	N	N	Info	Search
Wonder Boy	Videogame	Board Only	C		Expert	Bootleg. The PCB turns on, black screen then	N	N	Info	Search
Yie Ar Kung-Fu	Videogame	Board Only	B-		Average	Bootleg. Geez how can a game be so broken. It freezes for one second every time a sample is played. It does not use vlm speech synthesis apparently. Horrible bootleg got for free.	N	N	Info	Search
Youma Ninpou Chou	Videogame	Board Only	B		Average	Bootleg. Ah, Nichibutsu. Games so wild that you really have to be wise and resilient. Be like water. And spend a lot of coin. Great flawed game. I love great flawed games.	N	Y	Info	Search
Zippy Race	Videogame	Board Only	B-		Average	Bootleg. Identical to the original Japanese board. It has aged not so gracefully in terms of playability, but it is still great.	N	N	Info	Search
Zoo Keeper	Videogame	Board Only	?		Average	Bootleg. NEEDS ADAPTER. I really needed to collect this one. One of the most clever game concepts ever. Time Pilot, Gyruss, Zoo Keeper... I have a soft spot for circular game design. ________________________________________________________________________	N	N	Info	Search

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