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Title: Name this game
Post by: NAH on May 30, 2003, 10:52:25 pm

I took the glass off the top of the tomahawk 777 cocktail cabinet i just got to see what is was origionally. It seems like it is something japanese but I don't know what. Also can I do anything with the stuff that is left in there?
sorry but i'll have to post the 'guts' picture later... i don't have any photo editing software on this computer.

Title: Re:Name this game
Post by: jakejake28 on May 30, 2003, 10:55:15 pm

i'd say golf. something golf. at least that explains NICE ON

Title: Re:Name this game
Post by: spectre on May 30, 2003, 11:34:00 pm

http://coinop.org/arcadesystem.aspx/1998beca-c883-450a-b5a3-b25166036922
go there, i found out that there was a deco cassette system at one time. It is possibly one of those games on the list, unless deco made more than the cassette stuff i dunno

Title: Re:Name this game
Post by: spectre on May 30, 2003, 11:36:54 pm

one of my friends (well sort of friends) happens to be very very fluent in japanese. I'll ask her about it or soemthing when i see her, i dunno when tho...

Title: Re:Name this game
Post by: NAH on May 31, 2003, 03:30:59 am

Thanks... Keep me posted... I'll see if I can find anymore japanese i need translated while your friend is around  ;)

Title: Re:Name this game
Post by: NAH on May 31, 2003, 05:37:49 pm

Maybe it has always been a tomahawk777. I just found a thing that said deco, aka data east, made the tomahawk game in 1980 although i couldn't find out what system... oh well

Title: Re:Name this game
Post by: b3atmania on June 01, 2003, 12:45:34 pm

Well, it might be callled Nice On. Its not golf though. I can't read Japanese fluent yet, but the katakana (=Japanese characters for writing foreign words) are:

GE-MUSUTA-TO = game start
SUTA-TOBATAN = start button
DAIBA = diver
JAMPU = jump
PARASHU-TO = parachute
KONTORO-RU TSUMAMI = control knob/button

(TSUMAMI is actually not a foreign word, it is likely written in katakana to  connect it to KONTORO-RU)

Title: Re:Name this game
Post by: Nil8er on June 02, 2003, 10:35:25 am

My Japanese Co-worker thought that it was some kind of airplane shooting game but he couldn't identify it.

Title: Re:Name this game
Post by: b3atmania on June 03, 2003, 06:18:10 am

Game is called Nice On for sure. Made by Data East (DECO = Data East Corp).

This page (http://www.tcn.ne.jp/~yaso/gamedb/year/1976-1978_1.html) lists it as being released in 1978.

I found many Japanese messageboards talking about a DECO game called NAISUON (Nice On) indicating the mystery has been solved.