But did it stick the landing, or did it do a face plant on the mat? Read on.Īs a bounty hunter by trade, you’ve made a reputation for yourself. The following year, the Taito classic jumped from the arcade and landed on the NES’ 8-bit rival on the video game console home front, the SEGA Master System. However, Rastan by Taito hit the scene in 1987, entertaining gamers with its nice graphics, impressive soundtrack, and straight-forward gameplay. The classic Golden Axe from 1988 was given life by SEGA, and that game even used a handful of voice samples from the movie. Even video games found inspiration from the movie’s popularity, though not all of them came out right away.
Sure, the Conan stories had been around since the 1930s, but when the movie hit, artists created all sorts of characters and stories that tried to draw in fans of that depiction of the muscle-bound barbarian. You know, despite how cheesy the 1982 movie was, Conan The Barbarian inspired a lot of different mediums when it was released. Wouldn't mind having a Final Fight cab.Genre: Hack-‘n-Slash Developer: Taito Publisher: Taito Players: 1 Released: 1988 It's supposed to be a dining room but the wife and I have a table elsewhere and normally we eat watching TV, thus I've got room for 7 more, but I've got to be choosy. I'm thinking of turning that room that my current two are in into a mini-arcade. #3> Yeah I'd be interested in a FAQ about ANY ways to get good deals on cabs. I plan on going to an auction soon, there's one a month from now in Dallas but with my kid on the way I was stretching it a bit just to get this Rastan cab. I haggle pretty good though, but as of late no one in my area anyhow has IKARI III, or POW, or Devastators or any of those. #2> Yeah, I've been trying the Coin Op warehouses but mostly they never have anything I'm looking for, or they tell me they rent the uprights out still and aren't interested in selling, which makes no sense to me. Guess I'll have to find someone local who knows about this stuff. I know you say that changing out the speakers is easy but I don't know what wires are connecting from the PCB board up to them. #1> Yeah I think I made out alright considering. **Next up I gotta' find a SHINOBI upright. It looks good next to my NEO:GEO 2-Slot MVS. I'm signing off now to go play it, but I figured I'd share my celebration with you guys as well as "I can't believe it!" story. *Well, it's still there, and I seriously doubt anyone else duplicated that tell tale sign on another cab. That caused a small break just under the left hand side of the plexi glass that protected the monitor within. I kept messing with a piece of the cardboard (or whatever type wood uprights are made of) that was already a bit frayed, and lifted up. At first I was like Naah, ain't no fuckin' way, but then sure enough, in the summer of 1990 I was bored, ran out of quarters and between watching the Game Over snippets on the FireShark cab off to the side of it, and the RYGAR upright to the right of it. Gatti's Pizzaria! It got sold from the place in 1991, and it's changed owners a few times it seems only to turn up in Dallas 2 yrs ago when the guy who sold it originally bought it, and now It's come back to me in 2005. GET THIS! *It's the same exact upright I first played "Rastan" on back in 1987 a Mr. after such a long time, having played it emulated, on the SEGA Master System etcetera. Now while I've wanted to own this game since I first played it in 1987, this is where it gets odd. RASTAN arcade upright that I won off of Ebay Thursday night as seen in the link pic. I just got in from a 500 + mile trip from San Antonio to Dallas & back to SATX to pick up this.