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January 29, 2008

So Lame it is Awesome

Tattoo Assassins, a miserable failure of a game that attempted to capitalize on the success of Mortal Kombat. I'll make you click over to see it, this thing is epic in its awfulness, only two cabinets were made, and one was destroyed, so only the company has an actual copy of the game. However, someone did get the ROM of it and its now available on MAME and other emulators.

The concept and storyline of the game is terrible, and so was the execution, crappy gameplay with really lots of really stupid gimmicky fatalities, which were going to be its main hook. Here's a video of some of the ridiculous fatalities, but I suggest clicking the link to get a real feel for how truly awesomely awful this game is.

Here are two insider perspectives. The game was developed by pinball developer Data East Pinball (later bought out by SEGA). Data East was kind of a mediocre developer of pinball games, and didn't have the kind of budgets or talent that the other pinball developers had. They tended to rush their products, the only thing that really kept them in the game was that they were good at picking up licenses for movie and other tie-ins.

The second story from the developer is something else, the development team members about killed themselves trying to crank out this steaming pile within eight months, they were chasing a $25,000 bonus.

Posted by: doubleplusundead at 02:23 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment
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1 Yeah, Data East pinball games sucked. My sweet spot in the evolution of pinball games came in the late 70's, when Williams came out with Gorgar, Flash, Firepower, and The Black Knight. I own a Flash machine (my all-time fave), but it needs to be shopped really badly.

Bally wasn't too bad in its pinball lineup (I remember Playboy and Xenon with some fondness), but Gottlieb and Stern were pretty sad.

Not as bad as Data East, though.

Posted by: geoff at January 29, 2008 06:51 PM (Mbr5X)

2 Heh, you're a pinball junkie, eh? I liked pinball, but the selection was always mediocre here. A few good Williams, but pinball machines around here mostly were crappy sloppy seconds they bought from other arcades. Of course, that was the 90s, so pinball was low priority.

Posted by: doubleplusundead at January 29, 2008 06:56 PM (68v+0)

3 Er, I like pinball, I mean.

Posted by: doubleplusundead at January 29, 2008 06:56 PM (68v+0)

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