Lost In Translation/Sonic Blast Man

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Sonic Blast Man
No screen shot.
Sonic Blast Man control panel.
Manufacturer Taito Corporation
Released 1990
Control
Method
8-way Joystick
4 Button(s)
Main CPU 68000 (@ 12.000 MHz)
Z80 (@ 4.000 MHz)
Sound CPU Mono
YM2610B (@ 8.000 MHz)
Video
Details
Raster (Horizontal)
320 x 224 pixels
60.00 Hz
4,096 Palette colours
Screens 1
ROM Info 12 ROMs
3,735,552 bytes (3.56 MiB)
MAME ID sbm

About The Game

Sonic Blast Man is an arcade video game where the player has to wear a boxing glove and punch a pad to attack the enemies!

Trivia

Taito lost a class action suit for $50,000 to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) because of injuries sustained by players of Sonic Blast Man. The CPSC alleges that between 1991 and 1994, Taito failed to report about 70 cases in which young players fractured or injured wrists and arms as a result of hitting the Blast Man's punching pad.

Series

  1. Sonic Blast Man (1990)
  2. Sonic Blast Man returns - Real Puncher

Cabinet and Artwork

Ports

Consoles
Nintendo Super Famicom (1992)

Soundtrack Releases

Album Name Catalogue No. Released Publisher Comments
Super Famicom Magazine Volume 5 - New Game Sound Museum TIM-SFC05[1] 1992-01-01 Tokuma Shoten Publishing CD version.

References

The contents of this page are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
The sources used include MAME (version 0.113u2) and history.dat (revision 1.28 - 2008-10-18).
Please see http://www.arcade-history.com for credits.