Name: Periscope - ペリスコープ [NP-3D]
Year: 1966
Manufacturer: 中村製作所 (Nakamura Seisakusho)
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| Namco has done a great job advertising their history, but through their publications many errors have cropped up. I do not think this is the 1965 version in this image. For whatever reason, it might have been easier for them to just collapse the more complex history into one single entry. |
For example, in
Nours 45 it says 1963 and that's most definitely wrong.
Some of the early dates jump around in game timelines in Namco publications, but certainly not by that much.
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| the caption says "this appears to be from a vendor show" [Sawano, 2017] |
This Periscope was called Model NP-3D in the flyers. This designation separates it from the
1965 version, and the NP-3D model is the "new" Periscope version of 1966.
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| can you understand the blurry text? |
When an English flyer exists that tells us they were exporting it.
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| Cash Box 1967-04-15 |
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| 1969 Machine Directory entry |
As seen on TV! なんたって18歳！(After all she's only 18!) episode 30, skip to 9:22. This episode aired in 1972,
Periscope can be seen in the back of this hotel game room photo:
