Name: Super-Scope - スーパースコープ
Year: 1975
Company: オリエンタル興業 (Oriental Kogyo)
Year: 1975
Company: オリエンタル興業 (Oriental Kogyo)
Super-Scope is a classic "rotary merchandiser" game, where you press a button to time a pusher arm to see if you can knock prizes off. Super-Scope is a game with a messy history. As with most Oriental Kogyo machines, this is a modified design of a foreign machine.
From an old home video of a UK arcade, we have the original Super-Scope:
We see this version in Japan in 1974 when リバーストン (Riverstone) held an exhibition to showcase arcade machine. The easiest 2 differences are the marquee shape, and the lack of front arm rest.
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| Game Machine 1974-09-30 |
The full article:
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| Game Machine 1974-09-30 |
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| 1970 Super Scope by Nuversions |
One year later, Riverstone is advertising the new Oriental Kogyo version of Super-Scope.
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| Game Machine 1975-06-01 ad by リバーストン (Riverstone) |
This next articles mention that in 1975 ボナンザ (Bonanza) sued オリエンタル興業 (Oriental Kogyo). In March 1975, Bonanza hired Oriental Kogyo to make Super-Scope. If Oriental wanted to sell them they would have to pay a 50k yen licensing fee. Oriental sold many copies without paying the fee to Bonanza.
Is Bonanza the same company as Riverstone?
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| Game Machine 1980-04-15 |
The payment was reduced to $8 million yen.
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| Game Machine 1980-11-15 |
There are a number of slight variations in the control panel design amongst models, but the main variant to note is the extra front-facing pair of coin slots. We see the extra coin slot in the Riverstone ad, further up.
We also see this same model being sold by ツムラ (Tumura).
In 1975 ツムラ (Tumura) was advertising Super-Scope, but as JAGUAR Super-Scope. Jaguar was a brand for Tumura. The game does not look modified, it just seems brazen to put your company brand on the ad copy title.
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| Game Machine 1975-11-15 ad by ツムラ (Tumura) |
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| crop from a Tumura catalogue |
I do not know if I have ever seen photos of this model in arcades. But we see many photos of Super-Scope that does not have the extra coin slots.
The more common kind was being sold by セガ (Sega).
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