From a magazine article about the history of Komaya, I had neglected to note this extremely rare variant of the iconic Crazy 15 artwork:
●クレイジー15ゲーム&ニュークレイジー15
ビンゴゲームの一種。9つのマスは縦、横、斜め、いずれかに揃えば15の数になる。6個のボールをフリッパーでマスに入れ、揃えばリプレイできる。当時はまだ景品は出なかった。ニュークレイジー15は天板もカラフルになり音声も入った。マークⅡ、マークIIIまで続編機が出された。
Machine translation:
●Crazy 15 games & new crazy 15
A type of bingo game. If you line up the nine squares vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, you get the number 15. You can replay the game by placing 6 balls in a square using the flipper and aligning them. There were no prizes available at that time. The New Crazy 15 has a colorful top plate and also has audio. Sequel machines were released, including the Mark II and Mark III.
This paragraph identifies that there were indeed 4 versions of Crazy 15. The primary version that is most famously known would be considered Mark II. Mark III would be the 1970 version. I am updating all of the title names accordingly. As of writing this, I do not know if the Mark II glass was made after 1965, but for the time being I will assume both of those versions are still 1965.
This early version of Crazy 15 appears to be the same, geometrically, to the Mark II, but there are a few graphical differences:
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| early backglass |
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| mark II backglass |
The children were given party hats (which I suspect also means the party hats were not on the playfield plastic artwork either,) there is checkerboard wrapping on the bingo grid box, and the center character now has glasses.
Here is a photo of an arcade with the original Crazy 15:
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| shared by yogomi2017 (archive) |
