"my mate at JASRAC said it was cool to use the name, movie image & Tom Cruise after I paid him $1" claims Konami lawyer
"idk his name, it was just some guy I gave some loose change to in the street. He was huffing meths at the time but it's a legally binding contract though"
Japanese trade flyer. Get your The Hustler PCB for only 98,000 yen or swap out the ROMs on your existing Battlantis board for 55,000 yen
Or buy it for your home console from 837 yen later today
Those of you with good eyesight may have spotted the lesser seen deluxe cabinet (repurposed Pole Position / RF2 cab) version of A-JAX which was played with a flight stick and was unsurprisingly less popular than the normal joystick version
When Gamest played The Hustler at Konami's booth at the '87 AM Show they said it was the definitive billiards game, aimed at being enjoyed by a wide variety of players
By this afternoon, all of Konami's '87 AM Show line-up will be on Arcade Archives
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Using the power of angles & a big stick, I whack many balls to finish in 11th place this week but I met my score goal of clearing an entire 15 ball rack, so I'm fine with this🎱
Notes in the description as usual