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Game Machine, no. 255 (1 March 1985)

Game Machine editors. 1985. “Game Machine, no. 255 (1 March 1985).” Game Machine (ゲームマシン), no. 255, 1 March 1985. Amusement Press, Inc. (アミューズメント通信社).

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Game Machine 255
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Japanese arcade trade paper, 24 printed pages. The scan holds 13 images: image 1 is p. 1, images 2-12 are two-page spreads (printed page 2k+1 on the left, 2k on the right of image k+1), and image 13 is p. 24. The text layer is poor Japanese OCR: quotes are read on the page images (archive.org/download/game-machine-magazine-19850301p/page/n<k>.jpg, k one less than the image number).

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Game Machine of 1 March 1985 reported that the arcade game TwinBee, developed by Konami Industry (コナミ工業) as the first game for its Bubble System, was to go on sale in Japan in late February through Itochu Kakoki Hanbai (伊藤忠化工機販売), a Tokyo company.p. 16 (image 9, right-hand page), 話題のマシン, headlinep. 16 (image 9), article, first paragraphp. 16 (image 9), articleMagazine
Game Machine described the arcade game as an air battle against an army led by the "Spice King" that had occupied an island: two players can play at once and cooperate, and when their two fighters join they can make a stronger attack. It is played with an eight-way lever and two buttons, fire and bomb, on a screen that scrolls vertically; the players' fighters have hands on both sides, and the enemies are modelled on vegetables. The Bubble System swaps games by "bubble cassette".p. 16 (image 9), articlep. 16 (image 9), articlep. 16 (image 9), articlep. 16 (image 9), articleMagazine
Konami's advertisement for the arcade game in Game Machine of 1 March 1985 calls TwinBee "a fantastic miracle shooting game for two", the first software for the Bubble System, with "TM © 1985 Konami". It says the bells hidden in the clouds give bonus points or power-ups: yellow for bonus points, blue for speed, white for a twin cannon, red for a barrier, and green for a double (分身).p. 23 (image 12, left-hand page), Konami advertisementp. 23 (image 12), Konami advertisementp. 23 (image 12), Konami advertisement, label on the artworkp. 23 (image 12), Konami advertisementp. 23 (image 12), Konami advertisement, bell listp. 23 (image 12), Konami advertisement, bell listp. 23 (image 12), Konami advertisement, bell listMagazine
An advertisement in the same issue from 総商 (Sōshō), a company in Okazaki, also offered the arcade game TwinBee as the Bubble System's first game, "two players attack at once".p. 18 (image 10, right-hand page), 総商 advertisement, under the Twin Bee photop. 18 (image 10, right-hand page), foot of the advertisementMagazine