Arcade coverage: Banpresto

[Borp]

So I went on a mad quest to find information about two arcade units already covered on the wiki, and that led me to discovering even more. Sadly, all I could find was a handful of blogs with pics of the machines in the wild along with a few YouTube and NicoNico videos. Nevertheless I opted to make a series of threads so I could give everybody access to the pics and videos and the places I found them. First, we'll look at various machines produced by Banpresto.

Mario World
マリオワールド
Release date: 1991, according to this page. That's literally the only source I could find on this game's release.
Pictures:

The first picture is taken from this blog post: http://ameblo.jp/kodomoyo/entry-10044018639.html
Apparently it's some sort of blog that seeks out and discusses medal machines. I should be thankful such a blog exists. I couldn't find any other blogs or sites that cover it at all. Based on the design of the machine it seems to be a basic electronic roulette wheel where you press one of those colorful buttons to bet and press the start button to sent the wheel spinning. Here's the complete body of text taken from the blog post, if anybody wants to do a proper translation:

バンプレスト製
マリオワールド

１～4BETまで可能。
メダルを入れるとボタンの上のキャラクターがひかり、
各１枚までBETすることが出来る。
配当は2･4･6･8枚がBETボタンから、16枚・0枚が特殊役となる。

It was later mentioned again in another post on the same blog: http://ameblo.jp/kodomoyo/theme-10003515974.html
The text on there is as follows:

マリオワールド：バンプレスト製
メダルを1枚入れるとBETボタン(左側の4つのボタン)でBETができます。
BETは各１BETのみで、配当は左から2･4･6･8枚、最高枚数は特殊役の16枚です。
自分でルーレットを止めるので、あたりやすいという錯覚を起こしてしまうマシンだったりします。

The second picture is a promotional flyer for the machine and is taken from this page on the old A-SUMA (ALL SUPER MARIO) site: http://www.a-suma.com/old/salepromo/flier/mf-ac.htm
Kikai apparently has no interest in scanning things at a legible size and I could not find any other pictures of this flyer anywhere else, so I guess we'll have to make do with this piddly little scan for now. Here's what he had to say about it, for those willing to translate:

バンプレストもついにマリオに参入！
マリオのアートワークをたくさん使った賑やかなデザイン。
ミニピカデリーと似たメダルゲーム。

Don't be fooled by the game's title either. It really is just "Mario World". Banpresto apparently made another machine with a similar title: "Anpanman World". If you poke around that blog you'll be able to find it.

Next post coming soon!

 

[Borp]

Televidenwa: Super Mario World
てれびでんわ スーパーマリオワールド
Release date: 1992, according to the game's title screen.

Picture set 1:

These are taken from A-SUMA: http://www.a-suma.com/old/game/ac/smtd/smtd.htm
Judging by the one picture of the manual, it seems ol' Kikai is lucky enough to physically own this machine! I have absolutely no idea how it works. I'm guessing it involves pressing the number pad or listening to the phone receiver or something along those lines. Here's the text from that page if anybody wants to take a crack at it:

１９９０年にバンプレストより発売されたキッズアミューズメント機「てれびでんわ」 の「スーパーマリオワールド」版。
その名の通り、テレビ画面の付いた電話機のような形をしており、 受話器でキャラクターとおはなしし、問題を解きながら物語を進めていくゲーム。
筐体の大きさは、高さ１２８ｃｍ、横・奥５０ｃｍ、重さ２８ｋｇ。
このシリーズは他にも「ドラえもん」や「アンパンマン」など様々なキャラクターで出されていた。

■ゲーム内容
１００円玉をコイン投入口に入れると筐体下部からカードが出てくるので、 カードを取り「カード入りぐち」にカードを入れるとゲームスタート。
「１．めいたんていマリオ」「ピーチひめをすくえ！」の２種類のゲームモードがあり、 「１」はパズル系、「２」はアクション系の問題が出される。 １・２・３のボタンを使って回答していく。回答を間違えても物語は進んでいくため、 ゲームオーバーになることはない。ゲームをクリアすると、最後にカードがもらえる。
カードの紹介はまたいつか別ページにて。

Here is a blog post that links to Kikai's page up there: http://yoshiyama3.hatenablog.com/entry/2014/10/06/135213
Here is the body of text that follows it:

コレ憶えてる人が居たら相当｢コアなマリオファン｣ですよ｡

バンプレスト製のゲーセン用筐体｢てれびでんわ｣
名前の通り｢テレビ電話｣､マリオと会話を楽しみながら道々の
ミニゲームをクリアしつつクッパの討伐に向かう､確かそんな｡

まぁ｢会話｣とは名ばかりでこちらの問いかけには一切答えずに
｢マリオが延々と言葉を投げかけるだけ｣なんですけどね､日本語で｡
ようするに｢スピーカーが受話器の部分になっているだけ｣なんですよ｡
ゲームが終わると申し訳程度のカードが排出する仕様｡

｢THE･子供だまし｣､まぁ対象が子供だから別に｡
でも久しぶりにプレイしたいんスよ､童心に帰って｡

バリエーションは他にもいろいろ合って､ドラえもんverとか
ドラゴンボールverとか様々､後期だとポケモンverもあった｡

Based on my research, it seems that the machine would spit out Carddass-esque holographic collectible cards after playing a game. I found tons of these on various auction sites. I'll compile them into an album a little bit later.

Picture set 2:

This picture is taken from here, which I guess is some sort of Twitter-type site: http://www.twitpic.com/5ryczl
The caption underneath reads as follows:

「てれびでんわ スーパーマリオワールド」 バンプレスト。こんなのあるんだねぇ、どんなんだろ。

Picture set 3:

This is taken from this page: http://seiyahomepage.the-ninja.jp/puraibeto5.html
The caption under it reads:

古そうなゲーム機「でんわでんわスーパーマリオワールド」。2006.4.10更新

Finally, here's a video http://nicoviewer.net/sm6675910
I... can't seem to get it to work. If anybody else can figure out how the hell to get that video to play, please let me know. I just put the link here just in case.

It seems that Banpresto has (or had) a whole line of "Televidenwa" machines, as various others came up in my searches for this one. These include Anpanman (see a patten yet?), Doraemon, Dragon Ball and even Pokémon!

More to come!

 

[Glowsquid]

I... can't seem to get it to work. If anybody else can figure out how the hell to get that video to play, please let me know. I just put the link here just in case.

it works in google chrome. the direct url is http://nviewer.mobi/player?video_id=sm6675910 . seems like you need to have flash enabled.

 

[Xiahou Ba]

Banpresto doesn't only work with arcade machines, they made a glut of Mario merchandise as well, unless that's a different Banpresto

 

[freakworld]

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6675910

alternatively

need a nicovideo account for that though (or sign in via Nintendo Network)

 

[Borp]

Glowsquid and Emmett Brown: Perfect! Now all I need is a way to save it. I also wonder if there are any more videos of that machine floating around out there....

Baby Luigi: Yes, it's the same Banpresto. I'm well aware of their swarths of Mario merchandise, but up until fairly recently I had no idea they also made a bunch of Mario arcade units.

Anyhoo...

Būbū Mario
ブーブーマリオ

This is the game that started this whole mess. It's already covered on the wiki, but I decided to go out and search for more information on it and that ended up leading to the discovery of other machines by the same company. I'm really curious to know where those two pics on there actually came from.

For the record, I STRONGLY recommend that somebody at least try to download the video that's linked to on the wiki page. You never know when it'll get taken down. It could very well end up lost forever!

Picture set 1

These came from here: http://www.a-suma.com/old/exp/mfk/mfk.htm
It's our old pal Kikai again. Here's what he said in each caption:

おお！ブーブーマリオだ！
１５年ほど前のモノがあるなんて！

後ろから見たところ
１回２００円とちょっと高めの設定

Apparently there is (or was at some point in the past) some kind of indoor amusement area/special event called "Mario Factory" that had a whole bunch of Mario arcade units like the ones I'm posting about. In my attempts to find out more about all these machines I discovered that multiple bloggers went to this place and blogged about it. You'll find out more soon enough. Otherwise I don't know anything else about "Mario Factory".

Picture set 2

This is from here: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=super-mario-world-bu-bu-mario-ride&page=detail&id=32425
Pretty nice that it managed to make it onto an English language site besides ours, but they have no information on it whatsoever and didn't even get the title of the machine right.

Picture set 3

Taken from this blog post: http://mariofannfumiya.blog105.fc2.com/blog-entry-164.html
This guy also went to "Mario Factory" and blogged about a bunch of stuff he saw there. His caption:

ブーブーマリオやマリオ運動会、
さすがに古いモノだからカードはトーマスらしい。

If anybody wants to translate the rest of that blog post, by all means go right ahead.

Picture set 4

These all came from here: http://yushiromariofan2.blog22.fc2.com/blog-entry-4.html
It's yet another blog post, although this person was nice enough to take a lot of pics from every angle. Here's what he had to say:

今日はこれまでのグッズとは一味違ったマリオのゲームマシンを紹介します。

スーパーマリオワールド時代に出回っていたゲームマシン「ブーブーマリオ」。
ゲームセンターなどに良くあるお金（コイン）を入れれば動き出す車型マシンのマリオバージョン。
実際に遊んでいないので良く分かりませんが、
中にはスクリーンもあるのでゲームでも遊べるのかもしれません。
遊び終わった後はカードが１枚貰えるみたいですが、
このマシンからは出てこないようです（汗
古いものなので仕方ありませんね。
「スーパーマリオワールド」を題材にしたマシンなのに、
ハンドル部分にキノピオが描かれているのは気にしない（汗

ちなみに当然ですが、これは自分が持っているワケではありません（笑
ショッピングセンターの隅にある小さなゲームセンターにあったのを撮ってきました。

Picture set 5

These are from here: http://gk.q-q-q-q.com/?p=345
It's yet another blog post about "Mario Factory", although I'm hella thankful that this person took large pictures of the machines. He also has pictures of some things I couldn't find anywhere else on the web, but I'll get to that in a later post. For now, here are his words:

マリオ関連のゲームが充実している。こちらは「ブーブーマリオ」。

「ブーブーマリオ」で、マリオ＆ヨッシーとドライブしよう！

「ブーブーマリオ」プレイ画面。

Like the other posts, if anybody wants to take a crack at translating the whole thing, please go ahead. It'd be much appreciated.

Picture set 6

This is from one last blog post: http://ameblo.jp/snoopy555/entry-10897682103.html
Clearly this person is a big fan of Peanuts. Anyway, here's what their entry says:

買い物に行く途中

ブーブーマリオを発見

ただし

移動は

トラックなどに

載せてもらわないと

I also found several blog posts that I can only assume are by parents, as they were full of pictures of kids playing with the machine. I didn't save those for obvious reasons even though they were pretty clear shots of the machine. If you wanna see them, you can google the game's title yourself.

Finally, here are some YouTube videos:

Like I said before, do not hesitate to download these, lest they disappear under our noses. Well, I'd advise against saving the one with the kid in it. The last thing you want is to be labeled a predator, lol.

 

[Borp]

Mario Undoukai
マリオうんどうかい

Release date: 1993, per the game's title screen.

This is already covered on the wiki, and it too led me to seek out all this information and ultimately make this thread. The site the wiki initially got its info from is kind of mistaken - the game's title is written in hiragana, not kanji. "Mario Unkurukai" was likely a misreading. Like the previous post I highly recommend somebody save that video linked to in the article for the sake of preservation.

Picture set 1

Culled from here: http://news-act.com/archives/26148940.html
This doesn't seem to be a blog. It looks more like an actual news site of some sort. Here's the caption underneath the two pics of the machine:

ドラえもんカードが出てくる「マリオうんどうかい」、

Although I have a feeling much more information can be gleaned from a translation of the entire post.

Picture set 2

Sadly the second pic is (crudely) watermarked.
They came from here: http://www.rabbitstaff.com/petit/arcade_izutsuya-kokura2005-08.html
Captions are as follows:

スーパーマリオのDDRかなと思ったら

マリオうんどうかい

是非次回は、電源が入ってるときに行きたいですね。

This particular machine looks really dirty. I thought Japan was supposed to be super-anal about this stuff.

Picture set 3

This came from here: http://migzou.blog84.fc2.com/blog-entry-213.html
I have to warn you though - it's an awfully long post and I can't find any reference to the machine itself within the text. I'm not sure it would be worth it, but if anybody who reads Japanese wants to skim through and see if it says anything interesting, please go on ahead.

I'd like to point out that this looks like the exact same location that the video on the wiki was filmed at. Get used to seeing that; these machines apparently aren't exactly easy to come by.

Picture set 4

These each came from two different posts on the same blog.
Post number one (the image I nicked from it appears to be broken now): http://mariofannfumiya.blog105.fc2.com/blog-entry-328.html
Post number two: http://mariofannfumiya.blog105.fc2.com/blog-entry-687.html
Both of them look to be about a trip to "Mario Factory". I got a lot of mileage out of that place, whatever it was. Here is your text:

マリオうんどうかい
コレは以前も紹介しましたね。
ただ、２台あったのに１台になってます。
隣のはポックポーンです。
あと、ブーブーマリオもありますが、
調整中のうえ、子供が乗っていたので撮影していません。（汗

そして、『マリオうんどうかい』もプレイしました！
恥なんて知りませんよ！
大分古いだけに足踏みする部分はへこんでいて、反応が悪かったです。
結構疲れました。（汗
で、最後にはお馴染みのカードが。
何故か『パーティ３』のでしたが、コレはコレでいいと。
ワルイージのカードでしたし。
で、収集結果は。

Picture set 5