Game: Crude Buster
Manufacturer: Data East
Year: 1990
Genre: Platform beat-em-up
Players: 2 players simultaneously
My Version is: The board only (Japanese release)

Background Released in 1990, Crude Buster saw you (and a friend, if you had one) navigate through six enemy infested levels, causing as much death and destruction as possible as you go along. Although Crude Buster is really just an average side-scrolling beat-em-up/platform game, it does have one slight innovation in that items of the scenery can be picked-up and used as weapons against the oncoming enemy forces. If you see a sign post, give it a kick punch, rip it out of the ground and start using it to whack the enemies. Want something bigger? How about an entire car?! Simply pick it up, and you've got one massive missile to throw at the bad guys.

Crude Buster - Title Screen

Crude Buster - Level 1

Why This is in My Collection This was actually the second JAMMA PCB I ever bought. I'm sure most of you know what it's like when you buy a new piece of gaming hardware (in my case a Supergun), you then want a number of titles to play on it so you don't have just the one and get bored of it. So, with fond memories of playing this down my local sports centre in the very early 90's I shelled out for this game. I found this for sale at a UK based arcade game and PCB stockist, and being more than a little new to the PCB collecting scene I shelled-out more than I should have for this, although at the time I didn't realise it! Playing the game over a decade after my first introduction, and I can say that it's certainly aged. The player sprites move extremely sluggishly around the screen, and the sound effects are some of the worst I have ever hear on an arcade game. When you hit an enemy instead of making some "arghh" or "ugh" sound he makes some weird (what I can only describe as) "squawk". Still, the sound isn't all bad. The hilarious "What a day!" your characters utter when they've been knocked senseless to the floor still raises a smile to this day.

Staff
Game design: Akira Ohtami
Programming: Takaaki Inowe, Souichi Akiyama
Character designs: Kazumi Minagawa, Sonomi Nagao, Yoshinari Kaihou, Eiko Kurihara, Shintoku Ohe, Shinji Noda, Chie Kitahara, Hitomi Fujiwara, Chika Shamoto, Kazumi Enomoto
Background designs: Masanori Tokoro, Kazunori Hashimoto, Atsushi Kaneko, Shuichi Togashi, Masayuki Inoshita, Inochi Kawamura, Mika Yamaguchi, Tomoo Adachi
Ex. designs: Masayuki Kawaguchi, Hiroshi Kadode, Uzzy, Seiji Koyanagi, Masahiko Tezuka
Sound: Asha, Maro, Kiwch
Hardware: Masami Ohki
Voice: Fred Young
Advice: Joe Kaminkow
Project leader: Iwao Horita

Chipset Information 68000: 12.000 MHz (cpu) HuC6280: 4.027 MHz (cpu) YM2203: 4.027 MHz (audio) YM2151: 3.580 MHz (audio) OKI6295: 0.008 MHz (audio) OKI6295: 0.008 MHz (audio)

Crude Buster - Arcade Flyer

Two Crude Dudes - Megadrive/Genesis

Points of Note In the United States this title was released as `Two Crude Dudes`, whilst in Japan and other territories it was released as `Crude Buster`. A home version of this game exists, and was released in 1991 for the Sega Megadrive/Genesis as `Two Crude Dudes`. As you can see from the screenshot on the left the backgrounds have been greatly reduced in quality to that of the arcade original.

Dip-Switch Settings

DIP-BANK 1 ------ 1 ---- 2 ---- 3 ---- 4 ---- 5 ---- 6 ---- 7 ---- 8 ----
COIN MECH RIGHT
1 COIN 1 PLAY -- OFF -- OFF -- OFF --------------------------------------
1 COIN 2 PLAY -- ON --- OFF -- OFF --------------------------------------
1 COIN 3 PLAY -- OFF -- ON --- OFF --------------------------------------
1 COIN 4 PLAY -- ON --- ON --- OFF --------------------------------------
1 COIN 5 PLAY -- OFF -- OFF -- ON ---------------------------------------
1 COIN 6 PLAY -- ON --- OFF -- ON ---------------------------------------
2 COIN 1 PLAY -- OFF -- ON --- ON ---------------------------------------
3 COIN 1 PLAY -- ON --- ON --- ON ---------------------------------------
COIN MECH LEFT
1 COIN 1 PLAY ------------------------ OFF -- OFF -- OFF ----------------
1 COIN 2 PLAY ------------------------ ON --- OFF -- OFF ----------------
1 COIN 3 PLAY ------------------------ OFF -- ON --- OFF ----------------
1 COIN 4 PLAY ------------------------ ON --- ON --- OFF ----------------
1 COIN 5 PLAY ------------------------ OFF -- OFF -- ON -----------------
1 COIN 6 PLAY ------------------------ ON --- OFF -- ON -----------------
2 COIN 1 PLAY ------------------------ OFF -- ON --- ON -----------------
3 COIN 1 PLAY ------------------------ ON --- ON --- ON -----------------
SCREEN ROTATION
NORMAL ---------------------------------------------------- OFF -- OFF --
REVERSE --------------------------------------------------- ON --- OFF --
******* Note: Switch Number 8 is always set to the `off` position *******


DIP-BANK 2 ------ 1 ---- 2 ---- 3 ---- 4 ---- 5 ---- 6 ---- 7 ---- 8 ----
NUMBER OF LIVES
3 LIVES -------- OFF -- OFF ---------------- OFF -- OFF -----------------
4 LIVES -------- ON --- OFF ---------------- OFF -- OFF -----------------
1 LIFE --------- OFF -- ON ----------------- OFF -- OFF -----------------
2 LIVES -------- ON --- ON ----------------- OFF -- OFF -----------------
DIFFICULTY
NORMAL ----------------------- OFF -- OFF -- OFF -- OFF -----------------
EASY ------------------------- ON --- OFF -- OFF -- OFF -----------------
HARD ------------------------- OFF -- ON --- OFF -- OFF -----------------
HARDEST ---------------------- ON --- ON --- OFF -- OFF -----------------
CONTINUE MODE
YES ---------------------------------------- OFF -- OFF -- OFF ----------
NO ----------------------------------------- OFF -- OFF -- ON -----------
DEMO SOUNDS
NO ----------------------------------------- OFF -- OFF -------- OFF ----
YES ---------------------------------------- OFF -- OFF -------- ON -----
****** Note: Switches 5 and 6 are always set to the `off` position ******