- credit
- Brian Schmidt — Sound
- credit
- Brian Schmidt — Music
- credit
- Markus Rothkranz — Art
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Data East Pinball, Incorporated
- ipdb_id
- 4537
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- ipdb.notes
- This is one of only two Kabuki pinball machines in existence. The other is at the Namco headquarters in Japan. Kabuki was never intended to be a production game. Rather, this game was a gift to lift the spirits of the chairman of NAMCO who was trying to fight off a very painful and aggressive form of cancer. Data East made two playfields and two translites for Kabuki. After the first game was made and sent to Japan, the remaining "extras" were obtained by Herb Silvers. Data East (now Sega) gave him permission to build the second machine that is shown here.
The sound system consisted of several short sound effects plus a very long sample of Kabuki music.
Built from a Data East 1994 'The Who's Tommy Pinball Wizard'.
Joe Kaminkow stated at the Chicago Expo 2012 that the artwork for this game was done by Markus Rothkranz.
- player_count
- 4
- production_quantity
- 2
- technology_generation
- solid-state
- theme
- Kabuki