Tattoo Assassins

Tattoo Assassins
Developer: Data East Pinball Platform: Arcade (Data East 32-bit ARM) This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text.

This game was never completed and/or given a public release. As a result of this, keep in mind that the developers might have used or deleted some of the content featured here, had the game actually been released.

Tattoo Assassins was created in response to the enormous success of Mortal Kombat II and has many of the weirdest Fatalities ever seen along with the ever-infamous Nudalities...but otherwise doesn't have much going for it.

The game's development didn't turn out as well as hoped (one problem being that Data East inexplicably had its pinball division make this), and it was scrapped before being finished. Only a few machines survive, but a ROM image can easily be found online.

To do: There's unused lines of things that the characters wouldn't say.

Squid Squad?

By changing the character value to 0E or beyond, the game displays this... weird static image. The player also has control of the 2nd player.

Unused Text

These strings are loaded into RAM at the corresponding addresses.

At $61E3:

WORLD PREMIERE
JAMMA SHOW '94

At $1C14E:

CONGRATULATIONS!
THANK YOU FOR PLAYING
THIS TEST VERSION
OF TATTOO ASSASSINS
COMING SOON:
MORE FINISHING MOVES
MORE CHARACTERS
MORE WEAPONS
MORE MORE MORE!

At $B4D24 is the last line of the closing theme from The Beverly Hillbillies:

Y'all come back now, ya hear!