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Tattoo Assassins

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Title Screen

Tattoo Assassins

Developer: Data East Pinball
Platform: Arcade (Data East 32-bit ARM)


GraphicsIcon.png This game has unused graphics.
TextIcon.png This game has unused text.


We could only wish we were playing this right now... maybe...
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 reached store shelves.

Tattoo Assassins was created in response to the enormous successes of Mortal Kombat II and has many of the weirdest Fatalities ever seen, including 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 for some reason, Data East had its pinball division make this) and it was scrapped before being fully completed. Only a few machines survive, but a ROM image can easily be found online.

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

Squid Squad?

Tattoo Assassins-squidsquad.png

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 in to RAM at the corresponding addresses.

$61E3:

WORLD PREMIERE
JAMMA SHOW '94

$1C14E:

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

$B4D24:

Y'all come back now, ya hear!

Well now it's time to say good bye to Jed and all his kin.
And they would like to thank you folks fer kindly droppin in.
You're all invited back next week to this locality
To have a heapin helpin of their hospitality
Hillbilly that is. Set a spell, Take your shoes off.
Y'all come back now, y'hear?