Battle Dome

Battle Dome (バトルドーム) is a head-to-head, flipper-driven ball game whose rights originate with the US firm Anjar Co. and which became a hit in Japan through toy maker Tsukuda Original, which released the home version American Battle Dome (アメリカンバトルドーム) in 1994. Up to four players surround a domed table and work spring-loaded flippers to fire balls into one another’s goals; balls are released at intervals by a wind-up mechanism, and the player left holding the fewest balls wins. The property crossed into amusement machines in 1995 when Sunwise adapted it into the coin-op flipper game American Battle Dome (アメリカンバトルゲーム). Tsukuda Original extended the toy line with Super American Battle Dome (1996), a Doraemon-licensed edition, and a 1995 Super Famicom video-game version; after the company’s absorption into Bandai the property passed to Palbox and then Megahouse, which reissued it as Action Battle Dome (2010) and again as a 30th-anniversary edition in 2024.^[1]