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Might have been as early as March according to USCO https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=1&ti=1,1&Search%5FArg=PA0000291703&Search%5FCode=REGS&CNT=25&PID=bHMyjw7q05vPUF32YmupXMEpK&SEQ=20240209035143&SID=1

But the game first appears in "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25" in their mid May '86 issue (Japanese arcade game journal). https://ia903101.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/22/items/game-machine-magazine-19860515p/game-machine-magazine-19860515p_jp2.zip&file=game-machine-magazine-19860515p_jp2/game-machine-magazine-19860515p_0010.jp2&id=game-machine-magazine-19860515p&scale=2&rotate=0