Anyone ever heard of this game? Vampire

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http://www.slither-gdi.net/vampire.htm

Just curious, seems bad ass but ive never heard of it til now.

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Nobody has that game. Even the one registered vaps example is a moron who really has a CPS2 Vampire Savior or Vampire Hunter or something similar.

With the only pictures being from a 30 year old magazine I am going to say this one is likely lost for good.
 
...With the only pictures being from a 30 year old magazine...

Not quite.

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I was actually just reading about this game the other day in a list of un-MAME'd games. It looks and sounds friggin' FANTASTIC. There's a few mentions of it on the intarwebs, and this PCB picture pops up a couple places. But true, I have seen no mention of anyone owning it.
 
It'd be great to see a Vampire turn up. Tho, the best vampire game out there BITD was Dracula for the INTV.

 
No, I have never heard of it. But I will tell you if I ever come across a dedicated cab, I would certainly be interested in acquiring it. That would be a perfect addition to my arcade and would set the tone quite nicely.
 
Game looks pretty cool. The artwork is pretty sweet, but I've never seen one sadly. :/
 
A PCB picture that looks to be a modern digital picture tells me that it is in a private collection and will probably never surface. If the owner wanted it dumped then it already would be.

That is going to be the fate of a lot of these one-off and ultra rare gameboards. Someone will sit on them until 40 years from now when they die and their children or grandchildren toss them in the trash.

Also, that board seems really small for 1983 doesn't it, like it was part of a multiboard set? Although I don't see any interboard connectors on there. The rom numbering is rather strange as well.


Not quite.

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I was actually just reading about this game the other day in a list of un-MAME'd games. It looks and sounds friggin' FANTASTIC. There's a few mentions of it on the intarwebs, and this PCB picture pops up a couple places. But true, I have seen no mention of anyone owning it.
 
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Nice!

Yeah the board looks modern, I agree.
And now that you posted that pic, I think its a BS pic of the Vampire game.

jon
 
Actually the PCB picture is fake. It is a Japanese bubble hockey PCB.

http://valker.us/gameroom/SegaFaceOff.htm

I return my stance to no one has this game.

While I agree those are clearly the same PCB, it is still possible it was used in both applications. Both products were released in 1983. Note the sticker on the Vampire PCB : "Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. 1983." Obviously not present on the hockey example.

Since it was used for the bubble hockey machine, also produced in 1983, it's "modern" appearance is no longer an issue. But in that same vein, Konami's 1985 Jail Break, uses an almost identical PCB with a custom CPU added to the layout.

It was common for game manufacturers (and definitely ones like EE, who only produced a couple games) to outsource main PCB production to a boardhouse, who might also offer that same base board to others. Nintendo had all their early boards made by Ikegami Tsushinki; and Cinematronics bought 5000 generic gameboards to program and produce Naughty Boy, Jack The Giant Killer, and Zzyzzyxx.

So maybe the "owner" printed up that EE label and slapped it on a bubble hockey PCB, but I'd like to believe the Vampire still lives ;)
 
I also realized it looked a lot like Jail Break, but there was a lot of advancement between 1983 and 1985. Jail Break is the first VIDEO board of that size I can recall.

I think Cinematronics just used the same board design that Jaleco already used for Naughty Boy, it was a licensed title and I have both Jaleco and Cine boardsets for the title and they are the same exact board (both of which have Jaleco screened on the board). I sold my Jack the Giant Killer too long ago to remember what that had screened on the board.
 
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I think Cinematronics just used the same board design that Jaleco already used for Naughty Boy, it was a licensed title and I have both Jaleco and Cine boardsets for the title and they are the same exact board (both of which have Jaleco screened on the board). I sold my Jack the Giant Killer too long ago to remember what that had screened on the board.

http://zonn.com/Cinematronics/history.htm#Jack

Looks like you're correct on Naughty Boy, but the above tale definitely holds true for Jack... and Zzyzzyxx.

My Zzyzzyxx looks just like this, and has no manufacturer screening at all. I owned a Jack, and it was the same.

http://www.crazykong.com/pcbs/T - Z/Zzyzzyxx.pcb.html < Zzyzzyxx pic
http://www.crazykong.com/pcbs/G - O/JackGiantKiller.pcb.html < Jack pic
 
Just wanted to let you guys know that MAME developers received a PCB photo and dump from someone who suspected it to be Vampire due to the slither-gdi.net PCB photo. This new photo looks exactly identical, aside from the serial number and one or two ROM labels, including the "Entertainment Enterprises 1983" sticker.

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Upon poking around with it, we got the dump inside the emulation to play the US National Anthem. Our researchers investigated and once again concluded that it must be a dump of Face Off due to the anthem's existence.

Further evidence that the slither-gdi.net PCB photo is incorrect, and is of Face Off instead. Still not conclusive, but even more leaning in that direction.
 
Sorry to bring a thread back from the dead (pun intended) but a guy on the Arcade-Classics Facebook group found a Marquee for this game. Gives me hope this does exist!
 

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