Anyone Have Info On Mrs. Dynamite?

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Does anyone here have any information or details on Universal's Mrs. Dynamite (1982)? I'd love to find any behind-the-scenes info or stories on its creation, but at this point I'd almost settle just for confirmation that it was ever actually published.

Crawling the internet, I've found the following information:

- No ROM exists for MAME.

- Perhaps as a result, there are no Youtube videos featuring gameplay of it.

- The KLOV entry says: "There are no known instances of this game owned by one of our members."

- According to this thread, the CEO of Universal from 1980-1983 says: "I am unaware of any game of the title "Mrs. Dynamite" nor of any lazer game called "Adventure Mr. Do". I do not believe either game was ever sold in the U.S."

- An English-language flyer exists, at least confirming that the game isn't complete fiction, and was perhaps prepped for the U.S. even if it didn't make it.

Has anyone here ever encountered it?
 
Never heard of it, but thanks for bringing it up. It would be the precursor to Bomberman if it weren't just vaporware.
 
Does anyone here have any information or details on Universal's Mrs. Dynamite (1982)? I'd love to find any behind-the-scenes info or stories on its creation, but at this point I'd almost settle just for confirmation that it was ever actually published.

Crawling the internet, I've found the following information:

- No ROM exists for MAME.

- Perhaps as a result, there are no Youtube videos featuring gameplay of it.

- The KLOV entry says: "There are no known instances of this game owned by one of our members."

- According to this thread, the CEO of Universal from 1980-1983 says: "I am unaware of any game of the title "Mrs. Dynamite" nor of any lazer game called "Adventure Mr. Do". I do not believe either game was ever sold in the U.S."

- An English-language flyer exists, at least confirming that the game isn't complete fiction, and was perhaps prepped for the U.S. even if it didn't make it.

Has anyone here ever encountered it?

I know there are few Mrs. Dynamite machines in private collection, but ROM sets have been dumped that I am aware of. Adventure Mr. Do was a planned release for the Universal System 1 laserdisc system. So far nothing has surfaced, so it's possible the project never even got started.
 
A video was posted in the Universal Arcade Fans Facebook group. The dumped version is, oddly enough, a completely different version from the flyer and the previously known version that exists as an upright- in the version that was just dumped Mrs. Dynamite is now a tiny blonde woman instead of a little abstract yellow Smurfette-like "girl" in a green hat and dress. Here's a screenshot from the video that was posted to Facebook:
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I'll be honest, I've been hyped over this game for years and desperately hoping it would see the light of day, but man... it is just my luck that the version that gets dumped is not only totally different, it also lacks my favorite thing about the other known version of Mrs. Dynamite- the kickass intro explosion sound and the cool, dramatic music. The dumped version has completely different sounds and much weaker, more "rinky-dink" kinda tunes. Hopefully the other version shows up eventually so I can finally hear that music in full.
 
hard to know if MAME is emulating everything accurately, i'm curious as well if a ROM swap would be/could be all that's needed to convert a Lady Bug, Mr Do, CA, or other similar Universal boardset to Mrs Dynamite.
 
I did see this game in the wild at an arcade in Tottenham court road back in the early 80s but never played it.
It was at the same arcade I saw a game called 'hammer bang' which was mr dos castle but with Dug from DigDug as the main character.
 
A video was posted in the Universal Arcade Fans Facebook group. The dumped version is, oddly enough, a completely different version from the flyer and the previously known version that exists as an upright- in the version that was just dumped Mrs. Dynamite is now a tiny blonde woman instead of a little abstract yellow Smurfette-like "girl" in a green hat and dress. Here's a screenshot from the video that was posted to Facebook:
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I'll be honest, I've been hyped over this game for years and desperately hoping it would see the light of day, but man... it is just my luck that the version that gets dumped is not only totally different, it also lacks my favorite thing about the other known version of Mrs. Dynamite- the kickass intro explosion sound and the cool, dramatic music. The dumped version has completely different sounds and much weaker, more "rinky-dink" kinda tunes. Hopefully the other version shows up eventually so I can finally hear that music in full.
The version that was released in 2017 was a fan-made edition of the game as the description on the FB page says. I often thought the 2017 version had too advanced graphics for the era it came from, but the original arcade version seems more appropriate for the time.
 
The version that was released in 2017 was a fan-made edition of the game as the description on the FB page says. I often thought the 2017 version had too advanced graphics for the era it came from, but the original arcade version seems more appropriate for the time.
I'm confused honestly- the fan game was the one put into the cab that was shown on video a few years ago? I noticed the fan game is essentially 1:1 to the video of the game being played on an upright. Does that mean it was the fan game running in that cab?
 
I'm confused honestly- the fan game was the one put into the cab that was shown on video a few years ago? I noticed the fan game is essentially 1:1 to the video of the game being played on an upright. Does that mean it was the fan game running in that cab?
Correct. Apparently Patrick decided to make his own version of what he thought the game would be. If you look at the graphics however, the scores and letters don't look anything like the font that Universal used BITD, and furthermore I don't think they could've pulled off that explosion pixelation in 1982. The game itself? I'm guessing it was probably tested in Chicago, earned poorly, and Universal decided against releasing it in the US.
 
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Correct. Apparently Patrick decided to make his own version of what he thought would be. If you look at the graphics however, the scores and letters don't look anything like the font that Universal used BITD, and furthermore I don't think they could've pulled off that explosion pixelation in 1982. The game itself? I'm guessing it was probably tested in Chicago, earned poorly, and Universal decided against releasing it in the US.
I completely agree about the font thing, I thought the exact same thing. That was something that was super puzzling to me, I never understood why they would deviate against the same font they always used, and, well... now I know they didn't. Thank you for clarifying, I really appreciate it.

Also... Patrick needs to send me an mp3 or something of that background music so I can hear the full thing instead of it interrupted nonstop by the bomb ticking sounds.
 
I'm confused... so the dumped version was from the guy in Canada? Or was it the one from the tabletop that was found recently?

Now they need to find Fantastic Voyage - always intrigued by that flyer.
 
I had to click on this just to see if it had pictures of my wife.
 
Last I heard she had taken a little spill at the sand dunes, broke her coccyx.
 
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