Cube Quest Question

No..but from what I understand this game is one of the elite/ultra rarest of the rare. Expect to sell your soul to the devil to acquire such a gem....
 
It was at CAX one year. I didn't play it but it looked like Tempest with a video background.
 
Played it back in the Arcade, back around '84, and still play it w/MAME.

Plays great in MAME, but you need a screaming PC to run it. Not to mention the laserdisc image is about 12 gigs (for some strange reason)....

I never thought this game would become so rare, since I played it so much as a kid. But I could also say the same about Cosmic Chasm, Major Havoc and I, Robot - yet here we are... :)
 
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If they remake Starcade and if they want "Cube Quest" looks like they are going to have special permission from an owner of that game to use for the show.
 
If they remake Starcade and if they want "Cube Quest" looks like they are going to have special permission from an owner of that game to use for the show.

Even if they remake Starcade which sadly is highly unlikely....I'm sure just like CAX, you'll get lots of support from the collector community who wouldn't mind seeing their game and name in the credits.
 
If they remake Starcade and if they want "Cube Quest" looks like they are going to have special permission from an owner of that game to use for the show.

I dont understand? Why would they need permission from the owners of the game to use the game in the show?
 
Question, have any of you played Cube Quest on the Arcade and/or MAME?

Here's my answer:
No, I have not.

I've played the arcade version at a CA collectors house a few years ago and I recently played it on MAME and DAPHNE. The game is pretty cool. One of the few laser disc games that I actually like.

I never saw the game back in the day, nor heard of it until I started researching LD games for the D-L-P back in 1998
 
Question, have any of you played Cube Quest on the Arcade and/or MAME?

Here's my answer:
No, I have not.

I have played it in the arcade back in the day. I don't remember what the back round looked like but it made the game pretty cool but mostly lame. lol! It wasn't something we we eager to master I'll put it that way and it did not last very long in the arcade. It is a large beast too. I have played Dale's Cubequest and he doesn't have the back round video going so it's not quite the same. That game is ridiculous as far as the hardware is concerned and finding a back round laser disk for it is probably near impossible but you never know, crap always turns up. :p
 
A disc just sold on ebay a week or so before CAX for 800.00, I've had the option to pick up the disc a couple of times but passed.
Supposed #s from Simutrek were only 12 games made it out from production, we know where 9 of the 12 cabs are working or not,
This is my Grail but I don't see it happining anytime soon, parts have been floating around on ebay for awhile and very very rarely a cab pops up.
Simutrek really never finished the laser disc player to boardset communication and in turn the game is very hard on the player as it slams the laser optics after frame seek, in turn why a lot of CQ are not running with the laser overlay graphics. There is a mod which fixes this problem and I talked to dale at CAX this year about it, I think he had one of the guys from Simutrek fix his.

Hopefully someday I will own one, I would give up a lot of stuff in my collection to get one.

Joe(acejedi)
 
A disc just sold on ebay a week or so before CAX for 800.00.

I believe the final closing price for that disc was $700, not $800. I can't find the link of the closed auction right now to confirm though. It should still be out there, it's been closed no more than a couple of weeks.
 
Question, have any of you played Cube Quest on the Arcade and/or MAME?

Yes, I played Cube Quest in the wild at two different arcades back in the day. I have wanted one since, but the chances of finding one, having it work and being able to afford it are slim indeed!

From what I remember of the original, the MAME version is pretty good if run on a decent system. I have considered building a reproduction cabinet and running the MAME version, which may be the closest I may come to ever owning one.
 
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