GDI Slither

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Man I use to love this game on the colecovision along with Looping!

Till recently never knew the game was arcade game! Never remember seeing it back then. Then again, don't ever remember seeing a game from the company GDI...

Not a good thing that only about 5 people have it listed in their VAPS entry...Bummer!:(
 
Only two Slithers were distributed in Phila. I remember the story...GDI had made Red Alert and it was sort of catching on...but their BIG game was going to be Slither. The company needed funds to make it...one of the men at Eastern Music invested $50,000 with the company also. GDI made history by closing out Red Alert---for $1299 brand new--to raise needed funds to get Slither made. It started a chain reaction of close outs---Lock and Chase a few days later was $1299...then the unsold Tempests, Gravitars, Black Widows---all that magic $1299.....Sadly, Slither was compared to Centipede and never caught on...very few made and the company went bankrupt fast---that poor guy at Eastern lost his entire investment.
 
I am in the process of trying to restore one. I too had never heard of it until I came across a converted cab and have since made it my goal to restore it back to its previous glory. I have managed to pick up 2 PCB's but that is about it. Rich is going to cut me some stencils but I still need a marquee and CPO. I would love to find a good scan of each.

It is a fun game. I play it in MAME quite often.
 
Only two Slithers were distributed in Phila. I remember the story...GDI had made Red Alert and it was sort of catching on...but their BIG game was going to be Slither. The company needed funds to make it...one of the men at Eastern Music invested $50,000 with the company also. GDI made history by closing out Red Alert---for $1299 brand new--to raise needed funds to get Slither made. It started a chain reaction of close outs---Lock and Chase a few days later was $1299...then the unsold Tempests, Gravitars, Black Widows---all that magic $1299.....Sadly, Slither was compared to Centipede and never caught on...very few made and the company went bankrupt fast---that poor guy at Eastern lost his entire investment.

Todd, this is a great story. Do you know where the games ended up?

I'm curious because I saw a beat-to-hell Slither in the Philly 'burbs years ago. I can't even remember where. The reason I remember it is the same reason the original poster mentions... I played it on ColecoVision and it was one of many "second string" games I loved on that console, nearly all of which I never saw in person back then: Looping, Cosmic Avenger, Venture and Pepper II to name a few. I remember being ecstatic when I found a Time Pilot at a Mom & Pop arcade in Levittown (boundaries are small when your sole arcade transportation is a BMX bike!).
 
Awesome story Todd!!!!!! Always like hearing the op's stories from back then....

I dug up some old posts from rgvam and I must say I wish I knew about this game back then!!! Many posts of people trying to sell it for under $100. Stories of people smashing them cuz no one wanted one....So sad, So sad!:(

I would just love to have the marquee!
 
I remember those "Close Outs" at Eastern & Active. One day a game was $2395 then a week later it was $1295 or if you bought more than on it was $995. I knew a guy that actually sold bayfront properties in North Wildwood to get those "great deals". Boy did he take a bath.
 
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