Has anyone seen any of these Nintendo Games?? Holy carp!

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Has anyone seen any of these Nintendo Games?? Holy carp!

I was browsing the Arcade Flyer Database and came across some very interesting looking Nintendo cabinets and games.

First off, Sky Skipper looks really bad ass!! DK style cabinet, cool looking art!

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Then we move onto Monkey Magic. I don't know anything about the gameplay but the name rules!! And, LOOK AT THAT CABINET! WHOA.

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Finally we have Space Firebird. I think I have heard of this one. But, I have never seen a Ninty cabinet like that!! It's like a Spaced out version of the DK cabinet. Neat!

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Dunno! Sky Skipper looks like the best game of the bunch. I am gonna have to go try it in MAME. The cabinet looks bad ass. I love that artwork!

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yea just edited my post, its on mame but confusing.. you shoot the ape with the b button and fly faster with a? then all those creatures bounce up and you can collect them. idk the goal though?
 
Space Firebird was also imported in a different cabinet by Gremlin / Sega I believe.... I have a Gremlin Space Firebird Cab.
 
I've heard Sky Skipper is a cool game. Used to love to play Space Firebird at the speedy mart in the 7th grade...
 
Sky Skipper looks pretty impressive for its time, also quite odd. Found a couple minute video of it on YouTube if anyone wants to check it out without access to MAME. Very colorful game, bouncing kings and alice in wonderland type card dudes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNqCZU8GtFE

Also it was ported to the 2600, it wasn't a very graceful transition .. by any means!
 
I got a HeliFire in a warehouse raid not too long ago. Sold it to Camaro Murph here on the boards who is a classic Nintendo nut. It needed to be refurbished a bit, but it was fully working.

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Hey Murph, just noticed this, but you should take a high res close-up picture of that instruction sticker on the helifire. I'm sure there is a repro of the Radarscope one, but if not do that one too. We need to document this stuff for preservation.
 
Really like that Hellfire style cabinet, was it used for any others beside Space Firebird?
 
I have seen a Donkey Kong in that cabinet. I have not been able to get the person who owns or owned it to respond to some questions to confirm that it was a conversion and from what game. Could have been a Radarscope conversion??? Person on KLOV and Arcade controls is NeoKidGeo.

Preston - Great ideo on the high res pictures. I have some great high res pic's of the Radarscope as that's what I've spent the most time on. I can certainly do it on Helifire also.

Murph
 
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