Here's a weird one for you. Before Olympia became "Olympia", Livio Leante, founder of the company, first named his company after his last name. Under this name, only one game was produced- Master's Game. To describe it, it's essentially Breakout with several new, cool and ultimately brutal features. First of all, to get the facts straight, I'm unsure how many units of Master's Game sold, but I assume the number is quite low. Especially when all the information states this game had come out in 1979, (My board's date code reads Nov. 07, 1978.) and the fact that barely anybody has heard of this before. All I can muster up is a poor image of a flyer showing the cabinet. The game only uses +5v, and somehow uses an amplifier. There is an on-board power supply, but it goes bypassed. And yes, I replaced the broken cap. Pretty sure that happened when it shipped from Italy.
Key things to note about this game;
Breakout "bricks" color is inversed. This might be a fault within the board.
The game uses a six-figure score. Absolutely common in the 1980s, not so common in the 70s. Unheard of in TTL.
The gameplay. Layers of bricks score steep. First layer scores 2 pts. Second layer scores 10, Third scores 50, etc. I also have reason to believe that the game doesn't end (like Breakout does). The physics are the real elephant in the room. Very punishing for new players, as the title suggests.
Does ANYBODY recall it? Being Olympia, it never saw release in the States, and probably quite rare outside of Italy. Maybe perhaps someone has artwork of it? Schematics? History is cool too.