Lost games brought back from extinction

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I thought this might make an interesting topic:

What games which previously had few or no known existing examples have been recreated/restored by using MAME ROMs and hacking boards?

The ones I know of:

Missile Command II - The original unreleased two player head-to-head version, reconstructed from a found prototype PCB. I hear it was at CAX one year, somewhere there's a thread with a video

Screw Loose - PrOk hacked a Qbert boardset, designed the artwork and built the only known cab from scratch. Looks damn cool!
 
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Vs. Wild Gunman- I've heard of people doing this but the game only really exists in Back to the Future part 2. Mostly they make a playchoice cab resemble it and put in the Wild Gunman from that series.
 
Vs. Wild Gunman- I've heard of people doing this but the game only really exists in Back to the Future part 2. Mostly they make a playchoice cab resemble it and put in the Wild Gunman from that series.

But is that an actual existing game or just a playable mockup for something that never existed?

The Last Star Fighter would fall into that catagory, someone designed a REALLY cool cab based on the one in the movie and programmed a PC based game to be run in it on a computer, but it's not really what I'm talking about as it's not something that was actually built at some point for release in arcades, but something created completely from scratch on just a concept.
 
I used MAME ROM's to get the Moon War I got from another KLOV'r working (thanks Steph at Hobbyroms.com) While I don't think its correct to call it near-extinct, its pretty rare. I have never seen another one.
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I used MAME ROM's to get the Moon War I got from another KLOV'r working (thanks Steph at Hobbyroms.com) While I don't think its correct to call it near-extinct, its pretty rare. I have never seen another one.
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Is it just Moon War that is rare or also Moon War II? I have a Moon War II boardset if anyone is interested.

Scott C.
 
Is it just Moon War that is rare or also Moon War II? I have a Moon War II boardset if anyone is interested.

Scott C.

does it work and is it actually moon war II or just labeled moon war II but actually moon war?

I have a nonworking board with epoms labeled moon war II but since it's nonworking I have no idea what it should boot to.
 
The boards labeled Moon War 2 are the regular Moon War. Not sure if a ROM revision was the reason for that or what.
 
No board hacking is required but thanks to MAME I've been able to get a few prototype/test games going, like Tenth Degree/Juko Threat on Gauntlet:Legends/Dark Legacy hardware. Bio Freaks too (on Midway's Seattle hardware), though sadly that game is fairly incomplete/unfinished.
 
Missile Command II - The original unreleased two player head-to-head version, reconstructed from a found prototype PCB. I hear it was at CAX one year, somewhere there's a thread with a video

CAX 2012... There's a good reason some games are rare and don't make it past the prototype stage...



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...and I can't think of a single one for this. This looks like pure winning!

I thought it was said that MC II actually tested well in arcades and the main reason it was not released was that Op's did not want to take up the floor space with a large two player head to head style cab.
 
I thought it was said that MC II actually tested well in arcades and the main reason it was not released was that Op's did not want to take up the floor space with a large two player head to head style cab.
That game looks like a total blast. Is there a thread or something with more information that I missed?
 
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