Neat looking games never found...

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I'm writing up a list of neat games that have never turned up.....

Can anyone add to this list?

Can anyone correct me if something on the list has been found?



Watergate Caper – Nutting - 1973 [questionable if it was ever made. Notice that instead of 'simulates', it claims that it 'stimulates the larceny in all of us']
http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=3304

Battlestar – Sega/Gremlin - 1982
http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=2726

Kreepy Krawlers – Exidy - 1979
http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=573

Knights in Armor – PSE - 1976
http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=1725

Score – Exidy – 1977
http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=943

Star Trek – For-Play – 1972 [This is amazing. I'd pay $$$$$ personally]
http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=2479

Atari Game Booth – Atari – 1978
http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=5343

2 Game Module (various) – Atari – 1977
http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=3588

King – Fun Games – 1976 [apparently also released as 'Kong']
http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=560

Wolf Pack -- Atari – 1978
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=13490

Springboard – Subelectro – 1977
http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=2600

Limbo – Universal – 1978 [neat side art, sort of reminds me of a certain centipede poster a little bit]
http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=2591

Witch Way – Shine -- 1982
http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=2413
 
Unfortunately I can't confirm but I swear I saw an Exidy score marquee sell on ebay within the last year. I know the seller was in the bay area and the part came directly from Exidy and not off a game. I believe he was an employee and had the marquee as well as some others because the art was done by a famous tattoo artist or something to that effect. Not sure if a complete game was made but I think there may have been some parts made. Possibly a prototype.
 
Wasn't Atari's Starfighter one? It was on the movie "Legend of the Last Starfighter" and apparently promised at the end of the movie of making and releasing the the actual game. I think it was canned because of production costs.
 
Kreepy Krawlers definately existed as I once read an interview with the programmer whom said they had completed a prototype but it never went in to production, hopefully some day the ROMs will turn up.

My list:

Polybius - Sort of the arcade equivalent of the bigfoot/loch ness monster legends. A legend is all it was.
Fire & Forget II - Titus Software, cab on flyer looks suspiciously like a modifed After Burner cab
NY Warriors - Arcadia
Aaargh! - Arcadia
Rockford - Arcadia
Angler Dangler - Data East / a MAME dumper may have finally found a copy of the DECO tape
Missile Command II - Atari
Black Widow - early raster version, supposedly only 50 were made before the rights were sold to Atari and it was remade
Surfer - Action Video
Atomic Castle - Laserdisc Computer Systems
Vertigo - Exidy, full motion cockpit game
Ms. Gorf - Midway, currently exists only as uncompiled prototype software on 8" floppies
Journey - Stern version, not the Midway game
Break Away - Venture Line
Crazy Otto - Midway
And as mentioned, BOUNCER! Perhaps the holiest of holy grails amongst collectors!
 
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I always wanted one of these...


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I have been told the machine pictured is the only one.


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I remember back in 1982 or 1982 that there was a prototype vector cockpit game that was being tested in the arcade I hung out in. The arcade was in the Chicago area.

I believe a company in Chicago was developing it, as their marketing person (a female) was at the arcade for a few days watching people play it and taking notes. If memory serves, you flew through some kind of planetary surface and there were enemies that you shot at in a 3D perspective similar to Star Wars. It's been a long time, but I remember playing the game quite a bit, and it was actually very entertaining. It was there for a few weeks and was then gone. It never made it to production.

I've never seen it mentioned anywhere in all the years since. Would be a hugely rare game if ever found.
 
The other day I was checking out VectorInvader's youtube channel (he's working on a great looking documentary btw).

There was a link to a series done on a news channel in 1982.

http://www.youtube.com/user/vectorinvader#p/a/f/1/P3sqUrX83Yg

In a couple of parts (I think it starts in part 2 or 3) they interview Taito's US president. Several times, a game they were working on called "Chainsaws and Toasters" is mentioned.

I tried to look up info on it...doesn't appear to exist.

Feel free to add it to the list.
 
I would second that question for the masses how in the hell do yall know this stuff????

There was a big thread about it here or RGVAC. The general consensus was that it was a mock-up. The pic looks phony as all get out. For-Play most likely got a cease and desist or cold feet.

I do have a For-Play Sport Center that's available, if there's any interest pm me.
 
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