Rarest game, good & bad

Well, I posted this game in another thread but here seems fitting.
It is Rare, Expensive, and quite fun to play.
 

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Ditto that, and Vertigo.

Still waiting for Vertigo to turn up!

I would like to see a shrike avenger turn up as well. Someone found a picture of one years and years ago on ebay overseas but it was converted to G-LOC and obviously wasn't complete at all. Here are the pictures.
 

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Dont tell me thats some customized Afterburner, oh the humanity :0 oh strike avenger, never heard of it..

I think there should be a facebook group for bullied Barrier owners, to gain support, as a resource center, etc. A safe place away from the hate :).
 
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To draw fire away from Barrier owners... Finding the location test version of the arcade release of Parasol Stars (aka 'Parasol Stars: The Story of Bubble Bobble III') would be a legitimate grail find in my eyes.

The known information at this time suggests that the game may have just been a PC Engine console running the game put into an arcade cabinet by Taito for location testing, but this remains unconfirmed as nothing related to the cabinet in question has turned up. Magazine articles and interviews are at odds with each other, and it's not totally clear what actually happened with the game though it does seem to have ended up at least on test at some point.

More info:

http://unmamed.mameworld.info/non_taito.html
http://mamedev.emulab.it/undumped/index.php?title=Parasol_Stars
http://unmamed.mameworld.info/parasol/english.html

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How about a fully working, dedicated, pressure pad Street Fighter 1 cabinet?
 
Definitely a Nitchibitsu (sp?) Crazy Climber in the white, mini cabinet. Super rare, but great game.

Scott C.
 
I was at the Pinball HoF in Vegas earlier this year, but Circus wasn't working :(

How is the gameplay for anyone that has played it?

Surprisingly fun for a multi-level pin stuffed into an oversized arcade cab. We played on it for almost an hour and it was challenging without a lot of frustration. We were able to get the balls into the various play fields pretty consistently and get good play times. Definitely a big part of our enjoyment was marveling at the engineering and design of it.
 
If Vectorbeam/Cinematronics had created a game that used two monitors and a half silvered mirror to simultaneously be both vector and laserdisc then I think that would be the most expensive bad game.
 
Some pics of the Cinematronics Flipper Ball I have. Sucks that the game database is at a stand still, there ain't shit on this game anywhere.


good day.
 

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More pics. Complete with doorbell chime and speaker (neat stuff). I also have full schematics and the 29 page manual for the thing.



good day.
 

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Dont tell me thats some customized Afterburner, oh the humanity :0 oh strike avenger, never heard of it..

I think there should be a facebook group for bullied Barrier owners, to gain support, as a resource center, etc. A safe place away from the hate :).[/QUOTE

I am not trying to make anyone vomit over here, fortunately I have never seen an afterburner cockpit conversion or that might happen. This is the game G-LOC in a shrike avenger cabinet, I will never know how this happened but alas it did. Shrike avenger was obviously a very unreliable game and probably a poor earner for operators but why someone would bother to convert it and how this giant monstrosity of a cabinet (this one is easily over 1000lbs with all the original parts from shrike avenger intact) ever made it over to somewhere in europe or germany where this picture originated from I will never know, but there it is.
 
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