Super Tank (1981), does anyone know about this?

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I was browsing through my MAME roms when I found this game. It's Super Tank, made by some German company. I can't really find much about the game except from this flyer.
Here's the link to the flyer.
http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=1805&image=4

Does anyone know anything about this game? Anyone ever seen any? Any board sets out there? I would be really interested in seeing what anyone has. Does anyone know how many they made? Or even anything about this company?
If you have a chance, load it up in MAME. The controls make it tricky to play, but it's a great game. Here's a picture of the last page of the flyer, showing the cabinets and artwork.
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As far as I remember it was made by Computran and licensed by Video Games, a german distributor. I have never seen a cab but I have the PCB set (it's a cage, actually). According to VAPS user Tornadoboy also has a PCB :)
 
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I think I have the PCB set, or at least a version of it, it looks alot like the board set for Looping though a little smaller. It's ROM set only partially matches the one available for MAME so I dumped the images and sent them to one of the team, unfortunately one of the EPROM succumbed to bitrott so it's not a complete set.

That said I'm (someday) going to try using the MAME ROMs to try to fix it.

The control panel and marquee turned on up on Ebay not too long ago, I saved some pics:
 

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It's one of the games that has official roms released by the author for MAME: http://mamedev.org/roms/supertnk/

Some info on the stupid artwork with the nose too. :D
Super Tank is one of two original games manufactured by German company Video Games GmbH. Released in 1981, it was licensed to SNK for the Japanese market and Computran for the US Market.

In Super Tank, up to two players simultaneously control highly mobile armored tanks on a mission to destroy the SUPER TANK. An introductory collection round challenges the players to clear a field of mines and destroy as many red enemy tanks as possible. Special glowing diamonds are scattered throughout, providing temporary super armor protection and making the players' task easier.

After clearing the field of mines, the players are ready for their confrontation with the SUPER TANK! The SUPER TANK is this game's most dangerous adversary. It is a highly-maneuverable vehicle with a single weakness at the tip of its nozzle. A direct hit on the nozzle will destroy the SUPER TANK, bringing the players to another more intricate collection round where the challenges are greater and so are the rewards.

Oddly enough, the German and Japanese versions of the game's flyer depict a flower-laden, treaded vehicle with the head and body of a Roman gentleman, much like a centaur. This vehicle is shown shooting water at other similar vehicles out of his elongated nose. It is thought that restrictions against war games and cultural standards were responsible for these gentle depictions of the military-themed action in the game.
 
I can't shoot you, but I will sneeze on you, BASTARD!

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