Taito Water Ski....

Found some info on this...

Hardware Information
Water Ski came in the standard "Taito Classic" cabinet (the same one that was used for titles such as Qix, Zoo Keeper, and Jungle King). It was usually a brown cabinet with painted sideart (stripes and a "Taito" logo). The game used a standard 8-Way joystick and had two buttons on the control panel. This was not a very popular game, and real cabinets are almost impossible to find.


This title used six (count em, six), processors. It used a pair of Z80s to run the main program data (one at 4 Mhz and one at 3Mhz). While it used four AY-8910 processors to do audio chores (all of them running at 1.5 Mhz). The program code was stored on 21 EPROM chips, each having 4K of storage. This was the exact same hardware that Jungle King and Elevator Action used, and this title can be converted to those titles (and several others), simply by swapping ROM chips



I wonder if this did so poorly due to the similarites between this and Alpine Ski...

I wonder if this was just a kit like Tin Star and there was no dedicated Water Ski... I picture it in the Space Dungeon color scheme.

Has even a marquee ever surfaced? And I thought Pirate Pete was rare... At least there was pics from a flyer!
 
This was the exact same hardware that Jungle King and Elevator Action used, and this title can be converted to those titles (and several others), simply by swapping ROM chips

I wonder if that works in reverse too? I'd much rather convert one of the others to Water Ski, they're certainly a lot more common.
 
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