CptnSteve
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So every couple of years my old thread gets bumped and people talk about Space Demon again. A somewhat obscure game made by Fortek and licensed by Nintendo in the early 80's. It predates radarscope and donkey kong it appears and it is a spiritual successor to Space firebird.
I have seen a few of the cabaret machines and a few of the cocktails but even they seem to be rare. What I have never seen, besides the one I own, is a dedicated upright machine. I can't find a Space Demon flyer that may show the different cabinets, not even one from Japan. it has been speculated that the machine was never released in this form outside of Japan, an din the 80's Japanese cabinets that didn't make a lot of money in the arcades were quickly converted to more profitable games. This would be a prime candidate for a DK conversion due to the cabinet color. But again, I've never heard of anyone seeing one in the wild, converting one in the past or anything other than a cabaret or a cocktail that used to be in a pizza place in the Seattle area.
I have been asked to have the artwork vectorized so that people can reproduce the cabinet, but the other problem is hardware. This game doesn't play right on Mame and the sound board which controls a lot of the game visuals is really hard to find. Short of converting a Space Firebird sound board, I also don't know of ways to make it work with Nintendo hardware.
So until I can get some additional information around the cabinet I tend to be very cautious about removing the game from storage and I won't be sending off my art to get converted just yet.
What I would like to know is has anyone ever seen one of these before. Ever. Anywhere?
If not I think I'm going to have to start diagramming out the schematics and figuring out how to get some spare parts made for my electronics.
Here are a couple of pics. People have said the game isn't fun to play, but I disagree. I think it is a decent galaxian style game that came out in the middle of the market being flooded with such games.
I have seen a few of the cabaret machines and a few of the cocktails but even they seem to be rare. What I have never seen, besides the one I own, is a dedicated upright machine. I can't find a Space Demon flyer that may show the different cabinets, not even one from Japan. it has been speculated that the machine was never released in this form outside of Japan, an din the 80's Japanese cabinets that didn't make a lot of money in the arcades were quickly converted to more profitable games. This would be a prime candidate for a DK conversion due to the cabinet color. But again, I've never heard of anyone seeing one in the wild, converting one in the past or anything other than a cabaret or a cocktail that used to be in a pizza place in the Seattle area.
I have been asked to have the artwork vectorized so that people can reproduce the cabinet, but the other problem is hardware. This game doesn't play right on Mame and the sound board which controls a lot of the game visuals is really hard to find. Short of converting a Space Firebird sound board, I also don't know of ways to make it work with Nintendo hardware.
So until I can get some additional information around the cabinet I tend to be very cautious about removing the game from storage and I won't be sending off my art to get converted just yet.
What I would like to know is has anyone ever seen one of these before. Ever. Anywhere?
If not I think I'm going to have to start diagramming out the schematics and figuring out how to get some spare parts made for my electronics.
Here are a couple of pics. People have said the game isn't fun to play, but I disagree. I think it is a decent galaxian style game that came out in the middle of the market being flooded with such games.


