Unreleased Atari 'Nightmare' made by GCC

[TheSilby]

I have never heard of this game until today. Apparently, GCC, the makers of Food Fight and Quantum worked on this game but never released it. Has anybody else heard of this game? I can't seem to find much info on it.
http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=nightmare&page=detail&id=3706
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Computer_Corp.

I have been going through the stack of parts that I purchased from a former Atari employee (http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=91750) and I discovered this wiring harness. It has three tags on it. When I first looked at it I saw the Liberator tag and just figured it was a Liberator wiring harness. Upon closer inspection, found this tag today:

According to the first link I posted above, it basically used a heavily modified Food Fight PCB. So I guess I might have a harness that works with the Food Fight PCB is picked up.

 

[atariscott]

Nope, I have never heard of it.

 

[TheSilby]

Well, I figured that if anybody new anything about it, it would be you Scott. You have one in your stash, don't ya?

Did it ever make it into playable form?

 

[atariscott]

It's playable. Maybe when I get some time, I will bring it to California Extreme. Not that anyone gives a shit, since it's not Donkey Kong.

 

[avidgeek]

would LOVE to see a Nightmare at CAX.... Scott, you have my permission to leave Marble Man at home this year. Joystick marble madness just is sacrilege even if it is a sequel.

 

[p1899m]

yeah it looks interesting. I'd like to play it one day.

 

[atariscott]

would LOVE to see a Nightmare at CAX.... Scott, you have my permission to leave Marble Man at home this year. Joystick marble madness just is sacrilege even if it is a sequel.

I guess you don't want to play Trakball MM2 this year?

 

[acejedi]

I was just about to chime in! I wanna play MM2 with the trackballs! Hey Scott I'm still interested in that pin you have in your warehouse up here if you wanna sell it. Plus I gotta bring that Us vs Them laser by! Give me a call or drop me a email.

Joe(acejedi)

 

[TheSilby]

Does anybody have any clue why there is a Liberator and a Nightmare tag on this harness? Are they the same pinout? Should this harness work for my Food Fight board?

 

[mspaeth]

IIRC, it was supposed to be a prototype that's a giant hack on Food Fight hardware. Clay Cowgirl bragged about having a board years ago, but never really produced any info or pics of it.

I talked to a local ex-GCC employee about 5-6 years ago, who had some stories about Nightmare and was suprised that anyone had heard of it, and was highly interested in seeing one again, but nobody's ever realeased anything.

 

[havok69]

I know I may get flamed for this one, but you should lend the board to The Guru to get dumped for Mame - it would be good to see this board preserved...

http://guru.mameworld.info/comments.html

 

[mattosborn]

I know I may get flamed for this one, but you should lend the board to The Guru to get dumped for Mame - it would be good to see this board preserved...

http://guru.mameworld.info/comments.html

No offense to "The Guru", but there are plenty of us on here (myself included) who are quite capable of dumping the ROMs and making them available to the MAME dev team. I would personally much rather entrust my board to someone like Spaeth who really understands the hardware.
Point is probably moot, since I'm willing to bet the ROMs have already been dumped (but maybe not shared).

I have a feeling that the guy who's still waiting for the return of his Hypersports board from Mark will chime in now....

 

[mspaeth]

Point is probably moot, since I'm willing to bet the ROMs have already been dumped (but maybe not shared).

Well, Scott's screenshots, are from MAME, so that's pretty much a foregone conclusion.

I, too, laugh at the people who spend stupid money on boards and then spend stupid money sending them to australia so the 'guru' can dump them, as if he's the only one on the planet with that capability.

 

[havok69]

I didn't see it listed in Mame, hence my suggestion - whatever, my comment was mainly to get it dumped, whether it be someone in Australia who has done more dumps than Mark ever could, or someone closer to home...

 

[atariscott]

Everything does not need to be in MAME for it to be 'preserved'.

 

[Deadly]

Everything does not need to be in MAME for it to be 'preserved'.

I disagree Scott. You may be the current safe holder but what happens when you die? Gotta think like Willy Wonka and make sure them friggin Oompaloompas are taken care of when you're gone
The more people that have their hands on these roms the better IMHO. How many people take the MAME dumps and reburn roms with them? What happens if your "rare" item decides to bit rot itself?

 

[mattosborn]

Everything does not need to be in MAME for it to be 'preserved'.

BTW, I love the "Psycho-Physicist"... too funny.
Do you have any vids of the gameplay? That would be great to see.

 

[mspaeth]

I disagree Scott. You may be the current safe holder but what happens when you die?

When you spend your money on rare items, you get to decide how they are preserved.

The more people that have their hands on these roms the better IMHO. How many people take the MAME dumps and reburn roms with them? What happens if your "rare" item decides to bit rot itself?

The ROMs are of little or no use to COLLECTORs without a good documentation of the hardware (which, incidentally, I'd be interested in seeing pics of). If they were released to MAME, they'd only be of use to pirates.

 

[Deadly]

I don't disagree with anything you've said - but all it takes is one fire and poof history is lost forever. again I said "Use MAME to reburn roms" was the point. The whole pirating thing of course is right on the money but lets not get people fired up into another MAME legality pissing match

 

[ChadTower]

I don't disagree with anything you've said - but all it takes is one fire and poof history is lost forever. again I said "Use MAME to reburn roms" was the point. The whole pirating thing of course is right on the money but lets not get people fired up into another MAME legality pissing match

If the hardware isn't documented - and is lost in that fire - it's still gone forever. What good is reburning roms for a hacked board that no one can rebuild?