NEW Williams Mystic Marathon dedicated cab Prototype

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factory repurposed Moon Patrol ? Weren't MP's slimmer than Robos and Jousts ?
 
That's something else. I think the kit bezels were plexi and the dedicated ones were glass. Awesome score.
 
PS- Kristina D said she'd take a closer look when she can login.
 
What you have is $3000-$5000 to the right collector. Beautiful. I tried for years to piece together the one that was scrapped locally from the local arcade(Conversion) and gave up.

You should scan as much as you can of that artwork including the sideart.

Michael
 
What you have is $3000-$5000 to the right collector. Beautiful. I tried for years to piece together the one that was scrapped locally from the local arcade(Conversion) and gave up.

You should scan as much as you can of that artwork including the sideart.

Michael

Seriously, you should. A good friend of mine was NUTS about this game back in the 80s and we had a hard time finding all of it's parts then. I can only imagine how difficult it is now.

Really beautiful game BTW.
 
The flyer only mentions it being available as a kit, but the cab shown is identical to Alan's, right down to the painted sideart:
 

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The MAME notes are rather harsh of the game:

"The object of Mystic Marathon is to guide an elvish looking goblin in some sort of overland race. In most arcade games if you made a mistake you would lose a life, but in Mystic Marathon making a mistake, any mistake, simply meant it was impossible to win the race. Bump into something, oops, can't win. Choose the wrong path, can't win. Press jump at the wrong time, can't win. "

I just played it and it's not THAT brutal :) But it is frustrating.

I don't put any faith into Twin Galaxies world record score for it (they claim Clay Bostick scored a perfect 4 MILLION on 1984-10-08). Considering it's a rare kit game, the fact that if you don't finish in the top 3 in any race, the game is over, and there's no other scores recorded for the game, I'm calling BS on TG's database yet again. Oh, and did I mention if you continue the game, you keep your score? :)
 
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Tried repro-ing the art a while ago, side-art is done for kit version but no quality bezel scan was ever provided. A few have come up for sale and sold but no one has ever offered to scan the bezel and i haven't been able to get my hands on one myself to do it. Having the dedicated side art scanned would be nice but honestly how many dedicated machines are really out there.

Definitely a sweet machine, value is all over the chart as not many come up for sale and people love to throw their disposable income around.
 
I don't put any faith into Twin Galaxies world record score for it (they claim Clay Bostick scored a perfect 4 MILLION on 1984-10-08). Considering it's a rare kit game, the fact that if you don't finish in the top 3 in any race, the game is over, and there's no other scores recorded for the game, I'm calling BS on TG's database yet again. Oh, and did I mention if you continue the game, you keep your score? :)

I tried to get into the game from MAME and even played Yellowdog's at the Houston Expo....it's kinda quirky. In relation to race style, it would have benefited from a better balance like Excitebike has in race quality with being able to redeem yourself.

And I have said over and over again online. It is true that very little of the 82-84 TG scoreboard is trustworthy. It was based on a trust and general call-ins or write-ins with a signature on a slip of paper. I worked as an admin on the scoreboard in those years at the Ottumwa arcade. :)
Later the scoreboard was embellished with content found in news clippings. Just a grassroots project which Walter has kept alive as a fun pop-culture nostalgia.

Plus how many people in the arcade culture actually chase WR scores? The existing TG site is just a couple few dozen folks who mostly play apps or consoles.......
 
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