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DU Update: Back when 3D hardware had soul
#297504 - 10/14/12 12:53 AM
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ShouTime somehow got the impossibly rare Cybersterra boardset from the peak of Taito's arcade hardware awesomeness, 1993. According to rumors on the web, only 50 units were made and some were later converted. I've never seen it for sale ever. Unfortunately he is out of town and I lack the patience to wait on announcing it until getting pics from him so I'm just using pics from the web but, we got it.
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Re: DU Update: Back when 3D hardware had soul
[Re: Smitdogg]
#297505 - 10/14/12 01:31 AM
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It´s like Star Fox from SNES or I´m guessing the images of the game play very similar?? O_O
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Re: DU Update: Back when 3D hardware had soul
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#297506 - 10/14/12 01:34 AM
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Re: DU Update: Back when 3D hardware had soul
[Re: Smitdogg]
#297507 - 10/14/12 02:30 AM
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>and I lack the patience to wait on announcing it
Heh. That's an understatement for the week. *j/k* 
The Taito game that is still intriguing imo is the mid 1980s Cosmopolis, shown on on unMAMEd page. I have never seen it before and it reminds me of Cinematronics StarHawk. That's a plus imo since I liked StarHawk.
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Re: DU Update: Back when 3D hardware had soul
[Re: Smitdogg]
#297510 - 10/14/12 04:37 AM
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> I think this might have gone in one of Taito's simulator pods from that era but I'm
> not sure.
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> http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=5266
Yep Cybersterra was for the Idya, along with Cave Speeder and Vertexer.
I think the games for the Super D3BOS were only non-interactive laserdisc thrill ride stuff.
Edited by Macaw (10/14/12 04:38 AM)
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Re: DU Update: Back when 3D hardware had soul
[Re: Smitdogg]
#297511 - 10/14/12 05:02 AM
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Nice score on that one guys. Awesome news indeed 
It's Saturday night and I will Drink to that
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Re: DU Update: Back when 3D hardware had soul
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#297534 - 10/14/12 08:53 PM
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> It´s like Star Fox from SNES or I´m guessing the images of the game play very
> similar?? O_O
from what it looks like, it looks like something like a battlemech theme, like Steel Gunner and Project Horned Owl (since it looks like a rail shooter), but instead of a police force that uses mechs, it must be some super mech force like the Mobile Suit Gundam series.
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Re: DU Update: Back when 3D hardware had soul
[Re: Macaw]
#297541 - 10/14/12 11:15 PM
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>Yep Cybersterra was for the Idya, along with Cave Speeder and Vertexer.
The Vertexer intro music is awesome. I would disable all the sound effects and only allow the music to be audible. Actually it would be better if the intro music were a selectable track tune that can be selected and played on Konami's Drum Mania cab and then things would be perfect. :-)
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Re: DU Update: Back when 3D hardware had soul
[Re: gregf]
#297543 - 10/14/12 11:42 PM
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It's a real shame the Taito compilation soundtrack that includes music from Vertexer doesn't have the intro music. Not sure why they'd skip the best song. 
Hope we can get that game dumped someday.
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Re: DU Update: Back when 3D hardware had soul
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#297554 - 10/15/12 03:54 AM
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> > Yep Cybersterra was for the Idya, along with Cave Speeder and Vertexer.
Based on that video, Vertexer is almost certainly one of the sprite-scaling Z-System variants and contains no actual 3D hardware. It looks rather like the result of someone trying to rip off all of Sega's Y-board games at once ;-)
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