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Pages: 1 Big Karnak Part-time Lurker Reged: 05/22/13 Posts: 1011 Loc: Mount St. Lurkling Send PM Atari Unreleased Prototype "Vicious Circle" #364105 - 03/07/17 05:19 AM Reply Atari Unreleased Prototype "Vicious Circle". I stumbled across this game. I couldn't find much information about it and it's background aside from a short paragraph about it being a Killer Instinct type game that was cancelled before release. Is there any fan following of this game? Stiletto They're always after me Lucky ROMS! Reged: 03/07/04 Posts: 6472 Send PM Re: Atari Unreleased Prototype "Vicious Circle" [Re: Big Karnak] #364113 - 03/07/17 10:04 PM Reply > Is there any fan following of this game? Well, considering it was one of those unreleased prototypes that really only saw the light of day through showings at California Extreme until it was dumped and put in MAME... I really doubt most gamers know of its existence! For a 1996 game, it was known about by rare arcade collectors since at least 1997: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.video.arcade/Zlqp6M8fa-0/30lpmxEUxFAJ Mentioned in Jim Hernandez's game list in 1999: https://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/spies.cgi?action=url&type=info&page=JimsDB.txt and shown at shows as far back as 2000: http://www.caextreme.org/2000-show/protoplasm.htm ... and it went into MAME in 2002: http://www.progettoemma.net/index.php?gioco=vcircle&lang=en Info pages: http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/dettaglio_mame.php?game_name=vcircle&lang=en http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=vicious-circle&page=detail&id=3063 http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10305 http://arcarc.xmission.com/Pictures/Prototype/Vicious%20circle/ http://www.fightabase.com/gameMain.aspx?id=761 http://www.gamesdatabase.org/game/arcade/vicious_circle http://www.mamedb.org/Game.aspx?id=9571 http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=778&page=1#541 http://www.uvlist.net/game-97411-Vicious+Circle http://www.vazcomics.org/mamend/V/vcircle.htm http://www.vizzed.com/games/vicious-circle-(prototype)-mame-arcade-62816-game Reviews / Articles / Discussions: http://neoplayerpodcast.blogspot.com.br/2015/11/review-vicious-circle-arcade-prototipo.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUOcb5hmakg http://atariage.com/forums/topic/134226-vicious-circle-atari-cojag/ (2008) http://www.killerinstinctcentral.com/vicious-circle-an-unreleased-killer-instinct-clone-from-atari/ (2013) Gameplay video: http://www.progettosnaps.net/videosnaps/mp4/vcircle.mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3uAaaTXC04 Known to have worked on the game: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-villagran-a5108b24/ http://www.davidmarch.org/2.html http://www.retrogamingtimes.com/rgtimes19/ Theories as to why it wasn't released: Commenter "dauber" theorizes that "Vicious Circle" and other games' development was axed during the Midway/Atari Games merger for, uh, pure efficiency's sake (in the comments of the following page): https://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/04/lostbe...d-now-playable/ Brian McKee in the above Retrogaming Times article claimed it was "a COJAG based fighting game that could not get enough bandwidth from the hardware to be fun enough." PS. Ironically, there's a character in the game named "Stiletta". No relation. - Stiletto Edited by Stiletto (03/07/17 10:35 PM) Big Karnak Part-time Lurker Reged: 05/22/13 Posts: 1011 Loc: Mount St. Lurkling Send PM Re: Atari Unreleased Prototype "Vicious Circle" [Re: Stiletto] #364116 - 03/08/17 03:12 AM Reply Thanks for the info. Pages: 1

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