MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Atari Crossfire

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1. New trivia: Dodgeball, Curt Vendel and Marty Goldberg claim, was designed by Steve Bristow, and released January 1975. If so, it must be incredibly rare. But evidence seems to exist, no doubt this turned up in their interviews at some point since this is the only place I can find this credit.
http://mamedev.emulab.it/undumped/index.php?title=Dodgeball

2. My thoughts on Dodgem. (I doubt it exists.)
http://mamedev.emulab.it/undumped/index.php?title=Dodgem
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>As for the previous mentioned game Dodgeball, besides our interviews and such it's also
>listed as a released game in Atari's internal list with a list price of $925. The
>cabinet was designed by Pete Takaichi. Like Gotcha Color, there are early games like
>this that saw limited release.

>Dodgem was supposed to have been the same as Dodgeball and I believe was part of the
>usual Atari/Kee variations with cabinet by Regan Cheng. It's mentioned in the October,
>1974 issue of Vending Times.

Thanks for visiting and posting that type of information here. It is definitely appreciated because to me it seems difficult to find that information these days, but Keith Smith has been doing a great job collecting information over the years. Keith also has blog site. (I'll update this post later with links to Keith's site)

Discrete Logistics is a tribute and information site that was initially started by fart_flower in 2001 because at the time non-cpu games emulation and preservation was a slim remote possibility, but thankfully that has changed now that DICE emulates several non-cpu games and MAME might eventually catch up.

Any info can be sent via a message to me, or maybe to Stiletto too if wanting to. Discrete Logistics is overdue for an update will eventually be updated...especially now that Crossfire is emulated and there is a bit more info about Crossfire. Crossfire was almost unknown and only previous thing would be the listed name on web sites. Fortunately Crossfire is now better known these days compared to in years past.

Did Atari or Kee Games have any advertising flyers printed for the limited release games?

So Dodgeball is Atari's release while Dodgem is Kee Game's variation? If so, at least that exlains that part. Do you have any url links that explains Dodgeball gameplay? If there isn't any, do you have time to type up a gameplay explanation of how Dodgeball worked?

As for Gotcha, did the Gotcha Color version use a translucent color overlay piece that fits over a black and white tv set monitor? Or did Gotcha Color use an actual color monitor? I didn't know Gotcha Color was a very limited release. So that explains why I only saw the black/white tv set version of Gotcha back in the mid 1970s.

Any gameplay difference between the wide release Gotcha versus limited Gotcha Color release?

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> As an aside, there was a mention of a game called "Driver 1st Person" that was in
> development in 1974. Night Driver, perhaps? Referenced from Kee Games Projects Memo-
> 9/18/1974.
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> Documents from atarigames.com
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>No, it wasn't Night Driver. Development for that didn't start until late '75/early '76
>and was a license.

Was Atari Night Driver a game licensed from another company?

I remember Atari programmer Dave Shepherd had visited the old MAME.net web site and posted in the forum in 2006 or 2007 and explained a bit about info about Highway, Atari Flyball, Night Driver, and a couple other games from 1980s and 1990s that he was involved with.

iirc Dave was visiting the old MAME.net site because it was within same week he was to attend the CA Extreme event that year and answer questions from the audience there at one of the public forums. Dave also visited MAME.net site to answer questions then.

I am glad Dave had confirmed something regarding Atari Highway cabs back then in 2006 when Dave answered a question or two that I had for him regarding Atari Highway.

As for another game that I thought never existed until seeing actual cab photos was Allied Leisure's Zap. I did get logic schematics for Zap, and maybe within sometime this year or next year Zap should be eventually emulated/preserved.

You can visit Bobby Tribble's unMAMEd web page and from there a link to Adam Bousley's site that hosts DICE.

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unMAMEd

NOT WORKING/not in MAME, and emulated by Dice

DICE

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I believe Atari Outlaw was being look over to see if it can be preserved, but emulating the light gun/pistol is one of the challenges iirc.

As before, if you have any information that can be used for helping update Discrete Logistics for later, feel free to send me a lengthy message explaining various games information that are on Discrete Logistics site.