> > > This now leaves Dodgeball, Dodgem, and Launch Aircraft as unknown Atari
> > > arcade video games or maybe never existed such as mistaken name entries
> > > that don't belong on the list.
> >
> > Hey gregf! Had one spare minute and decided to poke at this.
> >
> > 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
>
> I don't know if it exists, but it was definitely worked on. The game was mentioned in
> the Kee Games Game Needs and Wishes Memo from June 20, 1974.
>
> > 3. I suspect, if anything, "Launch Aircraft" is a European name for Jet Fighter,
> > perhaps. But there's definitely no evidence it ever existed.
> >
> > 4. You missed another System 16 oddball - "Arcade Driver". My thoughts on it seem
> to
> > point towards an alternate name for Hi-way/Highway:
> > http://mamedev.emulab.it/undumped/index.php?title=Arcade_Driver
>
> 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.
>
> Documents from atarigames.com
No, it wasn't Night Driver. Development for that didn't start until late '75/early '76 and was a license.
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.
Edited by Marty G (06/21/14 09:08 AM)
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