MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Anyone familiar with Allied Leisure's Robot?

> I've been looking around for this game for several months now, and unfortunately haven't run into very many
> people who even know it exists. I was able to purchase a manual / schematics for it recently, but am still
> looking around for somebody who owns one.

These days probably only remaining intact existing Allied Leisure cabs folks will be able to find will be
either Paddle Battle

https://www.flyerfever.com/paddle-battle/

or Tennis Tourney,

https://www.flyerfever.com/tennis-tourney/

but there had been a previous eBay auction of Futsball cab many years earlier.

> I would love to know if anybody has ever played Robot and has memories of it or ever seen one out in the
>. wild.

Being a SoCal 1970s era native kid and having a chance to go to amusement parks back then when arcades were half EM games and half video games during 1970s, I don’t recall seeing this Allied Leisure cab in person.
I had seen or maybe played Paddle Battle or Tennis Tourney and maybe Allied Leisure’s Street Burners, but other Allied Leisure video game cabs, I don’t recall myself. It was more likely seeing some of Allied Leisure’s more popular EM hardware coinop cabs that I had seen in arcades such as Super Shifter or Crackshot etc.

Back in early 1970s along Long Beach’s Belmont shore area is Domenico’s restaurant ( still in business ) and the restaurant had an Allied Leisure Crackshot cab in years 1973 and 1974 in which the cab was placed next to front window area looking out to 2nd Street traffic passing by. I was playing that game at ages 8 and 9 when Crackshot cab was there. I had to stand on a stool to be able to play Crackshot at the time.

Allied Leisure’s Crackshot

https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=arcadedb&id=4

Hard to say why I remember playing that Allied Leisure game there, but unable to remember playing other Allied Leisure games elsewhere.

Back in either 1999 or 2000, Game Room magazine’s writer Keith Smith had interviewed Allied Leisure’s game designer Jack Pearson. A very informative article in which Jack Pearson had described Allied Leisure’s company operations during 1970s before they were acquired by Bally Nutting Corp. Jack mentions some of the games he designed. Article is worth reading.

Keith Smith used to visit here on MW and post in some old threads. Search for old threads on Emuchat forum section and search words of Kee Games Crossfire or Knights in Armor. Keith did post on Crossfire thread in 2013.

evidence of Atari Crossfire

https://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/sh...part=1&vc=1

Crossfire

https://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=756&page=1#414

A lot of the non-cpu video games have a chance of being emulated in the future including Robot (assuming Robot does not use any proms), but still a fair amount of particular TTL chips yet to be emulated and some non-cpu games that use roms and proms still yet to be found and dumped and supported in MAME. I am hoping either PSE games roms of Maneater or Knights in Armor can be supported in the future. I was surprised that Marble Madness 2 roms surfaces along with the Sega game that Haze emulated both games. So there is still a chance other stuff could come along later on.

I wasn’t sure how long it would take since real life issues had kept me very busy for past 5 to 6 weeks. I was somewhat surprised Haze had MM 2 running by end of May.

There are temporary source files that have TTL description in the suffix that are used for documenting non-cpu video games from specific companies including Allied Leisure. Any of the non-cpu games that use roms are documented within the specific source files. It might not mean much to the casual users since few non-cpu games are emulated, but to pcb owners that still might be keeping pcbs or cabs in working condition, those documented rom files are a needed godsend to technicians still doing repair work these days on those particular pcbs.

Since Street Burners uses roms, that is one of the reasons why there is temporary Allied Leisure file documenting roms that Street Burners uses which pcb owners and repair techs can use if rom on a Street Burners pcb goes sour and needs to be replaced.

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/drivers/aleisttl.cpp

https://www.flyerfever.com/street-burners/

I don’t recall seeing any video clips of Allied Leisure Robot. You will probably have to post some gameplay descriptions such as if players had to press a serve button for ball to be served like what is done with Atari Breakout (upright cab) emulation. Some pong clone games had a serve button feature including other non-cpu games such as Ramtek Clean Sweep.