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*gregf mode length Nintendo flyer recollection moment*

iirc Keith S. did the long ago interview with Allied Leisure's Jack Pearson for Game Room Magazine. When Game Room Magazine was online then, one could read the interview article with Jack Pearson.

The reason why recalling this is because way back in winter 2001 when MW Loonybin was a real crazy place then and it was unsafe to lurk then..kidding but heh those were good old days then.....it was a MW member, Fazeo, that was trying to recall an airplane fighting game in which player shoots down airplanes with a machine gune. Fazeo recalled game was larger than an upright video cab and maybe appeared on a film projection screen.

I showed a link to Fazeo about Allied Leisure's Battle Station.

Allied Leisure Battle Station flyer
http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=arcadedb&id=2

And Fazeo replied with that not being the cab he recalled playing.

That started me on searching about arcade games that use film reels for gameplay. I eventually asked Mr. Goodwraith about another particular Nintendo game in which Stiletto found all the answers for me in spring 2002.

The one that folks are tired of seeing rehashed every-so-often. ;-)

A month or two later, TAFA's Dan Hower mentioned to me of where to find a Nintendo Wild Gunman / Shooting Trainer flyer and I bought one.

And then I had noticed an entry on KLOV about Nintendo's Battle Shark

http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=arcadedb&id=1070

But I wasn't sure if that was the game Fazeo was trying to remember. In fact, no one on emulation scene back then even recalled seeing or playing Nintendo Battle Shark, but only recall Taito's version.

Eventually Dan Hower mentioned another Nintendo flyer in spring 2003.

Nintendo Sky Hawk
http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=arcadedb&id=1072

And sure enough....it turned out to be Sky Hawk that both Fazeo and myself were trying to remember. Thanks to Dan's efforts, we might finally have all the likely Nintendo games that used film reels during the 1970s now documented.

http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=ar...rch+the+Archive

And that concludes the Nintendo film reel games flyers recollection moment.

btw: I hope Keith might be able to ask another question to Jack Pearson...if still possible. It was about whatever happened to Allied Leisure's Zap video game. There isn't anything about it and maybe no flyers were printed for the game, but there was an auction of a Zap cab on ebay so it did actually exist. I don't recall seeing the game at arcades I went to back in 1970s.

This is the front page of a stapled, photocopied manual of Allied Leisure's Zap. The photocopied quality is so-so, but better than nothing. Also fortunate that it includes logic schematics, so maybe a chance it could be emulated later. The gameplay is somewhat similar to Wipe Out/Leader/Countdown, but is a two-player only game in which each player can move the paddle up-down-left-right to bounce ball back to opposing player while a square (ie: Zap box) deflects ball if player presses the zap button that is on the control stick.

The points score function is handled by a score pcb that displays the score on led display near the marquee area of the cab.

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Edited by gregf (01/03/13 07:27 AM)