>Shoutime got the impossibly rare original Galaxy Force (not part II). Almost every PCB >was upgraded because some of the changes were bug fixes. We have tried to get it for >years. Several of us have bought untested boards in the past that had the Galaxy Force >(not part II) sticker on the board thinking it might be part I but they always ended up >being part II.
Congrats to Shoutime for that. Has to be one of the longer searches for any remaining games that were not bug fixed/upgraded to run a different version of the game or an entirely different game. Good to see the challenge is now over.
The other games that come to mind where it was also a challenge to find pcbs that were not upgraded or modified to run a new game are Hard Times and revision A of Space Bomber.