> It had to be arcade technicians or something along that line that may have been
> aware of some of the 1970s era games and mentioned them when they were talking back
> in mid to late 1990s just when emulation was taking place. I wonder where some of the
> info Jim Hernandez had put into the text list file came from.
I asked Jim once recently (since his file kept coming up in things I'd been looking for lately), he told me this:
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I started the arcade database around 1990-1992. I would say my database is probably the oldest around.. years before the internet, I typed in everything myself pretty much. I traveled to Europe and some places of Asia, and other places in the US on vacation, and while I was there I would document and play rare and hard to find arcade games because some of these games were only made in the 100s. I had been a huge arcade game pcb collector at the time way before ebay, the internet, or MAME was around. When MAME came out and I was on the MAMEDEV team in 1997, I decided to donate my list to the internet to help developers and ROM Archivers. I think to this day it was a very good decision, a lot of people are still using that document and there are many copies around. I did use magazines like Play Meter, Replay, and Japanese magazines like Gamest in the past for release dates. I worked in the video game industry in consumer and arcade co-op gaming for over 20 years so I had a lot of access to information most people would not have access to. I also had connections to game developers, street operators, and distributors. Fact: I wrote most of it on a 286 machine with WordStar and Microsoft Word.
- Stiletto
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