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I came across Haze twitter retweet of this.

Another very good achievement in preservation work. The recent work involves Fujitsu FM-7 game tape cassettes being preserved. Congrats to all involved.

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https://twitter.com/GamingAlexandri/status/1334950349052973060

https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/
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The page has all the info and gameplay instructions along with video clips of gameplay.

Fujitsu FM-7 Tape Dumps https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2020/12/04/fujitsu-fm-7-tape-dumps/

Maybe someone will have time to add support for the games in the fm7_cass.xml hash file before next release?

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/hash/fm7_cass.xml

btw: An interesting article in regards to Exidy Star Fire.

Enter Your Initials: Preserving The Source Code of Star Fire, a Forty Year Old Arcade Game

August 21, 2020

https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2020...ld-arcade-game/

Gaming Alexandria disclaimer:

(This article serves as a promotion for the author’s book Candid Conversations in Code: Interviews with the First Generation of Video Game Programmers now available through the website Storybundle. Gaming Alexandria receives no proceeds from the sale of this book. Read all about the careers of Star Fire creator David Rolfe and more amazingly talented game creators in the book’s pages, as well as receiving a number of other published works from leading game historians like Matt Barton and John Harris by purchasing from Storybundle today!)

An excerpt from the book of: Candid Conversations in Code: Interviews

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The man with the plan was a fellow named Ted Michon. Michon had worked as a technician at arcade company Digital Games/Micronetics, which set him up to become a game creator for them when he created an early microprocessor game for them called Night Racer. With a new direction for games taking shape and the company he worked for falling apart, Michon decided to form his own independent arcade development company called Techni-Cal in 1976.
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Now I wondered what happened to Digital Games back then. I didn't know the company had changed names and relocated to another part of southern California back in the mid 1970s.

It answers Micronetics Night Racer being a cpu based game. And probably what was then bundled as a package to Midway to remarket as 280zzap coinop video game?

https://www.flyerfever.com/search/night+racer

I figure most of this had been mentioned in various previous interviews, but I wasn't aware of some of the specifics before. I wasn't aware (age 11 in 1976) that Digital Games had probably already folded by the time I discovered the pong clone gaming goodness of Digital Games Model 474 cocktail pong table when playing that at a long gone Mexican cuisine eatery (Castillo Real) near Signal Hill CA famed traffic circle roundabout.

Digital Games Model 474 cocktail table pong clone had the one player versus machine option against the machine's dreaded overlengthy opposing computer's paddle. Players rarely beat the machine. I was lucky in beating computer opponent a few times, but it is a challenge.