MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: Flyer Fever 2023-Oct: Year 9 Part 2 *edit*

> Undiscovered Bronze Age video game flyers are very hard to come by these days,

All of those months of work being spent towards a couple major release events to commemorate nine years for Flyer Fever in operation…..the past two celebratory updates is equivalent of Fernando Tatis’ two grand slams in one inning.

https://www.baseball-almanac.com/boxscore/04231999.shtml

Fernando Tatis, who had not hit a grand slam during his Major League career, homered twice with the bases loaded — both times off Chan Ho Park — in the third inning. Tatis, not only became the first Major League ballplayer to hit two grand slams in one inning, but he also set a new record with eight runs batted in during a single inning.

The Gypsy Juggler flyer with cab interior image is very good since it shows what the artwork looks like. Impressive work with finding and getting more of the Sega and Taito flyers. One of these days, may the elusive Japanese region Sega Frogs flyer be found and added to Flyer Fever. Anyway…congrats for nine years with Flyer Fever online.

On the topic of Bronze Age side of items, another Apple II tape cassette game has been found and preserved.

https://mastodon.social/@A2_Canada/111258014641831693

Oct 18, 2023

Today is a huge day for Apple II software preservation. With the help of Antoine Vignau and txgx42, we have managed to recover, make playable, and archive renowned game designer Dani Bunten's first game, Wheeler Dealers. Released in 1978/79 and published by Speakeasy Software, a small Canadian developer, Wheeler Dealers is a multi-player stock market simulation that only sold ~50 copies. It is the first (known) computer game to have been sold in a box. The game was considered lost until now.

Maybe that will eventually be supported in the hash file at a later time.

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/hash/apple2_cass.xml

Edited by gregf (10/20/23 08:10 PM)