Rom Hunter Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Unfortunately no. However, I am sending this thing out to CPUWIZ on Tuesday to see if this can be dumped, so hopefully he'll be able to give us some more information on this thing. That's good news. BTW: here's another one that came to mind: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-2600-vcs-armor-ambush_7698.html According to your description, I don't think it's that one either, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gao Posted June 11, 2013 Author Share Posted June 11, 2013 Just sent it out, so CPUWIZ should have it Thursday or maybe Friday. Hopefully he'll be able to salvage something interesting from it. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 It's dumped and working, unsure of why the board is not working, but luckily, the EPROM content is fine. It's a completely unknown game. Super cool. More later. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 It's dumped and working, unsure of why the board is not working, but luckily, the EPROM content is fine. It's a completely unknown game. Super cool. More later. Cool! Any indication as to who the company was? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 It's a completely unknown game. Super cool. WOW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Whoa! Neat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 What's the name saying? BTW: 273 scanlines? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 You can click on images, you know? I named it MYSTERY.BIN, I will burn this shortly and see if it works without rolling (my TV is not very forgiving). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 I wonder if this is a person pet project by someone who was working at Atari? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 I read "Jlms Toyi"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 I read "Jlms Toyi"? I thought you were talking about the filename. Yeah, I read it like that too. EDIT: The game scrolls vertically, btw.! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Might play a bit like Xevious, no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Works fine on hardware, here is a crappy cellphone camera shot... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 So... is it fun? This is awesome news, hope it gets released in one way or another! Any indication to why there is so much extra hardware on the PCB? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari181 Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 GAO, you have to go back to the person who gave this to you. Follow the clues and find out what this is. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 GAO, you have to go back to the person who gave this to you. Follow the clues and find out what this is. Yes please. Any info would be great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gao Posted June 15, 2013 Author Share Posted June 15, 2013 GAO, you have to go back to the person who gave this to you. Follow the clues and find out what this is. Yes please. Any info would be great. I haven't talked to him in ages, but I just sent a Facebook message asking if he could at least ask his mother who this person she got this from was. I'll let you guys know if anything comes from it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gao Posted June 15, 2013 Author Share Posted June 15, 2013 (edited) Might play a bit like Xevious, no? From what I can recall, the screen didn't scroll automatically. You had to move it upwards yourself. And I think you moved pretty slowly. Moving would decrease your fuel, and as far as I could tell, there wasn't a way to replenish it, so a game would just end after a couple minutes. The only enemies were those swastikas, which I think just moved side to side and shot at you. The gameplay wasn't particularly exciting, but it was hardly the worst thing on the console, and given how terrain didn't do anything and the strangeness of fuel without an ability to refill, I'm thinking that what we have is rather incomplete. Of course, I haven't played this thing in over a decade, so I could be misremembering something. Feel free to correct me on any of that CPUWIZ. Edited June 15, 2013 by Gao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Pretty spot on, except that there is a field of land mines as well and driving through water slows down the tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennybingo Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Amazing find!!!! It always blows my mind when things like this get found 30 years later! :thumbsup: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 UPDATE: This proto has changed hands, more to come. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Wonder007 Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 UPDATE: This proto has changed hands, more to come. Really......... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergun Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Well what a HUGE difference a tiny little detail can make. The entire "nazi" thing completely through me for a loop. For the record, that is NOT a "swastika"! It is drawn differently then that. It looks similar mind you, but is NOT at all a swastika. So this game is now a "family" game again! Continue...as you were... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergun Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 (edited) Cool! Any indication as to who the company was? Matt, we can use deductive reasoning and try to figure it out if we try. (of course assuming it was not some hermit programmer like Red Sea Crossing, Gamma Attack, Birthday Mania, or Extra Terrestrials) Let's start with the fonts and the style of numbers used on the "fuel" & "hits". Look familiar? The "Jim's Toy" looks like a "hack" or a "re-working" of the VideoSoft logo Perhaps it was to be a Video Soft game and was abandoned and/or stolen by pirates back in the day? Edited June 15, 2013 by Supergun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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