jpfalcon2003 Posted September 26, 2006 Author Share Posted September 26, 2006 It's not about hoarding the game-the fellow in question has released others through reproductions and downright rom releases. They just can't get it to copy, and last time I talked to him, he said that it wasn't a high priority in his life right now, but that he'd try to get it to copy and made available to the community when the time arises. Bothering him about it won't make it happen any faster, and all the negativity and complaining that happens in the hobby is the main reason he's distanced himself from it in the first place(hence why I'm not saying who it is). Just be patient, and it will come out eventually Oh, ok, then I'll take off that hex Vin Pretty funny Vin. I do think it will be an awesome game for everyone to have for the 7800 though. I would love to have it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow460 Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 Why not design your own beat 'em up instead? If enough of them come out, MIA will fall into unimportance. Pit Fighter needs to be completed anyway, maybe that's a start. I'd try it, but a) I don't know how to program the 7800 yet and b) when I'm ready to program it I've got a couple of other projects in mind. With it being a proto, who knows what problems it could have? I mean, we assume a proto might not be complete or playable, but there's any number of reasons that maybe it shouldn't be released. That said, if he says it won't copy correctly, I'll take his word for it. Perhaps the ROM image exists in more than one place anyway. It might be sitting on an old hard drive somewhere, untouched since the drive's platter won't spin up. A copy might be gathering dust in a salvage yard. Who knows? I'd say the same thing for the other unreleased protos, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpfalcon2003 Posted September 27, 2006 Author Share Posted September 27, 2006 Pit Fighter would be nice. But that one needs alot of help with the graphics, judging from the screenshots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 Pit Fighter would be nice. But that one needs alot of help with the graphics, judging from the screenshots. That's because it's not really Pitfighter with those graphics. Honestly, if someone hadn't told you that the game was Pitfighter, would you have known? It looks like a generic Double Dragon clone to me. I can't believe they were even trying to pull off Pitfighter on the 7800... Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpfalcon2003 Posted September 27, 2006 Author Share Posted September 27, 2006 Pit Fighter would be nice. But that one needs alot of help with the graphics, judging from the screenshots. That's because it's not really Pitfighter with those graphics. Honestly, if someone hadn't told you that the game was Pitfighter, would you have known? It looks like a generic Double Dragon clone to me. I can't believe they were even trying to pull off Pitfighter on the 7800... Tempest Agreed with you there. I can't see Pitfighter possibly being pulled off on the 7800. At least anything close to the arcade version. I actually have Pit Fighter for the SNES and it is very Arcade close. The 7800 version looks awful when compared to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cousin Vinnie Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 Pit Fighter would be nice. But that one needs alot of help with the graphics, judging from the screenshots. That's because it's not really Pitfighter with those graphics. Honestly, if someone hadn't told you that the game was Pitfighter, would you have known? It looks like a generic Double Dragon clone to me. I can't believe they were even trying to pull off Pitfighter on the 7800... Tempest Agreed with you there. I can't see Pitfighter possibly being pulled off on the 7800. At least anything close to the arcade version. I actually have Pit Fighter for the SNES and it is very Arcade close. The 7800 version looks awful when compared to it. Ya know and who cares? Pitfighter kinda sucks anyway even on the SNES. I might be dead wrong but the attraction of Missing in Action (besides the recent Chuck Norris craze) is that it was original and it looked pretty cool... lots better tha the 7800's Double Dragon Cousin Vinnie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classic Pac Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 Th is sorta reminds me of a story I heard at a film fest some years back. There was this guy who had copies of the films actually made by Thomas Edison. But he would not let anyone see them except for stills like those from MIA. In fact the only way he would let anyone even hold them if they gave him $50,000 and a million dollars a piece to buy them. Dispite how rare those thems are no one wanted to pay that much for them. Eventually the greedy bastard died, and it was his only family who finally turned those films over to the UCLA Film and TV Archive, and did not ask a dime for them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow460 Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 I played Pit Fighter in the arcade. It sucked there, too. Though it would be nice to see the prototype finished into something playable, I'm not surprised that it wasn't completed. Given the hardware requirements, why would one want to port a game that wasn't so great anyway? I know what we need--instead of something like PitFighter, let's make a prequel to one of the more popular names that bore the Atari logo. Rush 1985 anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cousin Vinnie Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 Rush 1985 anyone? Does anyone know the prequel to San Fransico Rush for 13 dollars and a handshake? You have ten seconds from this post. Anyone? Anyone? FUNK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DracIsBack Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 Agreed with you there. I can't see Pitfighter possibly being pulled off on the 7800. At least anything close to the arcade version. I actually have Pit Fighter for the SNES and it is very Arcade close. The 7800 version looks awful when compared to it. LOL -- I actually thought the SNES version really sucked too. It was one of those games that I thought looked closer on the Genesis than the SNES. Pit Fighter is a pretty cheap game regardless of system IMO ... once the novelty wore off of it being digitized, it really didn't seem very good. The 7800 version isn't even close to finished, though I'm also in the "why bother?" category. Mortal Kombat on the Sega Master System is a technical achievement but it's still a sucky version. The 7800 wouldn't realistically pull off those digitized graphics at a decent frame rate so why invest the effort? One thing I will give Pit Fighter on the 7800 though was it's sprites were pretty big. It didn't don on me until you see it on a TV. But the game is hardly playable. the graphics are generic, there's no sound and some serious playability flaws. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayhem Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 Just to push this up, Joe (at DP) is offering to sell the prototype for $5000 if anyone is interested. Guess he may have spotted this topic Figured I'd mention it anyhow... now all we need is Wonder007 to unleash his wallet again (the money btw will go into funding CGE next year as it's going to be back in Vegas apparently, so I imagine transporting stuff in storage from Cali ain't gonna be cheap) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory DG Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 Has there ever been a proto that's sold for that much? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 Has there ever been a proto that's sold for that much? I know of a few private deals that have hit the $4000 mark but not $5000. Honestly, that's crazy money for a 20 year old game. Maybe I'm just getting old... Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holygrailvideogames.com Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 I could see someone paying that for some protos but not for a 7800 title. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdie3 Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 Not that I have really ever had a say in the Atari game prototype world but I have to wonder out loud why he is asking for such an obviously rediculous amount. This seems like more of a publicity stunt or something to that effect to me (for whatever reason). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DracIsBack Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 I could see someone paying that for some protos but not for a 7800 title. I dunno. The 7800 protos are among the rarest of any system. So many factors make protos nearly impossible to get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow460 Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 I'm not on the right page here...it is a Pit fighter proto he's selling or is it the Missing In Action proto? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diggs130 Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 I'm not on the right page here...it is a Pit fighter proto he's selling or is it the Missing In Action proto? Missing in action it be~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveW Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Well, this game has been known to exist for years, but nobody's been able to get a copy and dump the ROM successfully..... I'd guess that there's a few Atari collectors who might want to spend $5000 to get their hands on one of the few prototypes that hasn't been released into the public in some form yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 I've played this game before, it's not worth $5000. I know we're all desperate for new 7800 games and it bugs the hell out of us that there's one out there that we don't have, but it's not a $5000 game. It's just not that good! Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow460 Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 You played it? Why didn't you drug the dude then? You'd have had plenty of time to dump the cart before he woke up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubersaurus Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Haha, hold a drive for 7800 fans to donate money together to buy it and have it dumped ;p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diggs130 Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Anybody play Pink panther before it sold? nothing personal tempest,just curious! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cousin Vinnie Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 I'd consider buying it, I just don't know how to dump it. If I buy it will someone produce it? Cousin Vinnie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 (edited) I'd consider buying it, I just don't know how to dump it. If I buy it will someone produce it? Cousin Vinnie Hi Vinnie i have some friends,who are able to do this(i hope so).But maybe we can get a photo of the board?. greetings Walter Edited October 9, 2006 by gambler172 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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