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Yaarrr !
This is still too good to believe and has a cool story behind it!
I was looking for local operators on web pages in order to source some cheap arcade PSU's and came across one. We spoke on the phone a few times before I went to his warehouse.
So, I took to the journey alongside with me two other local members of NG.com, 1up and _rm_ as they're two passionate arcade gamers/collectors in the great spirit of "sharing".
Much to our surprise, when we arrived at the local "operator" , it was nothing but a cabinet's graveyard. We thought we could still find a few decent PCB's and/or MVS carts, but it was full of junk, dust, shit and crap all over the place.
So, nevertheless, we brought a supergun and a monitor. We found that most of the boards were dead or in need of a great "surgery" in order to get a decent revival.
That's when member 1up decided to make an offer on a bunch of dead pcb's. It took a while to negotiate with the owner, but in the end we went away with a handful of pcb's.
One of them was a SEGA System 18 which had no info in the board other that pretty much faded writings on the eproms.
As the PCB was clearly dead, member 1up decided to let member _rm_ take the "B-board" (?) with him to test it out in order to check it with one of his System 18 boards.
Much to our surprise, when we thought it could be another crappy vulgar coin-muncher, it was none but a seemingly great shoot'em up that never saw the light of the day.
We are exactly talking about "Hammer Away". It's a Kyukyoku Tiger style game with two fire buttons ( air & ground ).
Only a few pictures from a Japanese magazine were to be found in the internet and almost no other info about this game is known.
Our real question is... How in hell are we supposed to find such a rare piece of a proto in a dumpster in Portugal?
The only possible way we could think of, is that the game itself says "SEGA/Santos".
Santos is a Portuguese common name, but that's as far as I would go in terms of bizarre relativity. I don't know any Portuguese gaming company ( or Brazilian for that matter! ) sporting that name, and moreover, in the 89-91 era.
All that I can do for now is to post this unique video of the attract mode.
Rom dumps are not my responsibility, but shall be available to MAME when the time is right.
We'll try to deliver more information as the game has to be coin tested from the very start 'til the end to ensure there's no game crashes and other related stuff.
Here's the YT video :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3t0JahAKsU&feature=youtu.be
PS: Props to 1up who bought the game and for _rm_ , as he was the first one who saw the game in
action!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR5Y4QwShIM&feature=youtu.be
This is still too good to believe and has a cool story behind it!
I was looking for local operators on web pages in order to source some cheap arcade PSU's and came across one. We spoke on the phone a few times before I went to his warehouse.
So, I took to the journey alongside with me two other local members of NG.com, 1up and _rm_ as they're two passionate arcade gamers/collectors in the great spirit of "sharing".
Much to our surprise, when we arrived at the local "operator" , it was nothing but a cabinet's graveyard. We thought we could still find a few decent PCB's and/or MVS carts, but it was full of junk, dust, shit and crap all over the place.
So, nevertheless, we brought a supergun and a monitor. We found that most of the boards were dead or in need of a great "surgery" in order to get a decent revival.
That's when member 1up decided to make an offer on a bunch of dead pcb's. It took a while to negotiate with the owner, but in the end we went away with a handful of pcb's.
One of them was a SEGA System 18 which had no info in the board other that pretty much faded writings on the eproms.
As the PCB was clearly dead, member 1up decided to let member _rm_ take the "B-board" (?) with him to test it out in order to check it with one of his System 18 boards.
Much to our surprise, when we thought it could be another crappy vulgar coin-muncher, it was none but a seemingly great shoot'em up that never saw the light of the day.
We are exactly talking about "Hammer Away". It's a Kyukyoku Tiger style game with two fire buttons ( air & ground ).
Only a few pictures from a Japanese magazine were to be found in the internet and almost no other info about this game is known.
Our real question is... How in hell are we supposed to find such a rare piece of a proto in a dumpster in Portugal?
The only possible way we could think of, is that the game itself says "SEGA/Santos".
Santos is a Portuguese common name, but that's as far as I would go in terms of bizarre relativity. I don't know any Portuguese gaming company ( or Brazilian for that matter! ) sporting that name, and moreover, in the 89-91 era.
All that I can do for now is to post this unique video of the attract mode.
Rom dumps are not my responsibility, but shall be available to MAME when the time is right.
We'll try to deliver more information as the game has to be coin tested from the very start 'til the end to ensure there's no game crashes and other related stuff.
Here's the YT video :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3t0JahAKsU&feature=youtu.be
PS: Props to 1up who bought the game and for _rm_ , as he was the first one who saw the game in
action!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR5Y4QwShIM&feature=youtu.be
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