Greg2600 Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 So I was googling the Gremlins PS2/Gamecube cancelled game, and found this poor quality gameplay video from atarigames.com. Gremlins 1984 arcade game. I believe a similar game made it to computers. Anyone know if this arcade game was ever dumped? Or anything more about it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1efi6eLqWw 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoundGammon Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Looks like a good idea for a hack of ROBOTRON! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 I asked someone about this just a few months ago. I believe the footage is from a promotional video and the actual prototype has not been found yet. Too bad, as it looks like fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted January 5, 2013 Author Share Posted January 5, 2013 I asked someone about this just a few months ago. I believe the footage is from a promotional video and the actual prototype has not been found yet. Too bad, as it looks like fun! Thanks. Yes it does look pretty good. Has some levels that kind of resemble Paper Boy style graphics. Would the proto be an arcade board or stored in another fashion? I'd think it may have gone bad by now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Would the proto be an arcade board or stored in another fashion? I'd think it may have gone bad by now. It'd most likely be a complete board, unless someone yanked the EPROMs and threw them together in a box. The EPROMs going bad isn't really an issue, but with arcade games it is more of a concern since there are several chips (instead of just one or two with a console game). Also, it's possible (but not likely) for someone to have kept a copy of the source code. In any event, if this game was going to be found in any form, I'd think it probably would've turned up by now. You never know though.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegamezmaster Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Wow! what a great looking game! Hope it sees the light of day for some format! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Looks like a good idea for a hack of ROBOTRON! Funny you should mention this... Atari made the Atari XL, and C-64 versions of Robotron (through Atarisoft), and they also put out a Gremlins game for those machines which I'm pretty sure is based on the codebase of the Robotron ports, since both use a heavy amount of soft sprites, and both display the scoring in a similar way. Just compare those two screenshots (for the C-64 version): 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 They look similar but Robotron and Gremlins for the Atari 8-bit were done by two different people (Judy Bogart and John Seghers) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRedEye Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 The unreleased arcade Gremlins was done by Franz Lanzinger. No, he doesn't have anything left of the game, though he once told me he might have some Polaroid photos somewhere. Does anyone know where this video came from originally? Is there a version without the bad metal music and the obtrusive watermark? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r_type2600 Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 (edited) Originated from atarigames.com Cool to hear that Franz Lanzinger was involved with this. He really had a golden hand for whimsical yet addictive games. Crystal Castles of course (a pity he never got to do a true sequel to this), but also the Tengen update to Ms Pac Man - pure game fun at its best with its dozens of clever new mazes and subtle gameplay additions... Edited January 7, 2013 by r_type2600 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutchman2000 Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 I believe I have the source code to this game in my archive somewhere, I'll have to look and see..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 When was this scheduled to have been released? 1984? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted January 7, 2013 Author Share Posted January 7, 2013 (edited) Great information fellers!!!! I'm assuming the source could be recompiled? Ps that's the arcade code right not console? Edited January 7, 2013 by Greg2600 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutchman2000 Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Yes, arcade game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted January 8, 2013 Author Share Posted January 8, 2013 Nice, well, I hope you find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutchman2000 Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 I did find it, but I'm not sure how much use it will be. Looks incomplete but there might be enough here to get something going in MAME. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bakasama Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 I am interested to know what Atari hardware this game ran on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutchman2000 Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 System II from reports Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted January 8, 2013 Author Share Posted January 8, 2013 That would make sense, as I said the game looked a lot like Paperboy. Well if you get something to work that would be terrific, and I'd be mighty happy to have to started this thread on a whim! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutchman2000 Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 I gave a copy of the data to Aaron Giles of the MAME team. He will take a look and see if anything can be done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarigames Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Does anyone know where this video came from originally? Is there a version without the bad metal music and the obtrusive watermark? http://www.atarigames.com/gremlins.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted January 11, 2013 Author Share Posted January 11, 2013 I gave a copy of the data to Aaron Giles of the MAME team. He will take a look and see if anything can be done. my fingers are crossed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captcapcom Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 if anyone can get it running in MAME, Aaron can!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 GREMLINS!! Loved that on the Atari 800 and this looks cool too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertski Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Hi, I am interested in the source too as I am working on a couple of ports from arcade over to Atari 5200.. Can you send it my way dutchman? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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