Vindicators ad

[YOK-dfa]

Found this scan of a 1991 advertisment by a dutch toy store where they offer Vindicators (see screenshot) for sale. Thought i might share it with you guys

 

[The_Laird]

I really can't understand what ever happened to this game and why it was never released, I even remember seeing the box design for it in Lynx Log 1 and 2! Cool game in the arcades too a great shame, don't even think a proto has ever turned up?

[Agent X]

Vindicators was a very cool game in the arcades, and probably would have been great as a Lynx game.

 

The screens certainly looked good. It was one of the earliest announced arcade conversions for the Lynx to actually have screenshots published. I remember seeing Vindicators, Klax, and Rampage in a Lynx poster pullout ad in GamePro magazine back in 1990. I got that magazine just a few weeks after purchasing my Lynx, and I felt so justified in my decision to get a Lynx when I saw some of the titles that were being announced for it.

 

From what I've heard, the screens of Vindicators that were released were mock-ups, and the game unfortunately never did get very far into development. I don't think it ever reached a reasonably playable state. But, if a prototype ever surfaced, I'd love to be proven wrong here!