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Arcade games from lesser-known companies 2016-07-19 09:37:27 Post No. 3371558
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We all know and love the arcade games of Sega, Namco, Taito, etc. Both their big hits and more obscure titles. But what about games from companies you don't hear about often?
Van Van Car is a simple but fun maze game from a company called Sanritsu. You drive around a maze popping balloons and avoiding enemy cars, which you can jump over or shoot if you get the "E" balloon. Picking up the striped balloon when it appears will automatically clear the stage, and award a bonus.
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Bouncer by Entertainment Sciences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ySvPV3UjuE
>In the end, despite having perhaps the most powerful hardware and arguably the best graphics in the industry plus a game that drew rave reviews, Bouncer was never released. So what happened? In a February, 1985 Replay article Ron Clark claimed that the game failed because the graphics were too good. So good that many mistakenly believed the game was a laserdisc game at a time when laserdisc games were getting an increasingly bad reputation for reliability (the website turbosub.com, however, claims that operators at the AMOA show rejected the game when they found out it _wasn't_ a laserdisc game).
No cabinets or ROM dumps are currently known to survive ;_;
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