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Haze:

--- Quote from: Vigo on July 17, 2012, 01:02:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: Haze on July 17, 2012, 10:13:41 am ---
--- Quote from: BadMouth on July 17, 2012, 07:39:19 am ---Along the same lines....

Any prototypes worth bothering with as far as replay value?

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Depends how finished they were, how much changed between development and release, and if a finished version of them actually exists.

The classic example of a game which was released but where a prototype IS still worth playing would be Trog

The prototype versions of the game were effectively a puzzle game, you placed bones at intersections to control the direction your character walked in.
The final version of Trog turned it into a simple 'Pacman' style dot eater, not by chance is the internal code of that version 'Trog 2', the development teams must have considered it a different game to the early design.

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I am glad you mentioned this one, Haze.  :cheers: I am one of the resident Trog fans here, so I was gonna bring it up if you didn't. The Trog dev team that they actually labeled 'Trog 2' as PAC TROG as the revision labeled the PCB. So I do agree the team saw the revision as a pacman style game. It is really fun 4 player pacman game though.

The original concept of Trog as a puzzle game bombed completely. Partly because it took effort to learn how to play, another because it was not action packed enough to determine the need for a 4 player game. I don't know if it is hearsay or verified, but I heard that Bally/Midway had a hard time accepting that the main function of the game was that you were using a hand to 'lay a bone', and their viewpoint was proven when someone graffiti'ed the control panel "bone" buttons by putting the letter R's on the end.

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Ah yeah, maybe it was 'PAC TROG', not 'Trog 2', lot of things to keep track of.

Anyway, yes, classic example of a game which wasn't really that bad, just not suited to arcade style of play, I reckon it would have done fairly well on a home system tho.

Vigo:
Actually you were right as well, It said both PAC Trog and Trog II depending on where you looked.  :cheers:

Mat:
Hey Haze, is there anywhere you can read about how different boards were located and ripped?  Seems like there might be some interesting stories behind how some of the more rare games came to be included in MAME.

Haze:
There isn't really any collection of such information no, usually the people who have worked on specific drivers will know a few things, but even then a fair number probably won't care at all, most of them really don't have interesting stories behind them ;-)

MaxVolume:

--- Quote from: Haze on July 18, 2012, 08:18:03 pm ---There isn't really any collection of such information no, usually the people who have worked on specific drivers will know a few things, but even then a fair number probably won't care at all, most of them really don't have interesting stories behind them ;-)

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Um, and the more "interesting" the story, the less likely anyone wants to talk about it, right? ;)

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