Check out the plaigiarism in this Taito flyer

[RayB]

http://www.arcadeflyers.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=6135&image=1

[Ginsu Victim]

Wow....that's pretty blatant.

[Ummon]

That's not plagiarism, that's fraudulent and shady. Like those companies in the 90s who'd put CD Audio on anything electronic to make it more attractive - although the Taito flyer is a special brand of it.

[CheffoJeffo]

While we're on the topic, don't forget the Defender Prototype artwork.

Astron Belt actually had footage from Star Trek: The Motion Picture in it.

[Ummon]

While we're on the topic, don't forget the Defender Prototype artwork.

Mm, just as bad. So funny.

Astron Belt actually had footage from Star Trek: The Motion Picture in it.

Right, I'd forgotten about that. Actually, the warp footage was from The Motion Picture, but the sequence just after that, of the cosmic energy stuff and the planet, was from Wrath of Khan. Maybe those were licensed?

[Level42]

Yeah I wanted to suggest the Defender proto too. And that's from a well known US pinball builder !

I think Taito then was not quite as what we know it now. Games were "shared" between Japanese companies in the early days and there were plenty of bootlegs coming from there. In that light, it's not too strange to see something like that.

I personally still love the artwork on UFO Invaders:

[RayB]

Star Wars really had a huge impact on sci-fi, didn't it.

What company made that UFO game?

[Level42]

No idea. It's not listed anywhere (KLOV etc.).

I've seen that cab with my own eyes one time. Was at the guy where I bought the Konami GT cockpit. I don't know why but my guess this is Italian.

The guy bought this collection from a toy museum:

http://perswww.kuleuven.be/~u0008708/museum.htm

He sold almost all of the cabs but kept a good selection of the top games. The UFO invaders is not on that site, nor is my Konami GT. Darth Nuno has the Pleiads (and I may think the Gorf too).