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Puzzle Break – imagine if you made a breakout game where not only did bat position matter, but you could also angle it to affect the ball trajectory.\u00a0 That’s exactly what this is and it does erase a common problem with most breakout games, the “I have one brick left and can’t get the angle” one.\u00a0 Seller sold this as working despite all greens strobing once per frame.\u00a0 Turned out to be a resistor array fitted backwards from the factory, how did nobody notice this fault before?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Magic Bubble – it’s Puzzle Bobble by Yun Sung.\u00a0 It’s an OK enough clone, I already had the game as part of a multigame collection but it was the clean version – this is the ‘adult’ one.\u00a0 This one had sprite issues due to a badly hacked resistor array, again from the factory but triggered by years of things being placed on top of it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mad Ball – another one I already had but that was the 1998 ‘swimsuit’ version, this is the 1997 fully adult one, it’s a Breakout clone with lots of power ups – not bad really but prone to “can’t hit the last brick” due to so many enemies respawning.\u00a0 I’m not sure what trickery is going on with that extra PCB where the CPU socket is, the later version is just a straight Z80.\u00a0 MAME doesn’t seem to have anything in there different between them – maybe a diagnosis board for engineers?\u00a0 I see two pin connectors on there.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gulf Storm – vertical shooter by Dooyong, not one of their best.\u00a0 Filling collection holes really and it was cheap.\u00a0 I do like the blue PCB though.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gaia: The Last Choice Of Earth – so I was just browsing ebay and I spotted this one, a game only ever seen on a flyer which honestly some of us had written off as unreleased.\u00a0 Interestingly it’s a horizontal game while the flyer shows vertical, looks like it was programmed to cater for both because it can vertically pan and enemies appear across the whole left\/right area of the screen so presumably in vertical it would have horizontal panning.\u00a0 It’s not switchable to vertical, either this is all that was released or there’s another type out there somewhere.\u00a0 Terrible audio in this game, really low quality and muted in the music department, some graphics stolen from Sonic Wings.\u00a0 I’m really happy to have found this one – it’ll be in the next MAME.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n DragonNinja – found a Japanese one in the US.\u00a0 Initially seemed like it had been abused a bit (there are a couple of repairs) but it’s cleaned up well!\u00a0 Are you a bad enough dude to save president Ronnie?<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n