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Arcade Talk 2 - Fake Trax

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WARNING: FOR EDUCATIONAL AND MILDLY HUMOROUS PURPOSES. I DON'T MEAN ANY BAD THINGS, THIS IS FOR FUN. ALL CREDIT TO THE ONES WHOSE REAL GAMES AND BOOTLEGS SHOW UP ON HERE.  HellllOOOOOOO and welcome back to Arcade Talk, the article where I blab on about stuff no one cares about. That is, only people who care about early 80s bootlegs will care. Anyhoo, today's topic is a bootleg hack of 1981's Crush Roller, or Make Trax. This bootleg was released, or at least made, 3 years after the original game. Today's topic is Painter, released in 1984 by Monshine! Ooohhh, did I say Painter? I think I meant Paint ei . Yeah, MAME has issues with the graphics (this'll be real important soon, hopefully this will make people aware of this thing to wanna get a better version with correct graphics. Also, sorry about the border, credit to the original artist of course, I didn't realize it was there.) So I pop in a coin and this is what I get. Weirdly enough this is credited to an ...

Arcade Talk 1 - Galaxian Hardware

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NOTICE: ALL CONTENT IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES. ALL CREDIT TO THEIR ORIGINAL CREATORS.   Ah, Galaxian. The game that popularized RGB graphics, the game that helped Namco set their stones on the arcade scene, the game that had its hardware reused 50 trillion times over-wait, what? Why yes, dear reader, Galaxian hardware has been used time and time again by all sorts of folks. But before that.. Hellllllllllllllllllllllllllllooooooo and welcome to Arcade Talk, a new series where I ramble on about arcade games. Why? 'Tis a topic that will forever amuse me, that's why. On Arcade Talk, you will find things like obscure arcade games no one has ever heard of, bootleg garbage that is interesting or intolerable, and other arcade oddities that make me smile. Today's topic is Galaxian hardware. That is Galaxian, released by Namco in 1979. A fairly simple space shooter in all accounts, however the game is rather impressive technology-wise. It was one of, if not the first game to use RG...