Dragon's Lair Fans - Arcade Lifestyle
General Chat => Arcade Lifestyle => Topic started by: Chuckie egg on August 02, 2015, 08:33:16 AM
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Hi guys
Just thought I would let you know I've found a Nintendo Sky skipper with the official Nintendo Popeye conversion kit on it.
The Pcb is Immaculate and comes complete with the Popeye pin out.
By next weekend I will hopefully have this converted back and a video up so you can see it running on original hard ware.
My aim now it to put this into a cab or make a caberet I haven't decided yet.
I could get all the art work vectored from my flyer and convert a Popeye upright which would look amazing or build a caberet.
Or the other option is to convert a Popeye cocktail and find a helifire control panel as it uses 8way and two buttons.
Anyway I am really excited about this as I never in my wildest dreams thought I would ever find one and now I have what looks like a Pcb that's never been used.
Keeping you posted
Alex
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https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1636060533274539&id=1439437389603522
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love your dedication! great find!
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very nice get Alex :spaceace:
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That's brilliant !!!
I actually remember Sky Skipper from the 2600 version BITD....I rented the game for a week :)
I never realized there was an arcade version until I started collecting...
Bring it to Eurocade and we'll pop it into my Radar Scope cabinet. ;);)
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Yay! Congrats! Like L42 says, bring it to Eurocade! :D
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That's brilliant !!!
I actually remember Sky Skipper from the 2600 version BITD....I rented the game for a week :)
I never realized there was an arcade version until I started collecting...
Bring it to Eurocade and we'll pop it into my Radar Scope cabinet. ;);)
Wow your taking radar scope that's awesome buddy
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Well its a RS cab but has Mario Bros. in it now.
One day it will be a DK though.....
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Great idea
You need an 8 way joystick though
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Yea it's a horizontal game with two buttons so not sure if that would work
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Long time since I worked on the joysticks on the Nintendo but isn't 8 way a matter of removing a restrictor ?
I am positive that I changed the left joystick to 4 way already (so I can play multiple Nintendo boards). The right one is still 2-way though....however......no way on earth I'm going to add a button.....
Damn.....wish I had kept the Metal Nintendo CP that Ully left behind a couple of Eurocades ago...we could have made a custom CP.....rats rats...
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Took a look at the flyer.....would it be workable to temporarily hack P2 button ?
(http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/flyers_video/nintendo/22000502.jpg)
(http://www.atarimania.com/2600/boxes/hi_res/sky_skipper_int_cart_2.jpg)
Man that cocktail looks like it had a 19" monitor crammed in there !
Just watched a video of the arcade version and wow, does this have Popeye style written all over it !
The arcade version never made it out of Japan, which makes it pretty weird that Parker Beothers did make a 2600 version for it...
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IIRC, the guys in the US who did the Parker Bros. conversion had access to a cocktail and hated the game so much they returned it to the distributor ASAP!
EDIT: found the interview - note the views of the programmer don't necessarily reflect mine ;) Looks like I misremembered the returning to distributor part!
"Steve Kranish: I can’t help you with any of these – except Sky Skipper. That was a truly insipid arcade game; in fact it was so bad that I was the only one in the office who was willing to play it (I am not a gamer, remember?) so I became the local expert and could answer questions for whoever got stuck writing the port. The Marketing Bozos had agreed to sell it in hopes that doing so would provide access to future games, which I don’t think ever happened.
The Sky Skipper that we had in the office was a table model, rather than an upright arcade game. The monitor was under a glass top. I think the idea was that one had to be drinking to be willing to pay money to play such a stupid game, and the table top provided someplace to put your drink while you played. This does not explain my willingness to play it; I do not drink."
Taken from: http://www.digitpress.com/library/interviews/interview_steve_kranish.html
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LOL !!!
Did anyone notice this....that stance and two fingers.......mmmmmm :)
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It's funny reading that Stev the game must have really flopped.
I actully quite like it and I am not just saying that because it's Nintendo because I don't like radar scope but I like this.
I like the way you can get more points for getting a flush of cards in order.Also the first 3 levels so far are quite different and the music sounds like donkey kong junior.
I am not far away from having a working version up and running now.
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When I look at the 2600 version now I think its looks mega - boring but my memory tells me I rather enjoyed it BITD....but then....you paid 10 guilders to rent it for a week, and apart from the few games we owned I had no choice but to play it. This way you sometimes learned to like/love games you might haven't tried a second time else.....this is so different from today's way of flipping through everything....a bit like putting on a vinyl album which kinda forces you to listen to all songs on at least that side of the record.....you discovered songs you might skip now because you don't like the very beginning.....
OK wandering off....
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When I look at the 2600 version now I think its looks mega - boring but my memory tells me I rather enjoyed it BITD....but then....you paid 10 guilders to rent it for a week, and apart from the few games we owned I had no choice but to play it. This way you sometimes learned to like/love games you might haven't tried a second time else.....this is so different from today's way of flipping through everything....a bit like putting on a vinyl album which kinda forces you to listen to all songs on at least that side of the record.....you discovered songs you might skip now because you don't like the very beginning.....
OK wandering off....
heh, I also rented it for a week back then... quite liked the game too :)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SKY-SKIPPER-for-ATARI-2600-Video-Game-System-FRESH-CASE-NOS-BRAND-NEW-/331616559309?hash=item4d35e320cd
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well, even if the game would suck, it would still be very coul to recreate one machine in some way
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Exactly !! And the arcade versions are almost always a LOT better......I hated Centipede on the 2600, love the arcade version.
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It's a great game
Totally over looked
Give it ago
I think I reviewed it on the ten pence arcade pod cast ages ago.
Anyway I will be making a upright cab for this so I need a Popeye cabinet and some art work made up if any one is interested ?
I wanted to use the flyer for the side art but I need someone who is good with computers to take the cocktail cab out of the picture and fill in the caps.
Anyone up for the challenge or know of anyone ?
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{\fonttbl\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Helvetica;}
{\colortbl;\red255\green255\blue255;\red51\green51\blue51;\red255\green255\blue255;\red243\green243\blue243;
}
\deftab720
\pard\pardeftab720\partightenfactor0
\f0\fs28 \cf2 \cb3 \expnd0\expndtw0\kerning0
\outl0\strokewidth0 \strokec2 \shad\shadx0\shady-20\shadr0\shado255 \shadc0 [img width="300" height="433" alt="Sky skipper flyer " title="flyer "]https://anoshare.com/img/xikuletediyehice.jpg[/img]}
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{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252
{\fonttbl\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Helvetica;}
{\colortbl;\red255\green255\blue255;\red51\green51\blue51;\red255\green255\blue255;\red243\green243\blue243;
}
\deftab720
\pard\pardeftab720\partightenfactor0
\f0\fs28 \cf2 \cb3 \expnd0\expndtw0\kerning0
\outl0\strokewidth0 \strokec2 \shad\shadx0\shady-20\shadr0\shado255 \shadc0 [img width="300" height="433" alt="Sky skipper flyer " title="flyer "]https://anoshare.com/img/xikuletediyehice.jpg[/img]}
and with some magic you will see this : ;D ;) ;D
(https://anoshare.com/img/xikuletediyehice.jpg)
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Below is the marquee if you don't already have that image (looks like the aspect ratio needs to be tweaked a little). I have a tiny color photo of a Sky Skipper upright from a Japanese trade magazine but will have to scrounge around on some hard drives to find it, but would be at least some sort of reference for the bezel/CP colors.
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Thanks Stev that would be fantastic if you could, I'll have to get a artist who can get rid of the water mark on the marque and re draw the bezel art so if you have any pictures please let me know
Thank you so much
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I like challenges ;)