RE: interesting coincidence..

At 01:57 PM 8/19/97 CDT, gregg wrote:
>In message "RE: interesting coincidence..", you write:
>
>>G'day Al (and all),
>>
>>Very intriguing! For those of us who are interested in
>>Cinematronics/Vectorbeam history this is a major find. Of course, I'm
>>assuming that you've got manuals that are meant for distribution in the
>>USA (vs. internationally where Exidy did all manufacturing for
>>Cinematronics and probably Vectorbeam).
>
>I though it was well known that TailGunner II was licensed to Exidy.
>The deal was Cinematronics did the upright and some other company got
>the license to do the cocktails and sit-ins. In this case, Exidy got to
>do TailGunner and they decided to tack on the "II" to the name. In the
>case of cocktails, I belive Centur did them, right?

 I'll add a little fuel to the fire, the manufacturing tag on the back
of my Tailgunner 2 clearly shows the manufacturer as Vectorbeam. The
address and phone number is the same as on the manual cover. It's funny
that the attract mode screen shows TAIL GUNNER without the 2 (or II).

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Received on Tue Aug 19 15:28:34 1997