Re: So I was talking to a co-worker today...

"<< ...who worked for Bally around 1982. He worked on two VECTOR games that
 Bally never released. One was called Firefly and they had 8 prototype
 units on display in the Chicago area. He can't remember the name of the
 other game (he's going to try and find some notes at home) but he said they
 only made 2 of the second game and it never made it out of development.
"

EARTH FRIEND MISSION

here is what I have on it.

Subject: Re: Favorite Obscure Arcade Game?
From: haagen*@teleport.com (T. Haagen)
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 16:53:28 -0700
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>> Earth-Friend, a color vector flight sim from bally/midway, circa
>> 1982/1983
>
>That IS obscure. No one has ever menitoned it on the vector game
>mailing list. Do you have any more information on this, or any
>other Bally vector game (the only known one was Omega Race)
>
>I've also cross-posted this to RGVAC, since there has never been
>a discussion of this game there, either.
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Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 17:15:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: aek@spies.com (Al Kossow)
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Subject: Midway "EARTH FRIEND MISSION"
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There was a mention of "Earth-Friend" as a possible other Midway vector
game. I received a reply to my posting from someone who has the storyboard
artwork for it. The actual name of the game is "EARTH FRIEND MISSION"

"According to the artist, EARTH, FRIEND, MISSION was only "sampled" --
meaning that between 10 and 12 were produced. From the drawings I have, the
game used either a color X-Y monitor or a color overlay; in either event, by
the time EARTH, FRIEND, MISSION would have been released, the entire industry
had changed to color raster games, so I suspect that Midway didn't want to
produce a game that would appear "dated" as soon as it was released."

note: "From the drawings I have" refers to the collector where this information
came from who has the original storyboards for the game.
Received on Fri Nov 20 00:25:09 1998