Re: Atari Warp Speed ?

Scott,

Are you sure you did enough research on that? ;)

tm

Thomas43@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 6/4/02 12:04:12 PM, kinetic-arts@ntlworld.com writes:
>
> << > Missile Command II PCB with no ROMs.
>
> hehe. Yeh I was going to bid on that but it got a little to rich for my
> blood. Did anyone ever find the roms or get a good idea of what the game
> was like? Where did mc2 fit in to the timeline with liberator? Always
> thought that looked like a mc follow-up (sorry to go off vector).
> >>
>
> Missile Command 2 was tested in the very early 80's as a two player head to
> head cocktail style game (think two player football). It did not test well
> and was cancelled. One of my friends at Atari had uncovered one in the Atari
> warehouse in the early 90's. He cleaned it up and had it setup at Atari.
> One of the night manufacturing supervisors took it home one day and never
> returned it. I tracked the guy down to a prison cell in Nevada where he is
> serving a life sentence ( I don't know why). All of his stuff was sold at a
> storage facility auction in 93. That's where the trail ends. At this point,
> no other proto's of this game are known to exist. I'm still mining my Atari
> contacts, but this one seems to be elusive. There are two empty proto boards
> in the hands of a fellow collectors, but they may remain empty.....
>
> Scott
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