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Williams Predators Prototype
#368334 - 07/28/17 09:29 PM
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the lost prototype game by Williams, Predators, has been recovered and will be playable at this years California Extreme
https://youtu.be/pJliQ2fsiUA
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Re: Williams Predators Prototype
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#368336 - 07/28/17 10:59 PM
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Re: Williams Predators Prototype
[Re: grog]
#368337 - 07/28/17 11:27 PM
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>the lost prototype game by Williams, Predators, has been recovered and will be playable at this years California Extreme
https://youtu.be/pJliQ2fsiUA
Congrats to that effort. When viewing the video, it is impressive that for being a Williams game (later hardware generation I presume), it makes more use of video hardware for some of the visual effects compared to other Williams games Stargate, Defender etc although Blaster video output does give Predators a run for its money. If I saw this and played it at an arcade, I'd probably try it a couple times because the Predators speech audio is distracting. It isn't as bad as Bosconian's speech output, but Bosconian makes up for it with better gameplay imo.
It appears the same person that started the web page long ago http://www.retrokade.com/cabs/predators.htm is likely the same with working video clip.
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http://unmamed.mameworld.info/non_other80.html#Predators
Predators (Williams [prototype], 84)
Info taken from Predators page
This game was made to link four cabinets together in what was called the "Quadraplay System". Each cabinet was named after a bird of prey -- Eagle, Hawk, Falcon, and Condor. Predators has been found in a cabinet similar to Williams' Blaster, and in a dual-screen Nintendo VS cabinet. The screen was color vector and had a vertical orientation. Apparently the game had "a space theme and your ship was just a circle with a turret on top" and you view a radar and use thrust, fire, and anti-matter pod (bomb) to seek out and destroy the other players. See the Predators page for more information and pictures of the cabinets.
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Re: Williams Predators Prototype
[Re: The Nate]
#368339 - 07/28/17 11:48 PM
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> Any chance of a dump?
I'm sure data will show up for emulation at some point - what is most important is that it is preserved and will be on display in the short term.
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Re: Williams Predators Prototype
[Re: Tafoid]
#368342 - 07/29/17 02:25 AM
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> > Any chance of a dump?
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> I'm sure data will show up for emulation at some point
Just like Marble Man, amirite? 
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Re: Williams Predators Prototype
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#368347 - 07/29/17 06:06 AM
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> the lost prototype game by Williams, Predators, has been recovered and will be
> playable at this years California Extreme
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> https://youtu.be/pJliQ2fsiUA
Nice. I watch the video. I think I would've like this game.
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Re: Williams Predators Prototype
[Re: Dullaron]
#368380 - 07/30/17 04:08 AM
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> > the lost prototype game by Williams, Predators, has been recovered and will be
> > playable at this years California Extreme
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> > https://youtu.be/pJliQ2fsiUA
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> Nice. I watch the video. I think I would've like this game.
Yes, looks like a really fun game. A little reminiscent of Time Pilot, and also reminds me of Strategy X (one of my favourite games).
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Re: Williams Predators Prototype
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#368394 - 07/30/17 11:36 AM
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> > > the lost prototype game by Williams, Predators, has been recovered and will be
> > > playable at this years California Extreme
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> > > https://youtu.be/pJliQ2fsiUA
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> > Nice. I watch the video. I think I would've like this game.
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> Yes, looks like a really fun game. A little reminiscent of Time Pilot, and also
> reminds me of Strategy X (one of my favourite games).
It's more of a drop-in-drop-out 2D arena game, focus is very much on player-vs-player. Very ahead of it's time really because this type of thing didn't start to become popular until much later, and even then mostly on home platforms.
For the same reasons you can see why it didn't do too well tho, to be fun you really 3-4 player, and the original cabinet would have required a massive amount of space, as a single player game there's not much to do. Framerate is a bit of an issue too, whole thing runs locked at 15fps, so while it has the looks of something like Sinistar I imagine players found it a bit frustrating to control.
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Re: Williams Predators Prototype
[Re: MooglyGuy]
#369573 - 09/10/17 12:44 PM
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Has Marble Man been dumped?
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Re: Williams Predators Prototype
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#369576 - 09/10/17 02:44 PM
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> Has Marble Man been dumped?
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> D
Yes. Long time ago...
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The people went for it. Here is the video. :D
[Re: grog]
#369577 - 09/10/17 02:59 PM
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https://youtu.be/QVLQ_GplPAA
Some reason the embed is disabled.
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Re: Williams Predators Prototype
[Re: CTOJAH]
#369580 - 09/10/17 05:25 PM
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Marble Man? No it hasn't!
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Re: Williams Predators Prototype
[Re: Envisaged0ne]
#369586 - 09/10/17 10:09 PM
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Dumped technically means just dumped, and doesn't include the words "and shared". It was dumped by the owner safestuff 15+ years ago. You could tell originally by the emulation snap shots he posted on his website, they were clearly taken from an emulator.
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