MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Volly Flip Out etc.

>That is exactly the same picture i modified to show all 6 lamps.

With Clean Sweep bezel accounted for, we're good here. The Volly Flip Out bezel would be a real additional welcome imo.

After looking at photos, Flip Out does not use a blue, acetate overlay sheet like Clean Sweep does?

Maybe it could have in the past, but only being a long time southern Californian, I have never seen these cabs way back in mid 1970s when they out there. I only saw and played Clean Sweep and that is it.

Clean Sweep bezel has overlay piece taped to inside of the bezel piece. If Flip Out bezel or monitor doesn't have any old tape remnants, then I guess Flip Out didn't use any color overlay piece when it was first marketed.

>Yes, they are exactly the same. I even made a web page about Volly Industries and it's
>affiliation with Ramtek: http://www.ccjvq.com/slydc/topic/volly/volly.htm

Good page there. I happen to have purchased Volly Countdown schematics a few years ago.
It actually shows Ramtek and then instead of Wipe Out, it reads Countdown instead.

I also have Midway Leader paperwork, and one of the schematics has Ramtek Leader on the logic schematic instead of Wipe Out. And for Midway I also have the large D size foldout blue print sheets that show Leader.

Last year, I sent photocopies of paperwork to both DICE devs (Adam B. and Rich R.) so they could see for themselves when they were emulating Wipe Out for DICE.

There are loads of stuff that need to be documented in proper order so exact history is documented would be ideal. Keith Smith has already done an outstanding job on his side. He provided some hard to find flyer scans for Dan H. (TAFA) over the years.

>I will take pictures of his cab next time i'll be at his house. The picture is not
>photoshop, just modified with Paint Shop Pro 3.11 (yeah...i'm still using this old
>paint software since i know it like the back of my hand). When i took notes, we didn't
>had a camera at hand (or cellphones) to take pictures, but here are 3 pictures that the
>seller put on Ebay last year:

Those are good photos that the seller posted last year.

>This is the same cab we picked up in Ontario last year (a good 3 hours drive) but was
>worth it saving this rare game!

Good work doing that. I need to ask more questions later regarding the Flip Out cab.

>Oh and i almost forgot...they are two other clones of Ramtek Clean Sweep: Universal Star
>Rub and Sega Erase.
>Only data i have on Star Rub is the flyer from TAFA (which can see the exact game on
>screen BUT vertically) and as for Sega Erase, only a very brief description on a
>Japanese site telling it was a rub-off Paddle game (which i DO assume it is a clone of
>Ramtek Clean Sweep since it came before Atari Breakout, and makes sense, but still only
>assuming).

The game play could be the same, but the hardware might be different such as using a cpu instead of being non-cpu.

I don't remember the exact game, but there is one example where I believe a non-cpu videogame was on the market and a different company marketed the same game maybe the following year, but made use of a cpu.