MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: Sirius and Moon Beam, lost games from Cidelsa

> > I will guess that if search can be extended to resources within both Portugal and
> > south France regions (if haven't done that yet), odds might improve of finding
> > articles or maybe a flyer print of the Cidelsa games. Have been fortunate that some
> > finds that were considered not possible years earlier did finally happen. One
> example
> > that comes to mind is Planet Probe because only a couple users remembered that game
> > from many years earlier and there were no articles of flyers advertising Planet
> > Probe.
> >
> > Good luck with search for the Cidelsa games.
>
> I did some poking around in our email archives but couldn't find any additional
> information about these game titles or any other Cidelsa games other than the ones
> supported by MAME.
>
> Google wasn't very helpful either.
>
> It's possible they were game names registered and trademarked by Cidelsa that were
> never actually produced.
>
A designer from EFO (who designed the games for Cidelsa-Playmatic) I contacted a few years ago told me that not all games they designed were finally launched, I asked him back then for titles but he didn't remember. He said they had machines in their office for testing but also they put the games in a bar near them for 'public testing', to see the reaction and acceptance (or not) of a game.

The registers we found were authorizations to a specific game machine could be commercialized and so installed at public places by operators, and it seems were a necessary requirement even if they wanted to test the game at a public location. So if possible games were developed but sadly even in this case, if they were cancelled it very possible the games were lost forever. However I'm continue to try to find any info about these games.
Greetings!

Edited by dave00 (04/25/17 03:19 AM)