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Alexis B.
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Re: History.xml 2.31
05/04/21 09:22 AM


> I don’t think Cave Speeder was unreleased, it was just uncommon. It required the IDYA
> enclosed, two-player motion cabinet, and used LaserDisc video. The IDYA was big,
> heavy, expensive, used a lot of power, and had a bunch of mechanical components that
> needed maintenance and could fail; LaserDisc players in arcade machines were not
> exactly known for there reliability, either. This meant it was confined to theme
> parks and larger arcades. In Australia, both DreamWorld on the Gold Coast and Sega
> World in Darling Harbour had IDYA cabinets running Cave Speeder. It would have been
> hard for an unreleased game to show up in multiple locations outside Japan like that.

I just removed the Unreleased tag, thanks for the information.


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* History.xml 2.31 Alexis B. 04/28/21 10:22 PM
. * Re: History.xml 2.31 Vas Crabb  05/04/21 02:08 AM
. * Re: History.xml 2.31 URherenow  05/04/21 09:40 AM
. * Re: History.xml 2.31 Alexis B.  05/04/21 09:22 AM

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