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Mar 12, 2013 at 12:05:52 AM
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http://www.romhacking.net/transla... chester field eng hack


Edited: 03/12/2013 at 12:06 AM by Jordiway73

Mar 12, 2013 at 1:09:17 PM
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Doing some research I find it strange that matchbox spent so much money advertising all these games starting in 1989 only to release 1 game on the NES (1992). http://www.nintendoage.com/index.... Matchbox must have lost a lot of money in the video game buisness.

"Another newcomer to Nintendo is Matchbox Toys, the miniature car maker. Matchbox will be releasing five new titles for Nintendo in 1990. They are Tune-up Rallye, a one- or two-player racing game; Monster Truck Rodeo, a competition involving giant pickups; Urban Convoy, in which gamers play wildcat truckers; Web World, a space adventure with hand-to-hand combat against aliens; and Ring Raiders, in which the futuristic Ring Raiders Air Force battles Skull Squadron in a contest of world domination." - Game Players Magazine Aug/Sep 1989 (pg 30).

Have any of these been found and dumped yet?


Edited: 03/12/2013 at 01:10 PM by Jordiway73

Mar 12, 2013 at 1:24:14 PM
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None of the ones you mentioned have ever been found, no. In fact, I've never seen any believable screenshots for any of them, other than a title screen for Web World...I think they were either mockups, or still images on dev carts that just cycled through screens.

Matchbox Racing looks like it was done, however, though it hasn't been found. A prototype of Scarabeus (aka Pyramids of Ra) was dumped, and as you probably know, Matchbox's Noah's Ark eventually came out via Konami in PAL territories.

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Apr 15, 2013 at 9:25:47 AM
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Now that is some Kool ....