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Romox titles
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:17 pm
by deathtrappomegranate
There is some evidence that the games Flapper and Jabberwock might have been released commercially by Romox, although they are currently regarded as vaporware.
Has anyone seen either?
I don't mean as an ECPC cart - I'm thinking of a commercially released title.
Any info would be great!
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 12:25 am
by Atari Frog
I'm almost sure
Flapper exists as a normal cartridge... There are a handful of Romox games that were probably finished but never marketed. Do you have some leads?
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 12:30 am
by deathtrappomegranate
Atari Frog wrote:There are a handful of Romox games that were probably finished but never marketed.
Exactly. These are the two that I think are most likely to be in circulation.
Anyone?
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 5:26 pm
by Callipygous
Finally removed Flapper from my main list to ECPC only. Twenty years is long enough wait and none has shown up. No box I could understand but surely a loose cart would have surfaced by now. Agree that they probably had all the art work ready to go on some of these. Maybe a few prototype boxes and carts were made.
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 6:11 pm
by Atari Frog
I really thought
Flapper existed as a classic release but you're probably right...
What about the lost 20th Century Fox games? We know
Porky's and
M*A*S*H surfaced but where are
Crash Dive,
Ripper and
Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes?
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Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 7:57 pm
by Callipygous
Actually, I have a dealer price list for Romox. Flapper is not on the list which is probably the real reason why I removed it.
I don't suppose anyone here would be interested in the scan of the list.
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 9:48 pm
by deathtrappomegranate
Callipygous wrote:I don't suppose anyone here would be interested in the scan of the list.
I think that some people here might be
very interested.
Actually, the reason that I mentioned
Jabberwock is that it does appear on a price list, as being ready to ship.
However, it's certainly a long shot, hoping to find previously undiscovered Romox games. But we want to catalog as near as possible to everything, so "long shots 'R' us".
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 4:00 pm
by Callipygous
Re-reading my post, I didn't mean to imply that I have the original doc, only a scan which is a little fuzzy, but readable. Sent scan to Deathtrap.
Jabberwocky is indeed listed as "in-stock". Flapper is not mentioned at all.
Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 12:09 am
by deathtrappomegranate
Thanks for the scan!
It looks very much like the one I remember seeing. Should have it posted this weekend, although there's a lot going on right now.