Restore Nintendo Film Reels

[SkylarTheNerd]

I commented on NA's most recent video

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Read the 2017 update; he found a guy with a player, but it turns out the reels he had were just screen calibration units

Hmm... Well I'll try to see if there are any other reels pertaining to it.

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Aren't those even rarer?

Logically they would be

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Aren't those even rarer?

Maybe, maybe not. Logic would say so, but since they don't have much value to collectors, I'd be willing to bet you'd be more likely to find a test unit by chance at an auction than the real thing

 

[SkylarTheNerd]

Here's a thread I made last year on MAMEWorld. gregf was part of it as well. I'm going to log back in - the first time in less than a year...

http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=367943&page=&view=&sb=5&o=&vc=1

 

[SkylarTheNerd]

Just contacted gregf again. Told him about Nintendo Arcade and asked if he's okay with me posting some of our discussions. He's good with this stuff, so his word is invaluable.

 

[SkylarTheNerd]

BIG NEWS! Or, maybe not news, but an update. I got a reply from Nintendo Arcade's latest video.
I asked:
"A question about the earlier Nintendo arcade games; have you considered scanning film reels of the few 16mm cabs? There's a community with a goal to preserve those games, and the film reels are quite scarce"

And he responded with:
"...battle shark has already been digitalised..."

So we can check that off the list.

 

[SkylarTheNerd]

...So we can check that off the list.

Speaking of which here is the list

• Laser Clay Shooting System - 1973 Needs various slides. Ported to a "mini" version for arcade use.
• EVR Race - 1975 Needs slide reels and cabinet
• Wild Gunman - 1976 Needs various slide reels
  
• Shooting Trainer - 1976 Needs various slide reels
  
• Sky Hawk - 1976 Needs various slide reels
  
• Battle Shark - 1977
  
• New Shooting Trainer - 1978 Needs various slides
• Test Driver - 1978 Needs various slides and possible cabinet?

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Laser Clay Shooting System - 1973 Ported to a toy version

Are you referring to Duck Hunt or is there another home projection game I'm unaware of?

 

[SkylarTheNerd]

Are you referring to Duck Hunt or is there another home projection game I'm unaware of?

Fixed. I was misinformed - unreliable source.

 

[SkylarTheNerd]

Are you referring to Duck Hunt or is there another home projection game I'm unaware of?

Basically, the "mini" version would theoretically be easier to come by, since it wasn't projected across a large space (the original Laser Clay Shooting System was projected on a wall at bowling alleys). Instead, the "mini" version is projected in a small arcade cabinet.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Basically, the "mini" version would theoretically be easier to come by, since it wasn't projected across a large space (the original Laser Clay Shooting System was projected on a wall at bowling alleys). Instead, the "mini" version is projected in a small arcade cabinet.

Oh, I get what you're talking about now. Yeah, I've heard of the Laser Clay Pigeon Mini cabinets, but haven't ever seen pictures of them so I guess I just assumed that it evolved into Wild Gunman or Shooting Trainer lol

 

[SkylarTheNerd]

Oh, I get what you're talking about now. Yeah, I've heard of the Laser Clay Pigeon Mini cabinets, but haven't ever seen pictures of them so I guess I just assumed that it evolved into Wild Gunman or Shooting Trainer lol

You aren't totally wrong. They definitely evolved into various other "light gun shooter" games, which then turned into more modern shooter arcade games in the 80s.

I'll be able to be more active and post a lot more information tonight in about seven hours

 

[SkylarTheNerd]

Still nothing from gregf, so that sucks, but he has been online. If I don't get a response from him soon, I'll just paraphrase what he said.

 

[SkylarTheNerd]

Scratch that, gregf comes through!

https://ibb.co/kt2JhS
https://ibb.co/cRHjNS
https://ibb.co/mpbdhS
https://ibb.co/e0QtGn
https://ibb.co/hNoDGn
https://ibb.co/fZY297

This is the best way I could share my screenshots with you guys, I'm sorry (pretend that Game Boy is my laptop)

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Scratch that, gregf comes through!

<a href="https://ibb.co/kt2JhS"><img src="https://thumb.ibb.co/kt2JhS/image.png" alt="image" border="0"></a> <a href="https://ibb.co/cRHjNS"><img src="https://thumb.ibb.co/cRHjNS/image.png" alt="image" border="0"></a> <a href="https://ibb.co/mpbdhS"><img src="https://thumb.ibb.co/mpbdhS/image.png" alt="image" border="0"></a> <a href="https://ibb.co/e0QtGn"><img src="https://thumb.ibb.co/e0QtGn/image.png" alt="image" border="0"></a> <a href="https://ibb.co/hNoDGn"><img src="https://thumb.ibb.co/hNoDGn/image.png" alt="image" border="0"></a> <a href="https://ibb.co/fZY297"><img src="https://thumb.ibb.co/fZY297/image.png" alt="image" border="0"></a>

You uh

Wanna give that another go?

 

[SkylarTheNerd]

You uh

Wanna give that another go?

I really didn't....

 

[SkylarTheNerd]

Big News! This thread is going to be linked in an article on a Video Game Preservation website! Larsenv linked me to a Discord server, and I told them about this project, and we now have some new members helping us out big time! Right now, we're trying to get raw scans from gregf.

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And here are some videos:


Wild Gunman




Battle Shark




Laser Clay Shooting System




EVR Race

(This is new!)


Can’t find anything for Shooting Trainer, New Shooting Trainer, or Test Driver

 

[SkylarTheNerd]

Apologies for not posting in a while. Here's the article that links to this thread, if anyone wants more information

https://www.preservegames.org/2018/04/help-wanted-preserving-nintendos-film.html?m=1

Also, over the summer I'll be blogging about this more on Blogger, along with other interesting Nintendo related posts