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I've set up comms on Ko-Fi, which you can find right here: ko-fi.com/pulstar/commissions

They're all set up as starting options, and you can add different elements on to them to make it what you want!!

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And Liv from BARKS_Dog_Rescue

Developer: VEB Polytechnik

Publisher: VEB Polytechnik

Hardware: U880

Dump Status: Dumped

Poly-Play is a multigame arcade machine developed in East Germany. It is the only arcade cab to be produced in the GDR. Only around 2,000 machines were actually produced.

The machine's coin slot, while designed for a 50 Pfennig coin, was able to be tricked easily by pressing a coin on the top of the slot. However, this exploit was tolerated as the machine wasn't entirely meant to make money, as it was a state-owned machine found in hostels and non-profit clubs.

The machine contained 8 games, many are clones of pre-existing games.

1. Hirschjagd (Deer Hunt) - Plays similarly to Robotron: 2084. You have 10 shots, and must shoot the deer that moves and loops around the screen. All shots that hit the deer won't lose ammo, and you have 15 seconds to shoot the deer or you'll lose another shot.

2. Hase und Wolf (Hare and Wolf) - Pac-Man clone that's based on the Soviet cartoon Nu, pogodi!, which was popular in the GDR.

3. Abfahrtslauf (Downhill) - Skiing game where you have to ski between flags. The space between the flags often varies.

4. Schmetterlinge (Butterflies) - Game where you have to catch butterflies with a net while scattered flowers block your way.

5. Schießbude (Shooting Gallery) - Carnival clone. Each of the 3 rows have a multiplier that can be increased if the multiplier fields at the top are shot at. If you're not careful, the duck enemies can steal your ammo!

6. Autorennen (Motor Race) - Simple racing game where your red car must win 2 of 4 rounds.

7. Merkspiel (Memory Game) - Game where several icons are shown to you, then are turned into ?'s. You have to select the icons that were shown from left to right.

8. Wasserrohrbruch (Water Pipe Burst) - Game where you prevent a room from flooding by catching waterdrops in a bucket. The bucket can be emptied out in windows.

Some specific machines (MAME romset polyplay2) have 10 games total, including exclusive games such as:

- UFO - Another shooting game where you shoot at several UFOs.

- Der Taucher (The Diver) - Game where you dodge fish.

- Der Gärtner (The Gardener) - Game where you have to keep watering flowers while spiders try to destroy them.

- Im Irrgarten (In the Maze) - Maze game with fullscreen 1st person psuedo-3D visuals.

- AFU - You control a spaceship flying through an asteroid belt. You survive by shooting the asteroids, but you only have so much energy to move vertically.

- Der Lindwurm (The Lindworm) - You play as a worm that has to sneak up on oncoming birds from behind to knock them down. Getting hit anywhere else will end up with the bird eating the worm.

The names of other games have been found in the source code:

- Im Gewächshaus (In the Greenhouse)

- Hagelnde Wolken (Hailing Clouds)

Multiple copies of the game can be found in various museums and other locations, such as the Computerspielemuseum in Berlin, RetroGames e.V. in Germany, and has been exhibited at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, and the Science Museum in London.

Developer: Mizi Production

Publisher: EM-Teck

Hardware: Unknown PC-based hardware

Dump Status: Dumped

Bug Busters is a lightgun railshooter themed around bug extermination. The main gimmick to this game is that, instead of a gun, you now use an optical aerosol can controller! It actually shoots air, and you even have to shake the can in order to reload!

The game's plot is relatively simple: there's an evil scientist named Zizerbung who wants to contaminate the world completely with bugs, while Dajaba and Gadoori have to stop him.

Each stage has the simple format of shoot several waves of enemies, and fight a boss at the end. All of the visuals for each stage are done with sprites overlayed on top of FMVs.

This game is also unusually long for a non-endless arcade game, as most playthroughs end up being around an hour or more!

Many audio assets are stolen from other game series, such as Vampire Killer from Castlevania being used for the game's intro animation.

Interestingly, the game was later reworked in 2004 under Andamiro as Spray Gun. This version of the game has a very different cabinet design with a lower screen, most likely intended for children. The FMVs were also completely re-rendered with different character designs. This version of the game also turned it into a ticket redemption game.

Developer: Konami

Publisher: Konami

Hardware: Konami System 573 Digital

Dump Status: Dumped

MAMBO A GO GO is a one-off arcade rhythm game by Konami, as part of their BEMANI rhythm game franchise. This game is pretty notable for its visual style, as well as TOMOSUKE (of Orange Lounge fame) being the sound director.

Similarly to many BEMANI series being played with some sort of instrument, MAMBO A GO GO utilizes 3 conga drums. Each has a large main area, as well as two smaller areas that can be hit. The main part is used as a button across all difficulties, while as you go up difficulties, the smaller sections will be used as well.

When the game starts, you're given a menu to select a difficulty. This changes the amount of note lanes that will be in play (Easy only uses the main 'button' for each drum, Normal uses all 3 but only for the left drum, and Hard uses all 3 for each drum, making for 9 'buttons'.)

After this, the game proceeds as any typical arcade rhythm game, where you have a song select, you play a song, and you move on to the next one out of 3. However, something interesting this game does is that it has a system to access a hidden song.

To get to the hidden song, you have to collect 5 Lucky Coins. The game always displays the amount of Lucky Coins collected, even during the attract mode when no one is playing. If you finish a song with enough HOT or DELICIOUS judgements, a song on the next song select will have a Lucky Coin icon on its jacket. Play it, and a specific note will give you a Lucky Coin when hit. The amount of Lucky Coins collected isn't reset between sessions, and it's impossible to collect enough on a single play, as you can only play 3 songs per play. Once 5 Lucky Coins have been collected, you'll be able to play the Extra Stage after the main 3 songs finish. This song only has 1 difficulty (utilizing all 9 'buttons', though you can't fail out mid-song), and it replaces the song select with a character select. Depending on the character you select, a different background animation will play out.

This extra song, "One Minutes Kitchen Battle!" is the game's main theme, which can also be heard on the attract mode's title FMV. This song was later extended and arranged into "100sec. Kitchen Battle!!", which was used in many of Konami's more popular BEMANI series. Another Orange Lounge song, "La brise d'été" originates from this game as well.

This game, similarly to other BEMANI games at the time, also has several things accessed by hitting the drums to form a certain code.

On the difficulty select, you can hover over the Hard difficulty and mash the right drum a bit to switch it into Very Hard, which contains an exclusive song named "Krank heit" that's only found in this mode, and has never been seen in any other BEMANI game.

A bunch of other codes can be entered on the song select to activate different modifiers, such as Left-Center-Right-Left-Center-Right activating random notes.

The game was planned to be localized outside of Japan with the name of Mambo King, but this never came to fruition.

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Credits under the cut!

Developer: Minato Giken

Publisher: Sega

Hardware: Sega System C2

Dump Status: Dumped

Zunzunkyou no Yabou (ずんずん教の野望) is a shoot em' up where you play as a Jizo statue trying to stop a secret society known as Zunzunkyou, who is trying to take over the world through dancing. This is shown ingame as nearly every enemy you encounter is doing some sort of dance, and even the shadow figures on the title screen are dancing!

The game was made in response to the then-recent sarin attacks from the Aum Shinrikyo cult. Minato Giken was only able to release the game if they made it clear that Sega didn't make the game, and this was only after a lot of controversy over if the game should even be released! They also had to add a disclaimer in the game's attract mode that the game isn't related to any religion.

The game involves going to several parts of the world to stop Zunzunkyou. It starts with a menu to select from 4 branches: Japan, Asia, Europe, and America. Each branch has 3 stages and a boss stage. Every stage has their own set of enemies, and you're locked in an arena to shoot them all down.

Enemies for each stage are very bizarre, as they can be something as mundane as a bunch of businessmen, to things like clowns and pandas, while all of them are dancing! The bosses are as equally bizarre, as the boss of the Asia branch is a chef in a ramen bowl, and the America branch boss is a Captain America lookalike who can shoot letter projectiles that spell out JUSTICE.

After the main 4 branches have been cleared, you move on to the final branch. This last area includes pink doll-like enemies and enemies that look like the Jizo statue you play as, followed up with the final boss, which is Earth with an eye, arms, and legs. Beating this boss won't show the ending, however, as the game will go through another loop where you have to play through all 5 branches again with a much higher difficulty before you can actually see the ending.

Developer: Namco

Publisher: Namco

Hardware: Namco System 10

Dump Status: Undumped

Honne Hakken-Ki (ホンネ発見キ) is a lie detection game where one player will ask a question to the other, while the game will determine if they're lying or not!

The game uses technology called Truster, which can analyze the user's psychological state with only just their voice! This technology was used in many places, such as insurance companies, financial institutions, and psychiatric medical fields!

The game has two modes, Basic Style and Freestyle. In Basic Style, the game will ask the two players about their gender and relationship between them, and from the answers given it'll provide some of the best-fit survey themes for the players. The players then choose from the themes given, then the game will move on to the main part with 7 questions. In Freestyle, you can ask as many questions as you want with an overall time limit, which can be increased if more credits are inserted.

For each response to each question, the game will analyze the player's response and will determine it to fall under 1 out of 10 types of psychological states. After the game has finished, the game will print out the results on a research report. This includes data such as the reliability of the results, advice to the questioner, an overall evaluation, psychological graphs, and comments for each question!

Not only can you just play with another person on the cabinet itself, but you can also choose to play solo and call a phone number to play with someone else over the phone!