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Arcade Lifestyle / Re: My grail....
« on: February 17, 2015, 06:21:42 PM »
I just talked to my friend who sold me Popeye and he think it was imported to Sweden by Bally Scandinavia. I will investigate further into it and he will help me. More questions thats popup in my head :) I wonder if they just built some prototypes. Was there a dispute with Nintendo before it came to production or no market in Europe. Maybe the exhibition in London 1982 didn´t go so well. Maybe i can mail Atari headquarter and demand  them to let me know :) Why did other games like millipede, Food Fight, Time Pilot and many other irish built game survived to present day.

Chuckie egg: Sounds interested, thanks.

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Arcade Lifestyle / Re: My grail....
« on: February 17, 2015, 04:13:15 PM »
Thanks for the welcome :) Will try to make a presentation in some other part of this forum regarding my other classic machines. And i´m going to serch the forum after your Irish Food Fight Alpha1 ;) My biggest question is how many did they made ( Irish Popeye) Will try to found that out first :) Looks like nobody on this forum or any other arcade related forum in the World have an answer for that.

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Arcade Lifestyle / Re: My grail....
« on: February 16, 2015, 11:46:43 PM »
Hi my name is Roger and i am the proud owner to the irish build Popeye. I know this is a rare piece :) I can tell you the story how i get on hold of it. I had collecting games for a while when i ask my friend "exhibitor" if he didn´t know of any Popeye sitting in storage, a couple of month later when i called him, he told me that he hade found a man that was sitting on a Popeye stored in a shed. We made a deal and i thought i bought a Nintendo Popeye :) I imagined it beside my DKJR and red DK :) I was suprised (little disappointed) the day i went to pick it up in september 2013. But after i searched the internet i realized this was an odd piece.I can tell you what´s inside, wells-gardner G07, orginal Nintendo Popeye pcb and as you already figured out an Atari ARII board/ Atari powersupply.In my collection i also have Millipede, Food Fight (same Irish cabinet) I have 40+ dedicated games. I´m not interested to scan the artwork as some of you wanted, i don´t want replicas to popup everyware ;). But i´m interested if someone has more information of this game, how many Atari Tippary factory produced. I seen a list of games produced at the factory but no information regarding Popeye. Where did they go ? I can´t imagine this is the last irish Popeye who has survived.

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