Unknown Zacc found:Guttang Gottong

[Belike]

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine sent me some pics from a badly damaged Pole Position cockpit and I spotted a Zacc in the background.
It was a generic Starsplash full upright, but the marquee was really interesting.
I asked them to bring it to Budapest, so no roadtrip this time.
The marquee is badly damaged, but it is original silkscreened.
It was originally a Guttang Gottong aka. Loco-motion, the artwork on the marquee is a train mixed with the Starsplash theme.



There is a second plexi strip under the bended marquee, never saw like this before





Cp is a genereic Starsplash with an extra button

Bezel missing, cardboard is in 1/10 condition

Inside



Found some broken Starsplash bezel glasses


There is a metal coin box installed and they also cut out the bottom wooden panel of the cab, have no idea why



Power plug was cut

Installed a new one, checked the voltages and fired it up with a soccer pcb

Seems like the monitor is ok


Meanwhile, I found a guy on KLOV in Japan who has the only known Konami Guttang Gottong pcb and he was so kind and sold it to me






This guy have a lot of classic pcbs for sale, shipping about 25-30 from Japan (trackable 4-5 days), if anybody interested, I open a new topic with the list.
Resto coming soon.

[Digimon]

Great!

another Zacc in your collection.

[level42]

Holy darn it's these ultra-rare cherries that keep this hobby so much fun ! too bad the marquee is damaged like that but on the other hand it might be the only one left......and then finding and actually getting your hands on the only known PCB.......that just rocks my friend !!! I am positive it is good karma for spotting rare things in the background (like my Namco Galaxian:D )

Yes we want to see that list of that seller.....maybe he has some Namco P1 and P2 buttons too

Another thing: I always love to see local papers as packing material really gives you a feeling of where it came from

Congrats on finding this, you deserve it !!

[Superully]

great catch, bela, congrats!!! although it's still a(n) (ugly) zacc, stories like that are what make our hobby so damn interesting: the thrill of the hunt! i didn't know the game before, but i checked out some videos on youtube and this looks like a fun game.

any plans about the marquee? it's a shame that it was damaged and those curved plexis are really hard to scan for reproduction purposes! is there a flyer out there which might help you?

[vernimark]

  

Neverending zaccarias...

[Belike]

Thanks guys, it was a nice hunting.
Theoretically, the marquee could be reproduced, thre are only 4 known letters and some Starslpash artwork missing, but it would be a pain in the ass.
I think I will leave it like that and put a Stasplash artwork behind the plexi to cover the missing part.
This game was absolutely unknown until now, even the Zaccaria Pope in the States never heard of it.
There is a flyer from the Centuri Loco-Motion version, but no cabinet pic from Guttang Gottong.

[ckong]

Nice catch Bela,  I never heard of the game (nor Loco motion),  is it fun to play?

[Etienne MacGyver]

Never heard of that, but for finding one and a pcb you deserve a few space aces  

[PaulSwan]

Nice find! Can you make out from the glass pieces what bezel it should have had? Looks like some form of a star one, though one of the pieces looks odd. One of the generic star ones would fit it fine.

Yeah, that marque is going to be a pain to reproduce :|

Paul.

[Belike]

Nice catch Bela,  I never heard of the game (nor Loco motion),  is it fun to play?

The gameplay is quite different from any other, but I like it, you have to think a bit more before you move the joystick.
Hope there will be a place for everybody to try it out.

[Belike]

Nice find! Can you make out from the glass pieces what bezel it should have had? Looks like some form of a star one, though one of the pieces looks odd. One of the generic star ones would fit it fine.

Yeah, that marque is going to be a pain to reproduce :|

Paul.

Will make the puzzle tomorrow.

[Thwocker]

damn, I think there was a Guttang Gottong in the collection of the Toy Museum from Mechelen that I bought years ago... either the marquee of a complete games... I hated the looks of the game (and other Zaccaria's) and probably sold it for € 25 or so....

[Belike]

damn, I think there was a Guttang Gottong in the collection of the Toy Museum from Mechelen that I bought years ago... either the marquee of a complete games... I hated the looks of the game (and other Zaccaria's) and probably sold it for € 25 or so....

Let's look on the bright side of the story, this means that at least 1 more cab exists, maybe it will pop up one day.
Can you check if you have  a pic from those days?

[Thwocker]

yeah, I've been going through files, but no luck yet. I guess those pics are archived, somewhere....

[level42]

Let me add a little more spice to this story.

The former collection that Thwocker bought (well part of it) does indeed mention a Guttang Gottang.....but not by Zaccaria but by.......Olympia.licensed from Konami !

So this even gets more interesting.....did Konami really license it to TWO European companies (I believe Olympia was Italian too ?) It doesn't really make sense....so who was the bootlegger this time ?!

You can see a part of the collection here still, (see that yellow Computer Space, that's Thwocker's and the one featured at RGE/Eurocade 2013):
https://perswww.kuleuven.be/~u0008708/museum.htm

I have also seen a good number of those machines at Thwocker's (including Berzerk,Kickman, first time I ever saw those, and Sente's Snake Pit !!!)