Found it! Data East Turtles
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Agreed! It’s pretty terrible from what I remember. Although I can’t talk, as I have a Street Fighter II (and I love it!)!
I did see one for sale on either Liberty Games or Leisure Direct for £2k, which is of course overpriced, but if needs must it’s not too ridiculous.
Good luck!
I just had a quick look and the one on Home Leisure Direct looks to be sold.
Liberty Games are selling one at nearly £4K, which is daylight robbery!
Hopefully something on here pops up, although I don’t remember seeing one for sale for a while.
Liberty Games are selling one at nearly £4K, which is daylight robbery!
Hopefully something on here pops up, although I don’t remember seeing one for sale for a while.
I had one of these as a project 10 years ago and I must say it was not the most exciting playing game i can remember, but each to their own, bad cats has pride of place in my family, which is also a marmite game! 
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I've always thought the 5 DE "small" DMD games would make a cool collection.
I always fancied a Data East Batman purely because the translite is so cool. Sure the game isn't the best but at the right price I may bite
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Indeed - this era of small dmd DE games make great 'beer games' .... a few buddies round, set brain to neutral, just enjoy playing pinball
Not every game should require you to have done an evening course on the rules before you can even begin ...
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Paul Farris classic. It's even cooler as it's a mirrored backglass
...as is Turtles, Checkpoint, BTTF and other DEs of the time
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Ahh course it is. Not sure I've even heard of Checkpoint
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At a fireside chat at expo it was revealed that data east and Williams were contemplating dot matrix at the same time but gary stern knew market leader Williams were lagging being in committing so when it came to designing check point they plumped for the smaller display as when bulk buying for mass production they were $5 cheaper each. Simpsons was meant to be first dot matrix game and some dm prototypes were made as we're some checkpoint with alpha numerics. It's well known T2 was meant to be Williams first dot matrix game but took longer to develop than gilligans island. I think that if star trek and batman had full size displays they would be much higher rated. The sound track on all the de games are exceptional . Love the custom speech on star trek . Not so keen on the naff transporter effect. Prefer it the next gen aa less stop start to play. As Sgt Grizz says they are simple press start have a blast games.
We have FULL POWER!
We have FULL POWER!
Checkpoint was the first DM game, not the best game really but quite a nice painted backglass with animation (a small rotating wheel) and for some reason Big Ben chimes from the bumpers in one mode!
Also a ramp shot that measured the shot speed - but of course Vector had done that years earlier!
I have a data easy turtles and rare the game well
Very much suited to any child of the 80s
It’s fun and fast
Very much suited to any child of the 80s
It’s fun and fast
Oops rate the game but yes it’s rare too
I’m pretty sure @PeteB is restoring a turtles at the moment, could be ‘the one’ as far as Turtles is concerned?
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Not my game to sell unfortunately, I'm restoring it for a client.
You didn't get the huge turtles characters on top of the machine in the photo Ed, you know the ones that fell on me at first sign of a nudge
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