Lost Star Trek arcade game (The very first bootleg game)

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Lost Star Trek arcade game (The very first bootleg game) Nov 29, 2023 3:44:07 GMT pegasi_skies, awesomereesee, and 1 more like this

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Post by ChairmanNom on Nov 29, 2023 3:44:07 GMT

Back in 1972, a company known as For-Play (Same company who made Rally and Sports Center from 1973) made a clone of Computer Space and slapped the Star Trek title on it. There's ZERO information about it, no pictures either aside from one of the cabinet itself on a flyer scanned by a member of KLOV. Me and my friend have been looking for any information on this, all we've come up with is a guy on the Arcade Museum forums who supposedly came across a cabinet and passed up on buying it and that production could have stopped because of copyright infringement. If anyone knows anything; please get in contact!!

Here's the flyer:

And the guy who passed up on buying it:

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extremewreck2000 Super God A smart fellow gone insane, taking the ride as I do some cool stuff about lost media. Go figure. Posts: 2,303	Lost Star Trek arcade game (The very first bootleg game) Nov 29, 2023 22:37:27 GMT awesomereesee likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by extremewreck2000 on Nov 29, 2023 22:37:27 GMT Holy ballzy crap this sounds amazing. How come I've never heard of this before!?

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Lost Star Trek arcade game (The very first bootleg game) Dec 3, 2023 15:47:22 GMT awesomereesee, extremewreck2000, and 1 more like this

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Post by pegasi_skies on Dec 3, 2023 15:47:22 GMT

Nov 29, 2023 3:44:07 GMT ChairmanNom said:

Back in 1972, a company known as For-Play (Same company who made Rally and Sports Center from 1973) made a clone of Computer Space and slapped the Star Trek title on it. There's ZERO information about it, no pictures either aside from one of the cabinet itself on a flyer scanned by a member of KLOV. Me and my friend have been looking for any information on this, all we've come up with is a guy on the Arcade Museum forums who supposedly came across a cabinet and passed up on buying it and that production could have stopped because of copyright infringement. If anyone knows anything; please get in contact!!

Here's the flyer:
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And the guy who passed up on buying it:
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Quoting this thread to say that I am the aformentioned friend in this post! For years since 2019, I have been searching high and low for this particular arcade game as it was the first ever bootleg (as far as I know of!) in the arcade scene. Hopefully, it does get found at some point soon because this is a super interesting title with not a lot of background or knowledge on it's company OR it's gameplay, even if it is a carbon clone of Computer Space (1971).

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Lost Star Trek arcade game (The very first bootleg game)

Post by ChairmanNom on Nov 29, 2023 3:44:07 GMT

Post by extremewreck2000 on Nov 29, 2023 22:37:27 GMT

Post by pegasi_skies on Dec 3, 2023 15:47:22 GMT

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