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The engineering drawing pictured here indicates it was drawn by C. Fernandez and the Engineer was Gary Slater. It's possible C. Fernandez was Claude Fernandez, who was a designer for Williams and Bally starting in 1980. The playfield layout of this game is nearly identical to Atari's Space Rider, which Gary Slater designed. From Dan Kramer:
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"I got this backglass from another former Atari employee in the late 1980s. Actually, I was told that a pilot build of 50 units was planned and parts were allocated. I tracked down a [different] guy around the late 1980s who had saved for ten years everything to build one, except a backglass and cabinet. A month before I ran across him, he got tired of hanging onto the stuff and took it to the dump. He gave me a single drop target with the imprint of a naked foot ("Hang Five"), which I still have." |
