Arcade Artwork
Image of the frog from “The Glob” artwork
As I had written already, I finished The Glob enemy – Frog last weekend, but I wanted to post a progress pic here.
This Old Game has started Agent X artwork kit
After a month of not hearing anything on how this project was going for Rick, over the past week Rich at This Old Game posted on both KLOV and BYOAC with an announcement about producing an Agent X kit.
Here is Rich’s post along with the included image;
ThisOldGame.com is pleased to announce are Biggest and rarest project.A Full art package for Atari’s Agent X and Cloak & Dagger!
Special thanks to *removed* @ KLOV for bring this to light and to Scott Evans for providing the orginal Atari Art films for the screenprinting. Only 25 original dedicated cabinets were mfg by Atari with the rest being conversions.
I will also be posting up cnc router files and cab plans for this orginal cabinet. There will also be art ran designed by Atari but never released – the agent X marquee and an alt speaker overlay, that was most likly changed for the Cloak & Dagger release. I will be posting the entire production run with pics of the orginal art, pantone color matching, and the screenprinting process.
Anyone interrested in this art package should PM *removed* on KLOV for more info as this is a private, onetime limited run.
The colors are off from my kickplate from the original films, but they said they were going to take care of the color matching process and I didn’t have to worry about it.
Watching the threads is pretty exciting, Rich is going to keep an online blog of progress. There is going to be a ton in this kit, and I am sure that everyone is really excited. I was happy to be a part of the Agent X project, and excited that it will actually be produced. I got an acknowledgement from Rich, so that was great too.
It took a lot of time to do the kickplate, and I am glad he has the art for everything else. It was worthwhile this time around.
The Glob custom kickplate
Rick asked me to give him a ring last night, and this is what we talked about. He said he has a set of sideart that he will take photos of, and was hoping that I could take the characters from “The Glob” and put together a custom kickplate. I told him that shouldn’t be a problem, send the photos my way.
I had never heard of the game, so I took a look at some photos. I would like to try playing it, the artwork is kind of strange looking though. Not sure if I would classify it as appealing.
Thinking more about artist for Jr. Pac-man machine
I have made a reminder on my calendar to research into the Jr. Pac-man arcade game artist eventually, but right now I have so many arcade related projects to do that I keep waiting to do the research.
But yesterday I found the artist for the Baby Pac-man machine by Bally. Now, the Bally/Midway pinball division was probably totally separate from the video division, but they may have still had some cross over and members of the arcade game art direction units may have known each other. I may try to research the artist’s name some and see if they can help point me in the direction of eventually finding the Jr. Pac-man artist.
Final cherries for rare white Mr. Do! bezel
I got the photos for the final Mr. Do! bezel cherries late last week, and I traced the artwork in Illustrator tonight and added them into the original bezel. I am really pumped that I am finally finished with the Mr. Do! bezel and can focus on finding other examples of this machine.
Thanks to Bruce for the final photos of his prized rare white Mr. Do!.
Updates on Mr. Do! leads
I finally heard back from Mark Deroller, and after a lot of searching through years of past emails, he can’t find contact information for the people that bought his Mr. Do! over five years ago. So as of right now, I consider that white Mr. Do! lead dead. I am back to looking through links of arcade collectors sites, hoping to find a collector who has a website with photos of this Mr. Do! that hasn’t made a predominant profile on one of the major coin-op collecting databasing sites.
As for the white Mr. Do! that Rob Carroll auctioned on ebay, the buyer finally came and picked it up. His name is Bruce Kubu, and I have gotten his contact information from Rob. Bruce and I have been in touch, and after a couple of follow ups, he sent me some photos of the remaining Mr. Do! cherries at the top of the curve of the bezel, the last piece I was missing. I hope to trace that before the week is up, and finally finish the white Mr. Do! bezel nearly 5 months after I started piecing it together.
So what is next in finding out more about the rare white Mr. Do! with sideart? I am not sure. Wait for an ebay auction of the machine to pop up? Check with Walt Glassett again to see if he has any leads? Call Universal Games directly to see if I can track down exactly what Gleeb was? I don’t know. I will cross that bridge when I get to it, and I get the motivation.
