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    Default Wierdest coincidence I've found in an arcade game.

    In conjunction with the x68K list, I've been trying to write down stuff (not exactly reviews, though I give my opinions on the quality as well) about every arcade game I can. Tonight I did Legend of Makai (/Makai Densetsu) and then decided to look at Master of Weapon, a Taito Xevious-alike from 1989.

    One thing you should know is that - for some reason - I also started listing every arcade game I could find that has the World Trade Center in it. Not because I like what happened or am fascinated by it, or because I think the Japanese are disrespectful of our big cities - I've just been interested to see what the answer is, nothing more. What's in this game as far as blowing up a tall building goes is really nothing special for a Xevious-type shooter, but here it is.



    That's nothing, though. After I restarted to see if I could get another glimpse at the drawing of said building (I later discovered that those buildings show up just a little while later, so this isn't a unique occurence in the game), the date from the story text jumped out at me:


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    Whoa.. Even though it's 199X, still, picking Sept. 11th out of a choice of 364 other dates is a pretty weird coincidence.

    Are you sure the ROM wasn;t hacked before hand?

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    Pretty freaky coincidence. Oh and I've been collecting video WTC images for a feature that I plan to post to my site, too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jasoco
    Are you sure the ROM wasn;t hacked before hand?
    Thought crossed my mind...I'm using an official port of MAME (MAME32) so unless the dev team was having some fun then...no.

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    What were the Middle Eastern sales figures on that game?



    (yeah, yeah, very funny )

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    ooh

    I dunno, I don't think they're very fond of games where you strafe everything on the ground with a gunship

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    freaky shit.

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    damn thats scary! im gonna check that rom out!

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