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DETAILED DESCRIPTION:
Last Odyssey Pinball Fantasia is an 82 meg action packed pinball simulation game
for the NEOGEO system. It contains 12 stages, each with its own set of objectives, mini
games, and end bossess. It holds the distinction of being the most unique & completely
different game among both the unreleased protos and arguably even among the released
games as well. It has been one of the most wanted & hunted of all the lost protos,
mostly because of it's variety genre. And despite the fact that the game's rom data
has been dumped THREE times by THREE different sources, it remains outside the public
realm.
The only other NEOGEO games manufactured by the licencee Monolith were two of the
Japanese Mahjong games, released in 1990 & 1991. This is significant because Monolith
never released another game for the NEOGEO, and the resurgence of video pinball
simulations occurred during the same earlier 1990's time period. Perhaps this had a
hand into why it was ultimately canceled. In the 1995 home market, a video pinball game
would have been out of place, and in the 1995 arcade environment, surrounded by real
pinball machines, it would have been completely passed by. It may therefore have been
intended to be exclusive to the NEO GEO CD system. Some strong evidence which supports
this theory can be seen on the games "how to play" screen, which actually displays
NEOGEO CD PADS rather then standard
MVS or HOME joystick controllers. No other NEOGEO game is known to have done this.
INFORMATION TIMELINE:
-- June 1995 -- NEOGEO FREAK publishes a 2 page article with dozens of screen shots.
-- June 1995 -- SNK places an advertisement in Game Machine which LISTS the game.
-- July 1995 -- CD Consoles #9 publishes a short article with screenshots of Last Odyssey.
-- October 2001 -- an internal SNK game staff VIDEO surfaces which shows the game.
-- January 2002 -- emulated screen shots are provided by Ukichi.
-- January 2005 -- emulated screen shots are provided by Xacrow.
-- August 2022 -- emulated screen shots are provided by Rou.
-- August 2022 -- the software product number is CONFIRMED to be NGM-072.
-- September 2022 -- complete playthrough emulated video confirms the game is 100% complete.
-- April 2024 -- programmer Yaiyaimaru finds a lost VHS video casette he saved of the game.
-- October 2024 -- a youtube live streamer "mutation92" shows off the video.
---------------------> (the VHS video is NOT emulated but free of any watermarks)
CURRENT STATUS: SAFEGUARDED
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