Sep 11, 2011

FUTURE FLASH ARCADE POSTER

Back in the day (either 1980 or 1981) an arcade game called Future Flash came to arcades. The game is a space themed shooting game with arctic backgrounds. Here's a Future Flash poster that's about 1 foot 8 inches by 2 feet 4.5 inches (.508 meters by .7239 meters). After it I'll show you a bunch of good close-ups, so don't bother straining your eyes looking at this little image.

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The arcade game was published and manufactured by Hoei. Towards the bottom of the poster is the phrase "MODERN CONCEPTS IN THE AMUSEMENT INDUSTRY", then a logo depicting a set of wings, and then the words "HOEI international inc, HOEI manufacturing corp.".

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There are a whole mess of Star Wars knockoffs here, so let's get started. First off are the AT-ATs, which were the first Star Wars related things I noticed when I found this poster at a flea market.

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The second thing I saw was a probe droid, or "probot".

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This next one is probably my favorite element from the art. There's a building that looks like a 2-1B surgical droid's head!

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When I saw that, I knew I had to buy the poster! Also, to the right of 2-1B is a structure that kinda resembles IG-88, that cool, skinny droid seen with the bounty hunters in the Empire Strikes Back.

Behind the giant ape-man head is Cloud City, home to a good group of Ugnaughts.

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There's a snowspeeder with a pair of AT-AT legs stomping it (like Luke and Dack's snowspeeder). Oh, and a bunch of ape-men are attacking it.

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Within the snowspeeder debris is a chunk of something that looks like the upper half of a domeless R2-D2.

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The last Star Wars sighting here is the eerie image of Darth Vader's helmet in the starry sky.

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At the bottom right of the poster it states, "PRINTED IN JAPAN".

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Click here to check out The Arcade Flyer Archive to see a flyer for Future Flash. It's very similar to my poster, but it features photos of the game cabinets.

Now for story time! The gentleman I got this from said the poster was hanging up in his dad's gaming store roughly fifteen to twenty years ago. He noted that he thought the ape-man looked kinda like "Chew-wobba".

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