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This one, while clearly influenced by SegaвЂ™s Star Jacker is an original production. (Nobody even remembered Desert Dan until a PCB turned up)ДЇast forward another year to 1983 and you have Stunt Air, another all but forgotten classic era game from Italy. Very little is known about the history of this game, until it was discovered it was completely unknown. Jumping to 1982 a game called вЂDesert DanвЂ™ was released, this runs on the same hardware as вЂThe PitвЂ™ but comes from the previously unknown вЂVideo OpticsвЂ™. (Sea Battle challenges you to shoot as many targets as you can within the allotted time, it is one of the earlier original Zaccaraia titles) This fits neatly with the two games previously mentioned hailing from a similar era. (Long Beach is another very rare Italian game)Д®ven better known Italian manufacturers had rare games too, another one that surfaced this year was вЂSea BattleвЂ™ by Zaccaraia. (Attack Force is a very rare game with unique gameplay, it was developed in Italy) These games both help to show that the prevalence of arcades in Italy even in the early days was significant enough that local developers thought it a worthwhile investment to create their own CPU based games to compete in the marketplace. Italy, as is so often the case, proved to be the source of two of the most significant finds made this year in вЂAttack ForceвЂ™ and вЂLong BeachвЂ™ Both of these games are Italian products, and it is likely neither saw high levels of distribution either within Italy, or as exports to other regions. Old and rare is a combination that often sends PCB prices through the roof, especially for Japanese PCBs, but outside of Japan that isnвЂ™t always the case, PCBs often end up being found, dumped and repaired by enthusiastic collectors who are more than happy to help MAME. I feel this approach also gives the best chance of being able to highlight areas I havenвЂ™t been involved in.ДЄnyway thatвЂ™s enough introduction, to start this write-up IвЂ™m going to look first at a couple of the things that will likely be of most interest to the people reading this, a selection of the new additions from the year, things that were previously not even known about, or had not yet been emulated.

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If you prefer to think of it as вЂA Year in UMEвЂ™ then feel free to do so. Like last year IвЂ™m covering the MAME project as a whole with this article, that includes all the work done on home systems that we currently release as MESS but in reality is still part of the same overall project. While this article doesnвЂ™t exist to mention names, but instead focus on the actual changes made this is something I will be keeping in mind while writing it, and something I will revisit in the conclusion. When I asked for comments to help build this article it was suggested that 2013 was вЂYear of HazeвЂ™ and if anything IвЂ™d like to disprove that with the actual article here there has been plenty done outside of my realm of work, and plenty I have done simply wouldnвЂ™t have been possible without work (past or present) from others.

ThatвЂ™s not to say there hasnвЂ™t been groundbreaking work done this year, plenty comes to mind immediately so trying to make such a claim would be a lie the people who have been involved have contributed a tremendous amount to the project and when the aforementioned developers have found time to make contributions they have been as significant as ever.

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You only have to look at the lower levels of activity from some of the key driver developers like Luca Elia, Phil Bennett, Ville Linde, and Roberto Fresca to get an idea of why I feel there is going to be less to write about this year. I think itвЂ™s fair to say even before embarking on this article that I have a gut feeling 2013 has been a slower year than 2012 was when it comes to MAME progress. **Note: 25th Feb 2014 вЂ“ First Public version вЂ“ this still needs proof reading, some of it was written in a rush and could be improved, hopefully nothing major is actually missing tho**