Tomleecee wrote:Apologies for necro-bumping this once again. I have been in contact with several folks from Sega Amusements about the Premier Eleven cab that was photographed by Baseley0o at the arcade in Southsea. Here's a reply from Martin Riley, the International Sales Manager at Sega Amusements:
Hello Tom,
Yes, actually I was the one who placed those games into the Southsea Arcade, but it was a later than 2000.
I was the sales manager at Sammy Europe based in London at the time that we launched Atomiswave into UK. In your picture you can see the Standard modular version first launched and then the squarer box cabinet which was the deluxe version for the larger arcade.
Premier 11 was indeed a game we looked to launch in UK market and only really tested but didn’t go into wide circulation. However, I’m not 100% sure it was the only prototype. This was from either Japan or USA Sammy studios and was supposed to be an on-line version with servers in each country, but was a little before its time and wasn’t popular, or worked as planned, if I remember correctly, and in the end was never continued. So, you are right that there are very few of these cartridges around as it was never on general release in the UK.
I hope this helps.
Martin Riley
International Sales Manager
Sega Amusements International Ltd
Good work, at least we know the game is not there