this is the only magic the gathering that I know of.

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My nephews really liked the game when It was a cax about 20 years ago. I know some of the programmers. Thats how I got one. There were only a handful of them made. They had some board issues. I put a cooling fan on it just to help it out and replaced its xt power supply. I had the smaller unit and took it to cax for 4 years. It currently in florida where its been at free play florida. who knows when its going to be out in the public again with covid.

Around the time of the ps2, Some sony programmers came to cax to try to see the game. But the game was not there that year. No idea if they ever did anything or if they ever saw one.

as for the game data, it has not been dumped due to it being surface mounted roms. So it has not been emulated. I think some day in the future the data will be gathered off a friends boardset (he has 2 bad boardsets). from what I was told emulation should not be too difficult as the game data was not encrypted.

here is a youtube video

Yeah, You chose wisely. I went to akklaim to play it when it was in development. Played it at golfland when it was on test too. Then one day, my buddy got a call to come down to akklaim to grab some stuff off the Dock as it was going to be junked. Very sad. The sad thing was, the games were left on location at golfland. My buddies were tempted to go out with some fake akklaim Ids and pick them up. Eventually, the boards failed and the games were converted. Luckily, we knew the lead tech at golfland and got the boards from him.

As for the game play, you can directly attack the other player, but you want to summon creatures and build them up to help you attack. When I had it at cax it was set to a medium setting. The programmer told me to kick it down to easy as it was too hard for the novice to play against the computer. Hopefully, one day, it will be in mame. I hear the new version of mame will have a killer upgrade to sound for cinematronics and I think sega vector games. We sampled audio off my games back in 97 for many of those. How they are doing it sounds amazing!