Feature group: keyboard overlay

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Feature group: keyboard overlay

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Edit: here it is the Spreadsheet

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

I think this might be an interesting group to have. Currently, we have the filetype_id=30 "keyboard overlay" in the downloads table, so, we can list the games that have an overlay preserved, but I think that a group might also be useful for convenience, but also in case we stumbled into a game that had an overlay not yet preserved (and I think I remember magazines providing overlays, but I might be wrong).

Here is the initial list:

227 - Aquaplane
467 - Battlecars
816 - Car Journey
1601- Elite
3148- Meteor Storm
3900 - Project Stealth Fighter
4681 - Space Shuttle: A Journey into Space
5222 - That's the Spirit
5286 - Time-Gate
5770 - Xadom
6201 - Doomdark's Revenge
6536 - King Arthur's Quest
6593 - Fire on the Water
6604 - The Lords of Midnight
8489 - Melodian
10433 - Air Traffic Control
12525 - Spectrum C.A.D.

1000317 - Print'n'Plotter Keyboard Overlays - This one is literally a keyboard overlay :D
11960 - Nine Currant Buns - This one has an overlay added with the wrong filetype.
2183 - Gunship - has a keyboard template preserved
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Re: Feature group: keyboard overlay

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Based on this review on Crash magazine: https://archive.org/details/Crash_No._2 ... ew=theater seems that:

11868 - The_Magic_Shop (overlay not preserved)
11706 - Five_Little_Ducks (overlay preserved)
11960 - Nine_Currant_Buns (overlay preserved, on the list above)
11911 - Mister_Macs_Day (overlay not preserved)
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Crash

https://archive.org/details/Crash_No._0 ... ew=theater
https://archive.org/details/crash-magaz ... ew=theater
https://archive.org/details/crash-magaz ... ew=theater

mentions a keyboard overlays for

4553 - Skull
9167 - Punctuation_Pete
11103 - Music_Master

The advert for Strike Attack 2 mentions a keyboard overlay
https://archive.org/details/Crash_No._1 ... ew=theater

4947 - Strike_Attack_2
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Here https://archive.org/details/crash-magaz ... ew=theater it says that Corridors of Genon included a numeric keyboard overlay.

1071 - Corridors_of_Genon
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druellan wrote: Sun Mar 06, 2022 9:59 pm Based on this review on Crash magazine: https://archive.org/details/Crash_No._2 ... ew=theater seems that:

11868 - The_Magic_Shop (overlay not preserved)
11706 - Five_Little_Ducks (overlay preserved)
11960 - Nine_Currant_Buns (overlay preserved, on the list above)
11911 - Mister_Macs_Day (overlay not preserved)
Ask Ashens for a scan of the overlay for The Magic Shop, it's featured in his new video 80's Video Game Cassette Packaging Extravaganza at 29:10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxPZfk-BrUo
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Thanks Mat. Contacted Ashens with the help of WhatHoSnorkers, and he kindly provided some scans. Turns out there are two overlays for that title.
Full size scans are going to be uploaded to the site. Thanks everyone!

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