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Hi, for quite many years I have wondered if this game ever came out? Can anybody tell what happened to it? It is also pictured in the Finnish games catalog, but the picture is not the same, this one seems to be from the arcade original (the game in the lower right corner):
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/chriss/peliesite.html

I just loved the arcade original but I never had any luck finding the game for my Sega Sc 3000 back in the 80's. In fact, it was the only game listed in the Finnish catalog that I did not find ;).

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Funny thing is that it's available on the Coleco Vision which is like a SG-1000 but with less RAM... maybe it could be converted to run on the SG-1000.

Yes I'm aware of the Coleco version. I have also played the Commodore 64 cassette tape version. I heard that the Spectrum version was cancelled, though. In all SG games list I've seen the game #13 is missing. Could this missing G-1013 be Up'n Down? http://sg1000.emucamp.com/sggames.htm#1

Perhaps they cancelled it at the last minute from some odd reason? At least in the japanese Sega ad it looks a lot better than the Coleco version. I guess that we will never know for sure what happened, though.

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That's really interesting. Cool share!!
Do we have a ROM?

Monthly Micom '83 #10 (september) has an ad with it as a listed game coming soon - up n down and sinbad mystery use stills from the arcade version, and orguss uses promotional art. note that this isn't an ad from sega, but a computer store

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8BitBoy wrote

That's really interesting. Cool share!!
Do we have a ROM?

No, and for a first party game from this period I think it's unlikely one will appear unless someone at Sega finds it in storage and includes it on some Sega Ages release or something like that. The Colecovision version has been converted to SG-1000 though.

I was literally looking at this just this morning, funny how you stumble across the same things twice in 1 day. Thanks for sharing though buddy. It's a really interesting story about this one. I also like the story about Pachinko (recalling the first game) and Pachinko II.

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sunny Joined: 25 May 2006 Posts: 18	SG-1000 Unreleased: Up'n Down Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 8:42 pm
sunny Joined: 25 May 2006 Posts: 18	http://www.japan-games.com/PermanentFeatures/SegaAds/Pictures/sg1000b2.jpg Hi, for quite many years I have wondered if this game ever came out? Can anybody tell what happened to it? It is also pictured in the Finnish games catalog, but the picture is not the same, this one seems to be from the arcade original (the game in the lower right corner): http://personal.inet.fi/koti/chriss/peliesite.html I just loved the arcade original but I never had any luck finding the game for my Sega Sc 3000 back in the 80's. In fact, it was the only game listed in the Finnish catalog that I did not find ;). Up'nDown_SG1000_scan.jpg (114.32 KB) Attachment fairy Nettiesite2.jpg (58.89 KB) Attachment fairy

FluBBa Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 412 Location: GBG	Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 9:22 pm
FluBBa Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 412 Location: GBG	Funny thing is that it's available on the Coleco Vision which is like a SG-1000 but with less RAM... maybe it could be converted to run on the SG-1000.

sunny Joined: 25 May 2006 Posts: 18	Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 12:52 pm
sunny Joined: 25 May 2006 Posts: 18	Yes I'm aware of the Coleco version. I have also played the Commodore 64 cassette tape version. I heard that the Spectrum version was cancelled, though. In all SG games list I've seen the game #13 is missing. Could this missing G-1013 be Up'n Down? http://sg1000.emucamp.com/sggames.htm#1 Perhaps they cancelled it at the last minute from some odd reason? At least in the japanese Sega ad it looks a lot better than the Coleco version. I guess that we will never know for sure what happened, though.

BKK Joined: 01 May 2011 Posts: 467	Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:35 am
BKK Joined: 01 May 2011 Posts: 467	Boxart from this thread. Up'nDown Box.png (42.11 KB)

8BitBoy Joined: 15 Aug 2019 Posts: 260 Location: Lancashire UK	Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:57 pm
	That's really interesting. Cool share!! Do we have a ROM?

2Tie Joined: 26 Feb 2020 Posts: 13	Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 5:57 pm
2Tie Joined: 26 Feb 2020 Posts: 13	Monthly Micom '83 #10 (september) has an ad with it as a listed game coming soon - up n down and sinbad mystery use stills from the arcade version, and orguss uses promotional art. note that this isn't an ad from sega, but a computer store Screenshot_20240227_102039_Chrome.jpg (785.56 KB)

BKK Joined: 01 May 2011 Posts: 467	Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 7:20 pm
BKK Joined: 01 May 2011 Posts: 467	8BitBoy wrote That's really interesting. Cool share!! Do we have a ROM? No, and for a first party game from this period I think it's unlikely one will appear unless someone at Sega finds it in storage and includes it on some Sega Ages release or something like that. The Colecovision version has been converted to SG-1000 though.

8BitBoy Joined: 15 Aug 2019 Posts: 260 Location: Lancashire UK	Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2024 4:16 pm
	I was literally looking at this just this morning, funny how you stumble across the same things twice in 1 day. Thanks for sharing though buddy. It's a really interesting story about this one. I also like the story about Pachinko (recalling the first game) and Pachinko II.

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