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This isn't really related to marp but what the hell, you guys should be able to help me here.
In the 80's one of my local arcades had a game called 'Spy vs Spy'. Basically it was a 2 player game with a split screen and the idea was to set up traps for the opposing player to kill them. Things like trip wires, bombs, things balanced on top of open doors etc, all in this big building that you roamed around. You could play as a single player too with the machine as the second player. I think the characters were rats dressed up in gangster suits or something
The thing is I can't find any information on this game anywhere on the internet. Sites like klov.com and the un-mamed site just don't list it.
Am I going mad, did I dream it, or did this game actually exist?

Could it be that it wasn't an arcade game?

There was 3 Spy vs. Spy games released for the Spectrum and C64 back in the mid 80's.

Spy vs. Spy 1
Spy vs. Spy 2: The Island Caper
Spy vs. Spy 3: Arctic Antics

That would explain why you can't find any infos on arcade sites

I never saw any arcade spy vs spy game, but I did play all 3 of the c64 games though.

I remember the Spectrum and C64 versions but I could swear on my life there was an arcade version. Perhaps I AM going mad!

I found some infos on the net saying that the two characters was taken from the MAD magazine. The game started out on the C64, and was then made for the Speccy, and maybe some other 8bit machines.

It was very common to make 8bit versions of arcade machines, but I don't know of any games that started out on a home computer, and then made it to the arcades. But it was a very popular games, so why not.

Keep looking

Lode Runner, I think, was first on home computers.

Robocop, maybe as well, or at least Ocean Software got to the license before Data East did.

mahlemiut wrote:Lode Runner, I think, was first on home computers.

That's right. How could I forget this one. I hate this game

Spy vs. Spy was also on the Master System/Mach III, and could look like an arcade version.

maybe this is stupid but i think that i ve seen (long long long time ago) a spy vs spy "machine" lat baltic sea in my country. but it was a creepy arcade with froger and jet set willy and my idea is that this could be an atari or c64 computer in there instead of an arcade board
yes things like that could happpend in my country

Bonanza Bros!

there was a NES version of Spy vs. Spy too. Maybe it was a Vs. system or Playchoice-10 cabinet?

Frankie wrote:It was very common to make 8bit versions of arcade machines, but I don't know of any games that started out on a home computer, and then made it to the arcades. But it was a very popular games, so why not.

Thunder Force 3 was first released on the Genesis and then they later made an arcade port called Thunder Force AC....

the shizzat was the apple // spy vs. spy in mono color, never saw the c64 one.

And there had Choplifter who was released on Apple before Arcade and Pitfall too.

Francois