The California Extreme Anti-Report
Posted on August 19th, 2004 by Frank Cifaldi 
As those of you who viewed our auction might have observed, I attended this year’s California Extreme on Sunday, August 8, in San Jose. While there I got to check out some unreleased arcade games in their prototype state. Here’s a brief report:
Primal Rage 2 seemed interesting, but the joysticks were broken. Apparently it’s in MAME now, which is news to me.
Marble Madness 2: Marble Man looked like a lot of fun, with bonus games and traps not even dreamed of in the first game, but the joysticks were broken. Check out some screenshots from a private ROM dump, along with photos and lots of other information, here.
Beavis and Butthead might have been cool in co-op mode, but Butthead’s joystick was broken. Check out the screenshots I took at the show here, or take a look at some blurry shots of a later build of the game here.
And while we’re on the subject: for those of you left hanging by the ending of the original Primal Rage, this page offers a more than satisfying conclusion to the epic tale.
