Since the 90s it was thought that the vertical shooter meant to be released by Atlus in 1993, Wing Force, was long lost; however, the prototype board was recently found and purchased in an online auction.
Wing Force was originally developed by a company called A.I for Atlus and, from reports on the game, is similar in gameplay to Blaze On (also developed for Atlus).
The prototype board runs on 16-bit Kaneko hardware and was found by an arcade collector, ShouTime, who topped the bidding war with ¥301,000 (over $3600AUD using today's exchange rate).
The winner of the board has since copied the game and made it available to play on MAME for everyone! You can check out loads of screenshots here, or watch the first recorded gameplay of Wing Force running on MAME in the video below, published on January 4 courtesy of user Luca Elias:
