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Actually found something kinda weird. It's a PS1 CD-R, "Arcade Party Pak" scribbled on it, but it boots to this menu. Some of the games (Gorf, Satan's Hollow) don't load at all, Smash TV doesn't have music. None of the collections Digital Eclipse did for PS1 would have this many games on it.

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It most likely is a proto; former DE lead Jeff Vavasour mentions on his site that during development they had gotten a bunch more games emulated, but ultimately weren't able to include them for certain reasons.

The section for Midway Arcade Treasures also mentions that that originally began as a PS1 release but they ultimately didn't do it due to disc space concerns, so it's likely this Arcade Party Pak proto suffered a similar fate (hell, it might be related to that early MAT1 project)

Is Toobin’ as awesome as I remember it being? I was probably under or around 10!years old when it was on NES, but I remember it being a rare multi-rental selection for me back then. I hold it in high esteme despite not playing it since 1992 or something.

The menu on the retail version of Arcade Party Pak looks like this. So I guess at one point they wanted to put more games into this and... didn't? Can't pack too much value in these collections, that'd be ridiculous!

oh THAT takes me back, I remember playing this one way back in the day. it's too bad it didn't get all the games in the first version - I guess they were gonna try and Namco that stuff, make a bunch of volumes of different games that never panned out?