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OK, just got round to scanning a bunch more stuff, finally, so you'll see quite a few more updates here in the near future. First up is a very silly, relatively recent (2003!) arcade/redemption flyer for a bowling game starring PBA Hall Of Fame-r Parker Bohn III.
The art is pretty horrid, but it's worth checking out just for Parker's excruciating 'yay!' expression on the front of the flyer, and his scarily vein-y arm. If you're throwing massive bowling balls all day, you must get seriously strong muscles, mind you. But it's kinda fun to see a world where a geeky looking moustachio-ed guy is 'the king'. Dig it!
Starting out with the arcade flyers - and it must be said that I don't really have a spectacular collection of flyers, and most of them are from 2000 onwards - but here's a nice beginning, a stylish flyer for Sega's 2004 skateboard arcade game 'Ollie King' which isn't even on The Arcade Flyer Archive yet.
From the folks at Amusement Vision who absorbed Smilebit's staff, this seems to have been developed by the Jet Set Radio creators, and is described as follows: "A street wise skateboard action racing game set in the modern day urban jungle. Players can race up to 4 other contestants to set the record time for the course. The more stylish the skateboard tricks are preformed then the faster you go. This is the first skateboard game that concentrates more on racing and speed than special tricks."
[The game uses the Xbox-based Chihiro hardware, but it sadly never got an Xbox conversion, presumably due to it being designed specifically for the skateboard controller, as earlier titles Top Skater and Air Trix also had in differing forms.]
