OLYMPIA/LEANTE
Olympia, Milan

Olympia was founded by Livio Leante - some oldiest game has the brand "Leante games" - and produced many versions of games from Konami, Jaleco and so on, and some original games.
Olympia's private showroom was Astragames, a big arcade in the city of Milan (in the vicinity of the famous Dome).

Olympia went out of business at the end of the eighties. The technical director, Livio Leante, worked for a manifacturer/distributor called "Blue Star" until a few years ago.

  Name Year Clone? Original
name		 Original
manifacturer		 Dumped? Emulated?
  Master's Game 1979          
  Long Beach 1979          
  Speed Race 1980 •   Taito    
  Asterion 1980?          
  Sirius 1980?          
  Monza GP 1981       •  
  Magic Brush 1981 • Crush Roller Kural • •
  D-Day 1981       • •
  Savannah 1981 • Jungler Taito    
  Caterpillar 1981 • Centipede Atari

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  Dribbling / Derby 1982     Model Racing • •
  Centipede 1982 •   Atari • •
  Amidar (Amigo?) 1982 • Amidar Konami • •
  Vega 1982 ?          
  Armada 1982 ?          
  Nibbler 1983 •   Rock-Ola • •
  Portraits 1983       • •

It's unknown if "Vega" is an original Olympia machine.
It's also unknown if Olympia made the bootleg "Amigo".

Master's Game

A version of Breakout.

Unconfirmed description: bricks fall down when hit, and form a ball-saver barrier at the bottom of the screen. However they can fall on the paddle and destroy it.

Long Beach

A top view car reace, similar to Atari's Sprint.
Produced with Seletron.

Speed Race

Clone of a driving car game from Taito

This game has no CPU.

Vega

Space shoot-em up.

Marquee image is taken from KLOV

Iain Morrison got a sort-of working board, captured the PCB photo and is currently trying to connect a monitor.

Also a cabinet does exist. It's damaged and PCB is missing. See here.

Monza GP

Driving game. Colorful graphic, view from the top.

ANY supplied schematic and manual - also the pictures to the left - and Tomasz Slanina is rewriting the non-working MAME driver by Phil Stroffolino. However, this game features a really bizarre chip arrangement!

Magic Brush

 

A clone of Crush Roller

 

Savannah

Player controls a snake and must bite the tails of other snakes.

According to thecarbus, Savannah is a clone of Jungler (emulated by MAME).
I'm not able to confirm this, since I've seen a Savannah machine only a few times for a short time;
however, the KLOV description matches and the screenshot (taken by KLOV also) fits well.

Amidar/Amigo

 

Olympia made the official version of Amidar for the european market.
The manifacturer of Amigo, an italian bootleg, is currently unknown; there are rumors about Amigo machines with "Olympia from Konami" copyright, however the ROM used in MAME shows no copyright at all.

Caterpillar

A Centipede version.
It was emulated in MAME a few versions ago, but was known as "Centipede (bootleg set 2)". It will get his real name soon.

Images are taken from KLOV

D-Day

First-person war shooting game.
Emulated in MAME.

Made also bu Centuri under license.
A Jaleco game named D-Day does also exist, but is a completely different game.

Armada

War-based ships-shooting game, similar to D-Day but simpler.

Portraits

Photo-Safari; aim right to capture a nimber of animals, of four - then five - different kinds. Beware, the animals can destroy your camera.
Development team: director Livio Leante; engineering Tiziano Tredese; hardware Bruno; software Boux; graphic by Cortez; informatic by Ernesto.
When you get high score, two lights in the cabinet, over the monitor, will light, and a b/w camera will start to capture images. So, the recordman/woman can insert a picture of him/herself between the introductory screens!

Pictures taken from "Videogiochi" magazine".

Steve Ellenoff & Peo wrote a preliminary driver for MAME and Reip manage to improve it a lot in 0:84u3; sadly, there are scrolling problems making the game virtually unplayable from 5th screen (you cannot take a picture of the snake).