I took the background art out, made a digital photo and submitted it to the MAME team to use as a background in the Laguna Racer game. The version used by mame .37b1 and earlier was just the black and white image with no color background. It was not at all representative of what the game really looked like or how it played without the background. The mame team responded by saying the quality was too low and they did not want to use it. A couple of months later I noticed my image was quietly added to their download page at mame.net with no mention in the news page and no credit to me. It remained there until 2007 when they took down the mame.net site and redirected it to their dev site. This was the same artwork that was not high enough quality for them before.

This is what the actual game looked like:

Here is what the insides looked like. The user would look through the main glass into a half silvered mirror that reflected the black and white car image but also allowed the player to see the color background.