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| HeadRusch1:
Gentlemen, there has been a game floating around in my head that I can't, for the life of me, track down. It was a unique environmental that I remember, I believe it was a cylinder you got in, I think it was open air (surrounded by clear plexi I mean, sort of like getting into a giant piece of PVC piping that was clear) and there was a padded bench on which you sat. The game centered around a periscope (again, imagine a cylinder you're sitting in with a periscope type control at eye height as you sat on this bench..sort of like sitting in a round photobooth). I got the impression that you had to slide your butt around on this 270 degree bench (it was open at the spot you got in or out) or something while you used the periscope (which had a screen or something attached, or maybe it was just a small screen mounted on handles...damned if I can remember) to play the game. I don't recall the name, OR the game (it was not operating the one time I saw it, which was at one of the amusement parks in the Lake George region, in upstate NY) but I would love to know what it was and what the game was like. I'm pretty sure it was electronic and not one of the older style arcade games of the 70's or 60's, but again, I don't remember it working. It was unique, I'll say that much, and this would have been in the late 1970's or possibly 80, 81....... It wasn't like...Tail Gunner or any of the more recognizable names, it was truly odd...I never saw another one. Anyone? |
| paigeoliver:
Is it possibly Wolf Pack? http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=13490 |
| jasonbar:
Video game or EM game? I recall playing an EM game like this last year. -Jason |
| HeadRusch1:
WOW...That Wolf Pack game is very close...but I don't think its it. But yes that is very similar to what I remember, the problem was I couldn't play it and there was a bench to sit on, this game has no bench that I can see. Still it fits the timeline........but I thought it had something to do with UFO's and not Submarines....then again...we're talking a kid in the 70's memory here... It could have been EM, as stated the machine wasn't running when I saw it ages ago....it was simply there, I sat in it, saw nothing on the screen, couldn't figure out where to put quarters in and wound up going to another machine as I'm sure my parents were "hurry up" :) But that does look like the 'kind' of cab/environmental I'm talking about...... |
| H2obuffalo:
Have a look at SUBROC 3D. It came out around 1982-83ish I think. Some came in a really cool Environmental cabinet. Semi cylindrical with a really COOL periscope as I recall. Missiles Boats and UFOs. It left an incredible impression on me when I was a 12 year old...aah, memories. Check youtube with a search. H2obuffalo |
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