Experts Help Identify this Game From the early 80's/late 70's??

[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

[HeadRusch1]

Hi, thanks for the suggestion...its not Subrock, I'd have remembered from the .  This was really something that was either out in 79, 80, 81....those were the years I would have been in the location I saw the game.....

I'm seriously wondering if it wasn't Electro Mechanical now.....

[HeadRusch1]

FOUND!

[jasonbar]

Yah, I played one last year. So darn cool. I couldn't remember the name, though! Glad you found it.

-Jason

[ark_ader]

I remember that game UFO.  A bit similar to the TV Show.

I think I played it it on St Annes Pier.

LOL 5p a go.  That would be a week's pocket money.

What year?  Anyone remember?

[mamenewb100]

Damn. 660 Pounds and it doesn't even have a big monitor. Must be solid steel. Back when quality existed.

[EightBySix]

Wtf is a telegraphic address?

[HeadRusch1]

Jason, what was the gameplay like?  Never saw one in a Connecticut arcade, but there weren't that many in the late 70's that were close to me so I took what I could get, had to go to The Cape or some other tourist trap to find the arcades that had been around awhile, Seaview Playland etc, that still had vintage machines before Space Invaders hit....

Was it one of those loose associations with the UFO tv show from back in the day?  Live-Action with the guy who did Thunderbirds doing all the model work....

this...

[Nephasth]

Wtf is a telegraphic address?

Definition of telegraphic address

 noun
chiefly historical
 an abbreviated or other registered address for use in telegrams.

[jasonbar]

Jason, what was the gameplay like?  Never saw one in a Connecticut arcade, but there weren't that many in the late 70's that were close to me so I took what I could get, had to go to The Cape or some other tourist trap to find the arcades that had been around awhile, Seaview Playland etc, that still had vintage machines before Space Invaders hit....

Was it one of those loose associations with the UFO tv show from back in the day?  Live-Action with the guy who did Thunderbirds doing all the model work....

WOW, I wish it were like the UFO show, complete with letter-perfect ball printer! No, it was very simple. I recall there being some landscape, probably a backlit wiiiide photograph (or series of photographs lined up nicely--I'd say "stitched", but that implies recent computer image processing...). Then, I believe there was a simple UFO projected in light on the landscape somewhere, & it would probably move around--you need to swing around in the seat & find it & then shoot it.

Sorry my description is vague. For me, like pretty much all EMs, it's an absolute wonder of engineering & design, but I rarely find them fun to play, so I play them once & then forget about them. *blush*

Thanks,
-Jason