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what games have lighted player buttons?
« on: March 07, 2004, 05:18:31 pm »
besides Pacman and Ms. pacman, what other games have player 1 and 2 buttons that light up when coins are added?
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Re:what games have lighted player buttons?
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2004, 07:34:37 pm »
I don't think Pacman/Ms.Pac had volcano buttons in a real arcade but I think this feature is in MAME thou.

The ones I remember in the real arcades are:
Asteroids
Asteroids Deluxe

most Atari Arcade Games had volcano buttons.
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Re:what games have lighted player buttons?
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2004, 09:02:38 pm »
I think he's talking about actual player buttons rather then start buttons. If so then the first games that come to mind would be a few of the Williams games ie. Robotron,Sinistar,Narc also a couple of Gottlieb games ie. Q-bert,Krull and Mad Planets all had backlit translucent player buttons. I'm sure there's more.
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Re:what games have lighted player buttons?
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2004, 11:45:19 pm »
Robotron didn't have player buttons. The translucents were start buttons.
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Re:what games have lighted player buttons?
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2004, 11:59:40 pm »
If youre willing to dig thru the mame source, a list oculd be put together. If you started with one of the games that's known to work- like missile command, tempest, asteroids- you could find the string used.. Its in the same section as the inputs

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Re:what games have lighted player buttons?
« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2004, 12:13:02 am »
Robotron didn't have player buttons. The translucents were start buttons.

Doh! and neither did Q-bert...But if they did have gameplay buttons like the others I mentioned I bet they'd be lit SO THERE ! ;) (I feel like I just had a 1st grade moment) Anyways, their are a few out there that have em.
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Re:what games have lighted player buttons?
« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2004, 06:56:23 am »
Out Run has a blinking start button when you enter some money.
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Re:what games have lighted player buttons?
« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2004, 07:00:58 am »
so basically we're talking early atari games--my q-bert has translucent player 1 and 2 buttons but they don't blink when money is added--I'll have to investigate further..thanks for the list so far...
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Re:what games have lighted player buttons?
« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2004, 07:12:11 am »
besides Pacman and Ms. pacman, what other games have player 1 and 2 buttons that light up when coins are added?
BattleZone, Missile Command (as said, early Atari Stuff)

As said previously, Pac-Man (and variants does), I think Pac-Man may have had LED's mounted above the start buttons (but I don't remember seeing them on any of the CP pictures I've seen)
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Re:what games have lighted player buttons?
« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2004, 10:15:40 am »
Spy Hunter had a lightup Van button, IIRC its hacked to the 3rd led, scroll-lock, in MAME

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Re:what games have lighted player buttons?
« Reply #10 on: March 08, 2004, 01:01:55 pm »
Man everyone forgets about omega race that puppy had four lighted start buttons.
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Re:what games have lighted player buttons?
« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2004, 01:13:46 pm »
I knwo the Gottlieb games have been mentioned already, but Reactor had translucent, light-up buttons that were used both for 1p-2p and the in-game actions.  IIRC, in attract mode they would light up in sequence.

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