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Rolling Thunder not popular?!
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ahofle:
It is a great game, but was it that popular?  It came out at a time when the arcade industry wasn't nearly as strong as a few years before.  It's a shame really -- I never understood why the 'arcade crash' happened around 1984 or whenever it was.  The games around that time still seemed really good to me, and they were still far better than what was available on consoles. 
quarterback:

--- Quote from: SirPoonga on June 05, 2006, 10:55:41 am ---I had to go to KLOv to look up the game, never heard of it before.

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 :o

I loved this game, and seemed pretty ubiquitous in my mid-to-late 80s arcade-visiting years.    It's much tougher when you have to pump quarters into it though.  MAME adds the double-edged sword aspect of "unlimted quarters"  You can keep playing forever, but it loses a bit of the intensity when you know you can keep working a level until you beat it.
RayB:
I'd say it was popular. Enough to get a sequel and console ports.

If you find it too hard, set the time limit (in the dipswitches) to 150 seconds.
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