Which game is this...

[ex_directory]

I once use to play a golf game on Llandudno pier, it had a small controller that can be best described as a lever on a spring rotating in a semi-circle fashion on the CP.  You had to pull it round for power and then letting go would hit the ball. The view of the game was 3d, from the right side of the hole but up in the air if you see what I mean.

And since I am here, the other game was approx 1978, and involved navigating a balloon through like a windy maze and every now and then this character would appear on the side and blow the balloon.

This second description might be a bit out, it was a friend of mine describing it and I can't remember the game, but there again I was about 3 

Ex

[NoOne=NBA=]

Game 1 sounds like Crown's Golf.

Game 2 is definitely Crazy Balloon.

[ex_directory]

Game 1 sounds like Crown's Golf.

Game 2 is definitely Crazy Balloon.

Cheers for the reply - will go with you on the 2nd. However the first was later than '84, I was playing this in '89 ish. The graphics were more advanced than Crown's Golf, more 3d. However the controller did look like this but it was on the right side of the CP from memory.

[Zobeid]

This is a long shot, but as long as we've got this thread started. . . . .

My mystery game was in a local convenience store at about the same time as Missile Command. . .  so figure about 1981 most likely, maybe 1982 at a stretch.

The game featured a background setting of orange-brown dirt and boulders.  Large numbers of tarantula-like spiders crawled down the screen toward the player, who had to fight them off in some manner that I don't really remember.

It was a highly popular game with the local kids.

I've searched and searched, and I've almost begun to doubt my own memory -- wondering if I've mis-remembered the game so badly that I wouldn't even recognize it if I saw it.  I've managed to pin down most of the other obscure games that I remember playing (including Blasto and Quasar), so this is really the last unknown for me.

[HaRuMaN]

This is a long shot, but as long as we've got this thread started. . . . .

My mystery game was in a local convenience store at about the same time as Missile Command. . .  so figure about 1981 most likely, maybe 1982 at a stretch.

The game featured a background setting of orange-brown dirt and boulders.  Large numbers of tarantula-like spiders crawled down the screen toward the player, who had to fight them off in some manner that I don't really remember.

It was a highly popular game with the local kids.

I've searched and searched, and I've almost begun to doubt my own memory -- wondering if I've mis-remembered the game so badly that I wouldn't even recognize it if I saw it.  I've managed to pin down most of the other obscure games that I remember playing (including Blasto and Quasar), so this is really the last unknown for me.

Almost sounds like Dig-Dug.  You would fight the monsters by pumping them up until they exploded.  I don't know about the tarantulas, though.

[Ginsu Victim]

^Is this sarcasm?

[HaRuMaN]

^Is this sarcasm?

What, my post?  No, it's not...   

[ex_directory]

Hey, stop hijacking my thread, at least until someone puts me out of my misery for my golf game 

I have been looking this afternoon on Klov, there are 3 possibilities with no screenshots - does anyone have screenshots of these or remember what they were like?

Leaderboard Golf
Golfing Greats
Capcom Golf

They all came out about the right time.

[shardian]

This is a long shot, but as long as we've got this thread started. . . . .

My mystery game was in a local convenience store at about the same time as Missile Command. . .  so figure about 1981 most likely, maybe 1982 at a stretch.

The game featured a background setting of orange-brown dirt and boulders.  Large numbers of tarantula-like spiders crawled down the screen toward the player, who had to fight them off in some manner that I don't really remember.

It was a highly popular game with the local kids.

I've searched and searched, and I've almost begun to doubt my own memory -- wondering if I've mis-remembered the game so badly that I wouldn't even recognize it if I saw it.  I've managed to pin down most of the other obscure games that I remember playing (including Blasto and Quasar), so this is really the last unknown for me.

Krull?

[Zobeid]

I saw Krull in that video recently, where it was about the size of a postage stamp, and I thought at first that was it.  The playfield looked similar, from a distance, if I squinted.  Then I checked out the game and it was nothing like the one I remember.

[billpa]

My mystery game was in a local convenience store at about the same time as Missile Command. . .  so figure about 1981 most likely, maybe 1982 at a stretch.

The game featured a background setting of orange-brown dirt and boulders.  Large numbers of tarantula-like spiders crawled down the screen toward the player, who had to fight them off in some manner that I don't really remember.

Sounds like Digger to me.

Might also be Gold Bug.

They are pretty much the same.

[Neverending Project]

Hey, stop hijacking my thread, at least until someone puts me out of my misery for my golf game 

I have been looking this afternoon on Klov, there are 3 possibilities with no screenshots - does anyone have screenshots of these or remember what they were like?

Leaderboard Golf
Golfing Greats
Capcom Golf

They all came out about the right time.

Check out MAWS. Here are screenshots from the first two, but I am not sure about Capcom Golf.

[Zobeid]

Sounds like Digger to me.

Might also be Gold Bug.

They are pretty much the same.

No. . .   It was not a digging/tunneling type of game, it was nothing like those.  As best I can remember it involved large numbers of spiders crawling and zig-zagging across a desert landscape as they approached the player (at the bottom of the screen).  It was basically an invasion-from-above type game, although graphically it looked very different from most of them.

[Neverending Project]

No. . .   It was not a digging/tunneling type of game, it was nothing like those.  As best I can remember it involved large numbers of spiders crawling and zig-zagging across a desert landscape as they approached the player (at the bottom of the screen).  It was basically an invasion-from-above type game, although graphically it looked very different from most of them.

Hole Land?

[Zobeid]

Hole Land?

Ooooooh!

No, that's not it.  And MAME says Hole Land didn't appear until 1984, which is a couple of years too late.

Still, we're getting warmer now.  I can see some resemblance.  I'd never heard of Hole Land before, it looks pretty neat.      Thanks for pointing it out!

[u_rebelscum]

No. . .   It was not a digging/tunneling type of game, it was nothing like those.  As best I can remember it involved large numbers of spiders crawling and zig-zagging across a desert landscape as they approached the player (at the bottom of the screen).  It was basically an invasion-from-above type game, although graphically it looked very different from most of them.

It better not be spiders. 

How about:
Imago (background)
warofbug (bugs)

[Ginsu Victim]

What about Slither?
http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/slither

[billpa]

hehe...I was just about to suggest Slither

[NoOne=NBA=]

Golfing Greats used a joystick.

[NoOne=NBA=]

How about Skins Game?

[ex_directory]

How about Skins Game?

Skins game has potential! I will check this out.

I'll be honest, my memories are detoriating, what I need to see is an in-flight shot just after hitting the ball. That is what I remember best.

[ex_directory]

Took some time but I worked it out, searching through MAWS I went through all the golf games.

Finally found this screenshot, and Super Masters Golf is the game I was referring to:


And found the cab on KLOV



The notes say "Currently, only Jumbo Ozaki Super Masters is working. Super Masters Golf uses protection that is not yet emulated." The hardware is sega system 24, I assume that is emulated in Mame?

Last WIP note says:

0.121u2: Sonikos fixed dipswitches and input in clones (World, Floppy Based, FD1094 317-0058-05c) and (Japan, Floppy Based, FD1094 317-0058-05b) - Games now playable.

Anyone any ideas what controller could work for the power bar, maybe a spinner?

Thanks for the hlpe in trying to find this 

[GAJoe]

Anyone any ideas what controller could work for the power bar, maybe a spinner?

Thanks for the hlpe in trying to find this 

I believe you can still find those Leland springsticks floating around, there were some on QuarterArcade a few weeks ago, but you have to use a hack from an analog stick to wire them up.  One thing I was considering using to simulate them was to buy one of those cheap 10 dollar PS2 style gamepads from Wal-Mart, take out one of the analog sticks from it and hook a rubber band to it for tension, so you could pull it back and let it go and kind of duplicate the springstick feel.