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Title: turning people into tombstones? remember this game?
Post by: bsellers100 on May 18, 2010, 09:21:29 pm

When I was a kid at the skating rink(mid to late 70s), I used to love a black and white video game where you drove a car and when you ran over the people on the screen, they turned into tombstones or crosses.  Does anybody know what game that might be?

Title: Re: turning people into tombstones? remember this game?
Post by: RoyalScam on May 18, 2010, 09:32:06 pm

Death Race

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Race_%281976_game%29 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Race_%281976_game%29)

Played this one a lot on a four player "cocktail" style table.

I don't think it's in mame though.

Regards,
Scam

Title: Re: turning people into tombstones? remember this game?
Post by: lilshawn on May 18, 2010, 11:05:23 pm

Quote from: RoyalScam on May 18, 2010, 09:32:06 pm

I don't think it's in mame though.

no the game was entirely built with TTL chip technology, not a processor and rom chips... thus not MAME-able, since there is nothing to "emulate"

Title: Re: turning people into tombstones? remember this game?
Post by: tommyinajar on May 18, 2010, 11:56:28 pm

http://www.roguesynapse.com/games/death_race.php (http://www.roguesynapse.com/games/death_race.php)

I THINK there was someone working on a release for misfit mame maybe, but that was a while ago.



Edit : this might work for ya http://www.widel.com/ (http://www.widel.com/) Go to downloads.

Title: Re: turning people into tombstones? remember this game?
Post by: councilface on May 19, 2010, 07:36:04 am

it deffo works on a version of misfit mame cause Ive played it.

Title: Re: turning people into tombstones? remember this game?
Post by: bsellers100 on May 19, 2010, 03:23:59 pm

That's the one!  Boy, I spent a lot of quarters on that one between skating circles and doing the hokey-pokey.  Thanks for the info guys.