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Title: Arcade game I saw once as a kid. What was it called???
Post by: mixelplick on October 07, 2010, 04:47:01 pm

Hi Everyone,

About 25 years ago or so I remember going to Reno with my parents and while they would gamble they would let us have $20 and run around in this incredible arcade which I think was in Harrahs casino. More arcade games than anywhere I had ever seen, movie theater for kids, food etc. Place was awesome.

I remember seeing an arcade game that used real footage of japanese zero's on what looked like a projector screen and the player had this huge (not sure how big because I was so little it looked huge) anti aircraft gun to shoot them down. I know they have something like this at Dave and Busters now but those are graphics. This was like real footage where one would fly by and you would shoot at it.

Does anyone else ever remember seeing it? Anyone know the name? I have been bothered by this for over 20 years. I wasn't able to play it so it has always remained the one that got away and in my mind at the time looked so cool that I would have given my right arm to play it.

Not sure if this was the right area to post this and I have been meaning to ask for a while but I always forgot about it when I was near a computer until today. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Title: Re: Arcade game I saw once as a kid. What was it called???
Post by: knohbody on January 10, 2011, 09:06:48 am

Had a look around KLOV and found this. Probably not what you're looking for, but maybe the same type of game. Only picture I could find is was on the Arcade Flyer Archive.

Defender Machine Gun (http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=arcadedb&id=319&image=1)

Title: Re: Arcade game I saw once as a kid. What was it called???
Post by: SavannahLion on January 11, 2011, 10:53:40 am

Could it be a laserdisc game? I checked the list but couldn't find pictures for all.

Wasn't the Harrah's still MGM or Bally's (sp?) twenty years ago? That damn casino must've changed hands at least 4 times in the past 30 years. They had this four player monstrosity that cost several bucks to play. They may have repurposed it or it had a couple of different gqme modes. Fighting WW2 Zeros might have been one of them....

Title: Re: Arcade game I saw once as a kid. What was it called???
Post by: RayB on January 11, 2011, 05:40:32 pm

Was it a cabinet or was it more like a screen with a machine gun mounted in front? I remember reading about an old 1960's game like that, used film footage.

Title: Re: Arcade game I saw once as a kid. What was it called???
Post by: SavannahLion on January 11, 2011, 08:01:09 pm

Quote from: RayB on January 11, 2011, 05:40:32 pm

Was it a cabinet or was it more like a screen with a machine gun mounted in front? I remember reading about an old 1960's game like that, used film footage.

You don't mean Battle Shark???

Title: Re: Arcade game I saw once as a kid. What was it called???
Post by: Spyridon on January 12, 2011, 08:17:25 am

It sounds like a converted Galaxian^3 Theater

(http://www.arcadelifestyle.net/pictures/usa2009trip/air_raid_galaxian_theater_2.jpg) 

Title: Re: Arcade game I saw once as a kid. What was it called???
Post by: BobA on January 16, 2011, 01:29:01 pm

Some really old gun and zero arcade machines.  These are probably too old to have been in Vegas but they had really big guns.

Title: Re: Arcade game I saw once as a kid. What was it called???
Post by: SavannahLion on January 16, 2011, 06:06:17 pm

Reno, not Vegas.

Title: Re: Arcade game I saw once as a kid. What was it called???
Post by: mixelplick on January 08, 2013, 07:59:40 pm

Thanks for everyone that replied. I posted this and didn't see anything in a couple months and then never checked back! Thanks for all the suggestions but I think I figured it out. I believe it was called Sky Hawk

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=17515 (http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=17515)

I have never seen a working version of this even in pictures since that day I saw it in the arcade.

Anyone ever seen the game?