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Title: Name that game... (easy)
Post by: rcub3 on May 10, 2011, 05:26:05 pm
Sorry for yet another Name that game post, but I've been trying to find the name of this game for a long time.  I think it is very simple to figure out though because it is very unique. 

In this game you are Noah. You move down from your ark on this field trying to find pairs of animals and bring them back up to the ark before the flood reaches it.  The flood moves up constantly towards the ark until it finally reaches it.  I don't even remember how scoring worked (per pair of animal saved?), or how you lost the game.   

I remember just loving this very simply game.  Played it a few times at Chuck E Cheese a LOOOOOOOONG time ago, but have never been able to figure out the name... 
Title: Re: Name that game... (easy)
Post by: rcub3 on May 10, 2011, 06:00:34 pm
D'oh... I knew it was easy...  :banghead:   Next time I think I'll ask about a man that pacs, which should be a lot more challenging to find.

Now I'm trying to figure out why I could never find it (hadn't tried in recent years).  Thanks.
Title: Re: Name that game... (easy)
Post by: Necro on May 10, 2011, 07:27:51 pm
BEcause it's a horrible horrible game.  At least...that's how I remember it. :)
Title: Re: Name that game... (easy)
Post by: Vigo on May 10, 2011, 08:12:02 pm
I love the horrible marquee art on this. If any arcade game art screams "not worth $0.25", this would be up there on the list.

(http://www.arcade-museum.com/images/116/1168113004.jpg)

Why does that child look like he is choking on a hunk of garlic bread? Or maybe thats his expression after dunking his allowance into playing Noah's Ark.
Title: Re: Name that game... (easy)
Post by: scofthe7seas on May 10, 2011, 10:00:00 pm
You won't have that printed and put in your cab. Chicken.
Title: Re: Name that game... (easy)
Post by: methodical on May 10, 2011, 10:16:03 pm
"Come bust a move where the games are played, it's chill, it's fresh, it's Noah's Arcade."
Title: Re: Name that game... (easy)
Post by: rcub3 on May 10, 2011, 10:41:21 pm
BEcause it's a horrible horrible game.  At least...that's how I remember it. :)

Well 1984... Any arcade game is awesome when you are 7 yrs old. 
Title: Re: Name that game... (easy)
Post by: RayB on May 11, 2011, 12:11:14 am
Well 1984... Any arcade game is awesome when you are 7 yrs old. 
Especially those ones. Moppet video games were made for kids, both in terms of simple gameplay and mini sized cabinets:

(http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/flyers_video/intrepid/329000801.jpg)

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8415 (http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8415)

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9029 (http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9029)

Title: Re: Name that game... (easy)
Post by: Vigo on May 11, 2011, 12:51:13 am
I played a couple minutes of Noah's Ark Just now....yeah, not a good game, but I can see how it would appeal to a 7 year old kid.

I also love that there is a the hard to get unicorn in the game, implying that Noah probably screwed up, resulting in the extinction of the unicorn.  :lol
Title: Re: Name that game... (easy)
Post by: HanoiBoi on May 12, 2011, 07:23:55 am

I also love that there is a the hard to get unicorn in the game, implying that Noah probably screwed up, resulting in the extinction of the unicorn.  :lol

Green alligators and long necked geese...

 If you like that, google "The Unicorn Song"
Title: Re: Name that game... (easy)
Post by: CheffoJeffo on May 12, 2011, 08:04:53 am

I also love that there is a the hard to get unicorn in the game, implying that Noah probably screwed up, resulting in the extinction of the unicorn.  :lol

Green alligators and long necked geese...

Now that made me smile ... Rovers FTW!