Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: ChadTower on September 14, 2005, 12:35:18 pm
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Linky (http://homepage.mac.com/dmowczan/PhotoAlbum7.html)
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Looks like a very nice one. What's Major Havoc going for these days? I haven't seen one at all in years, much less a complete one.
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The starting point being discussed on that one was four grand.
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YOW!
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What a beauty ! Do we agree this is still a modern looking design today ?
anyone got the dimensions, would be nice to rebuild something like that...
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I still do not understand the demand this game brings. Gameplay is decent not great. Not something I have great memories of as a kid, I've only remember playing one once back in the day. And I think there are lots of other cabinets out there that have much better artwork/concept.
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I still do not understand the demand this game brings. Gameplay is decent not great. Not something I have great memories of as a kid, I've only remember playing one once back in the day. And I think there are lots of other cabinets out there that have much better artwork/concept.
All the hype is based on the fact that it is a rare vector game, put out by Atari. Atari didn't put out many "rare" games, almost everything they did had big runs.
If the game had a production run like Space Duel did, then they would cost $450 and people would be ripping the monitors out of them for other titles.
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I've played it (real hardware, converted Tempest cab, spinner) quite a bit. It is a unique and excellent game. I really enjoy it and think it belongs up there with Tempest when the production run is considered. $5000, definitely not, but that is only for a perfect dedicated. They only made like 500 of those. You can get a conversion kit for Tempest much much cheaper.
It is definitely one of the best vector games.
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It's rare, it's color vector and it's Atari. Like Paige pointed out, that alone is enough to warrent it's status as a mega-collectable classic. It's also in a strikingly unique looking cabinet and uses a unique controller. This one is just loaded with reasons why it's in high demand and commands a premium price.
Like anything else in this hobby, a large part of it just has to do with whether or not you played and enjoyed it when it was current. If you did, it's obviously got a nostalgia value that it doesn't have if you never sat in front of one and threw your lunch money into it.
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The controller isn't completely unique, there are others that use it. I, Robot uses it, I think.
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Okay, unique was a poor choice of words. We can all agree that it's a very unusual controller though, and it does set the game apart and add to it's mystique.
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Yep, rare game plud color monitor plus semi-unique control = big bucks. I'd love to find a mint Lunar Lander....
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The game likely plays better with the spinner anyway. Does anyone know if the roller is illuminated?
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Yep, rare game plud color monitor plus semi-unique control = big bucks. I'd love to find a mint Lunar Lander....
They have a Lunar Lander with the cool lever control at a kid's museum near me - set to freeplay!
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The controller isn't completely unique, there are others that use it.
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D'oh.
There is a Lunar Lander near you on freeplay and you are here? What is wrong with you?! Go!
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The controller isn't completely unique, there are others that use it. I, Robot uses it, I think.
I,Robot uses a "hall effect" joystick
I, Robot uses the same cabinet.
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Yeah, I had a brain fart.
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There are one or two other games that use the roller though aren't there? My brain isn't willing to relinquish which games those are at the moment, but there is at least one other one, right?
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There is some game called Moon Cresta or something like that.
Anything Atari sells for a lot. Anything rare sells for a lot. Yup, what other people said.
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Moon Cresta? That one just uses a simple 2 way left/right joystick doesn't it?
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Yeah, my bad. There was a panel on Ebay that was moon something... It had a left/right roller. I can't remember what it was for the life of me.
EDIT: Bingo!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6203515292&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
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I don't think that's the one I had in mind. I've never seen a roller with that shape before.
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WTF is the vector director on that thing?
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That's the odd shaped roller I was talking about. Never seen one like that before.
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It's not the same roller as Major Havoc, though. Different shape.
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Different shape.
You're not paying any attention to me at all today are you?
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You sound like a needy chick.
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You assume I'm not one.
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No I don't. I've been suspecting it all along.
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My secret is out. I require jewelry, flowers and heaps of attention.
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No one said they assume you're a hot, needy chick.
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There are one or two other games that use *the roller though aren't there? My brain isn't willing to relinquish which games those are at the moment, but there is at least one other one, right?
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Ah, I misread "the" as "a." No other game used the major havoc version of the roller. Sorry.
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I would have sworn that some other game used the same controller, but maybe a different color. Could have been an oregano dream.
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I've never seen an Oregano Dream cab, but I'd like to.
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It's a great game. The visuals are fantastic. Too bad the storyline doesn't make any sense.
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Oddly enough I don't remember it.
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That's a sure sign that you've played it.
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Kickman.
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Too bad the storyline doesn't make any sense.
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And yet, it's still funny.
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I find the fact that stringay and CT keep bantering back and forth. Just get a room, for cripes sake.
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We did. We call it BYOAC.
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Too bad the storyline doesn't make any sense.
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And yet, it's still funny.
I see you've played it too. :)
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Too bad the storyline doesn't make any sense.
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And yet, it's still funny.
I see you've played it too. :)
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Played what? I forgot what we were talking about. Could you turn up the Hendrix? I'm hungry.
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Dude, who was going to make toast? I need some toast.
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You put bread in, push the lever and in a few minutes toast pops out. Where did the bread go?
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I ate the bread.
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Just posting here to breakup the Chad\Stingray conversation...
Nothing to see here, move along, move along...
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POOT!
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Hehehehehehe heheheheeh heheheheheheh
Poot.
heheheheh hehe heh heehheheheh hehe
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Imuh sine you pitty onna runny kine.
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Kickman actually uses a trackball. I noticed KLOV called it a "roller".
Acelerator uses the same roller. It is an Atari proto.
http://www.safestuff.com/wtf16.jpg
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Kickman actually uses a trackball. I noticed KLOV called it a "roller".
It's a Roller shaped like a ball. It will only move along one axis (spin it left or right).
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Kickman actually uses a trackball. I noticed KLOV called it a "roller".
Acelerator uses the same roller. It is an Atari proto.
http://www.safestuff.com/wtf16.jpg
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Doh! I remember I played that at CAX. It sucked.
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Doh! I remember I played that at CAX. It sucked.
You bastard!
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No way! Kickman rocks!
I loaded it up on my sons miniMAME (since I sold mine) after I played it at CAX 'cause it was cool. It's actually so lame that t is fun to play.
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I meant the accelerator proto. It was confusing, the ship was going around in a loop really fast, for no reason.
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I loved Kickman. It was one of the first games to hook me. I think I was 11 or 12 at the time. I got up to level 5 I think, with the brown ghosts. You have to be really fast with the trackball.