VARKON gameplay video [and other oddball pins]

[RayB]

[pinballwizard79]

I played one @ expo & there was not much to it unless I missed something.

Pretty cool though due to its novelty & rarity.

[chiLLbiLLy]

Wow, thanks for that post, RayB!

Regardless of whether the game sucks or not, I always enjoy the weird, rare & seldom seen.  I'd heard the name "Varkon" before, but just assumed it was another Space Invaders type shooter...

Any other odd arcade/pinball combos I might have missed back in the day, besides this, Baby Pac-Man & Pinball Circus?

[Q*Bert_OP]

I doubt you would have seen Pinball Circus in the wild.

The other vid/pin combos are Granny and the Gators and Caveman.

[chiLLbiLLy]

Yeah, I guess I kinda worded that funny, since I never would have seen a Pinball Circus in person, were it not for the Pinball Museum in Vegas.

I'd completely forgotten about Caveman, though.  We had one of those at a local arcade in the early 80's.  But Granny and the Gators is not ringing a bell, so I'll have to read up on that one.

[RayB]

There's a Pong game in a pinball form factor.

[ChadTower]

Yeah, I helped a guy shop out his Caveman a few years ago.  It was basically a boring pin attached to an Odyssey2 game.  Cool for the novelty but not much fun at all.

[ChadTower]

It's not that rare a game, jim.  They made a fair amount of them.

[Q*Bert_OP]

Qbert played it and liked it...so it must be a greta game 

[RayB]

Any other odd arcade/pinball combos I might have missed back in the day, besides this, Baby Pac-Man & Pinball Circus?

Just learned of some other oddball pins:

Predating Varkon by about a decade, these two have an upright form factor and playfield reflected in a mirror:
Sea Hunt:
http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2081

Spooksville:
http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2298


Here's a bizarre prototype for two simultaneous players:
Total Recall
http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=4335

[ChadTower]

Wow.  That's pretty cool.