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Punching and Kicking
JB:
--- Quote from: Katana Man on March 25, 2005, 01:29:45 am ---Many years ago, at our local roller skating rink, there was a StreetFighter 1 game that had 2 big rubber button pads (about 6 inches in diameter). One was red, one was blue. It seemed they were filled with a thick gel substance. One was for punching, one was for kicking. That harder you punched these buttons, the harder the Ken/Ryu would punch or kick. I have never seen a game like this since. Has anyone else seen this?
Let me tell you, it was a blast playing it. You'd get a little sweaty and everything. It always drew a crowd. I can only imagine that Capcom took them off the market for legal reliability reasons.
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Used air.
They were only on dedicated SF machines. Conversions used the 6-button layout we know and love(or is it loathe?).
They also weren't very reliable, which is why you never saw them again.
Katana Man:
If anyone has any pictures of this old style StreetFighter, I'd love to see it.
ChadTower:
Awesome, I'd love a fighting cab you can actually hit.
RayB:
Yeah I played it when it came out. It was cool as a novelty but made my shoulder hurt. It also made it very difficult to play properly while also trying to hit the button as hard as possible.
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=9803
Another "action force" game that I thought worked well was Sega's Heavyweight Champ. You could push in each lever hard to punch, as well as swivel the entire top of the game. That meant you could swing punches, do upper-cuts, etc... Was really cool!
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8098
quarterback:
--- Quote from: Big Lebowski on January 31, 2004, 01:43:06 am ---I want to have to strike the pads with fairly significant force for them to register a blow in the game, so just putting some padding over arcade buttons won't work.
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I don't think that's necessarily an accurate assumption. I think you could fashion a pad over a button that was not nearly as easy to activate as you might think. Obviously you'd need a little space between the back surface of the padding and the button, but lean a matress up against a wall and punch it. With even 1/4" of space between it and the button top, I think you'd find you need a good "punch" to activate the button.
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