Need help figuring out what this game was.

[shardian]

Ok,
When I was a kid, I went to the Grand Casino in Hinkley, Minnesota. They has a HUGE arcade where you got 2 tokens for a quarter.
Anyways, they had this special game that you had to buy an oversized token to play. It was in a separate room which was pretty much a movie theater. There were (I believe) six sit down gun turret stations, each with their own coin mech. The screen was frikkin huge! As to game play, each person represented a gun turrett on a massive ship and your goal was to shoot your way thru a massive space army and then destroy a mothership before a timer counted down.

I know there are several of you up in this area, so did anyone else ever go to this arcade in the mid-late 90's?
There had to be more of these made somewhere, so maybe someone has seen one.

[johnperkins21]

I may have played this game at Dave and Buster's in Orange, CA. I remember that there was a curtain on either side and you would go into basically a room with six stations. I thought there were seats. Three huge screens made up the play area and the turrets were mounted.

Can't remember the name of it, but I'm sure it had "space" in the title.

[Q*Bert_OP]

Galxian 3?

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=G&game_id=7889

[Hurray Banana]

Galxian 3?

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=G&game_id=7889

Great experience with 6 people I remember everyone standing up an cheering when we completed it, bit of a crappy game though.

[Kevin Mullins]

We still had one of those in one of our mall arcades not too long ago.
Don't know if it still works or if it's still there, been awhile since I've been there.

[shardian]

YAY! That is the game. Thanks guys for helping me out.

[Malacus]

Our Dave and Busters refuses to keep anything fun, but I remember playing Galaxian 3 when they had it, not a horrible game, fun to play with all 6 people. Our DnB also had those Mechwarrior pods that were awesome, but, even though there was usually a waiting list to play, they tore them out. Go Figure. Granted, it was a REALLY old mechwarrior, but it was still fun.

-Mal-

[Crowquill]

I remember playing this at a huge TimeOut in Forest Fair Mall when I first moved to Cincinnati. I was so excited to see a Galaxian3, but I didn't have enough cash to play it. I went back the next weekend with the main goal of playing it and was disappointed. A couple months later when I went back they'd replaced it with Ridge Racer Full-Scale. Galaxian3 was cool, but sitting in a real Miata while playing Ridge Racer was cooler.

I also never understood their naming conventions: Galaxian...Galaga...Gaplus...Galaxian3?

[Spaz Monkey]

The Dave and Busters in San Jose has a "WWII"-eske version of the same game.

Edit: (I swear I didn't put the soapbox in my message)

[Darkstalker]

The Dave and Busters in San Jose has a "WWII"-eske version of the same game.

I'm still ticked that they pulled the Battletech Virtua World pods out...

[Malacus]

hey, Crowquill, wasnt TimeOut great? man, i personally think they destroyed that mall, that was my all time favorite arcade growing up, it had everything from mini golf to skeeball to that (awesome) ridge racer to even having a ferris wheel.

but, there goes yet another piece of my childhood 

since i dont remember a Galaxian 3 being at TimeOut, maybe DnB bought theirs, who knows?

[Crowquill]

I moved to Cincy in the fall of '94, so it would have been sometime around then that I played Galaxian.

I really loved that arcade. Just by sheer size it had most any game I wanted to play. Lots of deluxe cabs and over-the-top set-ups. I still remember Tokyo Wars with 4 cabs linked and the whole thing surrounded by sandbags and camo netting. I also played Prop Cycle quite a bit there.

I like to think that the Primal Rage cabinet I now have was the one I used to play there (it actually has a Namco property plate on it).

I didn't realize until recently that Wonderpark that's there now is owned by Namco. All of the birthday party packages are named after the ghosts.

Sorry to get off-topic.

[shardian]

Sorry to get off-topic.

No apology neccessary. I love these reminiscing stories! I wish I could've went to these arcades you all are talking about when I was a kid. My mall (Huntington Mall, Huntington, WV)had not one, but 2 arcades! They were both called the Gold Mine. They were cramped, dark, and dirty. They crammed as many games in there as they could.

The crowning memory though was the Grand Casino Arcade that I mentioned in the first post. They had 4 MKII's lined up side by side when that game came out. They also had the full size 6 player x-men cabinet. There is nothing like beating x-men over and over with all 6 players occupied at all times. Did I mention double tokens??

[Malacus]

If you go to the Namco arcades website, they have lists of working games and other arcade items (bill changers and what-not) for sale to the public - so theres a possibility of it being the same one.  Heck, untill you said it, I didnt know TimeOut even WAS Namco. but now I think I remember the Pac-Man tokens.

That Tokyo Wars was one of my brothers and my Faves too. *KA-TOONK*

-mal-