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I once use to play a golf game on Llandudno pier, it had a small controller that can be best described as a lever on a spring rotating in a semi-circle fashion on the CP. You had to pull it round for power and then letting go would hit the ball. The view of the game was 3d, from the right side of the hole but up in the air if you see what I mean.
And since I am here, the other game was approx 1978, and involved navigating a balloon through like a windy maze and every now and then this character would appear on the side and blow the balloon.
This second description might be a bit out, it was a friend of mine describing it and I can't remember the game, but there again I was about 3 :dunno
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NoOne=NBA=:
Game 1 sounds like Crown's Golf.
Game 2 is definitely Crazy Balloon.
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--- Quote from: NoOne=NBA= on March 20, 2008, 09:28:35 am ---Game 1 sounds like Crown's Golf.
Game 2 is definitely Crazy Balloon.
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Cheers for the reply - will go with you on the 2nd. However the first was later than '84, I was playing this in '89 ish. The graphics were more advanced than Crown's Golf, more 3d. However the controller did look like this but it was on the right side of the CP from memory.
Zobeid:
This is a long shot, but as long as we've got this thread started. . . . .
My mystery game was in a local convenience store at about the same time as Missile Command. . . so figure about 1981 most likely, maybe 1982 at a stretch.
The game featured a background setting of orange-brown dirt and boulders. Large numbers of tarantula-like spiders crawled down the screen toward the player, who had to fight them off in some manner that I don't really remember.
It was a highly popular game with the local kids.
I've searched and searched, and I've almost begun to doubt my own memory -- wondering if I've mis-remembered the game so badly that I wouldn't even recognize it if I saw it. I've managed to pin down most of the other obscure games that I remember playing (including Blasto and Quasar), so this is really the last unknown for me.
HaRuMaN:
--- Quote from: Zobeid on March 20, 2008, 11:44:35 am ---This is a long shot, but as long as we've got this thread started. . . . .
My mystery game was in a local convenience store at about the same time as Missile Command. . . so figure about 1981 most likely, maybe 1982 at a stretch.
The game featured a background setting of orange-brown dirt and boulders. Large numbers of tarantula-like spiders crawled down the screen toward the player, who had to fight them off in some manner that I don't really remember.
It was a highly popular game with the local kids.
I've searched and searched, and I've almost begun to doubt my own memory -- wondering if I've mis-remembered the game so badly that I wouldn't even recognize it if I saw it. I've managed to pin down most of the other obscure games that I remember playing (including Blasto and Quasar), so this is really the last unknown for me.
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Almost sounds like Dig-Dug. You would fight the monsters by pumping them up until they exploded. I don't know about the tarantulas, though.
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