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Title: VARKON gameplay video [and other oddball pins]
Post by: RayB on March 31, 2011, 10:30:05 am

Classic Game Room - VARKON arcade game pinball machine review (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyOq1ngehHM#ws)

Title: Re: VARKON gameplay video
Post by: pinballwizard79 on March 31, 2011, 06:35:49 pm

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

Pretty cool though due to its novelty & rarity.

Title: Re: VARKON gameplay video
Post by: chiLLbiLLy on March 31, 2011, 07:36:53 pm

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?

Title: Re: VARKON gameplay video
Post by: Q*Bert_OP on March 31, 2011, 07:46:34 pm

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

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

Title: Re: VARKON gameplay video
Post by: chiLLbiLLy on March 31, 2011, 07:54:23 pm

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.

Title: Re: VARKON gameplay video
Post by: RayB on April 01, 2011, 04:11:54 pm

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

Title: Re: VARKON gameplay video
Post by: ChadTower on April 01, 2011, 04:36:33 pm

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.

Title: Re: VARKON gameplay video
Post by: ChadTower on April 01, 2011, 04:46:45 pm

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

Title: Re: VARKON gameplay video
Post by: Q*Bert_OP on April 01, 2011, 05:51:25 pm

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

Title: Re: VARKON gameplay video
Post by: RayB on April 07, 2011, 12:12:28 pm

Quote from: chiLLbiLLy on March 31, 2011, 07:36:53 pm

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 (http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2081)

Spooksville:
http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2298 (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 (http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=4335)

Title: Re: VARKON gameplay video [and other oddball pins]
Post by: ChadTower on April 07, 2011, 01:34:50 pm

Wow.  That's pretty cool.   :cheers: