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Stumbled upon an old video clip (from 1983) showing a coin operated game called "Herpes", no joke.

Pictures here.

Here's a link to the video I found this in.

It's in a coin op cabinet that looks pretty custom, and the graphics look similar to Atari 8-bit graphics. My gut says this is a bespoke game, with an Atari buried inside (like the Exidy Max-A-Flex system)

Can anyone provide any more information on this?

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[–] 14four 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Looks like it may be Ray Davies who is presenting the game in the clip. I'm doubting that he actually programmed it :)

edit: prob not, found the scene with Ray Davies https://youtu.be/S9HKI1dU_Yo?t=2767

[–] lordfrito 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you suggesting it's Ray Davies from The Kinks?? He would have been 38-40 at the time of the video, the guy in the video looks younger.

[–] 14four 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm not sure, from the cast list he looks similar.

[–] Zardozer 2 points 1 year ago

It doesn't look like Ray Davies to me. Very interesting show, it's kind of like Black Mirror if it was done in a more experimental pseudo-documentary format. It's about the "Video Age" lol.

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