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Does anyone remember this game? in c/games

[–] lordfrito 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

you broke my brain

Does anyone remember this game? in c/games

[–] lordfrito 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

nope, it was circular for sure, but 3d... plus there was that talking head... no one seems to know what I'm talking about its messing with me like my memory is messed up

Does anyone remember this game? in c/games

[–] lordfrito 4 points 9 months ago

yeah but no... this game was def 3d ... plus major havoc doesn't have a creepy talking head

Does anyone remember this game? in c/games

[–] lordfrito 3 points 9 months ago

nope, like I said it was definitely vector, just a bunch of tight lines

Does anyone remember this game? in c/games

[–] lordfrito 3 points 9 months ago

yeah wasn't Sinistar

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Does anyone remember this game? (self.games)

submitted 9 months ago by lordfrito to c/games

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My friend and I used to play this early 80's arcade game back in the day. I can't for the life of me remember it's name. Hoping someone here can help.

I remember it was a vector game. It was sort of a combination of Battlezone and Space Fury. It was in 3D like battlezone -- you moved around a 3D maze and shot at enemies. I remember the maze/arena was circular. But it sort of was like Space Fury, in that there was this big vector head that would appear during attract and taunt you to play the game -- had a creepy digitized voice -- saying stuff like "do you think you can beat me?" and "play if you dare earthling". The head was a wireframe, sort of like the MCP from Tron. The controller was interesting, it sorta looked like a gun.

Anyhow I'm drawing a total blank about the name of this game. It was kind of a big deal to me at the time (personal reasons). Would like to know if anyone else remembers it or has ever played it.

For some reason I remember the game was called Battle Maze or Battle Arena or something like that (maybe just "Battle"?)... but I can't find any record of it online.

Can someone identify this old 80's arcade game "Herpes"? in c/retro

[–] lordfrito 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah I should clarify what I mean by bespoke, as most production games from that era were entirely bespoke (custom hardware designed specifically for the game). I'm trying to discern between "bespoke design from a corporation", "bespoke design from a small startup" and "bespoke design by some dude in a garage".

I suspect there's an interesting story behind this game.

Trying to figure out any info on the game or person(s) who created it. Starting with:

was this a real coin-op game or fake one (made for the show or say, some hands on herpes educational exhibit etc)?
what was the hardware? Was it built (as I suspect) on an A8 machine?
how many were made? did it ever get into production?
who was behind this? Just one mad programmer in a garage, or his small company hoping to build a bunch of them and get rich etc.

If I had to guess it's a lone programmer with an idea he figured would make him rich, used the A8 platform and TV to avoid hardware engineering, built a machine or two in a hand-built cabinet, promoted them any way he could, got nowhere, and faded into obscurity.

So many oddities out there. I love the intersection of retro gaming, forgotten prototypes, and obscure media.

Can someone identify this old 80's arcade game "Herpes"? in c/retrogaming

[–] lordfrito 3 points 1 year ago (2 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.

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Can someone identify this old 80's arcade game "Herpes"? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by lordfrito to c/retro

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/475922

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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Can someone identify this old 80's arcade game "Herpes"? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lordfrito to c/retrogaming

6 comments fedilink

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?