[-] lordfrito@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

you broke my brain

[-] lordfrito@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

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

[-] lordfrito@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

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

[-] lordfrito@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

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

[-] lordfrito@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

yeah wasn't Sinistar

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submitted 9 months ago by lordfrito@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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.

[-] lordfrito@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

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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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lordfrito@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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?

lordfrito

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