From: x92ochs1@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.video.arcade
Subject: Re: Reminescing...
Date: 19 Nov 92 19:31:48 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

In article <1992Nov19.112200.4102@news.Hawaii.Edu>, gkomatsu@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Galen Tatsuo Komatsu) writes:
> In article <1ecle9INNo3@pith.uoregon.edu> seth@inferno.uoregon.edu (Seth Scott) writes:
>>Here are some of the games that I remember, and enjoyed-- let's see if anyone
>>knows about them:
> 
>>Yie Ar Kung Fu (spelling?)-- This was a great game when I was in middle school
>>  I used to be able to get past all the characters once, and then to 
>>Tonfun (second-to-last) the second time around, then Tonfun would kick my
>>butt...  Fighting 'Blues' and 'Chain' were the best, IMHO
> 
> 	ohhhh, don't get me started on that game! =^)
> 	Last week we were at the movies and while waiting outside, I
> peered in at the machines... and what did I see?  YIE AR KUNG FU!  then
> my friend brought my attention to the machine next to it... LIFE FORCE!
> (which was turned off =^(  Didn't get to play it or at least grope the
> controls =^) in the mad rush for seats.
> 
> 
>>Scramble Spirits-- Has anyone in the world besides me and rtaylor@cie.uoregon.
>>edu ever _heard_ of this one?
> 
> 	nope.
> 
>>Names for you trivia buffs to mull over:
>>'Pooyan'
> 	Pigs with arrows, versus Wolves with balloons. =^)
> 
>>'Crazy Climber'
> 	You mention THIS under "trivia"?!
> 
>>'Venture' (anyone get far in this?)
> 	Face with arrow traversing rooms... never played it.
> 
>>'Armored Attack'
>>'Eliminator'
> 	Ya got me... but I envision lots of destruction =^)
> 
>>'Space Panic'
> 	One of (if not THE) first platform games I can think of.  Escape
> aliens with of all things... a shovel.  (well, the could've given you
> a Garden Weasel instead... =^)
> 
>>'Satan's Hollow'
> 	I remember seeing this at one arcade.  I recall lots of red &
> brown in the color scheme, a joystick like that found on Gorf & TRON,
> non-restricted movement in the lower part of the screen, and lots of
> noise.  Can't remember much else as I never played it.
> 
> 
> 	Here's a few from my memories, most of them are fairly easy:
> 
> 	Targ
> 	Donkey Kong 3     (loved this one!)
> 	Cloak & Dagger    (this one too!
> 	Thayer's Quest
> 	Lode Runner (NOT the computer game!)
> 	Quantum
> 	Rally X
> 	Space Shuttle  (I think this was the title)
> 	Route 16
> 	Bagman
> 
> 
> 	And a "what was this game called?" question.  I remember it from
> LONG ago, probably around the days of the game 'Depthcharge' (used to
> love this one too!)  It was a vector graphics game.  There were two
> swordsmen drawn from overhead view, you could beat your opponent by
> either hacking him silly (I guess, I recall the next one better) or
> having him fall into one of two square pits.  In the latter case, the
> unlucky one would be drawn spinning & shrinking as he fell down the pit.
> The pits weren't really drawn, rather just two cardboard pits placed
> under the display. (so the only things drawn on the disaply were the
> two knights and (I assume) scores.
> 	Used to think this game was pretty cool at the time (proably was!)
> 
> --
>          Galen Komatsu           !     Apple//e     !      XTC
> gkomatsu@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu  !  Sega MegaDrive  !  Sakai Noriko
>   ar592@cleveland.freenet.edu    !    Atari 7800    !    Checkers

 I remember about 10 years ago a game called Deluxe Asteroids.  I never seen
 it anywhere else but in the Southern US.  It was similar to Asteroids, only
 instead of Hyper Space, you had a limited shield.  Also there was this 
 hexaganol ship that came out, and when you shot it, it broke apart into
 smaller ships that went after you.  
 I also remember a game put out by Rock-O-La called Nibbler.  In this game
 you were a snake, and you ate dots or something(like Pac-Man). Each time 
 you ate a dot, your tail grew longer. The object of the game was to eat 
 all the dots and not run into your tail.

 Jeff