You have brought back a 43 year old memory! I thought that I would never see this arcade game again! I spent countless hours and all my money playing this on Waikiki Beach in the summer of 1969.
I had completely forgotten about this game. It was my favorite back in the day. I played it at the bowling alley. Those old electromechanical games had a unique charm.
Played this in 1975 I was 9.The cabinet had been repainted red and I remember tracking the planes with the missiles.I also remember banging on the cash box and I would get free games...until they put the out of order sign on it...It was at the Adam's Roller Rink on lansing road in Charlotte Michigan.Cool memory.
the missile effect is spooky and really effective especially coupled with the mechanical robotic drone of the machine!..crazy to see the transition from mechanical to the digital games..this brings back dream like memories
Yes! 52 years ago, my 4 year-old self was incredibly impressed by this game in our local pizza parlor. It has remained in my memory as a vague recollection but could never remember the name. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
What a great game, I always like the periscope game where you try to sink the ships. I don't remember the name of that game. Arcades were great back in the 1970s & 80s.
I loved this game so much, I used to stand up very dangerously on a stool, in my local arcade at the the sea (Italy) when I was a small kid in the 70's. Love this video !
It uses the same system that I saw in a Mirage III flight simulator that I was allowed to use at the Tandil Military Air Base (Argentina) in the early '90s. Fascinating.
I'm actually more impressed by analog machines like this and some other impressive pinball machines that can create these impressive effects. Very cool.
Those electro-mechanical arcade games are awesome. The engineering that went into making one of those cabinets is amazing. I'd love to have a room full of those classic games. Thanks for the video.
I can remember a great aerial shooting game where you were using a 'flight stick' with trigger for firing. You had to look through the sights and were presented with three tiny, clearly model, bombers. Controlling the flight stick made you actually, sort of, control the three bombers. But you had to be very delicate or they would fly out of your sights again so it emulated the difficulty of the 'real thing' pretty well. But once you pulled the trigger the sound (or noise) and the flashes made you feel like you were in a fighter plane intercepting actual bombers. Then a big flash with a bang and look, one less bomber! Two to go...
Video games wouldn't look like this for a very long time after this came out! It's always impressive what they could do with the technology available back in the day.
That looks astoundingly badass for 1969! I grew up at the end of the electromechanical days and dawn of the real video games, but there were a couple of older EM machines still in my local arcade, one a helicopter flight/shooting game, looked alot like Namco F1 with the big screen, and another one where you flew a jet over rolling terrain and dropped bombs on missile bases and tanks below. They were still pretty damn fun.
There was a huge electro-mechanical arcade in Daytona in the early 70s full of 10c pinball, mechanical baseball and games like this. Thanks for posting.
I've never played this game, but I remember seeing one still in operation in the early 80's in a 10 pin bowling place. This shows you can make video games without digital technology at all. This is very cleverly done.
Best places to play retro arcade games are pinball wizard in Pelham, NH and Funspot in Laconia, NH. Both places are about an hour drive from each other. Funspot has more video games but Pinball Wizard has over 150 pinball machines in pristine condition. Brings back memories...
gorgeous. the missile launcher glow is so cool, plus the smoke around it almost looks like it's moving. and then the smoke trail that's there after you launch is a great, realistic touch.
Impressive! I believe machines like this weighed upwards of 220kg! For a moment I thought the radar was working lol - my fav electromechanical game (I know showing my age now) was Sega's Jet Rocket (1970) which was better than this one :-)
I came of age just when these Electro-Mechanical were being phased out in favor of space invaders and pac man. This game would have been just as fun as any of those Atari games.
I didn't know there have been arcade games that early. I always thought that it started during the mid 70s. I have to check out how those things worked because they look better than Asteroids, for example. Which technic did those things use? Of course no pixels or real freedom of movement so I would guess those thing worked a bit similar to those cheap early handhelds with an LCD display in the 80s which you could buy at Woolworth for a few bucks, for example. Does anyone know how exactly those machines had been produced and how they worked? Because the "graphics" really look impressive. Looks like those early arcade machines used "movies" made of special effects (for example like the early 90s Lucasfilm/Lucasarts game "Rebel Assault" did, but how exactly did it work back then? I would guess those think didn't have much ram if they used it at all? Were they digital or all analouge? I am impressed because those explosions look better than those used in science fiction movies of that time.
These were equally popular in the uk at this time,i remember playing this in my younger days! What has happened to them now? i assume many were consigned to the scrapheap when video games came in the 1970s.some may even still be in storage in backrooms of arcades in a derelict state their future uncertain.Now these machines are highly sought after by collectors and this is on my all time wish list of items i would like to have!
You are right I'm your same age I think and I just had a vague memory of playing this with my dad....but I remember so well the missile right now that I see this...it freaks me out....what a big flash of memories. Love you tube for such things...my memories from the past getting back. Amazing video for my lon gone memory.
Thanks for uploading this! I remember playing Sega's Periscope quite a bit when I was a kid, another of Sega's electro-mechanical games. STAY AWESOME! :)
@#$% me! That is so cool! Even though they're a little before my time (I grew up in the "video" game age of the late 70s-80's) I love vintage, E.M. arcade games. I wish I could play some E.M. games. With the exception of Chicago Coin Machine Co.'s "Speedway" (1969 - 1975) I've never really played any. I wish we had an official, "National Arcade Game Museum", with 100's - 1,000's of E.M. & Video games. I almost can't believe one doesn't exist. Well, thanks for posting this! :-)
Electromechanical arcades where awesome. Hey, I'm making a series on the history of video games, do you mind if I use a couple of clips from your video?
I had to check this video out thanks to SteveBenway in his latest open tag video, this is really awesome. They do have something like this at The Pinball Hall Of Fame in Las Vegas. = )
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I just picked one of these up today! great classic game. Do you know where I can find a manual? I have the schematic but my manual is so water damaged it is useless and unreadable. If you have a scan, or know where to get one could you send me a message? Thanks DK.
