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basically every fighter pilot's wet dream.

Yes. In fact, in 1980 we were all trained on an accurate simulation of anti-zeppelin aerial combat techniques. I spent quite a lot of my own money on becoming proficient at it.

True, inflation has happened since 1977 when Hustle , the first implementation of Snake that I'm aware of, was released, and $.25 per play has become $1 per play (source). But Hustle at least offered more than 1 target per credit.

NO

how would you even chose which game was in the Olympics?

That's easy....

For the Summer Games:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
and
http://www.arcade-museum.com/g...

For the Winter Games:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
and
http://www.arcade-museum.com/g...

NO

how would you even chose which game was in the Olympics?

That's easy....

For the Summer Games:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
and
http://www.arcade-museum.com/g...

For the Winter Games:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
and
http://www.arcade-museum.com/g...

I wonder if we'll ever see a simulation of this discrete logic gem? (likely inspired by the terrible Sly Stallone 70s movie of the same name)
This game was doing the whole "running over people in cars" thing long before Carmageddon and GTA.
It came with it's own brand of controversy too.

http://www.arcade-museum.com/g...

...and they certainly weren't Trinitron displays

Shadow mask, I used the word Trinitron for its retro big science effect ...as in "Son... it's Atomic".

You're right ...but that's all you are.

More on the XY Monitor tube that was used in the Real Tempest

If you go to http://www.arcade-museum.com/ and search for Gundam, do you find the one you are looking for?

That would be Sega actually...

Time Traveler

Problem is there is no reward for playing pinball well, but if you play pinball bad, they take away power pills. It is a penalty system, not a reward system.

Sorry, that's incorrect. My father owned this game, among others, and the game starts with NO power pills. You have to earn them by repeatedly hitting the 4 targets at the top of the play-field to light up the letters that spell "PACMAN". Take a look at this scan of the original arcade flyer for full details. The pinball portion of the game was NOT a penalty system. Either your memory is faulty, you are thinking of a different game, or you played a modified version of the game.

And not really even MMO. It's more, as I understand it, like Journey.

I dunno, Journey sounds like it would extend well into the MMO playstyle, what with the Band metaphor translating directly into a party-based format.

Although there may be some job balance issues, with the "Steve Perry"-class being a little too good at soloing.

Can be found here:

I loved that game!!

It not only was a brutal workout, but actually told you how many calories you burned playing it

You're thinking of Mocap Boxing, which when played properly is an exhausting game. It becomes increasingly difficult to actually play the game properly at higher levels though. There are spots where you have to throw 50 punches in a row, in a short time period. I had to settle into a wrist flick that it accepted as a punch to make through those. Even with that small cheat, I still found how far I got in the game was determined by my physical conditioning.

I once watched a pre-teen boy play the game and do nearly as well as I did. He never threw a real punch; he just banged the two gloves together, taking a fraction of the energy to play normally. Some kids will go to amazing lengths to avoid real exercise.

If we're talking the original Rampage, there are a few arcade PCBs on eBay at the moment. It's cheaper & easier to get the PCBs instead of the whole cabinets, though some of them are quite large (certainly larger than cartridges) so storage can be a pain. Obtaining the PCBs and dumping the ROMs with an EEPROM reader would probably be the way to go, legally speaking (aside: this is not legal advice)... Of course very few have the time, money, knowledge, and desire to go through all this effort instead of just downloading some abandonware.

If you actually want to go down this road, consider using KLOV to help; for instance here is the KLOV page for Rampage which has relevant eBay links.

While that's cool and all, why stop with real-world environments? You can ride in the real world any day. Instead, load up Google Mars and cycle up to the summit of Olympus Mons. Or ride Mario Kart's Rainbow Road. Or heck, glide through the air on a vaguely steampunk-ish ornithropter popping balloons for points. Reality is for people with tiny imaginations.

1943

http://www.arcade-gameover.com/1943.asp

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=6769

And the obligitory wikilink...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943:_The_Battle_of_Midway

I'm sure that they mean this game:

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=6769

The Pinballs games with 1943 in the title were Victorious 1943 and World Series 1943 and I don't think either would be referred to as simply 1943.

I don't think any list of "Most Violent Video Games" would be complete without Time Killers. Who needs solid game play or nice graphics when you can just up the ante on blood and gore with the ability to dismember your opponent?

>>>Some higher species might be doing the same thing with us humans.

Ahhh..... you've seen the end of Men In Black 2. ;-) As for this game I'm pretty sure I've already played it on my 70s-era Atari: http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9026

And of course other Pac-Man clones like Maze Craze, Make Trax, Ladybuy, Mouse Trap (cats instead of ghosts - eat a pill and your mouse becomes adog), and so on. Some of these were better than the official Pacman/Ms Pacman from Atari, although I think Jr PacMan was the best of the bunch (it's a real challenge).

Honestly, I think an MMORPG remake of an 80's arcade game was doomed from the start! Although, now that I think of it Frogger MMORPG would be pretty cool.

I played EVE Online for about a month back in '05. I believe that was a remake of Asteroids. Here I am, grinding big asteroids into little asteroids as quickly as possible, again...

Honestly, I think an MMORPG remake of an 80's arcade game was doomed from the start! Although, now that I think of it Frogger MMORPG would be pretty cool.

Agreed. The only APB I knew of was this one:

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=6795

I didn't think anybody else on the planet even remembered it.

While we're on the subject, what was the hardware behind those...

1) Green terminal displays, where you could select a different nose/body style for a car, and have the car displayed in 3D wireframe, one vector at a time, along with its coefficient of drag?

2) The computers with the "put out a forest fire" turn-baed strategy game/simulation.

3) At least I know one! The black-and-white vector lunar lander game was Atari's Lunar Lander, although it was in a custom cabinet design. (I assume it was the same firmware, but I could be wrong. I wonder if any old OSC folks remember those games... hell, there's enough information about arcade game repair/maintenance out there that they might still be running!)

Back in the heyday of laserdisc games Badlands was a one-button only wonder. Basically you had to hit the button to shoot, but only when an enemy drew his gun and innocents weren't in the way.