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Maybe they were recreating one of the handheld 'game and watch' versions. To be honest, that's what I think of when soemone mentions Donkey Kong. My friends and I rarely had spare cash to spend at amusement arcades, but we could get the handheld games for christmas etc.

Ah wait, I think this was it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Traveler_(video_ game)

http://www.hortonaviation.com/timetrav/ttpics.html

http://www.ggdb.com/GameByName.aspx?vid=3113

http://www.arcadeflyers.com/?page=flyer&id=4696&im age=1

Yup, that's the one.

Seems it was '91 not '86 (Junior High and High school were a blur - the key word being high).

Here is another classic dual screen handheld from Nintendo: Game & Watch. Would be cool if they ported this to the new DS.

The dual-screened Game & Watch version of Donkey Kong was the best!
Every time I open my DS I'm reminded of that game. It and Snoopy Tennis entertained me on long car rides... and when the batteries died you could push on the LCD screen for some cheap entertainment.

The dual-screened Game & Watch version of Donkey Kong was the best!
Every time I open my DS I'm reminded of that game. It and Snoopy Tennis entertained me on long car rides... and when the batteries died you could push on the LCD screen for some cheap entertainment.

Actually, what amuses me more are those shows where bringing up this clarification of pictures requires reqpeatedly hitting the enter key. Honestly, wouldn't the process at least be automatic? ^_^ I can just see the job listing:
Help Wanted - CIA Computer Operator - No prior experience operating computers necessary. Must be able to attain a high score of over 9,000 on Decathlon

Does anyone remember this game Time Traveler from Sega I never played it, but I recall it being a holographic video game.

But I haven't seen an analog watch that can play Pacman yet.

It's an ugly beast. That latest pic bears more than a passing resemblence to the original Game&Watch dual screen games.

best game ever

Further to my last post, check out these screenshots.

Arcade Zaxxon
ColecoVision Zaxxon
Atari 2600 Zaxxon

I feel like *such* a nerd... once I read this I wanted to see it right away. Anyway, for the rest of you, The Pac Man watch. I'm not even sure, I may have played with it sometime in the past.

Heh, reminds me of some of the old dual screen game and watch... ...well, better that than Virtual Boy!

from the Bill France article:
The broken record would be about violence, and it would seem that the warnings have all been issued.
But, try these three points for starters:
- If a parent wanted their children to develop attitudes like Gary Ridgway, the confessed killer of at least 48 women, these games might provide a good training ground.

Okay, so the Green River killings started in July 1982, according to cnn. Instead of offering reasons as to how Gary Ridgway developed his mindset and the various warning signs related to a confessed serial killer, Bill France decides to warp this into a video game issue. Therefore, let's see what games may have inspired the rampage. Perhaps he was re-enacting a twisted version of his experience in Lasso? Or Naughty Boy?

If you need to speculate, look at the guy's history and work from there. The quickest article I could find is here. Interesting that the article states:

... by the time Ridgway and his second wife divorced in 1981, but coworkers remember Ridgway carried a Bible,...

You see that! And this was JUST BEFORE THE KILLINGS! Now go and speculate!

Yeah and, they were all predated by Digital Derby. Bunch of Johnny-come-latelies.

Remember, Universal is a part of the IDSA as well, not just because of Blizzard, but Universal themselves made 31 Coin-Op Games in the 1980s. and we all know how lawsuit happy Universal is.

"Universal vs Nintendo & Coleco"
"Universal vs. Sony"
"Universal vs MP3.COM"
And the list goes on and on.

Now the real landmark game IMO, was Mach III. With laserdisc backgrounds and computer generated targets, it was slightly more challenging than Battlezone, and much more visually stunning. I was a starving college student when it came out, but I pumped at least $20 a week into that machine just to get my daily adrenaline fix.

That and Centaur. Man, those were the days when pinball machines rocked.