Long shot...

But it sure is a great game, and pretty much the only "retro" arcade left to emulate.



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> Long shot...
>
> But it sure is a great game, and pretty much the only "retro" arcade left to
> emulate.
>
>
>
> www.trator.com.ar - 3D Stuff and toons from me!
>
> -Cracken-
>


Nah. The greatest game of all time is Tempest. The Speed Buggy machine I had was stripped out to make room for a Big Buck Hunter. Believe me, there were no regrets :)

Now gutting a Tempest, Defender, or Centipede machine... that's a different story...

:)

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> Long shot...
>
> But it sure is a great game, and pretty much the only "retro" arcade left to
> emulate.

Played it on Steem the other day - still great!


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Tempest and Defender are two of the greatest no doubt, but Speed Buggy is even better. I would probably gut a single monitor speed buggy too. It just doesn't do it proper justice.

Given a choice between

Defender and Tempest and Centipede OR a 3-monitor Speed Buggy, I'd take the Speed Buggy.

Hi. I've never heard of Speed Buggy before...well, at least I certainly don't remember anything about it. Can someone summarize what this game is all about and if possible post some pics? It sounds like fun :)

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You drive a speed buggy around a race course dodging rocks and logs and stuff. If you hit certain banners or flags you get points or extra time. Three monitors gives you nearly a 180 degree field of view. You sit down inside a big cabinet and it's almost like you are driving a real car.

Probably one of the first arcades to have three monitors (can someone verify this?)

Only bad thing was that it cost $0.50 per game. I was lucky to have a rich friend who supplied me with lots of cash to play this game. I remember dumping $20 of my friends money into this machine one day, got pretty good at it. Was one of the last arcade games I enjoyed playing.

The secret is to know which rocks to crash into.

There is a link to a video of the games attract mode on the post I linked to on the front page, however this is a video of the PCB hoooked up to a television monitor. You really need to sit down inside the three monitor cabinet to get a feel for what it was like to play. The single monitor version pretty much makes it just slightly better than other standard racing games.

> Only bad thing was that it cost $0.50 per game. I was lucky to have a rich
> friend who supplied me with lots of cash to play this game.

Have you seen the prices on new games in the last decade or so? :)

Didn't I see your name on the high score list for Tempest years ago?

I had 1,237,500 on Gorf myself back in the day, even got
listed in Electronic Games magazine for that score.

> Tempest and Defender are two of the greatest no doubt, but Speed Buggy is even
> better. I would probably gut a single monitor speed buggy too. It just doesn't
> do it proper justice.
>
> Given a choice between
>
> Defender and Tempest and Centipede OR a 3-monitor Speed Buggy, I'd take the
> Speed Buggy.

And I'd use the three monitors on other games. But you've got your favs, and I've got mine :)

I wonder if they'll emulate the three monitors a la Night Warriors and do the single monitor version too. I've never seen the three monitor cab myself.

>
> Didn't I see your name on the high score list for Tempest years ago?
>
> I had 1,237,500 on Gorf myself back in the day, even got
> listed in Electronic Games magazine for that score.

Good one, but it probably wasn't me that you saw. If it was on a machine high score table, then maybe (BDD- somewhere around 2 million) :)

> > Only bad thing was that it cost $0.50 per game. I was lucky to have a rich
> > friend who supplied me with lots of cash to play this game.
>
> Have you seen the prices on new games in the last decade or so? :)
>



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