yes... its name that game

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 7:30 pm

in the beginning of Fast Times at Ridgemont High, where the camera is following around the mall, briefly glancing at the characters there is an arcade machine being played

black background, fire rate seems quite fast for a game from around 1982. the scene being played was just the player craft and a large plane-like enemy above.

SuperGrafx · Post by **SuperGrafx** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:01 pm

I seem to recall quite a few arcade machines in that film. Was it Pac-Man?

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:07 pm

no. there is a shot were they pan towards spicoli, and a little kid comes into the picture and has his hair ruffled.

its the first machine in that shot. some guy is playing it. also game is shooter and on topic.

Dale · Post by **Dale** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:29 am

Maybe Phoenix?

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:33 am

sorry not phoenix

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:06 pm

From your vague descript of this early 1980's arcade game shooter, could it be Exidy's "Gorf" shown in the 1982 cult favorite of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"? (Gorf is notable for being the first arcade game to have a multi-engine for the various different shooter stages and the first "Insert Coin" phrase spoken with digitized synthetic speech effect to draw players into checking it out). Some stages of Gorf are indeed fast and require fast reflexes from the player to survive them to progress to the later stages (where the difficulty is much harder than before)... ^_~

There is a scene where the Sean Penn character is supposedly playing a session of Pac-Man (but the "FTARH" camera shows a 3rd-person from behind shot of him) shows that it's on the "Press One Player or Two Players Button" to Start Game game screen...I thought that was silly myself -- it really should've shown an actual Pac-Man game session being played rather than the boring static "Start" screen and the film characters "pretending to play a heated session" of Pac-Man. You can't fool an old retro 1980's arcade gamer like myself with that stupid shitty error shown in this film...WTF was the film director thinking that she could get away with that shit?! Arcade gamers aren't stupid, y'know? (Could it be a simple case of "film scene continutity error" or what? We'll never know the true answer to this little cult film scene of Pac-Man gaming session, will we?)..... ^_~

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:50 pm

PC Engine Fan X! wrote:From your vague descript of this early 1980's arcade game shooter, could it be Exidy's "Gorf" shown in the 1982 cult favorite of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"? (Gorf is notable for being the first arcade game to have a multi-engine for the various different shooter stages and the first "Insert Coin" phrase spoken with digitized synthetic speech effect to draw players into checking it out). Some stages of Gorf are indeed fast and require fast reflexes from the player to survive them to progress to the later stages (where the difficulty is much harder than before)... ^_~

There is a scene where the Sean Penn character is supposedly playing a session of Pac-Man (but the "FTARH" camera shows a 3rd-person from behind shot of him) shows that it's on the "Press One Player or Two Players Button" to Start Game game screen...I thought that was silly myself -- it really should've shown an actual Pac-Man game session being played rather than the boring static "Start" screen and the film characters "pretending to play a heated session" of Pac-Man. You can't fool an old retro 1980's arcade gamer like myself with that stupid shitty error shown in this film...WTF was the film director thinking that she could get away with that shit?! Arcade gamers aren't stupid, y'know? (Could it be a simple case of "film scene continutity error" or what? We'll never know the true answer to this little cult film scene of Pac-Man gaming session, will we?)..... ^_~

I'd have to suppose perhaps, the film director hadn't gotten permission from Bally Midway MFG Co. to show actual Pac-Man game footage in the "FTARH" film so the next best shot (at the very least) was to show the "Start" screen due to "legal" reasons. Yeah, "Pac-Man mania" was hot back in the early 1980's...you did not want get sued by Bally's intellectual property lawyers, no fucking way! (It would seem that everybody wanted to cash in on the current wave of Pac-Man mania...a whole glut of Pac-Man related merchadise flooded the USA during that time.) I see the reasoning for the way it was filmed now (the Pac-Man game session) in "FTARH" film.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:09 pm

You're quoting yourself? WTF?

Limbrooke · Post by **Limbrooke** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:45 pm

Specineff wrote:You're quoting yourself? WTF?

I was going to say something but seems you've taken trouble of pointing out this... strange situation.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 2:32 am

give him a break, nobody usually replies to him

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 3:00 pm

But he's really informative either way. Keep it up.

Shocky · Post by **Shocky** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 3:07 pm

I happened to watch the movie yesterday and can confirm that it is GORF. In a later scene they also show the whole cabinet with the name.

Phoebe Cates was HOT.

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:21 pm

thanks a lot pc engine fanx!

sorry though, gorf was shown in the very beginning of the scene (as it is flashing arcade footage), but it is not the one i seek. there is another shooter actually being played by a visible actor. the enemy character and player ship look just like the drawing i made above, though please excuse the MS-paint-ish-ness.

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 12:36 am

It's funny how the ship you drew looks like the boss from Every Extend.

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 12:26 am

SFKhoa wrote:It's funny how the ship you drew looks like the boss from Every Extend.

I agree with SFKhoa -- yep, it does remind me of that Every Extend "bomber"-based game although that not the actual mystery arcade shooter game that the Cap'n is looking for..... ^_~

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

UnscathedFlyingObject · Sun Nov 05, 2006 3:01 am

Wow, that's a really crude drawing. I'd be proud if it was my four years old's.

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 8:02 pm

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 5:52 pm

UnscathedFlyingObject wrote:Wow, that's a really crude drawing. I'd be proud if it was my four years old's.

yeah thanks daddy. :B

Post by **nZero** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 8:30 pm

SFKhoa wrote:

Robotic Steve Irwin, LOOK OUT

zaphod · Post by **zaphod** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 11:26 pm

Looks like Pleiades (game on phoenix hardware)

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 6:14 pm

zaphod wrote:Looks like Pleiades (game on phoenix hardware)

kick ass sir. says right on MAWS that it appeared in "Fast Times..."

zaphod wins everything on the planet...

also, MAWS lists emulation as imperfect. is it playable?
i don't have any access to try it out right now.

Damocles · Post by **Damocles** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 7:02 pm

captain ahar wrote:also, MAWS lists emulation as imperfect. is it playable?
i don't have any access to try it out right now.

Tecmo Arcade Classics. Pretty...well...crap.

Alpolio · Post by **Alpolio** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 8:49 pm

captain ahar wrote:
zaphod wrote:Looks like Pleiades (game on phoenix hardware)
kick ass sir. says right on MAWS that it appeared in "Fast Times..."

zaphod wins everything on the planet...

also, MAWS lists emulation as imperfect. is it playable?
i don't have any access to try it out right now.

No. His response wasn't in the form of a question.

"What is Pleiades?" There, I win!

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yes... its name that game

yes... its name that game

Sounds like it could be Gorf in "FTARH" flick?

Re: Sounds like it could be Gorf in "FTARH" flick?