Some classic games found!

[shmuppyLove]

Not entirely OT since one is a shmup, but I happened across a couple of games at a hotel I was at today.

Slug Fest!


Cue Ball Wizard in the back, the one in the foreground is?


Just realized now it's spelled incorrectly


These are in the Games Room at the Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel.

[xbl0x180]

Hahaha. Wow, that Gyruss with the roll-on stick is far out in spite of the misspelling. We had that arcade at UCSD's KSDT webcast radio station office. I was at an Embassy Suites in Santa Ana, California where they had a coupla sit down table-top arcades with Galaga and Pac-Man

[PC Engine Fan X!]

That'd be referring to them "cocktail table" cabs as they were called back in the early 1980s. The ol' early '80s arcade gamer veterans like myself still know what you're referring to. They came in four basic flavors: full-sized upright cabs, mini caberet cabs, deluxe sitdown cabs, and lastly, the aforementioned cocktail table cabs.

In the mid-1990s, there was the "Low Boy" based upright cab that was half as tall as a standard full-sized generic Dynamo upright cab & still roomy enough to fit a 25" to 27" RGB monitor if so desired for maximum visual pizazz/impact.

One local arcade that I used to patronize back in the mid-'90s had some Low Boy cabs sporting some shmups like OutZone & Strikers 1945. It was just a matter of grabbing a folding chair, credit it up, sit back & enjoy. Even the USA region Seibu Kaihatsu SP1 powered Battle Balls (aka Senkyu in Japan) from U.S. arcade distributor Fabtek was in-housed in such a Low Boy cab as well. Ace arcade puzzler to chill with back in the day.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_˜

[moh]

AHHH!!!! I WANNA PLAY THAT GYRUSSSSSS CAB!

Looks like im gonna run off to sheraton for a night =D

[Deca]

I think I remember playing Slug Fest years ago, it looks extremely familiar!

[PC Engine Fan X!]

There was a Slug Fest at my local Funworks back in the early '90s...everytime you scored a homerun, you'd get a cool baseball card as a prize. Usually the cards were the Fleer ones. If I was lucky enough to score a bunch of homeruns, five or six cards was the end result.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[shmuppyLove]

Next time I'm there (in a couple weeks I think) I'll make sure to take some quarters with me lol

[brokenhalo]

the mystery pin is hurricane.

i used to play the heck out of cue ball wizard at a bowling alley back in the day. real fun table.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Here's a clip inside a brand new Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theater circa 1983:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... KS2xJcx8G8

The original CEC site in San Jose, CA right across the street from the world-famous Winchester Mystery Mansion (Stevens Creek Blvd.) was huge. It was also the one time location site for the 1999 California Extreme show (just before the CEC building got plowed over for a new shopping center redevelopment project).

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~