I was at the famous Fun Spot arcade in Weirs Beach New Hampshire today having my normal stroll down memory lane as always when I play here. The sound of classic games bleeping and booping and such with 80s music playing over the speakers.
They just got in some new cabinets either that or pulled old ones out of their storage to keep a rotation to make things fresh. All I know is I never seen them. And it made me think about interesting some of these were designed specially the sit down ones. I mean they had to make these all unique to make you wanna sit down and play them and kinda create atmosphere that made you feel like it was you and the game mono-e-mono. Specially after I played the classic Missile Command in the sit down cabinet format.
The game cabinet had awesome art work on the outside that sucked you in. and as soon as you sat in it. It lit up with the screen your battle field infront of you. Your controls at your helm and additional light up graphics next to you to create this feeling you were actually controlling a defense for a onslaught of attacks of your base
A popular one when thinking of this topic is of course is Discs of Tron.
I mean even the stand up is quite unique in itself. But the enclosed cabinet like pictured here you walk in with the sounds taking over and the amazing graphics for the time and the neon glows all over and lights simulating that you were in the computer world that tron takes place in.
Then I thought about the odd ball cabinets.
Leprechaun is a good example.
sadly this is the best graphic i could find of it. (either it must be that rare or that obscure that no ones payed attention to it)
Its basically a mini cabinet built for small children to play as its the perfect height for them but still have all the fun arcade video game fun that the bigger cabinets had. I never seen another one like it.
Or Wacko which caught my eye immediately when I went there and saw it for the first time
The whole thing is built at a slant which makes it ackward to play but so interesting.
Another machine that was there that they put in recently that I saw today for the first time ever called Fire Truck
Its a sit down with throttle and steering wheel that controls the front of the firetruck and then its a stand up with steering wheel in the rear that controls the rear of the truck. they both operate seperately and the idea is your suppose to work together to navigate the course without hitting the wall. Very crazy zaney game play very fun and different! It can be played single player as the Computer will take over control of the other part!
But anyways what are some arcade weird/odd/unique cabinets you've spotted in your years of arcade gaming?!