Raccoon Lad
08-21-2003, 12:44 PM
Ok, I'm not sure this belongs in the main forum, but last night I had a dream... I was at a place sort of like CGE, but no vendors, and ONLY arcade games...not just video, but electro-mechanical, pinball, skeeball, the works.
Anyway, while I'm there, I discover an arcade game...one so amazing, I recall it in full detail. A game not quite like any before, this games name:
"Incredible Journey"
The games cabinet was quite yellow, as I recall, with a blue marquee with the words "Incredible Journey" written in a bold, slightly italicised, cursive sttyle font, in white letters with a thin black outline.
The only controlls were a light gun, and a start button.
What drew me towards this machine was the laser-disc animated title screen, and the mechanical pole which raised from a hole on the right side of the controll panel. This pole was kinda like an automatic cars radio antenna...and attached to it (much like a fox tail on a classic car), was a stuffed critter. Useless, but it certainly added charm to the game.
Anyway, the game itself was an "incredible journey" towards your home world. You were at the front of a large star cruiser (seen only from the inside, looking out through a window) and blasted stuff that flew by. The backgrounds were generated by laser-disc, and I believe most of the objects were video overlay.
The stuff you shot at was stuff like comets, asteroids, and shooting stars. You also had to shoot at fuel sattelites (much like the space section of Zaxxon) to keep your ship's fuel level from dropping to zero, "Saturn's" to replenish your bullets, and "Mars's" to replenish your life-bar.
I didn't make it past the first stage, but I saw as someone else passed the first stage. I guess, after every stage, you reach a "rest stop" planet, and hop in a "space Hot-rod" and zoom across the planet's surface. This is when the "antenna" on the controll panel would raise, and rock music would start blaring. You'd skim across fantasy tropical jungles and such blasting fuel satellites, and falling rocks and such.
Well, that's the game I dreampt of.
Anyone else vividly fantasize of a fictional arcade game?
Anyway, while I'm there, I discover an arcade game...one so amazing, I recall it in full detail. A game not quite like any before, this games name:
"Incredible Journey"
The games cabinet was quite yellow, as I recall, with a blue marquee with the words "Incredible Journey" written in a bold, slightly italicised, cursive sttyle font, in white letters with a thin black outline.
The only controlls were a light gun, and a start button.
What drew me towards this machine was the laser-disc animated title screen, and the mechanical pole which raised from a hole on the right side of the controll panel. This pole was kinda like an automatic cars radio antenna...and attached to it (much like a fox tail on a classic car), was a stuffed critter. Useless, but it certainly added charm to the game.
Anyway, the game itself was an "incredible journey" towards your home world. You were at the front of a large star cruiser (seen only from the inside, looking out through a window) and blasted stuff that flew by. The backgrounds were generated by laser-disc, and I believe most of the objects were video overlay.
The stuff you shot at was stuff like comets, asteroids, and shooting stars. You also had to shoot at fuel sattelites (much like the space section of Zaxxon) to keep your ship's fuel level from dropping to zero, "Saturn's" to replenish your bullets, and "Mars's" to replenish your life-bar.
I didn't make it past the first stage, but I saw as someone else passed the first stage. I guess, after every stage, you reach a "rest stop" planet, and hop in a "space Hot-rod" and zoom across the planet's surface. This is when the "antenna" on the controll panel would raise, and rock music would start blaring. You'd skim across fantasy tropical jungles and such blasting fuel satellites, and falling rocks and such.
Well, that's the game I dreampt of.
Anyone else vividly fantasize of a fictional arcade game?