Children's Coin Op Ride-On w/2600 Outlaw

[fergojisan]

The mall where I used to live in NJ (the Mall is now used-to as well :( ) had a small section of ride-on toys for little kids. One of them was a horse or wagon or both, but it had a small b&w monitor in it, and it was running a version of Atari 2600 Outlaw (where you have to shoot the wagon). I think I remember seeing it there as early as 1980, and they had it there through the 90s, which I could not believe. I never tried it, so I don't know what the object was. I don't even no what made me think of it after all these years. I always meant to take a picture of it, but I never did. :angry: Does anyone know anything about it? Hopefully this is the right forum to post this in. :)

[Sothy]

shoulda pulled up in a truck in the middle of thie night and snagged it.

[y-bot]

How many 70's western shooting arcade games are there? It wouldn't make sense for an arcade/ride-on machine to have an Atari 2600 in it. Is there anything like that known? I know there is an Atari Outlaw machine and Midway Gunfight but there are probably more. I could see one of those games being made in to a ride.
y-bot

[kingpong]

The North Hanover Mall in Hanover PA had one of these in the early 80s. It has probably been about 20 years since I last saw it, but from what I remember it sure did look like the 2600 version. Definitely not the arcade Outlaw or Gun Fight.

[Videogamerdaryll]

The mall where I used to live in NJ (the Mall is now used-to as well :( ) had a small section of ride-on toys for little kids. One of them was a horse or wagon or both, but it had a small b&w monitor in it, and it was running a version of Atari 2600 Outlaw (where you have to shoot the wagon). I think I remember seeing it there as early as 1980, and they had it there through the 90s, which I could not believe. I never tried it, so I don't know what the object was. I don't even no what made me think of it after all these years. I always meant to take a picture of it, but I never did. :angry: Does anyone know anything about it? Hopefully this is the right forum to post this in. :)

What mall was it..?

[fergojisan]

What mall was it..?

It was the Middlesex Mall on the outskirts of South Plainfield, NJ.


If it really did use Atari Outlaw then it must have been a modified version.

It was definitely Outlaw, because I looked at it pretty closely after I started collecting (which was over 10 years ago). I wish I had had the foresight to take a picture or plop a quarter in, but I felt stupid doing that. :embarrassed: The attract screen had the wagon going by endlessly, which if I'm not mistaken, was one of the game variations in the cartridge.

[fergojisan]

Being it's a kiddie ride, it was probably either variation 15 or 16 (1 player, with wagon scrolling by)

I asked a couple people about this so far:

(Jerry Jessop)
(David Crane)


Thank you Scott.

:rocker:

[Kid Ice]

I asked a couple people about this so far:

(Jerry Jessop)
(David Crane)


Man I love these boards sometimes. Where else can a regular guy ask a question about some obscure, half-remembered hardware from 25 years ago end in less that a week tune in for responses from the godfathers (or flat out GODS) of the industry?

[Kid Ice]

Man I love these boards sometimes.

"sometimes"? LOL

Addiction and love aren't quite the same. :)

[Griking]

For what its worth I remember these games as well. I remember playing on a few other of them when my grandparents used to take me shopping with them when I was a young kid in the 70s. They were usually in front of or rightinside department stores. I know for a fact that there used to be one in front of Woolworth's in the Trumbull Shopping Center in Trumbull Connecticut back when I was young. I don't remember enough about it to remember exactly what game it was but it was definately a riding game with a built in screen with an Outlaw like game. After reading this question I must have spent HOURS online searching Google for a pictire of the game but I couldn't find anything.

[Muscelli]

Being it's a kiddie ride, it was probably either variation 15 or 16 (1 player, with wagon scrolling by):

http://home.ptd.net/~scottith/outlaw_2.jpg

I asked a couple people about this so far:

(Jerry Jessop)
It was certainly not sanctioned by Atari but I do remember coming across one of these in the late 80’s since my daughter was born in 1986.

(David Crane)
Nope, never heard of such a thing. It certainly wouldn’t have been too hard to modify a 2600 to play as part of a ride, but to play only the stagecoach game version would have required a special ROM. Since that would have required reverse-engineering, one might assume that they licensed the code from Atari and had someone make the code change.

Waiting to hear from a couple well-known machine operators to see if they recall anything.

I just like how you "casually" ask David Crane, one of the biggest icons of gaming... @_@

[sniperCCJVQ]

Well, I remember the same thing here in Canada when I was a young boy (early 80's) but it was Activision's Stampede.

The kiddie ride was a horse with a monitor hook-up and buttons so you can play the game.

http://www.atariage.com/2600/screenshots/s_Stampede_2.png

[rbudrick]

I just like how you "casually" ask David Crane, one of the biggest icons of gaming...

Yes, and who in the past has been very difficult to get a hold of, heh heh (well, in my experience), lol. He's usually very private, though he attends CGEs and such, as I understand it.

-Rob