MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: From 1986, one of the world’s first ‘experiential’ arcade games ??

>> I don't recall movement features, but the only one I really played in mid 1970s,
>> when as a kid then, was Atari Highway

http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=503

>Night Driver used a (very lightly) modified version of the Hi-Way cabinet - basically,
>black fibreglass instead of brown, and a few extra stickers on the outside. Played it
>at a go-kart track in Burbank near the airport, if memory serves:

http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=2509

From my 1970s era experience: Highway first appeared at places I went to in fall 1975 and then by following year of 1976 I was seeing Night Driver instead and no more Highway by late 1976.

Back around 2006 or 2007 when former Atari programmer Dave Sheppherd (also involved with Night Driver then) had visited old MAME.net forums and answered questions from various folks, I had asked if there was any relation of the sitdown cabs used for both Highway and Night Driver.

Dave had explained that any sit down model cabs that were still in Atari warehouse inventory would be used for Night Driver instead of Highway. There was an upgrade option for operators to convert Highway cabs to play Night Driver. With Dave's explanation on old MAME.net forum, that confirmed of why I could no longer find cabs that were playing Highway because many operators converted sit down cabs to play Night Driver.

>>I believe the only one that did use a partial car body experience is the custom
>>model of Atari F-1.

Atari F-1 http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=arcadedb&id=24

>> custom model
http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=arcadedb&id=24&image=2

>> The custom model may have been at Disneyland's Starcade back around 1977 iirc.

>The Disneyland connection in or around that timeframe is also ringing bells with me. For
>some reason, I remember it being there at the same time as Space Wars - though they did
>have Space Wars there for years, which was also eventually there at the same time as
>Pole Position.

The Atari F-1 cab may have been on upper floor because there were a few larger size cabs on the upper level along with air hockey tables etc.

I know that when I was in Disneyland's Starcade in summer 1977, I spent most of my time that day playing Exidy's Circus. That was probably my first video game addiction. Nintendo WG would have been my first, but the cost of two quarters per play with Nintendo WG put a damper on that. :-)