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Re: From 1986, one of the world’s first ‘experiential’ arcade games ??
01/06/14 11:49 PM
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> 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.
I vaguely remember that thread. Wish there was an archive of the old forums' posts somewhere.
> 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.
Interesting. I wonder if that means that there were some early-production Night Driver cabs in brown instead of the regular black. If memory serves, both were fibreglass with the colouring moulded-in, so wouldn't really lend themselves to repainting.
> 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.
Hm. Didn't realise that Night Driver was offered as a conversion; I always thought it was only available as an original cab. Interesting.
> 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 cab was there well into the 80s, too - and I want to say that I can remember seeing it there in the 90s (upstairs), but could be mistaken on that one. My recollection was that it disappeared for a few years, but came back around the time in the early '90s when the Sega hologram games were in there.
Starcade seemed to have a really unusual approach to how games would rotate in and out: a game would be in there for years, disappear, then reappear several years later. However, I largely grew up outside of the US, so my memory may be flaky based on which country I may have been living in at a particular time and when I was visiting the 'States.
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