A four-player, high-speed car racing game where each person uses a joystick to control the speed, direction and brakes of his or her car.One of the first games to use a color monitor, an actual color TV set.
HI-way is a single-player arcade game by Atari Inc., originally released in 1975. Marketed with the slogan “Hi Way — All It Needs Is Wheels”, it was Atari's first game to use a cockpit cabinet. The aim is to dodge cars and negotiate turns down the road.
The game is housed in a large custom rectangular cabinet. Each side of the cabinet has two steering wheels and four pedals. The monitor is set in to the top face of the cabinet and looked down upon. The game uses a 25 inch full color RGB display and does not use color overlays, representing the first full color video game.
Forward-facing cockpit point-of-view, move your crosshairs over jet planes you are pursuing and gun them down! You play as a World War I flying ace who tries to shoot down enemy planes.
A pinball game where a ball and paddle are used to knock out bumpers, hit pockets and a moving target at the top of the screen to score points. Keep ball in play by bouncing it back up and knock out all the targets for bonus points.
It has been produced under different names by Chicago Coin, Exidy and Midway Manufacturing Co.
Wild Gunman is a game that was first released in arcades in 1974 by Nintendo. The original version of the game featured a 16mm-projection screen that had the player shoot the gunman when his eyes blinked. If he or she did so at the right moment, the gunman would be shot down and killed. If they didn't, the player would be shot (in the in-game). The arcade was large and was part of the Simulation System that also included Shooting Trainer, which was much less exciting than its dueling counterpart.
Players move their tanks through a maze on screen, avoiding mines and shooting each other. The tanks are controlled by two joysticks in a dual configuration. Pushing both joysticks will move the player's tank forward, and pulling them both back causes the tank to stop. Moving the right joystick forward while pulling the left joystick back will cause the tank to turn right, while reversing the motion will cause the tank to turn left. The players are represented by one black and one white tank sprite, and mines are denoted by an "X". Points are scored by shooting the opponent or when a player runs over a mine; the player with the highest score at the end of the time limit wins the game.
Tank was also one of very few games to be ported onto 1st generation consoles, usually under the title "Tank Battle".
Speed Race is a 1974 arcade racing video game developed and manufactured by Taito and released under the titles "Racer" and "Wheels" in North America by distributor Midway Manufacturing in 1975. Designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, the gameplay involves the player using the attached steering wheel to maneuver a car alongside a fast vertical scrolling road. The objective is to score points by driving past other cars without colliding with them; more points are awarded for driving faster. Players must do this under a 90-second time limit, which ends the game when it runs out. The gameplay concepts were adapted from two earlier driving electro-mechanical games: Kasco's Mini Drive (1958) and Taito's Super Road 7 (1970).
The original Speed Race and Wheels had an upright arcade cabinet, while Midway's Racer introduced a sit-down cabinet. Taito released an updated version of Speed Race called Speed Race DX in 1975. Two-player versions followed with Midway's Wheels II and Taito's Speed Race Twin.
The game was a worldwide comm
The first pinball videogame.
It is a simple black and white pinball table with basic gravity simulation and controllable pinball flippers. Developed by Terry Niksch and Harold Lee for Atari.
Gran Trak 20 is the follow-up to Gran Trak 10. Unlike the original game it allows two people to race each other, a significant innovation since neither game features computer-controlled cars.