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Apr. 23rd, 2011 03:35 pm
Writer's Block: Beep, Bop, Boop
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Would you believe a Computer Space coin-op arcade machine in 1976?
Though I probably played some Pong-related thing prior to this, this is the one I remember most vividly.
I was on vacation with my parents in Florida, this was my first trip to the US.
We were North of Miami somewhere, in a boat marina.
There was a Computer Space machine in the burger joint we were at and my dad and I played it.
It was so weird.
The game is basically a duel between a saucer and a rocket ship, with a sun in the middle providing gravity. So you had to use your thrusters to avoid being sucked in. And your shots would curve around the sun if they got close enough.
Cinematronics released a souped-up version of the game as a coin-op called Space Wars.
Though Space Wars was actually a PDP-1 game first, it was definitely the logical evolution of Computer Space.
Would you believe a Computer Space coin-op arcade machine in 1976?
Though I probably played some Pong-related thing prior to this, this is the one I remember most vividly.
I was on vacation with my parents in Florida, this was my first trip to the US.
We were North of Miami somewhere, in a boat marina.
There was a Computer Space machine in the burger joint we were at and my dad and I played it.
It was so weird.
The game is basically a duel between a saucer and a rocket ship, with a sun in the middle providing gravity. So you had to use your thrusters to avoid being sucked in. And your shots would curve around the sun if they got close enough.
Cinematronics released a souped-up version of the game as a coin-op called Space Wars.
Though Space Wars was actually a PDP-1 game first, it was definitely the logical evolution of Computer Space.
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