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Vauge arcade memory type recolection.

1980-20..1980-20..
edited December 2009 in Chit chat
This has been bugging me for a couple of weeks now, and id considered starting a thread about it several times and decided against it. As i havent had time to try and find the answer on t net and to be honest i dont know where id start im going to ask the question here, ive not got great hopes of solving the mystery but you never know.

Ok heres me question, ive got a vauge recollection of seeing a game in an arcade probably early 90s that used some kind of holagram technology / projection. I cant clearly remember any details about it and i didnt play it because it was expensive and i didnt realy understand how it worked. Is this a fake memory, did it realy exist can anyone help me:-o.

If i was to try and describe it, id say it contained physical 3d blocks and the holagram images would appear from behind them and had gaudy colours.

I may be off me head!...:oops::-?:-o
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited December 2009
    The only Arcade I remember using any kind of Hologram Projection was some unplayable filth by Sega called Time Traveller, I think they did one more like this before they realised the games were shit :lol:
    Every night is curry night!
  • urbanupstarturbanupstart
    edited December 2009
    The only one I remember was one that had you starring as a cowboy in a white hat and outfit.... Hang on, just checked boozeys time traveller on wikipedia- that was the one!
  • zeropolis79zeropolis79
    edited December 2009
    I remember that one... our local arcade charged a fortune to be able to play it..
  • 1980-20..1980-20..
    edited December 2009
    Thats it! boozy top man.
  • GrazGraz
    edited December 2009
    That game totally blew me away when I first saw it. There we all were, thinking that the 3D holographic chess game in StarWars was a thing of the distant future... And in the local arcade there was something much more advanced and mind-bogglingly cool. I remember walking around the table-top domed screen while a few people sat around playing, totally transfixed as the 'little people' fired at eachother. Then I ran home to tell dad! Not seen it anywhere since, though you can buy it on DVD to play... Not the same without that amazing domed screen.

    Never got round to playing it. I guess it was crap :D :D
  • joefishjoefish
    edited December 2009
    It wasn't a dome display, it was a concave hollow so you had to stand in front to see it properly. The characters appeared to stand on the table in front of you, but it was an illusion - the reflection of an ordinary monitor in a big curved mirror. All the action took place on one 2-D plane - no-one ever walked in or out of the screen.
    Joefish
    - IONIAN-GAMES.com -
  • frobushfrobush
    edited December 2009
  • joefishjoefish
    edited December 2009
    Whilst on holiday in Fuertaventura I saw a fantastic pinball table that used a hidden screen reflected in the glass cover of the table. It would look like aliens were running around or sitting at a bar in the upper area of the table. There were actually sensors up there so you knock them over with the ball and they'd fall down. Then a UFO would hover over the table and drop more.
    Joefish
    - IONIAN-GAMES.com -
  • XTM of TMGXTM of TMG
    edited December 2009
    joefish wrote: »
    Whilst on holiday in Fuertaventura I saw a fantastic pinball table that used a hidden screen reflected in the glass cover of the table. It would look like aliens were running around or sitting at a bar in the upper area of the table. There were actually sensors up there so you knock them over with the ball and they'd fall down. Then a UFO would hover over the table and drop more.

    That's "Revenge from Mars". It sure looked cool, but I liked the predecessor "Attack from Mars" better, was totally hooked on that one for a while in the mid-90s.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited December 2009
    I've never really been a fan of pinball tables, but I can play Devil Crash on the Megadrive, or Revenge of the Gator on the Gameboy for hours :D
    Every night is curry night!
  • GrazGraz
    edited December 2009
    joefish wrote: »
    It wasn't a dome display, it was a concave hollow so you had to stand in front to see it properly. The characters appeared to stand on the table in front of you, but it was an illusion - the reflection of an ordinary monitor in a big curved mirror. All the action took place on one 2-D plane - no-one ever walked in or out of the screen.

    Hmm, the one I saw, you could walk all around it. They had it in the center of the arcade. Modded version perhaps? Memory playing tricks on me? Same game though.
  • joefishjoefish
    edited December 2009
    Graz wrote: »
    Hmm, the one I saw, you could walk all around it. They had it in the center of the arcade. Modded version perhaps? Memory playing tricks on me? Same game though.
    Maybe you're getting it confused with the tuppeny horse racing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Arcade_complete_view.jpg
    Joefish
    - IONIAN-GAMES.com -
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited December 2009
    Is today 'National spell forum topics wrong?' day ? ;) Second one today !

    Honestly it just winds me up when poeople cant spell properley when they create new threads. Only takse a second to check your spelling doesnt it ?
  • milemile
    edited December 2009
    psj3809 wrote: »
    Is today 'National spell forum topics wrong?' day ? ;) Second one today !

    Honestly it just winds me up when poeople cant spell properley when they create new threads. Only takse a second to check your spelling doesnt it ?

    i presume all your spelling mistakes are intended. lol
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited December 2009
    It was called Time Traveller and it was like the Dragon's Lair games (press left at the right time etc). Digital Leisure put it out on DVD a few years ago along with the Dragons Lair games and Space Ace. (They also released the light gun laser disc games, but I've no idea how they would have worked on DVD?)

    There was also a fighting game made using the same hollogram techonlogy called Holosseum. It was a very basic fighting game and runs fine in MAME if you fancy trying it out (it's rubbish though)

    http://caesar.logiqx.com/php/emulator_game.php?id=modeler&game=holosseum
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited December 2009
    mile wrote: »
    i presume all your spelling mistakes are intended. lol

    Ha ha cheeky g!t, course they are ! Theres me thinking it was witty instead you think i do actually spell like that !
  • 1980-20..1980-20..
    edited December 2009
    Psssssst witch 1 deed i spill rong.
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited December 2009
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    I've never really been a fan of pinball tables, but I can play Devil Crash on the Megadrive, or Revenge of the Gator on the Gameboy for hours :D

    And indirectly related ... I've never been too much into pinball games/table either, but I do remember playing an OKish one on the A*hem*iga back in '93 ... don't remember the name of the game though, each level/table had a theme, one being a cemetery (don't remember the rest) ... the music stands out as being well made (in my mind). It might have eventually been made for the PC(DOS) also.

    Ring bells?
  • XTM of TMGXTM of TMG
    edited December 2009
    Yeah Normski, that's either Pinball Dreams or Pinball Fantasies from 21st Century Entertainment. Don't know the PC versions, played them on the Amiga.

    Intro from Pinball Dreams on YouTube here (too lazy to embed), just love the music ...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezXDynQYRCc
  • frobushfrobush
    edited December 2009
    ZnorXman wrote: »
    It might have eventually been made for the PC(DOS) also.

    Ring bells?

    I remember the PC(DOS) version - it had really good PC 'beeper' music and fx.
  • frobushfrobush
    edited December 2009


    A bit like this!
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited December 2009
    Thanks XTM and Frobush!

    Is there is a site similar to WoS where one can get Amiga games or am I asking a "denienced" question?

    (if so then I ask the mods to edit appropriately).
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited December 2009
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    I've never really been a fan of pinball tables, but I can play Devil Crash on the Megadrive, or Revenge of the Gator on the Gameboy for hours :D
    I also love Revenge of the Gator. I havn't played it in ages though, so I'll be booting it up on my DS later ;) (I've no idea where my cart has gone though. I havn't seen that in years). If you like Devil Crash then give Pinball of the Dead on the GBA a quick go. It has 3 tables, but the first one is easily the best. I can play that game for hours on end too!


    ZnorXman wrote: »
    And indirectly related ... I've never been too much into pinball games/table either, but I do remember playing an OKish one on the A*hem*iga back in '93 ... don't remember the name of the game though, each level/table had a theme, one being a cemetery (don't remember the rest) ... the music stands out as being well made (in my mind). It might have eventually been made for the PC(DOS) also.

    Ring bells?

    I loved playing these games back in the day. I tried playing them a little while ago, but I was dissapointed with them :( You can still buy them from what I understand. As far as I know, they are avalible for I-pod touch etc
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited December 2009
    Bermondsey Bob wrote: »
    I also love Revenge of the Gator. I havn't played it in ages though, so I'll be booting it up on my DS later ;) (I've no idea where my cart has gone though. I havn't seen that in years). If you like Devil Crash then give Pinball of the Dead on the GBA a quick go. It has 3 tables, but the first one is easily the best. I can play that game for hours on end too!

    Aye! Cheers Bob I'll have to try that pinball out, saw it a year or so back and meant to rustle it, must've slipped my mind.
    Every night is curry night!
  • STeaMSTeaM
    edited December 2009
    frobush wrote: »


    A bit like this!

    That and Pinball Fantasies were 2 of the finest games on t' Amiga.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited December 2009
    Well I'd just like to say cheers again Bob been playing that Pinball of the Dead and it's really good, it's just like Devil Crash. Which I've been wanting more of for almost 20 years, Dragons Revenge was a shit sequel, and Alien Crush wasn't very good at all.

    I've only played the first table and I managed to kill Judgement and Hierophant before I lost my balls oo-er missus :D

    I think I'll be investing some more of my free time into this game in future :)
    Every night is curry night!
  • zeropolis79zeropolis79
    edited December 2009
    Bermondsey Bob wrote: »
    I also love Revenge of the Gator. I havn't played it in ages though, so I'll be booting it up on my DS later ;) (I've no idea where my cart has gone though. I havn't seen that in years). If you like Devil Crash then give Pinball of the Dead on the GBA a quick go. It has 3 tables, but the first one is easily the best. I can play that game for hours on end too!

    I love playing Revenge of the Gator too! excellent stuff!
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