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General Chat => Arcade Lifestyle => Topic started by: level42 on July 15, 2014, 10:22:49 AM

Title: Do you also still discover "new" games ?
Post by: level42 on July 15, 2014, 10:22:49 AM

I've been in this hobby now for about 9 years and it still amazes me that I learn about games I've never heard of before.

Today I saw some pictures from CAX and noticed a Barrier. It's a vectorbeam game:

http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=2598&image=1

The side art first made me think of Wizard of Wor.

What's interesting is that the bezel covers up a huge area of the monitor, like what you see on the flyer.

Found two videos but I'm still not quite sure what the aim of the game is.

http://youtu.be/xQmSq53SqbU

http://youtu.be/zppYaKPDtM4

Would be fun to keep up this thread whenever you guys discover a "new" game that you hadn't heard of before :)

Title: Re: Do you also still discover "new" games ?
Post by: Laszo on July 15, 2014, 11:27:03 PM

Looks like the headon game, pass the ship (barrier) without hitting one.

Title: Re: Do you also still discover "new" games ?
Post by: Etienne MacGyver on July 16, 2014, 09:14:52 AM

That bezel is sick !!  Really cool  :o. I love it.

Have to play it to judge the game, but the way they did that bezel is awesome  :spaceace:

Title: Re: Do you also still discover "new" games ?
Post by: lesoleil70 on July 16, 2014, 10:25:00 PM

I admit, I went 39 years without playing Juno First. It was not a game I experienced in local arcades, home PC etc...nothing.
Played it in a 60-1, fell in love, did some basic research and found out the rest of the world knew, and I didn't....there you know my dark secret.

Title: Re: Do you also still discover "new" games ?
Post by: Chuckie egg on July 17, 2014, 04:25:49 PM

Odd little game that, never seen it myself I bet the cab is awesome

Title: Re: Do you also still discover "new" games ?
Post by: level42 on July 17, 2014, 04:40:08 PM

Quote from: lesoleil70 on July 16, 2014, 10:25:00 PM

I admit, I went 39 years without playing Juno First. It was not a game I experienced in local arcades, home PC etc...nothing.
Played it in a 60-1, fell in love, did some basic research and found out the rest of the world knew, and I didn't....there you know my dark secret.

Don't worry, I had never heard about Juno First until I got into the hobby either....and this while there actually _was_ an Atari 8 bit version, which isn't bad at all...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_RS7ka7edQ
But I never had it in my "collection"....and I never saw it on any other machine around me....nor in any arcade....

Title: Re: Do you also still discover "new" games ?
Post by: Vond on July 17, 2014, 04:41:49 PM

That Vectorbeam game looks awesome!
I'm sucker for those type of games anway, and with that artwork. Damn.  :o

Title: Re: Do you also still discover "new" games ?
Post by: ckong on July 17, 2014, 11:45:51 PM

I've heard of Barrier, I even played it a few times ......... in  MAME!!!!  :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

shame on me.

Title: Re: Do you also still discover "new" games ?
Post by: zxthehedgehog on July 25, 2014, 10:13:01 PM

Two words: Kick Rider.