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Arcade Cabinet Identification

  • 06-10-2023 05:54PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,945 ✭✭✭✭


    Long shot but looking to see if anyone remembers an arcade cabinet that was around in the early 80's

    it was the first time I had seen a cabinet with an external weapon.

    as far as I can remember it had the Tommy gun affixed to a base but was several feet from the screen and I think it vibrated as the base plate would go up and down.

    The items on the screen were just waves of the same thing that would change every so often like skulls and hot air balloons and you had to shoot them to increase your score



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,021 ✭✭✭✭McDermotX


    Sounds vaguely like Bullet Mark from the 70s perhaps ? Believe they had a few similar type games around the mid to late 70s, but the Tommy Gun reference sounds familiar.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,945 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    bang on!

    That's it! so it's not just a 40 year old fever dream 😁

    I would have played this on Blackpool Pier around '83



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,574 ✭✭✭eddhorse


    Just a note on Blackpool, I was there last weekend for the Play Blackpool event, was great fun. Very surprised how big the Blackpool promenade was, it must have been very cool back in its day. Like every seaside town, the introduction of cheap flights was their downfall.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,945 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    saw this today and thought I would put you to the test, I have the answer if you don't get it

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