A little love for Empire City: 1931

pookdolie

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Loved the gangster / film noir theme. I mean, they really tried. It also has some of my favorite attract sounds & music.

This is one I remember very well from BIID, though I couldn't figure out how to play it at age 10.

Anyhow, I don't see it talked about very often on here, so...now it has a new thread. :D
 
I've never seen the real thing, but it plays great in MAME. This suffers from being a cheapo JAMMA conversion that uses standard stick and buttons. I think if it used a positional gun it'd be a lot better.
 
I think it's a very original game and took a different direction with having a tense score and a dark theme. I'm okay with it being a conversion kit and having no dedicated cabinet, as some installation I played were well done. If you dig the gangster theme, I also recommend Dead Connection although its perspective is zoomed back further.

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