Home made mechanical games


There was also a guy in Britain that builds EM games of his own design. The one i can remember had a thief climbing a building... windows on the building were lit up. If a silhouette appeared in the widow as you were passing you got busted and dropped back to the ground... or something like that. He has them on display for people to play in an "arcade" of sorts. He had some real neat stuff he created... but I can't find the link now, and the Googler isn't working for me today. Thought I bookmarked it, but I've been through everything on both internet appliances. I will keep looking.
 
Just saw this today and thought it's not 'EM' ... i thought it would actually be pretty cool to make a digital EM gun game with a complete 3d printed playfield. maybe a few servo driven animated targets but primarily use the pepper's ghost effect.

read the x/y with some pots mounted to the gun base and read the position at time of trigger pull.

could be kind of cool actually.

 
I know its not electro mechanical but here is a prototype I built a while back of a fully mechanical wall mounted or table top game and I'm in the development stages of a few fully fledged arcade machines that I designed. just have to get the funds to actually build them.:cry:
 

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There was also a guy in Britain that builds EM games of his own design. The one i can remember had a thief climbing a building... windows on the building were lit up. If a silhouette appeared in the widow as you were passing you got busted and dropped back to the ground... or something like that. He has them on display for people to play in an "arcade" of sorts. He had some real neat stuff he created... but I can't find the link now, and the Googler isn't working for me today. Thought I bookmarked it, but I've been through everything on both internet appliances. I will keep looking.
His name is Tim Hunkin. I visited his shop in London. Very interesting devices, and a very creative imagination.
 
His name is Tim Hunkin. I visited his shop in London. Very interesting devices, and a very creative imagination.
Thanks for the holler back! I googled his name and checked stuff out for a while. He's got some pretty brilliant stuff. I didn't see anything that jogged my memory from way back when I first saw all the EM stuff I'd seen before... and still didn't see the thief climbing the building game that I remember... but I did see some other cool stuff!

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