I'm kinda a sucker for weird, gimmicky games... usually I avoid buying them because they don't have the replay value that you'd need for home use. But for whatever reason, I decided to pick a couple up this week.
First, as some of you may have seen from my other thread, is Tower Of Terror. This is a "shocking" game, where you hold onto the handles, while it simulates shocking you. It's pretty much identical to Addams Family Generator. Pretty cool effect, and it has a smoke generator and a printer to give you a ticket saying how good/bad you did.
The other game that I picked up is Quick & Crash. I always play this one when I see it at an arcade... it's a cool shooting gallery game with a couple moving targets and a coffee mug that explodes when you shoot it. There's not a whole lot to the game though... just four quick rounds. The replay value comes from trying to get good at it and beating the best time, which can be just a few seconds.
I wish it was like the PS2 game, which has 4 modes. One is the normal arcade mode... then there's a "chain hit" mode which lets you keep shooting until you miss a target. There's also "one shot", which you try to hit the given target in the quickest amount of time with just a single bullet... and "10 second" mode, which you try to hit as many targets in 10 seconds.
I see it runs off a simple board with a fast Z80 clone... maybe I should hack it to have some other modes?
DogP
First, as some of you may have seen from my other thread, is Tower Of Terror. This is a "shocking" game, where you hold onto the handles, while it simulates shocking you. It's pretty much identical to Addams Family Generator. Pretty cool effect, and it has a smoke generator and a printer to give you a ticket saying how good/bad you did.
The other game that I picked up is Quick & Crash. I always play this one when I see it at an arcade... it's a cool shooting gallery game with a couple moving targets and a coffee mug that explodes when you shoot it. There's not a whole lot to the game though... just four quick rounds. The replay value comes from trying to get good at it and beating the best time, which can be just a few seconds.
I wish it was like the PS2 game, which has 4 modes. One is the normal arcade mode... then there's a "chain hit" mode which lets you keep shooting until you miss a target. There's also "one shot", which you try to hit the given target in the quickest amount of time with just a single bullet... and "10 second" mode, which you try to hit as many targets in 10 seconds.
I see it runs off a simple board with a fast Z80 clone... maybe I should hack it to have some other modes?
DogP
