Latest Oddball Pickups

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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.

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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.

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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? :)

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That shooting gallery game looks awesome! I want something similar. For now my silent scope 2 works, has a shooting range mode that's a lot of fun trying to get better at!
 
That shooting gallery game looks awesome! I want something similar. For now my silent scope 2 works, has a shooting range mode that's a lot of fun trying to get better at!

Yeah, I'd like to pick up an old EM shooting game some day. Luckily, they're not nearly at big as this one (this is ~8ft long). Silent Scope is a lot of fun too, though I suck at it BAD.

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