Rare Flight Combat Simulator Game

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Got this game in a lot deal. Damm cool cab and looking foward to getting it working. Putting it out here to see what you guys know about it.
 

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That was made by a company called Microprose out of Hunt Valley, MD. I live in Hunt Valley, about 3 miles from where their HQ was. They used to test their protos at the Space Port in Hunt Valley Mall. F-15 isn't necessarily rare... it was probably the game they produced the most of. I thought it was kind of boring, but I know a couple people that really liked it.

They made 2 other games, IIRC... BOTSS (Battle of the Solar System) which saw production, and another game that the name escapes me. I remember it had a green cabinet. I don't think that game made it out of the proto stage.

Microprose isn't around anymore, but their old CEO still does gaming stuff... for the Wii.

-Mike
 
That was made by a company called Microprose out of Hunt Valley, MD. I live in Hunt Valley, about 3 miles from where their HQ was. They used to test their protos at the Space Port in Hunt Valley Mall. F-15 isn't necessarily rare... it was probably the game they produced the most of. I thought it was kind of boring, but I know a couple people that really liked it.

They made 2 other games, IIRC... BOTSS (Battle of the Solar System) which saw production, and another game that the name escapes me. I remember it had a green cabinet. I don't think that game made it out of the proto stage.

Microprose isn't around anymore, but their old CEO still does gaming stuff... for the Wii.

-Mike

Our tech said you have to be into flying to get into it but is a cool ass cab.
 
The F-15 Strike Eagle franchise was out for the PC back then as I recall. Think they made a couple of versions. Never saw the arcade version BITD.
 
Yeah it was a pretty cool game. The company made a decent product but many of the boardsets were ginormous. I have a botss that needs some monitor work but that game rocked. good luck with it.
 
I probably spent 100 hours on the Atari computer version of this game as a kid. It was just very basic wireframe graphics on the 8 bit computer, but man was it ever complex and fun.
 
Spent many hours there BITD. :)

Yeah, me too. I was a beast on their pins. They'd be set for 3 replay scores, and I'd hit them all day and just leave them whenI got bored. Played a lot of Street Fighter 2. Man we used to get some awesome matches there!

Luca's (or Vittorio's) Pizza and Space Port. It was like a routine.

-Mike
 
They used to test their protos at the Space Port in Hunt Valley Mall.



Pictures I took (1994):

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You can see the front side of F-15 in the second picture.
Check out that sign over the pinballs.

I ran that joint soup to nuts for a week on a repair agreement. Fixed up all the games nice and helped increase their revenues, which was apparently never very good. I hear it was doing a miserable $1100/wk before it finally closed.
 
They used to have a guy that worked there named Joe. Really nice guy, ran the place very well. From what I heard, back around 1990 or 91, he had closed the arcade for the night and had his wife in the game room with him when the district manager came in. It was against policy to have non employees in the game room after hours, and he was fired on the spot. After that, the place really went downhill. Joe ended up working for my dad for a few years at our gamerooms.

Space Port closed a couple years later, and then somewhere around 1994, a Fun Quarters opened up on the lower level, right near the escalator opposite Sam Goody (same guys that had the auction at Carrolltown Mall in Eldersburg about a year and a half ago). They were pretty much opened until the mall died altogether.

-Mike
 
They used to have a guy that worked there named Joe. Really nice guy, ran the place very well. From what I heard, back around 1990 or 91, he had closed the arcade for the night and had his wife in the game room with him when the district manager came in. It was against policy to have non employees in the game room after hours, and he was fired on the spot. After that, the place really went downhill. Joe ended up working for my dad for a few years at our gamerooms.

Space Port closed a couple years later, and then somewhere around 1994, a Fun Quarters opened up on the lower level, right near the escalator opposite Sam Goody (same guys that had the auction at Carrolltown Mall in Eldersburg about a year and a half ago). They were pretty much opened until the mall died altogether.

-Mike

Yeah I remember I got out of the service in '92, made the trip down to Hunt Valley a couple of times, but very soon after that they closed it down. :( Damn shame because IIRC they still ran many good classics including a few vectors.

Thanks for the pictures too! Those take me back.
 
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