Fly
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Pole Position. From start to final finish line is about 3 and a half minutes.
shortest arcade games that DON'T loop?
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Griffin
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Paperboy. Finish Sunday and it's all over.
carolinamarcg
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Wardner/Pyros is about 20 minutes... I always thought Paperboy should have advanced to the next street.
Did ops push back agains games that could go on for hours?
Did ops push back agains games that could go on for hours?
Cal.50.
Coin Mech
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Hat Trick and most sports games.
Griffin
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Quicker games turn more coins.
carolinamarcg
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I'm trying to think of a game after 87-88 that does loop. Seems like everything had an end at that point. The last game I remember playing all day on a quarter was Gauntlet & that was 85.
Helly
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Heavy Barrel seemed pretty short.
JaydenSilvers
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i assume Sky Bumper (which is sort of a sequel) is short as well.
JaydenSilvers
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Castle of Dragon is about 5 minutes long
Monaco doesn't have an ending.
Mikie, if you can get that far
A number of mid '80s nichibutsu titles do not have endings and loop forever. That includes Soldier Girl Amazon. What's interesting about these games is that after a set amount of levels, the game begins to randomly generate stages.
Tornadoboy
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Toggle - has only 3 levels! Though it has the excuse of only being a prototype
Crystal Castles
Altered Beasts
Aurail
Espial - I forget how many levels it has but you do eventually come to a rather crappy looking boss ship that's pretty easy to beat
Trojan
Bionic Commando
Wardner
Smash TV
Snake Pit
Bad Dudes
Shinobi
Rolling Thunder
Crystal Castles
Altered Beasts
Aurail
Espial - I forget how many levels it has but you do eventually come to a rather crappy looking boss ship that's pretty easy to beat
Trojan
Bionic Commando
Wardner
Smash TV
Snake Pit
Bad Dudes
Shinobi
Rolling Thunder
mecha
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Smash TV is 45 minutes to an hour in length
ask me how I know
probably worth noting, these were amusement devices intended to collect money. they didn't really care about the length just as long as they took your money. see also: hard rom Donkey Kong
Mikie loops
Fair point. Games that have a score cap are interesting. Sega's Road Race is another one that caps the score at 999 points.
