A few months ago I picked up a fully working SlickShot (1990) off ebay for only $100. It's somewhat of a hybrid between a pool table and an arcade game. You use an actual pool stick to hit a small cue ball across basically a felt topped control panel. The ball disappears directly under the monitor where both it's speed and direction are registered by an IR sensor and the ball is shown on the monitor where you aimed it. It's a fairly fluid motion of once the physical ball disappears it then appears on screen hitting the other virtual balls. The game features 2 modes of play with straight up 8 ball and then of course an assortment of selectable trick shot situations. It's a big ugly wood grain cab where even tho it's of a normal width it's actually nearly as deep as 2 cabs. Tho it will never win a beauty contest, it's a nice not so standard game to the otherwise joystick/steering wheel/light gun usual collection.
Out of curiosity, where there any other oddball games like this produced? Where you hit an actual physical object and it registers on screen using motion sensors? Like a virtual foosball for example or maybe a vs. computer airhockey type half table/half arcade cab. I remember a soccer game where the ball was tethered and you would kick it and I believe it was shown on a monitor. And there was a boxing game like PunchOut! where you would put on an attached boxing glove (christ, imagine the shit living inside that thing on a busy day) and would hit a padded target that registered to hit the opponent onscreen. There's a Fist of Northstar game like this also I believe, only with 6 or so pads surrounding the monitor area. I've played one or 2 of the sword fighting games also where you swing a sword and would hack the ninjas onscreen. But that was sort of like a pre-Wii controller.
What else is out there like these misfit games?
I know there are a few other owners out there but here are a few pics of Slick Shot for those that haven't seen one:
Out of curiosity, where there any other oddball games like this produced? Where you hit an actual physical object and it registers on screen using motion sensors? Like a virtual foosball for example or maybe a vs. computer airhockey type half table/half arcade cab. I remember a soccer game where the ball was tethered and you would kick it and I believe it was shown on a monitor. And there was a boxing game like PunchOut! where you would put on an attached boxing glove (christ, imagine the shit living inside that thing on a busy day) and would hit a padded target that registered to hit the opponent onscreen. There's a Fist of Northstar game like this also I believe, only with 6 or so pads surrounding the monitor area. I've played one or 2 of the sword fighting games also where you swing a sword and would hack the ninjas onscreen. But that was sort of like a pre-Wii controller.
What else is out there like these misfit games?
I know there are a few other owners out there but here are a few pics of Slick Shot for those that haven't seen one:
