Vanguard

CocktailsWanted

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Anybody remember this one from back in the day?
The boss was called the "Gond"
Sure wasted a lot of quarters on this in 1982.
 
Yes, looks like it's very rare.

Pac-Man is rare, too. Only 124 machines.
 
Pookdoodle, why be a dick to the guy?

CocktailsWanted, Vanguard's a pretty popular game. I had one a few months ago, it's pretty cool. When I was a kid I had it for the Atari 5200, my dad and I used to play it all the time. It may be the first game I can remember playing (that and Centipede, and Super Breakout, also on the 5200).
 
I was just trying to remember what games I played when I was a kid other than the obvious ones and Vanguard came to mind.
 
I was just trying to remember what games I played when I was a kid other than the obvious ones and Vanguard came to mind.

the only 14 made is saying that centuri the company that made vanguard made 14 titles that are in the klov database. This does not mean only 14 vanguard machines were made.
 
Once this commercial for the 2600 version came out, I never wanted to play the game. Luther taking out the Gond made me constipated. The laugh is just....:eek:

 
I loved that game on the 2600... The arcade version was too hard, the 4 fire buttons were too challenging for me at such a young age. I remember remembering that the "new" Star Trek ripped off the Vanguard music.
 
I always thought the sideart was *cool* in Vanguard!

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I loved that game on the 2600... The arcade version was too hard, the 4 fire buttons were too challenging for me at such a young age. I remember remembering that the "new" Star Trek ripped off the Vanguard music.
:) Other way around. Vanguard actually ripped off the music from Star Trek (intro)...and also Flash Gordon (energy pods). The arcade game is great, sideart is awesome, the Atari ports are both good for different reasons. That Atari commercial is as classic as the game.
 
Always loved this in the arcades and on my 2600. For the time it actually came out pretty well on the 2600 compared to other games. But of course the arcade was the best, loved the music.
 
I have a nice working one been trying to sell to someone in Fl. for a couple years with no luck.
 
In Gond We Trust

Might be the same machine that I played as a kid, I grew up in Miami.

Arcade was the "Yumbrella" located at US-1 and Red Road, near Sunset. Later it became "Nathan's".
 
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