What Game Did Not Live Up To It's Potential?

Bobwiley

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You've been there. Scan the arcade. Out of all the games, this looks like it could be amazing! Drop your (or your parents') hard earned money it, only to walk away disappointed in what could've been...

With the technology available at the time, what would have made that game an all-time favorite/classic?


I keep thinking about Track n' Field. We were at the arcade last week and there was a new game where you play as 8 bit Mario or 16 bit sonic and do the hurdles and stuff on a platform (similar to DDR games). Then I was like, wait, the NES had the mat! They should've done this with Track n Field back in the day!
 
If you didn't know how to play Dragon's Lair when you first saw it, you helped make Cinematronics richer within about 45 seconds.
 
Track and Field trackballs: not quite there
Track and Field buttons: pencil trick issue
Track and Field button guards: potential now
Track and Field Tall 4 player cocktail with 3 additional inebriated friends:

Full potential finally achieved.
 
If you didn't know how to play Dragon's Lair when you first saw it, you helped make Cinematronics richer within about 45 seconds.

If you didn't know how to play Zaxxon when you first saw it, or the weeks, months, years or decades after, you helped make the evil bastard who put it on location richer within about 45 seconds. I'm looking at you useless Sega "flight" stick...
 
ROTJ should have been a Vector ... thus completing the trilogy. YMMV :)
1000000% this! I distinctly remember walking into my local Straw Hat Pizza, seeing ROTJ, and audibly shrieking like my daughter did earlier this week upon the Swift/Kelce engagement news... then I noticed it wasn't a vector... and then I played it... and then left very sad, didn't even bother eating pizza.
 
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