Lost Game From the 1980s

[Anonymous No.10050380]

I lived in Sacramento in the 1980s and I used to go to a laundromat with my mom before we got a working laundry machine. This took place back in 1983 and I remember when I started going there through the year of 1983 there was a game called Space Defender It was one of those vector games like Asteroids. It had a rectangular playing area along with had you were a triangle or square and you had to shoot spaceships and UFO's. If those things passed you well you died. It was a easy game till level 6 when it got fucking hard like hard of all fucking. For some reason I remember it had a joystick with a red top and one button for shooting and two for the one and two players. It also had a high score which allowed you to put your name in. But for some reason when me and my mom went to the laundromat in late January the game was one. I've never found anything about the game, and I did a little research and found nothing at all about it like it never existed. If any of you guys know something, then that would help with me trying to find this piece of shit. I literally have no information about it and has no evidence online at all.
Anyways hope someone can help.

[Anonymous No.10050394]

It may have been a bootleg of a different vector game. Unfortunately the MAME online database is down at the moment.

[Anonymous No.10050413]

Possibly but I don't know what game it could have been knocking off since I don't think there were any really like it.

[Anonymous No.10050414]

>>10050380
>I lived in Sacramento in the 1980s and I used to go to a laundromat with my mom before we got a working laundry machine. This took place back in 1983 and I remember when I started going there through the year of 1983 there was a game called Space Defender It was one of those vector games like Asteroids. It had a rectangular playing area along with had you were a triangle or square and you had to shoot spaceships and UFO's. If those things passed you well you died. It was a easy game till level 6 when it got fucking hard like hard of all fucking. For some reason I remember it had a joystick with a red top and one button for shooting and two for the one and two players. It also had a high score which allowed you to put your name in. But for some reason when me and my mom went to the laundromat in late January the game was one. I've never found anything about the game, and I did a little research and found nothing at all about it like it never existed. If any of you guys know something, then that would help with me trying to find this piece of shit. I literally have no information about it and has no evidence online at all.
>Anyways hope someone can help.

[Anonymous No.10050479]

>>10050380
you sure its not just Tempest and your having memory rewrite issues?

[Anonymous No.10050484]

I live in Sacramento now, so if you need me to walk by the address of the laundromat and confirm that I don't see any arcade game cabinets around, say the word

[Anonymous No.10050489]

>>10050380
Space Fury?

[Anonymous No.10050491]

>>10050380
Space Duel

[Anonymous No.10050508]

It wasn't tempest, Space Fury or Space duel since the game had no color and the objects weren't abstract like Tempest and were clearing spaceships and some even looked like the player which was a triangle..

[Anonymous No.10050509]

I don't think that the game would be in any laundromats anymore since I've never heard or seen anything about it since

[Anonymous No.10050537]

I remember space defender and I played it in Stockton back in the 1980s and I remember there was a Chuck E. Cheese there but I think it was still called pizza time theater. But I remember the game exactly how you described it. I played the game on my 10th birthday but when I came back in 84 for my 11th birthday it was gone. My friends remembers the game but we never found any evidence it was even real. I thought it was just a thing I made up or confused for tempest but it is real !
I know it’s real because it’s just like I remember from even level 6 and onward being hard of shit

[Anonymous No.10050550]

Well, it's good to know someone else knows what I'm talking about since clearly no one else knows what the hell I'm talking about.
I'm going to log off for the night and will continue this search for the game tomorrow.
Good to see someone else remember this forgotten classic.
Good night!

[Anonymous No.10050802]

>>10050380
nice larp faggot heard this one before
>hurr ur not fun
Try. Just a little.

[Anonymous No.10051015]

>>10050380
This?

https://archive.org/details/zx_Space_Defender_1982_R._Bhattacharya

Or any of these?

https://archive.org/search?query=Space+defender

[Anonymous No.10051338]

>>10050484
There’s a bar right by the capitol back lawn I always go to for arcade vidya

[Anonymous No.10051457]

>>10050802
No one larps about forgetting a game, you autistic weirdo.

[Anonymous No.10052060]

It wasn't one of those games on the ZX Spectrum since we never had the ZX so it wasn't that game but it's draw a picture of what is looked like so give you all something to look at

[Anonymous No.10052076]

This is kinda what the game looked but the eneimes were more 3D looking and they were going towards the screen and looked better

[Anonymous No.10052303]

>>10051338

That's good intel. I can report that I've looked all around my apartment and around the outside of the apartment building, and I have not seen any trace of even one arcade cabinet, Space Defender or otherwise

[Anonymous No.10052330]

>>10052076
That looks a lot like Tempest.

[Anonymous No.10052352]

Could it have been Starhawk by any chance?

[Anonymous No.10052363]

Barrier?

[Anonymous No.10052548]

Nah, I can't be those since the game had a Pac-man like joystick and one red button and then two buttons for the players and the cabinet looked more like Donkey Kong.
I don't remember what was one the cabinet exactly but I'll try to remember

[Anonymous No.10052554]

I can't be those since the joystick was Pac-man like and was along with one red button to shoot and two to choose from player one and two which I think was one of those interchanging from player 1 to two.
I don't remember if it had a scoreboard or what the cabinet design was but it kinda looked like donkey kong

[Anonymous No.10053969]

Is it Pit Fighter?

[Anonymous No.10055425]

Of course, not you fucking retard

[Anonymous No.10055604]

Could maybe ask in a Sacramento forum like
https://www.city-data.com/forum/sacramento/
or /r/sacramento at Reddit. There's also /r/tipofmyjoystick, or... hmm I was going to say Stack Exchange ( https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-identification ), but apparently they don't allow this type of question unless you have hard evidence so nevermind.

[Anonymous No.10055609]

>>10050380
>I used to go to a laundromat with my mom before we got a working laundry machine
Did she do laundry in her bra and panties and how sexy was it

[Anonymous No.10055914]

>>10052076
It wasnt I robot, was it?

[Anonymous No.10055950]

Possibilities are
A. You're misremmebering some other game
B. It was a game with very limited distribution and was unsuccessful, so the cabs and boards were largely repurposed for other games
C. Similar to above, that it was a game on location test and was unsuccessful, so it was never mass produced (this is unlikely given the location - a random laundromat probably wouldn't be the most useful location test spot unless it were a huge laundromat with a popular arcade)

[Anonymous No.10056104]

>>10052554
>I can't be those since the joystick was Pac-man like and was along with one red button to shoot and two to choose from player one and two
Arcade owners have repurposed cabinets since forever. If a game was underperforming they would swap in another game in that cabinet, often a bootleg which were sold as kits.
Never rely on what the cabinet looked like when trying to identify a game, especially if you are looking at that arcade museum site for reference.

[Anonymous No.10056319]

Yeah, it was probably a game with very limited distribution and was unsuccessful since that just makes the most sense and that it was never mass produced. No, it wasn't I robot since it had no color in it and yes, my mom did her bra in the laundry but NO it wasn't sexy.
I'll go check the Sacramento subreddit for anything I can find about it

[Anonymous No.10058105]

>>10055914
No

[Anonymous No.10058129]

UH ?

[Anonymous No.10058131]

>>10050484
In Europe right now but I looked out of my own window and didn't see anything either, so you can rest easy.

[Anonymous No.10058159]

>>10056104
This. Half the game listings on the site use pics of conversions instead of the dedicated cabinets anyway, so even if one you've seen in the wild was dedicate it won't look like the pictures there half the time.

Also note some vector games came in black and white AND color variants, and bootlegs sometimes used black and white monitors for games that normally used color (or had an overlay--which could also be missing from one and making it appear to be black and white).

Source: been collecting/repairing/trading these pieces of shit for over 15 years. Never run across a game called "Space Defender" but I'm asking some friends who own games there's no trace of existing and such to see if they've ever heard of it.

[Anonymous No.10058198]

Could you do me a favor and draw the what the cabinet looked like? This would be a big help.

[Anonymous No.10058206]

Polybius

[Anonymous No.10058210]

>>10058206
omg that's it!!! how did you find it anon??

[Anonymous No.10058226]

Yeah I remember this game. Level 10 was the last one and the boss at the end of it (a giant smiley face with one eye) was almost impossible but if you beat it, a big vector cock would jizz all over the screen and it would say "YOU WIN!" Unfortunately arcade owners didn't like this, so when somebody actually beat Level 10 the backlash got the game recalled. How do I know? That somebody was me. Fun times.

[Anonymous No.10058737]

This is what the cabinet looked like and also, I posted a picture of what the gameplay looked like earlier in this thread. I didn't know the coinbox because it's just expected to be there and there was no sign of any type of company or any maker.

[Anonymous No.10058952]

>>10058737
how about the side profile?

[Anonymous No.10058982]

>>10050380

By the sounds of it, you were playing Polybius, which was an 'experimental' game released by the CIA as a way to test how different colour and light patterns could be used subliminally to create unlawful sleeper cells.

[Anonymous No.10059025]

side profil;e

[Anonymous No.10059262]

this is the real side view and that other one is some hoax by a motherfucker. Also Polybius isn't real at all and is just a hoax you retard.

[Anonymous No.10059271]

Also there was no art on the side since I very much remember that it didn't have any side art of side name

[Anonymous No.10059578]

>>10059271
Yeah very much sounds like a bootleg or a repurposed cabinet to me.

[Anonymous No.10059582]

>>10059578
The name also. Williams might've had an issue with that one.

[Anonymous No.10060243]

probably

[Anonymous No.10060283]

>>10050380
>laundry machine
>I started going there through the year of 1983
>But for some reason when me and my mom went to the laundromat in late January the game was one.
Op is a faggot jeet shitposter. You are all retarded for entertaining him.

[Anonymous No.10060349]

>>10059582
Probably just a bootleg marquee. Operators made their own and companies also sold them as well.

[Anonymous No.10060358]

>>10060283
Who's this absolute porker goddess?

[Anonymous No.10060374]

>>10060283
Who tf is this? I’d rail her into oblivion. She has that crazy look like she’ll do anything

[Anonymous No.10060398]

>>10050489
>>10050491
Omg Polybius found!

[Anonymous No.10060876]

We didn't get our laundry machine till March of 1984, and I said working because we had a old broken one that was to broken to fix.

[Anonymous No.10061651]

>>10060876
They didn't have home laundry machines in 1984 retard. Learn more before larping like you were born before you were.

[Anonymous No.10061669]

Home Laundry machines were invented in 1937 you fucking retard and there are photos of laundry machines from the 1980s you fucking shithead retard. Along with that they also started to become popular in the 1930's to you moron !

[Anonymous No.10061682]

>>10060358
>>10060374
A literal schizo who freaked out on a plane.

[Anonymous No.10061686]

Does Dillweed still post here? He's obsessed with collecting and dumping obscure arcade games from the 70s to very early 80s.

[Dillweed No.10061943]

>>10061686
Yes. And I think this whole thread is a shitpost

[Dillweed No.10061961]

Also for reference, I asked about the cabinet profile (i rarely namefag anymore unless I have to) since getting a profile would generally narrow down the cabinet maker to a couple results. Obviously getting the front profile in useless, and I'm sure the OP knows this.

Look bud, if you want a game to exist, don't larp. Just design it yourself. There's even hardware and software to program for authentic vector hardware, like the Vectrex.

[Anonymous No.10061974]

I mentioned that the thing looked like the Donkey Kong cabinet and I'm not lying just check upwards and you'll see I said it looked like a Donkey Kong cabinet but black so maybe it's some conversion kit knock off. Also, I was able to find other sources talking about it.
Finally it took years to find something else about it
https://retroarcadeblog.blogspot.com
https://www.retrojunk.com/forum/6/46936/lost-arcade-game-from-1983

[Anonymous No.10062138]

>>10061974
Lol yeah, you happened to find the one other post about it on the internet 2 months after it was posted, by chance, after making this topic, when nobody else has mentioned it since 1983. And the poster on that topic, as well as the one after that agreeing with them in that link, both write identically to you including several idiosyncrasies I've only seen in your posts. Amazing how everybody remembers exactly the exact month it disappeared in, too, 40 years after the fact. Also the OP of that post is literally "Somekidsonline." Come on man.

[Anonymous No.10062208]

It's just a coincidence since stuff like that happens every now and then. Also you can't truly know it was me do to the anonymous being of 4chan and also it could be a coincidence that the two accounts have similar idiosyncrasies. People can probably sometimes have similar idiosyncrasies because that can happen.

[Anonymous No.10062341]

>>10061961
>Obviously getting the front profile in useless, and I'm sure the OP knows this.

If what you said was "Could you do me a favor and draw the what the cabinet looked like?" from above, then why would OP think you were wanting to see the side profile? I've been buried in video games for thirty years and I would have answered that question with a drawing of the front just like OP did. That's where the game screen and controls are so obviously it's what's most important right? And both front and side would have art and title information (if such existed) on them. So I don't know why you'd expect OP to think the front would be useless.

[Dillweed No.10063304]

>>10062341
I get what you're saying. Guess I figured most people figured that a game viewed from the front looks the same as any other machine with obvious minor differences.

[Anonymous No.10063331]

>>10050380
Looks like it is time for some lost media searching!

[Anonymous No.10063694]

I think I vaguely remember that name in a bunch of operator manuals I picked from a retired op here in Anaheim. I'll check here in a couple minutes.

[Anonymous No.10063738]

What Really!?
We might actually find it!

[Anonymous No.10063797]

Space Defender confirmed.
OPs cabinet pics look a little different, but I'm sure they're the same game.

[Anonymous No.10063809]

>>10050380
It sounds to me like you are literally describing Williams defender which I remember having a joystick with a thumb fire button on the original console

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk-2L2wWUcM

[Anonymous No.10063835]

>>10063797
>it's real
Holy shit OP I'm sorry I called you a retard. Fucking hell, wow. I kneel...

[Anonymous No.10063848]

>>10050508
>It wasn't tempest, Space Fury or Space duel since the game had no color and the objects weren't abstract like Tempest and were clearing spaceships and some even looked like the player which was a triangle..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4hb9UJBs9k

[Anonymous No.10063940]

I now for sure it wasn't those two since the second one was too different since I know the game I remember didn't have anything to show where you were going to fire. Where you were going to fire was where your ship was located, and the ships looked literary like a 3D triangle but with less polygons probably 5 polygons made up those triangles.

[Anonymous No.10063959]

>>10063940
Its not battlezone is it? Just you mentioned polygons and it was out in 1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctr54kopo8I

[Anonymous No.10063962]

>>10063940
>>10063959
As far as I remember there were UFOs in battlezone too and you see one at 1:25 in that youtube

[Dillweed No.10063974]

>>10063797
All right, I'll bite. Show me more pics of this manual.

[Anonymous No.10063975]

>>10063940
>the ships looked literary like a 3D triangle but with less polygons probably 5 polygons made up those triangles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNNrzEGgpCs

[Anonymous No.10064116]

>>10063974
Can do. Looks like it's actually raster graphics. K4900 monitor. Simutrek also developed Cube Quest upon looking them up, Space Defender must have been a test game.. probably a prototybe of what Cube Quest became.

1 of 4

[Anonymous No.10064119]

2 of 4

[Anonymous No.10064121]

>>10060358
>>10060374
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1W47hEt7kg

After the plane took off without her, the T-1000 on board broke its cover, massacred everyone, and 9/11-ed John Connor's apartment block. Shoulda listened.

[Anonymous No.10064123]

3 of 4

[Anonymous No.10064128]

4 of 4

Apperently it was also in color. Doesn't surprise me since b/w games were out of the picture by the early 80s

[Anonymous No.10064137]

>>10050380
I also grew up in Sacramento but in the 2000s and 2010s. I could check it out when I’m back there later in the summer.

[Anonymous No.10064178]

>>10061651
What the fuck are you talking about? I'm fucking Canadian born in '74 and have never once been to a laundrymat. We always had a washer and drier from as early as I can remember. I can't imagine America was less ahead of the times.

[Anonymous No.10064196]

>>10064178
oh i guess i was just poor nvm. never saw one in person until august of 2003

[Anonymous No.10064198]

>>10064121
I don't know why you are laughing at her. This IS a simulation. Sooner or later you will be sitting beside one that is misplaced background scenery and freak out. I found one in a field buried up to its waste reciting a train timetable.. You'll see. Don't be too quick to call people schitzo.

[Anonymous No.10064202]

>>10064196
JESUS CHRIST WHO REMEMBERS THE MONTH THEY FIRST SAW A WASHING MACHINE???

[Not OP No.10064218]

>>10064137
/vr/ meetup in sac

[Anonymous No.10064226]

>>10064202
who the fuck remembers the month they last saw a game called space defender, let alone multiple people ??? lmao

[Anonymous No.10064261]

>>10064226
...okay. Fine. Touche.

[Anonymous No.10064334]

Well, since it was so mysterious and had such a mystery around it since it was just one big mystery around it so maybe they along with me remembered it since it's such a confusing mess.

[Anonymous No.10064341]

Also I remember the month mainly because I always had to go to the laundromat and now it just wasn't going to happen anymore and it was a small bit of joy I had since that period of time was a ruff time.

[Dillweed No.10064657]

>>10064123
What the fuck fucking scan this dude
This is a fucking big deal holy shit

[Dillweed No.10064660]

>>10064128
>vector-scan and raster-scan
>Only uses a k4900

Fucking what

[Anonymous No.10065357]

An interview with Paul Allen Newell, a designer for Cube Quest (the only game published by Simutrek), doesn’t mention Space Defender at all.

https://www.digitpress.com/library/interviews/interview_paul_allen_newell.html

[Anonymous No.10065437]

>>10050380
Omega Race? If I don't receive a reply within 10 minutes I will stop searching whether this is it or not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqQ_VEZIxwo

[Anonymous No.10065780]

>>10062138
Even if the game exists, I concur with this assessment.

As just one of many examples, I could go months or years between seeing someone make the mistake of writing "do to" instead of "due to" like in this >>10062208 post.

[Anonymous No.10065850]

It's not Omega Race since that game is technically 2D and doesn't play like Space Defender so can't be that game.

[Anonymous No.10065874]

>>10065850
Are you the op? It seems like you're looking over these posts;
>>10064123
>>10063797

[Anonymous No.10065909]

Yay, another piece of lost media!

[Anonymous No.10065963]

I'm the op and I've seen those photos and it could be what I'm looking for a probably is but I was saying that Omega Race wasn't it and the image drawn in the second linked photo would mean the game would probably be a 3D vector graphics game.

[Anonymous No.10065980]

>>10065963
You need to learn how to link and reply to posts properly if you want people here to follow your train of thought.

[Anonymous No.10065981]

I used to play that game that shows up in the background of The Terminator all the time.

[Anonymous No.10066003]

>>10063797
>>10064116
>>10064119
>スペースマサラ
So it was a Japanese game? How was this operator's manual bound together?

This definitely comes across as an elaborate hoax, but I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt because there's a lot of poorly documented things out there in the world of old videogames.
>>10061943
I vaguely recalled seeing your name on here in the past and stumbled across your channel the other day - many thanks for preserving all that stuff. Trying to repair 40+ year old arcade PCBs is well beyond my knowledge and patience level, awesome to see somebody who puts forth the effort.

[Anonymous No.10066234]

i remember this game too, op. same time period and region roughly, though i don't want to dox myself. prove to me you aren't pretending--if you really made it to level 6, what was the boss at the end of level 5? I only got to level 6 once so i'll never forget that son of a bitch. he ate more quarters than any other boss in any other game i can think of back then, but maybe i just sucked at it since you said it was pretty easy (i was quite young so probably)

[Anonymous No.10066413]

>>10066234
I don't remember there being a boss all I remember that it was just the same level getting harder and harder with each level. Maybe your talking about a different game or just shitting me because I know there was no boss to that game

[Anonymous No.10066414]

>>10065980
Don't worry I've figured it out now !

[Dillweed No.10066860]

>>10066003
Thanks dude. Logic board repair can be an elaborate puzzle, but they're so satisfying when repaired.

[Dillweed No.10066867]

>>10066003
Yeah that manual is a little odd. Looks legit but I see where you're coming from. The Japanese and the schematic is definitely not from anything Simutrek, so maybe that's a mistake from the poster, or it's a elaborate shitpost. If it was a shitpost then damn, that's effort.

[Anonymous No.10066908]

Solar Quest?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuH6LLOhUyE

[Anonymous No.10066964]

>>10063797
>>10064116
>>10064119
>>10064123
>>10064128
wtf? Anon you seem to have your hands on some incredible stuff!
>>10065357
>>10066867
>>10066003
is it real or not? The facts don't seem to add up but if this is all just some elaborate bait I admit I've swallowed it hook line and sinker.

[Anonymous No.10066979]

It's not solar Quest for sure and I can and will say it's not a shitpost but I don't know how to prove it to you so you're going to have to trust me.

[Anonymous No.10067064]

>>10066979
Can you please give me a description of the game you're looking for in legible English?

[Anonymous No.10067072]

Space Duel?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSWv7ZjJ4vc

[Anonymous No.10067195]

>>10066964
Most likely explanation is the OP printed out the "manuals" days ago. Then he spent days keeping the thread alive trying to get people invested in finding out what it was, before finally posting the fakes.

Because there are so many unknowns with older arcade games, these kinds of hoaxes are easy to fabricate. Polybius got started in a similar way, where the owner of an arcade website made a fake page for it that included stuff like fake extracted text strings. It's best to remember how easy these things are to fake and not let them escalate into "A Day With Spongebob" type nonsense.

[Anonymous No.10067219]

>>10050479
This takes me back

[Anonymous No.10067242]

>>10067072
Probably

[Anonymous No.10067297]

>>10067064
The Game was a Vector Graphic based video game where the playing area was a rectangle with lines across the playing area. The you played as a low poly Triangle that had to shoot generic looking spaceships and UFO's along with fellow triangles and if you let one of them get past you than you would lose a life. The game had a lead board that let you put in your name with three letters and the game got really hard after level 6 and I don't know what happened after level 10.

[Anonymous No.10067304]

>>10067072
I think I already said it wasn't Space Duel

[Anonymous No.10067321]

>>10067195
Probably. The OP posts his question, then somebody just happens to find an operator manual for the game, then the OP seems to just ignore said documents entirely.

[Anonymous No.10067464]

>>10067195
Polybius exists, or at least the game the story is based on. Its called Akah Arrh, look it up

[Anonymous No.10067556]

>>10067464
I'm not sure who's more guillible: You or the people who believe the game actually exists. Here's the original creepypasta:
>https://www.coinop.org/Game/103223/Polybius
It says very little about what the game actually was. The Akah Arrh shit was from someone who really wanted it to have a more plausible explanation than "a bunch of people fell for a shitpost".

[Anonymous No.10067595]

The nitty gritty history of a lot of games is so unknown that actual things can seem fake, and moderate effort hoaxes can come across as no less plausible than genuine articles. Like that rough English translation prototype of Starfy with cursing appeared to be a fake just based on the absurdity of it all, until more of it was shown and that Nintendo Treehouse interview was found which mentioned a "roughly translated Starfy proto where a character says 'shit'," and now it looks like most agree that it was legit.

[Anonymous No.10067712]

>>10067321
When the manual was first brough up before the photos were shown I know acknowledged the manual so I didn't just ignore it since I pointed out we could find it since we have the manual for it. I still think this could be our best shot to find it. I've seen the photos and the one showing gameplay is very similar to what I described.

[Anonymous No.10067757]

>>10067595
I mean, we've got an interview with a Simutrek programmer who says the company didn't have anything even close to releasing besides Cube Quest. Yeah, he COULD be misremembering, but between that and the oddities in the schematics, it's pretty safe to write off as fake unless more information comes to light.

[Dillweed No.10067764]

>>10067195
That post had a lot of other manuals in it and that's what throws me. Rock n Rope, Dig Dug, Tempest, a good amount of Atari stuff it seems. Also a Japanese Invaders instruction card and a G05 monitor manual, and a ton more. That's an impressive hoard of manuals, if anything.

OP also seems to be avoiding those manual posts, which really throws me off, because I'm starting to think the OP is a big troll and also posted the manual pics because I don't know he's bored or something.

Look I'm gonna be totally honest, if I was asking around on any imageboard or forum or whatever and someone posted a pic of a manual like that, I'd be going apeshit thinking obviously that the mystery had been solved. The fact he's completely avoiding them as if they don't exist indicates clearly to me that either OP's bullshiting, or OP and manual poster are the same person.

[Dillweed No.10067775]

>>10067757
All this aside, I fucking want a Cube Quest so bad.

[Anonymous No.10067776]

What if it's just been Pit Fighter all along? Something to think about

[Anonymous No.10067830]

>>10067776
Why would you think it's fucking Pit Fighter you shithead since that thing is nothing like what we're talking about first off it's a fighter game you retard.

[Anonymous No.10067837]

>>10067764
I didn't mean to avoid it as much as I had but I did knowledge that it existed when it was first mentioned and then I was excited for it to be found and I was off the forums for a while since I had some work to do and I didn't comment on it since I didn't know much about what most of it said and it was a bit late when I came back to the forums but I do say the image on the manual showing gameplay looks a lot like what I remember.

[Anonymous No.10067867]

describe the art on the cabinet.

[Anonymous No.10067880]

>>10067867
Already did and even gave a picture just go up in the thread.

[Anonymous No.10067889]

>>10067880
I'm not reading 130 posts half of which are auto-filtered because you're spouting memes and buzzwords. Describe the cabinet.

[Anonymous No.10067902]

>>10067837
>the manual showing gameplay looks a lot like what I remember
>cabinet looks similar
>same name

does it seem to look a lot like the game youre remembeing probably because maybe it fucking is the same game?

[Anonymous No.10067905]

>>10067830
Maybe your game could be a prequel or spiritual predecessor to Pit Fighter then, just throwing out ideas here

[Anonymous No.10067938]

>>10067764
yeah it's almost too good to be true. Which means it probably is too good to be true.

[Anonymous No.10067962]

Sounds like Beamrider for Atari 2600. But I can't find any mention of it getting an arcade port. Maybe a bootleg setup. Was very common back in the day to just take console games and hack in a credit system and put them in a cabinet for the poor people that couldn't afford a home system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgTxca0pdac

[Anonymous No.10069130]

>>10067889
Okay
The Cabinet looked like the donkey Kong cabinet but it was all black and had no art but it had it's name where the title would be and had the title of the game in white text and there was nothing else.

[Anonymous No.10069136]

>>10067962
It can't be beamrider since it was vector based and the photos and videos I saw the gameplay didn't look much like what I remember and it's not 3D it's just trying to look 3D.

[Anonymous No.10069230]

This is just astroturfed advertising for Arcade Paradise (available now on Gamepass) isn't it?

Everything from the laundromat location to the fake but similar to existing games description makes me think this is stealth advertising for a new DLC pack of games or something like that.

[Anonymous No.10069317]

>>10069230
Well then they would need to be very dumb to even think that would be a good idea since I'm pretty sure no company would do that and besides I'm sure this game exists since I started this thread and I remember it.

[Anonymous No.10069710]

>>10069130
> but it was all black and had no art but it had it's name where the title would be and had the title of the game in white text

Of fuck off. This sounds like some stupid creepypasta. Nothing you've said in this entire thread has made any sense. Why can you barely speak English despite claiming to have been in the US since 1983?

[Anonymous No.10069851]

>>10069710
When have I shown that I can barely speech English and besides typing in English and speaking in English are completely different things. Also, a lot of lost media can sound like a creepypasta have you heard of clock man or some of the other lost media?

[Anonymous No.10069891]

>>10069851
Fucking ESLs stick out like a store thumb. It's all so tiring.

[Anonymous No.10069897]

>>10050380
I live near Sacramento now!

[Anonymous No.10069920]

>>10050380
wtf you’re older than my parents

[Anonymous No.10069932]

Anyone explained to this boomer how memories work?

[Anonymous No.10069934]

Star Hawk?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q6mSqBwXQM

[Anonymous No.10069963]

>>10069934
I already said no

[Anonymous No.10069968]

>>10069891
You said store instead of sore so who's the ESL now ?

[Anonymous No.10070089]

>>10069963
No you didn't you fucking liar.

[Anonymous No.10070108]

>>10070089
Oh, Well I thought I did since it sounded like one of the suggestions.

[Anonymous No.10070295]

>>10069130
>>10059262
How in the fuck is this anything resembling Donkey Kong

[Anonymous No.10070302]

>>10069934
>>10069963
>>10070089

>>10052352
>>10052363
>>10052548

[Anonymous No.10070307]

>>10070295
Sorry I'm not good at drawing

[Anonymous No.10070413]

Axis Assassin?

[Anonymous No.10070418]

Juno First?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abYqxh6QDQw

[Anonymous No.10070425]

Radar Scope?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kbliYx51ok

[Anonymous No.10070502]

Checked out the games and it looks like none of them so it can't be them.

[Anonymous No.10070512]

>>10070502
What does that mean? Both match your description exactly. If the game you're looking for doesn't look like what you've described why not tell us what it actually does look like? Are you mentally unwell?

[Anonymous No.10071229]

I've given it some thought and tried to draw a better side view of the cabinet. This is definitely what I remembered seeing. Hope this helps.

[Anonymous No.10071273]

>>10071229
Nah we're all sick of your weird trolling bullshit. Go post your fanfic somewhere else.

[Anonymous No.10071280]

>>10071273
that poster is not me . but i don’t care if you be leave or not the truth will come out in do time

[Anonymous No.10071776]

>>10071229
Hey, Stop trying to impersonate me and also try the hell is the back part of it gone? also it just looks like a cabinet bucketed all black. In the front drawing I made had a white screen and the controls

[Anonymous No.10071787]

>>10070512
They kind of match it but there are parts that don't match it since non of them are really 3D like I said and it's not from behind and none of them are Vector Graphics

[Anonymous No.10072080]

>>10071776
I am the op you motherfucker this isn't some hoax retard you're trying to impersonate me impersonating little bitch

[Anonymous No.10072086]

>>10072080
You fucking shut up you fake ass shithead and listen up I'm the real guy and your just some fag retard pretending to be me !

[Anonymous No.10072168]

>>10072086
ME SHUT UP? I am the OP who has been with this thread since I started it and I am trying to found out the history behind space defender. Your a troll who's trying to take my name away from me you cunt motherfucker fucking leave and quit trying to derail the thread asshole

[Anonymous No.10072738]

>>10071787
>and it's not from behind
What does that mean?

[Anonymous No.10072895]

>>10069230
I have no idea, but it's definitely a strange thread and seeming more like coordinated BS. The OP seemingly ignores the operator manual, then insists that he isn't ignoring it, but is still ultimately just ignoring it. The manual poster gives very little info about where he got it (despite seeming to have a handful of legit manuals), and while convincing, there's definitely inconsistencies with it (doesn't look old enough, unclear binding, etc).
My guess is it's some sort of elaborate hoax or a promotion for an indie game of some sort.

[Anonymous No.10072961]

>>10072895

Why would anyone put substantial effort into promoting anything commercial on /vr/?

[Anonymous No.10073624]

Sure you weren't playing some sort of bootleg Vectrex setup?

[Anonymous No.10075298]

>>10073624
I don't think a stock Vectrex could run Pit Fighter though, you'd have to account for that somehow

[Anonymous No.10075814]

>>10073624
That doesn't look bootleg nor do I think there's any way to hook a coin op to a Vextrex

[Anonymous No.10075957]

>>10072961
It could be one or two guys making a small project, so it wouldn't be too farfetched.