Witchfynde Posted March 22, 2003 Share Posted March 22, 2003 I'll get to the question part first... Back in the late 70s/maybe early 80s, I heard of a funny foiled robbery story on the news, where some thug had run into a 7-11, produced a gun, and demanded the clerk hand over the money. Then a pinball machine in the store intoned "I WANT YOU TO PLAY ME", which confused the robber, as he looked around, didn't see anyway else in the place, cursed and ran out (ha ha!). My question is, does anyone know what game that is? Anyway, onto my favorite attract modes: Berzerk, with it's "coin detected in pocket!" (ha ha), the mumbling from Gorf, and one of the fighting games where a woman talks in a yummy voice (don't know the name of it, it's in some theatre lobby that I go to, but on the down side, the bitch distracts me when I'm trying to concentrate on Tetris!!). Just add your own, and why (pinball games are fine too)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vespertillio Posted March 26, 2003 Share Posted March 26, 2003 "Stop talkin and start chalkin" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Witchfynde Posted March 26, 2003 Author Share Posted March 26, 2003 What was *that* from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vespertillio Posted March 26, 2003 Share Posted March 26, 2003 That was from 8Ball Deluxe. I used to work in an arcade many many moons ago and we had that. One night I got called to open the doors for the police because someone or something tripped the building alarm. Usually the games were all turned off but for some reason the bank that that game was on wasn't. Anyway, they were looking around and one of them happened to walk by it right at the time the attract mode kicked in. The game did it's usual "Stop talkin and start chalkin" and scared the guy so much he jumped around a drew his gun on it. That memory cracks me up to this day. Ahh, the memories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Witchfynde Posted March 27, 2003 Author Share Posted March 27, 2003 That was from 8Ball Deluxe. I used to work in an arcade many many moons ago and we had that. One night I got called to open the doors for the police because someone or something tripped the building alarm. Usually the games were all turned off but for some reason the bank that that game was on wasn't. Anyway, they were looking around and one of them happened to walk by it right at the time the attract mode kicked in. The game did it's usual "Stop talkin and start chalkin" and scared the guy so much he jumped around a drew his gun on it. That memory cracks me up to this day. Ahh, the memories. Heh, that IS funny! Good thing he didn't shoot Yeah, one of my masseuses (sp?) used to work at a Dave and Busters, and she (yeah, a SHE! She's pretty cool...) told of how, whenever they got a new game in, the workers would either come in early to check 'em out or stay afterwards when their shift was over. She told me about how one guy stayed for several hours afterwards checking out some Mech-type game; she tried it once and didn't get what the big deal was. "It's a guy thing" I told her. Yep, a couple of giant robots duking and shooting it out, it's a guy thing, er er er AR AR! (insert Tool Time grunt here ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 Well, it might have been Gorgar (which was the first pinball/arcade game to use speech). Never heard it, so I dunno. BTW I think that it's "Quit talking and start chalking" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Witchfynde Posted March 28, 2003 Author Share Posted March 28, 2003 Well, it might have been Gorgar (which was the first pinball/arcade game to use speech). What, you mean in regards to my question? Hmm, that'd be cool, after all these years, I might have my answer I'll have to hunt around for it on the net, see what I can come up with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 One word... REACTOR! I would walk by, hit the one player button without putting a coin in, and BA_BA_BA_BA_BA_BA_BADADADADA That game had the best music! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Witchfynde Posted March 28, 2003 Author Share Posted March 28, 2003 Ah hell, no kidding, why didn't I think of THAT one? And a pretty good, unique game too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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