you broke my brain

yeah but no… this game was def 3d … plus major havoc doesn’t have a creepy talking head

nope, like I said it was definitely vector, just a bunch of tight lines

yeah wasn’t Sinistar

Yeah I should clarify what I mean by bespoke, as most production games from that era were entirely bespoke (custom hardware designed specifically for the game). I’m trying to discern between “bespoke design from a corporation”, “bespoke design from a small startup” and “bespoke design by some dude in a garage”.

I suspect there’s an interesting story behind this game.

Trying to figure out any info on the game or person(s) who created it. Starting with:

• was this a real coin-op game or fake one (made for the show or say, some hands on herpes educational exhibit etc)?
• what was the hardware? Was it built (as I suspect) on an A8 machine?
• how many were made? did it ever get into production?
• who was behind this? Just one mad programmer in a garage, or his small company hoping to build a bunch of them and get rich etc.

If I had to guess it’s a lone programmer with an idea he figured would make him rich, used the A8 platform and TV to avoid hardware engineering, built a machine or two in a hand-built cabinet, promoted them any way he could, got nowhere, and faded into obscurity.

So many oddities out there. I love the intersection of retro gaming, forgotten prototypes, and obscure media.

Are you suggesting it’s Ray Davies from The Kinks?? He would have been 38-40 at the time of the video, the guy in the video looks younger.