Syzygy1 Posted July 26, 2015 Author Share Posted July 26, 2015 Triple Hunt, Armor...Attack!, and Tank are cool, too. And OH MY GOD, VIDEO ACTION! FUCKING VIDEO ACTION!!! DON'T EVER FORGET VIDEO ACTION! VIDEO ACTION! ...I'm like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkSyne Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 My favorites are Sprint 2, Space Invaders, and Pong 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gliptitude Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Well I'll keep the vector games in a totally separate category, and I really don't think there is any comparison. I'll rate almost every vector game higher than almost every non-vector black and white game. So for best black and white games I'm going with NIGHT DRIVER and STARSHIP 1. I might prefer one of the Night Driver type games that preceded Night Driver: Night Racer, 280 Zzzap or NURBURGRING. But i've never played them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyHW Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 I think Night Driver has a more realistic 3D driving feel to it than games like Pole Position and Outrun and all it's clones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebulon Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 Tail Gunner (and especially the Tail Gunner II cab) Armor Attack and my brother says Red Baron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 What, no love for the original Atari Football? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 Battle Zone, if it counts Doesn't count. It's black and GREEN. Just kidding. :-) I forgot about that one. I would say Battlezone, Space Invaders, Asteroids and leave it at that. Color came soon enough and brought so many good games, I can leave the past in the past. I spent too long playing Atari VCS and Odyssey 2 on a black and white TV to have nostalgia for shades of grey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyperboy Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 What, no love for the original Atari Football?My favorite Black and White along with Stunt Cycle!I own 2 2-player and One 4-player football, basketball and baseball. All I'm missing from the sports collection is the Made in Ireland Soccer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syzygy1 Posted December 22, 2015 Author Share Posted December 22, 2015 Ah, chalkboard video games. I played the hell out of Depthcharge this summer on the Internet Arcade. Did you know that Berzerk was going to be a black and white arcade game but was changed to color at the last minute? Damn it now I want to play Canyon Bomber after seeing footage of it on YouTube. I haven't gone to Funspot since two years ago... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Ah, chalkboard video games. I played the hell out of Depthcharge this summer on the Internet Arcade. Did you know that Berzerk was going to be a black and white arcade game but was changed to color at the last minute? Damn it now I want to play Canyon Bomber after seeing footage of it on YouTube. I haven't gone to Funspot since two years ago... I remember they had a Canyon Bomber cabinet at K-Mart in the layaway section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttertweet Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 I'm surprised nobody listed Bug yet. That whole series gets my vote. The arcades around here mostly had Fire Truck and its twin Smokey Joe. I'm guessing I may have played Super Bug somewhere along the line but can't remember for sure. Another (mostly) B&W game I wanted to like was Gypsy Juggler. The yellow marquee had a funky font to it that permanently etched the game into my mind. But it just went too fast and I was never able to get very far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almightytodd Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 I haven't seen a thread like this, so I decided to start one. What is your favorite black-and-white arcade game? I'm talking about the ones from the '70s to 1980. My personal favorite is Space Race, with Sea Wolf as a close second. Feel free to share memories. Hey, thanks so much for the interest in this topic. It gives me another opportunity to resurrect this thread... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoundGammon Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 I remember playing Outlaw by Bally, I think, it was a gun game, b&w! Later Nintendo did a similar game we know as Gunman! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyHW Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 Gunfight is black and yellow, and loads of fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassGuitari Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 Including games with color screen overlays, I like Outlaw/Boot Hill, Starship 1, Sprint 2 (and similar), Night Driver, Space Invaders, Breakout, and Avalanche. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atariboy Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 Firetruck gets my vote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CThiesUGP Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 Sprint 2 and night driver. Love the cabinets Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syzygy1 Posted April 13, 2016 Author Share Posted April 13, 2016 280 ZZZAP and NURBURGRING are nice games, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Pinball PA (formerly known as the PA Coin-op Hall of Fame) has a whole bunch of b/w games that you probably won't find in operation anywhere else. I shot this video when I visited last summer and the place is amazing. I shot footage of game play on some rare games like Shark Jaws, Blue Shark and Laguna Racer. The game play is after the walk through tour if you want to skip ahead. Check out the beautiful Laguna Racer cabinet! It's a simple racing game (typical of it's time) but it's an absolutely gorgeous cabinet. https://youtu.be/MBj3tTD-2xQ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simbalion Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 (edited) Hmm, I need to go there... Soon! Edit: Hmm, I have Thursday and Friday off. If Pinball PA is where I think it is, I might just make the two hour trip out there this week. Looked at some of the pictures of the arcade games they have and I am drooling... Edited April 17, 2016 by simbalion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fultonbot Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 Star Castle and Asteroids were tops for me after 1978. But before that it had to be Fire Truck. I just blogged by Firetruck Haiku. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dauber Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 For me, it's Atari Football and LeMans. LeMans is amazingly addictive... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck D. Head Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 I loved Fire Truck, Stunt Cycle, Super Bug and all the Sprint games. Speaking of which, I am having trouble finding much hardware info on Sprint 8. I see it listed several places as a black and white game, but at least the versions I played had eight separately colored cars. I saw on one site that it had a separate board for each player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 I really don't like sports games, but Atari Football is the only one I'll play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almightytodd Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 Hey, thanks so much for the interest in this topic. It gives me another opportunity to resurrect this thread... ...And by "this thread" I mean the topic I started to promote my YouTube video about video games from the black and white era. I re-did the sound-track and posted the new version on YouTube today. The video covers raster games only (no vector graphics) and has a few glaring omissions that have already been mentioned in this thread (Sprint, Stunt Cycle, and Boot Hill). Also, I don't know if anyone has mentioned the Kee Games Drag Race that was the inspiration for the Activision 2600 version. And finally, there seems to be no love for, "Space Race"; probably because it's another of the pre-microprocessor-based coin-ops so there's no MAME ROM for it. Everyone remembers "Pong" but few remember Atari's second game - as few remember the second astronaut to set foot on the Moon (Buzz Aldrin - you'd think with a name like "Buzz" people would remember...). It was also the second video game that I personally played (...after Pong, of course - and I did get a chance to put a couple of quarters into a Computer Space cabinet a few years later as well). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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