what biker game I played?

[mäsäxi]

Hello!

 

The year was probably 1984, and I was in finnish amusement park, in Linnanmäki I guess and there on cafeteria was some arcade games, first lovable game I identified from the KLOV as Roller Aces, but second I don´t know what it is...

 

It was motorbike game and it was seen from the sky, there was buildings on the sides of the game area and in the middle was road, graphics were nice, (and that is of course what I thought twenty-one years ago!) there were puddles on the road too, thought I don´t remember were they harmful or not.

 

There was one certain thing which made this game different to all other arcade games I had ever seen.

 

And that was that background was made with computer graphics, but biker was PLASTIC thingy on the top of the screen!

 

So, what game is it?

 

I fear taht I never ever can play that game again, as it cannot exactly emulated from the rom, as rom just has the background unless some programs that biker on binary code form too....

[crc_73]

I know what you're talking about, but wouldn't have a definitive answer, as there were probably lots of variants made. I've seen a few (years ago thought), and from what you describe, it's something like the first link below, only with one motorbike. The orientation may have been more like the second link.

 

http://marvin3m.com/arcade/motochp.htm

http://marvin3m.com/arcade/fonz.htm

 

Anyway, check out the whole site - there is a driving list a little over half-way down the page:

http://marvin3m.com/arcade/

 

If you're going to google, you'll need keywords like "Driving Games Electro Mechanical Motorcycle Scrolling Background".

 

Best of luck with it.

[mäsäxi]

thanks for reply!! I just started to think is my question THAT hard, and then I saw your answer! Those machines in those two first links looked great! Never knew that my all time favourite tv show had a game too!! Fonz seems to be MUST to have machine !!

 

I will check that last link, but before that I must tell a bit more about motorbike game I meant.

 

1) It´s computer graphics were COLOURFUL, I am not completely sure, but I somehow remember that graphics were better than on MSX(-1) type hardware, thought I am not exactly sure. But they were colourful, that is for sure!

 

2) Biker was not little plastic 3D model, but it was FLAT plastic, just like in some old handheld games, like the one which had flat formula car above game screen.