MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: Future Flash

>Holy shit. This game might be my holy grail. Laser Base.

>Back in the early 80's, our car broke down in the middle of nowhere, so I had to spend 2
>hours in a diner while we waited on a quick repair across the street. Like every other
>restaurant on the planet, they had 2-3 arcade games, but there was this one I'd never
>heard of.

>I definitely remember text on a blue background, but the attract mode never showed any
>actual gameplay; it just explained it. Just text, maybe some enemies and point values,
>but never a demo. It sounded like a Missile Command ripoff, but controlled with a
>joystick, so there was no way I was wasting one of my quarters on it. Pretty sure I
>played a speed-hacked Pac-Man instead.

>The car got fixed and we drove away, but I always wondered what that weird game was and
>for some reason it always stuck with me. Weird how memories work. 30+ years later, I've
>looked for this game again my whole life, having no idea what the name of the game was,
>but constantly checking MAME. I've never found anything matching my memories until now,
>but I think this is it.

Most of the folks here on MW have had success trying to find or recall arcade games they saw or briefly played once and never saw the game again and forgot the name of the game. The two examples that come to mind.

One person had recalled a game, nearly 20 years earlier as young kid watching older boys play the game. He was certain the game involved driving a tank, but it turned out his game Borderline uses a jeep....not a tank. I teased him about that back at one of the soCal MAME meets in 2006.

Another person, bisboch, literally remembered one of the game melodies that Planet Probe would play when player enters initials on high score sequence. It was impressive that bisboch recalled the melody and almost had it memorized when he had posted his interpretation of the melody several years before Planet Probe was emulated in late 2012. Read the comments section for details.

https://youtu.be/9BredCLHtbs?t=137