> The problem is you're basically describing a puzzle game, and those didn't really > even start to become popular in arcades until much later, you're also describing a > colour game yet putting it in a period where real colour games (not overlays) were > incredibly uncommon.
Yeah, when I first read this question I thought it was likely that he actually meant 1988 rather then 1978. Color arcade games were extremely rare at that time, and Italy didn't get color TV until 1972.