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What game is this? (The 70's or 80's)
Posted: October 4th, 2016, 8:00 pm
by OdieBrazil
Does anyone know what game is this?
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Re: What game is this? (The 70's or 80's)
Posted: October 5th, 2016, 10:27 am
by zetax
It looks like Intellivision Space Battle, but I don't remember the targeting reticle being so large...
Re: What game is this? (The 70's or 80's)
Posted: October 5th, 2016, 1:11 pm
by Robotrek
Looks like Space Spartans.
Re: What game is this? (The 70's or 80's)
Posted: October 6th, 2016, 1:28 pm
by OdieBrazil
Thank you guys.
This game was used on an old TV show called TV Powww.
After Some days of research, I found that it may have been modified by the manufacturer (probably the Intellivision) to meet the TV show needs.
Re: What game is this? (The 70's or 80's)
Posted: October 6th, 2016, 2:38 pm
by Robotrek
Oh, in which case that's a modified version of Sharp shot. Give it a look sometime!
Re: What game is this? (The 70's or 80's)
Posted: October 7th, 2016, 12:02 am
by zetax
OdieBrazil wrote:Thank you guys.
This game was used on an old TV show called TV Powww.
After Some days of research, I found that it may have been modified by the manufacturer (probably the Intellivision) to meet the TV show needs.
There was a version of your "TV Powww” show on the ABC affiliate station I watched growing up (Youngstown, OH). They called the show "33 Pow!", and it used a modified version of Space Battle. Again, I don't remember the large green targeting reticle, but the game consisted of kids calling in to the station to play for 30 seconds, shouting "pow" to fire the lasers. Never quite knew if it used the actual sound of someone saying "pow", or if there was just some dude pressing a button on an Intellivision controller (my guess.) They were played between cartoons (Tom and Jerry, probably.). Ah memories...
Re: What game is this? (The 70's or 80's)
Posted: October 9th, 2016, 11:13 am
by OdieBrazil
Robotrek wrote:Oh, in which case that's a modified version of Sharp shot. Give it a look sometime!
It is true. In my research, I saw that the game Sharp Shot is cited as one of the used games.
zetax wrote:...Never quite knew if it used the actual sound of someone saying "pow", or if there was just some dude pressing a button on an Intellivision controller (my guess.)...
I read somewhere that engineers have created a device to trigger the sound of "pow", but what I think is the truth: had someone pressed the button on the control ...
