9 year time warp

Blacklight · 04-25-10, 08:35 PM

The arcade game you are describing is called "Seawolf" It was essentially a shooting gallery where instead of a gun, you looked through and aimed with a periscope. It was actually quite popular in arcades. The only problem with it was the fact that only the player could really see what was going on on the screen during play. A large portion of profit for an arcade game is potential players being able to watch the game in action before deciding to part with their quarter. Battlezone (the first 3D tank sim arcade game) also had this issue (Fun fact. The US army really liked Battlezone and contracted the company to build a version of it to train it's tank crews. The result was called "Bradley Trainer" and I believe only two or three units were built).

Anyway, surprisingly, Seawolf was popular enough to warrent the creation of a sequel, "Seawolf II" although the popularity was probably more due to the coolness of the really cool looking game cabinet than the game play.

04-25-10, 08:35 PM	#4
Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	The arcade game you are describing is called "Seawolf" It was essentially a shooting gallery where instead of a gun, you looked through and aimed with a periscope. It was actually quite popular in arcades. The only problem with it was the fact that only the player could really see what was going on on the screen during play. A large portion of profit for an arcade game is potential players being able to watch the game in action before deciding to part with their quarter. Battlezone (the first 3D tank sim arcade game) also had this issue (Fun fact. The US army really liked Battlezone and contracted the company to build a version of it to train it's tank crews. The result was called "Bradley Trainer" and I believe only two or three units were built). Anyway, surprisingly, Seawolf was popular enough to warrent the creation of a sequel, "Seawolf II" although the popularity was probably more due to the coolness of the really cool looking game cabinet than the game play. __________________ Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud. "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes !"