Stumbled upon an old video clip (from 1983) showing a coin operated game called "Herpes", no joke.
Here's a link to the video I found this in.
It's in a coin op cabinet that looks pretty custom, and the graphics look similar to Atari 8-bit graphics. My gut says this is a bespoke game, with an Atari buried inside (like the Exidy Max-A-Flex system)
Can anyone provide any more information on this?
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You_are_dust@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 3y
vaguerant@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
For anyone who doesn't want to scrub through that whole video, the segment about Herpes starts at 1:09:14. Here's a deep link to that timestamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9HKI1dU_Yo&t=1h9m14s
14four@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Looks like it may be Ray Davies who is presenting the game in the clip. I'm doubting that he actually programmed it :)
edit: prob not, found the scene with Ray Davies https://youtu.be/S9HKI1dU_Yo?t=2767
lordfrito@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Are you suggesting it's Ray Davies from The Kinks?? He would have been 38-40 at the time of the video, the guy in the video looks younger.
14four@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Yeah, I'm not sure, from the cast list he looks similar.
Zardozer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
It doesn't look like Ray Davies to me. Very interesting show, it's kind of like Black Mirror if it was done in a more experimental pseudo-documentary format. It's about the "Video Age" lol.