I played the crap out of this game as a kid in the early 70's in Upstate New York. Came out years before Pong or Space Invaders, and planted the seed early for me to be a lifelong gamer. Damn near 60 now and still at it! Great memories, thanks for sharing.

@chaeobods

9 күн бұрын

52 here, never played this one - but I was taken to arcades late 70's and 80's so I managed to see a lot of the old mechanical games before they slowly disappeared. I've been on a KZread hunt for more of these games and it's nice to see so many have been saved.

Nothing else like those classic electromechanical games. The engineering that went into those machines is remarkable. Unless they're restored they're gone...forever. No way to MAME one of those. Thanks for saving that classic. I'd love to give it a go myself! Semper Fi.

that game looks pretty sweet. i love how the pre 80's stuff has such an interesting ingenuity.

Gorgeous! Thanks for the childhood flashback!

Amazing!! I briefly remember the remnants of these style arcade games as a youngster. They would tend to be in old arcades on piers on the coast etc and i'd find them mesmerising.. Cool stuff and thx for upload!

@finstersrc30

6 жыл бұрын

So glad it brought back memories. If the vid made you feel like when you were a kid then that is awesome! Thanks for the nice comment.

OMG!!! I remember playing this as a kid at the local Buckeye Mart. This and Sea Raider were always my favorite games at that time.

Holy crap!!! I remember playing this when I was a small kid!! Awesome!!

Great idea to use the crate as a makeshift ramp 👏👏

Lo jugué en la década del 70. Impresionante!!!

@positivelycurvedpikachu

Жыл бұрын

Argentina?

Great electromechanic game! But probably on this machine the collision detection must be recalibrated!

@deltonaustin7368

5 жыл бұрын

I have a SAMI Em game, Can you tell me how to recalibrate the missle firing and airplane position, I cant seem to lead the missle and hit the planes. thanks for your help.

Awesome EM game. Man, I miss these. I would LOVE to add one to my collection (besides my Space Odyessey Pin), but they're always so expensive (in CA, at least)! Congrats and thanks for sharing.

The planes flying is not a pleasing sight. It's actually downright terrifying.

I remember that awesome

This is an adaptation of Sega's "Missile" from 1969.

8:15 you can see the splice in the film strip that the enemy aircraft is printed on. I'm surprised they don't use 2 or 3 film strips running side by side and at slightly different speeds to sort of randomize the game a bit, as after a while, a player would have the pattern memorized and win every time (if that matters?)

Outstanding! Thanks for posting!!!!!!!!!!!!

Played this at the Adam's Roller rink in Charlotte michigan around 1977/78

It's always humbling when you see machines like this that can't be emulated on bootleg home-made arcade cabinets. It's like playing a rom of GORF, but not having the ranking lights on the side panel... just taken to an extreme.

@Datan0de

2 ай бұрын

Old comment and off topic, but MAME now emulates the ranking panel on the side. 😎

Ohh WOW, Thank you for this cool Video! Amazing that game, I really like to own this too. I watch it again and again Soo Great!

Very nicely done video of this EM classic. I have one of these in my collection (that projector fan sure is noisy when machine is idle!). If you think about it, SAMI is like an early version of the video game "Missile Command" ...Thanks and have fun!

Very cool EM Arcade . I think i played that one once or twice in Milwaukee,Wi

You live in a NYC brownstone? Awesome....

I played this at a bar when I was a kid!

I bought this game at an aracde auction over the weekend. It was the last machine and no one but me bid on it. I got it for 2.00 It's all complete but doesn't work. Need to go through it all someday. Looks like it would be a cool machine to play.

I am always watching for one of these or a similar type machine. GREAT find! Tell me, how does it create the sounds? I am hoping these do not use an 8-Track.

I can't take my eyes.

It uses a solid state soundboard which was modern for an em.

How does it do the missile?

uses the pepper's ghost effect

Why don't the ships disappear when you hit them?

If I had a beauty like the woman in the jeans, I don't know that I'd spend much time playing arcade games. ;)

What's your score? All I see is the 2 minute timer.

@finstersrc30

3 жыл бұрын

Score is on the left . I have rolled it many times over the years. During the making of this video I was looking through the viewfinder of the camera almost impossible to play it that way. Might make an updated vid using a tripod.

em could have gone further than this, i think it was just laziness of the industry that stopped more of these from coming out.

Sega's is almost 10 years older and looks nicer...

@positivelycurvedpikachu

Жыл бұрын

segas what?