David Plays: 4 Player Bowling Alley (Arcade)
My problems with sleeping have been catching up with me, and hard, recently...and this despite the fact that my initial appointment with my counselor went pretty good.
But...I thought that instead of griping about this, I'd give you something harmless -- or at least Ihope that's the case to you -- to watch instead.
This is a video that of me playing 4 Player Bowling Alley, a black-and-white coin-op game from Midway. Exact release date I do not entirely know, my sources say 1979, but some have it as 1978. That part, though, is just differing on semantics.
In this video I play a complete 4-player game solo. The idea is to make it look as though four different people are playing, when it reality it's just me doing the work. The playback is not perfect -- I could and arguably should have spent more time fiddling with my Hypercam settings, but considering that the 25+ videos on my channel are mostly what-do-I-feel-like-this-time stuff, I honestly don't care that much so long as the end product is still watchable.
Click on the video above to see the game in action, and feel free to drop comments here or on Youtube if you like, the address for the video is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_79VjICkHo
But...I thought that instead of griping about this, I'd give you something harmless -- or at least Ihope that's the case to you -- to watch instead.
This is a video that of me playing 4 Player Bowling Alley, a black-and-white coin-op game from Midway. Exact release date I do not entirely know, my sources say 1979, but some have it as 1978. That part, though, is just differing on semantics.
In this video I play a complete 4-player game solo. The idea is to make it look as though four different people are playing, when it reality it's just me doing the work. The playback is not perfect -- I could and arguably should have spent more time fiddling with my Hypercam settings, but considering that the 25+ videos on my channel are mostly what-do-I-feel-like-this-time stuff, I honestly don't care that much so long as the end product is still watchable.
Click on the video above to see the game in action, and feel free to drop comments here or on Youtube if you like, the address for the video is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_79VjICkHo
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Neat seeing such an old game. And you are good at it. See you have several older games. Cool!
Actually, most of my plays are emulated, gathered from a site called Retro Uprising, which lets you try any of thousands of games from the \'80s and \'90s for free...and it has high score contests to boot (although I rarely do those anymore). If you\'re curious, you can check them out at www.retrouprising.com.
This one went a little better because I mapped a keyboard for what was a trackball game, and these mini-projects have had mixed results. The run on Vs. Duck Hunt (I\'ll show that later) wasn\'t especially impressive although technically it does show a \"loop\", and some of the balls on my NES Pinball play were downright awful. But since I don\'t intend to do walkthroughs, I could care less if I embarrass myself or not.