Stumbled upon an old video clip (from 1983) showing a coin operated game called “Herpes”, no joke.

Pictures here.

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?

  • you_are_dustEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is pretty fascinating that I can’t even find much information on the series that this is from. Everything I can find about Arena It’s all true is just that it exists and who was involved. Very little in the way of details.

  • 14four@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Looks like it may be Ray Davies who is presenting the game in the clip. I’m doubting that he actually programmed it :)

    • lordfrito@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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.

        • Zardozer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          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.