We used tae love gaun doon tae Porty. A day at the shws wiz like the High Wall highlight o the year.
Wi about 10 pence in yir grubby mit thit wiz more than likely earned by collecting auld juice bottles, ye were through the door and intae Nobles arcade wonderland wi its smell o Westler hamburgers and sweeties. Now came the hardest part! What tae spend the pennys oan? Ah wiz aye a man fur the video games more importantly Battlezone!
Ah hud spen most o ma money before you could say shit. The game wiz pretty simple. Ye hud tae shoot o the tanks withoot gettin shot yerself. As ye can see on the top pictue ye hd tae look through the view finder and steer wi the levers. Ye hud tae be big enough tae see through the viewfinder.
Auld Noble wiz a clever man he hud pit doon a step fur us bairns so we could play the game, ahm sure he wiz hooked on it an all. So fur a you High Wall batlezone blasters heres a link fur you tae play the real game.
http://atari.com/arcade/battlezone
Huv fun bit watch oot fir auld Noble coz he could go radge if ye kicked his machines!
1 comment:
Good link.
Just found oot that I'm officially still pish at battlezone.
I mind there were a fair wee crop of arcades sprung up in the early days of video machines, including one in Nicolson Square which is now the Kebab Mahal (the best kebabery in the toon).
There was a skeet shooting game in there that was a big old favourite wi the Fitsh. He got pretty good at it too ah heard tell.
Porty was always a guid day oot and they had thon star wars game that you sat in.
Mind you we were a bit older than you and could work a few pints intae a Porty trip when you young uns ran oot o 2 bob bits and went looking for baby crabs to kill instead.
Here lives a pretty good update of the Star Wars game
"Red 5 standing by"
http://www.filefront.com/listing/pub2/Star-Wars-Arcade/Official-Demos
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