Friday, March 5, 2010

Friday Flyers.




Wow. Back in 1979 how could you possibly have improved Asteroids? They apparently realized that people like me would be playing it and designed a cocktail cabinet for my sitting pleasure. In fact all three of the game offered today, thanks to the Arcade Flyer Archive, have cocktail counterparts.

Cosmic Alien looks very much like a Galaxian rip-off as the Cosmic Guerilla seems to resemble Space Invaders. Actually, rip-off is too harsh a word. Let us instead say inspired by?

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