Smash TV
Taking a break from making Budinos for our small party on Sunday, I bellied on up to the arcade machine, intent on finally beating Smash TV. It takes roughly 45 minutes to run through the entire game, but I was determined to not only beat the game, but to finally see the hidden “Pleasure Dome” sequence that I had heard so much about.
After nearly an hour of laying waste to everything in sight, I had finally obtained enough keys to gain entrance into this forbidden den of Earthly delights. My reward? A screen full of miniscule pixilated bikini babes fervently multiplying on a flashing sea of seizure-inducing red and yellow. Yay.
Of course I wasn’t expecting anything shocking or ethereal. It’s just the completist in me wanting to finally see what all the fuss was about, to power past the theme of greed and elitism, to get beyond the Running Man motif, and get down to the true emphasis of this game…watching thousands of 8-bit baddies explode.
1999: The year we were promised colonies on the moon, hoverboards, and flying cars.
My avatar, scared silly at the sight of this baddie, decides that the best course of action is to shoot the wall. Genius.
There's nothing that a rocket launcher won't cure...
19 Million: Proving yet again that VCRs were high-ticket items in the early 80's
That fugging game doesn’t work right on my MAME machine. What controls do you need for it?