Can you ID this arcade game?

mmj_uk said:
The best I can find is this:
http://atariage.com/forums/topic/9022-arcade-game-similar-to-wipeout/#entry86489
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Might have been a Wipeout game... I seem to recall it was 1st person perspective, since we were actually inside a physical cockpit.

The machine looks like it was a red Thompson Ventura S2 Motion Simulator, as the inside layout looks about right. Even has armrests with slots for HOTAS stuff.

I just can't find a single example of any Wipeout game being in a full-cab motion simulator.
 
I remember these - some or very similar system used to have a starwars game and there was one in a museum near me running something totally custom so its possible it was a game built for the machine.

EDIT: The museum had the V-14 Ventura.
 
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Rroff said:
I remember these - some or very similar system used to have a starwars game and there was one in a museum near me running something totally custom so its possible it was a game built for the machine.
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Thing is, I can't find reference to any game in such machines... only straight films of various 'rides'.
 
Rroff said:
I think a lot of it was custom produced by Atari for the various exhibitions, etc.
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Clearly Acton wasn't the only place to get one of these, though and that was just a regular bowling alley with an arcade. Just need to pin it down and maybe one day I'll even find one for sale!!
 
played a version of wipeout very similar to what you are describing. it didnt have doors but was 2 seater, one person flying the other using the powerups and had a chaingun they could use
 
ttaskmaster said:
Back in the late 1990s, early 2000s there was an arcade at the leisure centre in Park Royal, Acton. For a short time, they had this really cool game that I was awesome at, but I've not seen it since...

It was a motion simulator with a fully enclosed cockpit pod, doors that sealed you in, screen was inside the cockpit.
It was an on-rails space racing shoot-em-up type of game, like TurboFly, Wipeout HD, etc.
It had 2 seats.
The player sat on the right was the pilot, the one on the left was the gunner.

Does anyone remember this or know what it was called?
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I don't but it sounds awesome. Probably a custom cab and game even.
 
Finally found out - It was Wipeout 3.
There's mention in an old edition from Edge magazine in 1995, stating that it was going to be made thus and another in 1999 when it was finally released on these machines.

Apparently the game generally tanked across all common platforms, which seems to be why this one vanished from the arcades... dammitt!!
 
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