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Tue, Jun 15, 2010 - Celebrating True Classic Arcade Games 2010
Fri, Mar 26, 2010 - HEY! Call me a Taxi!
Mon, Jan 11, 2010 - Space Invaders Deluxe
Thu, Dec 31, 2009 - Double Dragon II "The Revenge"
Sun, Nov 29, 2009 - Caveman, wake up.
Tue, Jul 07, 2009 - Classic Game Alert
Tue, Feb 17, 2009 - Hyper Neo-Geo 64
Mon, Dec 15, 2008 - Good things do come in small cabinets!
Mon, Nov 10, 2008 - Star Guards Invade DeKalb Arcade
Mon, Oct 20, 2008 - Fire!
Thu, Jul 3, 2008 - Not a single, nor a double, but a Triple!
Tue, Mar 11, 2008 - The Dr. is In.
Mon, Jan 7, 2008 - Games Gone By
Thu, Dec 25, 2007 - Patrick's Christmas Gift :)
Thu, Sep 6, 2007 - Smokey Joe
Tue, Jul 10, 2007 - Vanguard arrives at Star Worlds!
Fri, Jun 15, 2007 - Kangaroo is loose in DeKalb, IL
Tue, Jan 9, 2007 - Star Worlds First EM Pinball!
Sat, Nov 18, 2006 - Growl is here!
Sun, Oct 15, 2006 - Retroblast.com Write Up
Sun, Oct 15, 2006 - Virtua Fighter Remix is Here
Sun, Sep 10, 2006 - Radikal Bikers
Tue, Aug 08, 2006 - Atomic Punk!!
Sat, Jun 24, 2006 - Old Skool Friends
Sun, Jun 18, 2006 - Mega Man is Here
Fri, Jun 16, 2006 - Atari Avalanche
Tue, May 02, 2006 - New Game
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Star Worlds Arcade has added yet another cool new pinball machine. Gottlieb's Caveman is the world's first video/pinball hybrid game ever made. Yes, it came out before Bally/Midway's Baby Pac-Man by a few months. Caveman is a full size wide body pinball machine that features an actual video screen that is mounted in the game's playfield. A joystick is mounted on the front lockdown bar for playing the game when you go into the video mode.
Back in the early 1980's, people were mostly playing video games leaving the pinball machine aside. Gottlieb attempted to introduce gamers back into the pinball world. Though the game was not considered a huge success, we were lucky enough to find one in great shape. Here at Star Worlds, the game has been a HUGE success as players seem to really enjoy playing this game over and over. It is currently the most competitive high score to be beaten on our hall of fame board.
I remember seeing this game for the first time at Mona's Arcade in Ledgewood, NJ one summer when I was visiting my grandparents. No, I did not play it, there were way to many other new games just out that I donated my limited quarter supply to . For years I had thought about this game and wondered if we would ever find one in playable condition.
Caveman has the neat blue Gottlieb digital scoring, but on this game it is on a backbox that over hangs the playfield. Once the ball is put into play it is pretty much like any pinball machine. If you hit the ball into the caves, it locks in, shuts off all the playfield lighting, and you are now in video mode. "Caveman, wake up" and then you are off wandering the maze avoiding the red dinosaurs and ramming into the green ones. This game also has one of the cool early speech modules and you can hear several sayings such as "Caveman, wake up", "Don't eat me," and "Get extra ball".
Next time you are visiting Star Worlds Arcade, be sure and give Caveman a try.
Clubbing Inky over the head,
Pac-Man Pat |
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