Monday, January 15, 2018

Pop-a-ball

For some reason I binged on redemption videos on youtube this past weekend.  I have a slight desire to find a coin pusher game.  I think it would be a neat thing to have in an arcade when guests are over.  Put prizes inside and make them want to earn them.
Anyway I occasionally I search outside my pinball world on ebay.  I found this local item in skokie, a pop-a-ball redemption game.  I definitely remember this in a few spots in galaxy world.  I remember it's attract mode would be to randomly pop the balls as you walked by.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Pop-A-Ball-Redemtion-Arcade/112709315324?hash=item1a3dffaafc:g:CKAAAOSwl9RaExdu


Friday, January 12, 2018

status

So I recently found new free software that makes photogrammetry quick and easy (zephyr), but results are still very rough (even experts using tripods).  I mean photogrammetry looks pretty decent when it's texture mapped, but when you turn that off and just look at the raw wireform it looks rough and blobby.

At this point my best bet is to just bite the bullet and continue modeling from scratch based on the top view google map, and all the 3d views from google earth (to get the shapes and heights correct).  I've also messed around with lighting inside solidworks, as well as walkthrough mode so theoretically I could do some renderings once I have everything modeled.  Also in the last 6 months, there has been a solidworks to VR plugin.  So rather than trying to learn unity or unreal engine I should be able to translate directly to VR:



One thing I need to start thinking about are what games to put in it (and this will be partially from memory, and making decisions about what to include over the span of 20-30 years since I can't possibly include everything).

In the sunlit area (where the blocked off laser tag ended up towards the end), I know I want to include:
* air powered fuzzy guy target game (no idea the official name of this, haven't been able to find photos yet)
* Skeeball
* water skiing coin pushers (can't find this either).  I remember it had the slot where you could point where the quarter landed.
* rad mobile
* virtua racing
* arm wrestling
* Tekken

In the pinball area I know I need to include bk2k and T2.  I remember playing banzai run there, however this was always kept in the upper level

The fighting game list needs to include:
Street fighter Turbo (on giant screen)
Street fighter the movie
Mortal Kombat
Time Killers
Killer instinct

Other mentions:
Crossbow
APB
Super hang on (riding version)
Revolution X
Horse video gambling game
Capcom bowling