#prop cycle

[lunaticobscurity]

there's a new post up at the world's greatest obscure videogames review blog, and this time, i'm reviewing prop cycle using the only methods most of us will ever get to play it, as well as theorising about the possibility of it getting a contemporary home port! go and read about it~!

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[blazehedgehog]

You ever get nostalgic for old control methods? I tend to miss games with trackballs, for instance.

I know I'm not alone in thinking there's a place for tank controls.

Trackballs are just fun. I think that's still modern, too, in the sense we still have gimmicky arcade machines with weird input methods. Heck, that's practically all we have, these days.

These might just be adaptations of mobile phone games, but they're also closer to midway games than traditional arcade games, in a sense. It's like racing games with built in wheels and pedals, or that boxing game where you put on virtual boxing gloves.

A trackball game slots in there very well. Nothing wrong with a good gimmick.

Or, gosh, I just remembered Propcycle. Who could forget Propcycle?

This thing was a staple of every arcade I ever went to and it was impossible to play.

[obscurevideogames]

"JUST DO YOUR BEST...” - Prop Cycle (Namco - arcade - 1996)  

[quirky-vg]

From: Prop Cycle

[runningwithhelicopters]

I hope he didn't bust that nut.

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flagger - Prop Cycle (Namco - arcade - 1996) 

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island - Prop Cycle (Namco - arcade - 1996) 

[obscurevideogames]

"GO FOR SOLITAR!” - Prop Cycle (Namco - arcade - 1996)