Can someone identify this old 80's arcade game "Herpes"?

3 years ago by lordfrito to c/retrogaming

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Stumbled upon an old video clip (from 1983) showing a coin operated game called "Herpes", no joke.

Pictures here.

Here's a link to the video I found this in.

It's in a coin op cabinet that looks pretty custom, and the graphics look similar to Atari 8-bit graphics. My gut says this is a bespoke game, with an Atari buried inside (like the Exidy Max-A-Flex system)

Can anyone provide any more information on this?

You_are_dust 6 points 3 years ago

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vaguerant 3 points 3 years ago

For anyone who doesn't want to scrub through that whole video, the segment about Herpes starts at 1:09:14. Here's a deep link to that timestamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9HKI1dU_Yo&t=1h9m14s

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14four 2 points 3 years ago

Looks like it may be Ray Davies who is presenting the game in the clip. I'm doubting that he actually programmed it :)

edit: prob not, found the scene with Ray Davies https://youtu.be/S9HKI1dU_Yo?t=2767

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lordfrito 3 points 3 years ago

Are you suggesting it's Ray Davies from The Kinks?? He would have been 38-40 at the time of the video, the guy in the video looks younger.

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14four 1 point 3 years ago

Yeah, I'm not sure, from the cast list he looks similar.

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Zardozer 2 points 3 years ago

It doesn't look like Ray Davies to me. Very interesting show, it's kind of like Black Mirror if it was done in a more experimental pseudo-documentary format. It's about the "Video Age" lol.

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