In which Richard Chamberlain asks me about arcade game Red Baron while on the set of the Shogun miniseries.
from museumofplay.org
What was that flying game you were playing? An Atari vector graphics game called Red Baron. You fly a biplane in first-person and shoot down attacking planes and ground based anti-aircraft emplacements. Don't let the planes get behind you or you get shot up.
from arcade-museum.com
Ever see that movie The Blue Max? I could've played Bruno Stachel. You know the role George Peppard got. Sure Richard. That would've been a good role for you but you were still doing Dr. Kildare.
Right. Is there a game where you weild a Katana? Not yet. . . ahem. I mean not that I know of.
Well, they should make one with me weilding this Katana. I'm getting pretty good at it playing Blackthorne in this miniseries. We're about to cut a guy's head off in this next scene. Want to watch? Um, maybe not this time. I've got a flight to catch and it isn't within this video game.
Back home I started up Atari Flashback Classics Vol. 2 and played Red Baron. I had played it before and didn't take to it much, but this time I discovered its greatness. I felt pretty cool flying over those wireframe mountains, diving between them to shoot out the gun emplacements, and then soaring high again to fight the airplanes. Bullets flew out of my machines guns in a spray of shiny dots. I really liked it this time.
this one looks good. Never seen it in real life. I love vector graphics though. That color!
Remember King Solomon's Mines? I think I saw it in the theater with my dad.
I saw that King Solomon's Mines listed for Richard Chamberlain but I'm not sure I ever saw it. Maybe though. I'll have to watch a trailer to see if I remember any of it.
it's an H Rider Haggard novel I think.
I'll have to go watch it.
I loved this game as a kid. But then, I've always had an interest in biplanes for some reason.
Me too. I built a few in my model building years. I'd love to fly one in real life. Scary, but fun.
I don't think I'd want to fly or ride in one. Sounds rough. But I still like to look at them!
I've never even heard of this one O_O
I don't remember ever playing it back in the day. Maybe I did though. I was pretty unfamiliar with it when it came up in Game Room back in 2010.
I remember thinking vector graphics looked cool well into the 90s, so this one looks intriguing.
I got very close to getting a Vectrex console when I was collecting. Oh, I just remembered. There's a Vectrex app for the ipad. When I get an ipad, I want it.
As I go through reading BaD posts I'm learning about more games I've never heard about it. This is another cool gem.
It's a good one.
