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Michael McfaddenSomewhere around 1972 a friend took me to an arcade in vaguely midtown or lower Manhattan where they had an AMAZING game (for the time!) It was basically an ASTEROIDS on steroids with little flying saucers that would fly out to shoot at you and spice things up. There was only one of the machines at the place and it cost 50 cents a pop instead of 25 centsAnd it wasn’t until Asteroids itself appeared in ’78/’79 that I saw anything similar.Anyone have any idea what game it was that I played back in ’72?
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