Knights in Armor (lost arcade game; 1976)
Photo of arcade cabinet.
Status: Lost
Knights in Armor was an arcade game developed by the company "Project Support Engineering", or "PSE" for short. There is only one known owner of a cabinet named "Seth Soffer", who runs a museum of various arcade machines from the 70's called "Arcade 72". The game runs on discrete logic hardware that would be difficult to emulate, but the graphics are possibly stored on a ROM chip which can be dumped. The game's graphics are gray monochrome but are displayed on a green monochrome screen.
The game's manufacturer "Project Support Engineering" seemed to have dissolved before 1980, making information very scarce to find.
Gameplay
The game has 2 players in a jousting match, a player must rotate their lance in the right angle to hit their opponent before the horses start moving. For such simplistic gameplay, this is technically considered the first ever game about martial arts, with Heavyweight Champ debuting in October of the same year. The game according to the flyer had a mechanic that displayed an error message when a coin/token had gotten lodged in the slot, as well as a digital score display (Which was considered new at the time).
Availability
It's unclear how many units were sold or how common it was in arcades. Other than Arcade 72 having a machine in their museum there are no other unknown whereabouts of any other copies.
Gallery
Original flyer
Machine schematic
External Link
- Website of the owner. Retrieved 15 July '20
- Miscellaneous information Retrieved 15 July '20
- An alternate demonstration video. Retrieved 15 July '20
- Full thread of manual scans Retrieved 15 July '20
Sources
- Flyer. Retrieved 15 July '20
- Cabinet photo. Retrieved 15 July '20
- Machine schematic Retrieved 15 July '20