I played a lot of baseball, and collected baseball cards. In 1986 I was 7, and I lived in a tiny town. Thank you to both of you for hauling them outside at risk of bad backs and splintered hands. Chris – Thank you again for swooping in and being my local go to guy to pick up these games. Tom, if you read this, the above story is just fun – certainly don’t intend it to be mean spirited in anyway. Special ThanksĪgain go out to both Chris Moore and Tom. If you are interested to see a few more photos, and a constantly expanding library of photos of the Zwackery and Root Beer Tapper – view the album on Coinopspace.Īstounding to find two great arcade games that have never seen the light of day outside of this one former Bally / Midway employee. The Zwackery (Chris tells me) was formerly a Bank Panic in some form. And you can use your awesome employee benefit to get them at 10% over cost.įreddie headed back out to the Bally / Midway plant floor. These will be around forever, just you watch. …decided, “I build these games, but I bet I’d be the golly gee coolest guy on the block if I owned a couple – IN MY HOME”.įreddie (As we’ll refer to him now) walked into the front office and announced:įreddie: Bill, I want to buy me some of those entertainment boxes.īill: What an excellent decision, and sound investment. One day, a blue collar worker at Bally / Midway… Don’t like fun? Just jump down to unveiling which HUO titles were found. Inspired by the flash in the pan ‘what my friends think I do’ meme, I thought I’d tell the story how I envisioned it happening back in the 1980’s. How do I tell such a neat story in a different way, that is more engaging than the typical play by play with all the sorted details. A visual history of 2 HUO games from Bally / Midwayįor the last two weeks I’ve been hard on myself.
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