Welcome one and all to Entertainment of
1976, dig? Yeah I am actually enjoying this week for just the love
of fond memories and the like. This time around I felt the enjoyment
of old school coin-operated arcade games. The wee hours wined away
with a few glowing screens that amused and delighted many. This is
Barricade.
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| Scintillating graphics! |
Ranging from 2 to 4 players, this maze
arcade game was released by RamTek publishing in 1976 with a standard
upright console, our game would pit players against one another to
create walls or barriers to surround their opponents and forcing them
to crash.
Made in black & white keeping costs
down allowing RamTek publishing to mass produce consoles and allowing
multiple arcades, roller rinks and movie theaters to place and rack
up the quarter collection. This is a directional based video game
of layering barriers and requires a bit of lateral thinking on how
to defeat your fellow players does not offer retrials or one ups.
Imagine the Nintendo Gamecube/PS2 era crowd are baffled at this point.
With only one channel for sound or Mono if you prefer, this game
emits an annoying sound that is slightly piercing to the ears.
A few bits of trivia on RamTek now.
Since 1973 to 1979 fifteen different machines have been released with
this trade name out and about. The other games around this time
were: Trivia, Hit Me, Deluxe Baseball, Horoscope, Sea Battle, Clean
Sweep, Wipe Out, Hockey, Soccer and Volly.
An alternative title to Barricade is
also known as Brickyard due to the court case Gremlin Publishing's
Blockade created first, With an agreement to rename Barricade, the
game itself was actually physically less similar to Blockade and
allowed them to create Barricade II in 1977.
Noika phones felt the need to resurrect
this game as a default game and renamed it Snake.
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| Head-to-head competition!!! |
