Re: Anyone remember this game?

[Richard Moore <moorer@bellsouth.net>]

    I think I remember that game.  It was called Zap the Zerk.........Or maybe
it was called Spare Change.  Had two weird looking guys stealing coins from a
video arcade amd tossing them into a piggy bank.

Nicolas Rosner wrote:

> Hello Apple ][ fellows,
>
> I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Today I went to the movies with my
> girlfriend, and after the movie we happened to pass in front of this weird
> old arcade that recycles old coin-op games... It's super: a *huge* arcade
> (150+ machines) that still has games like Frogger, Elevator Action, Hyper
> Olympics, Asteroids, Dig Dug, Mr. Do, Pengo, etc.
>
> I was watching my girlfriend play a game of Ms. Pacman. After a couple of
> levels, the "Acts" started to appear -- you know, "Act One: They Meet" and
> the like, those tiny animations that you got as rewards between levels.
>
> That brought some long buried memories to my mind and I kinda remembered
> an old game that I used to play on my //c -- I'm pretty sure it had
> nothing to do with Pacman, but it had *lots* of little "reward animations"
> in the Pacman style. I think it even had some flavor of a jackpot where
> you could get additional animations if you were lucky. My memories are
> faint, though, and I can't remember what the game was about. The
> animations were similar to cartoon characters.
>
> Does this ring the bell...? What was this game called? (I know, I'm not
> being very specific, but those are basically the only details I can bring
> back to my mind right now). If someone knows the name of the game, maybe I
> can find it again.
>
> Thanks & sorry for my bad English.
>
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>
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