Rock n’ Moon Rally
Alright, I know the title seems like one of those DS or Wii games we make fun of on Drunken Gamers Radio every week, but you’d be wrong. While looking around the arcade and discovering certain long lost joys, I stumbled on this crazy game.
Brought out by Innovation Concepts in Entertainment, or ICE for short, this is a simple redemption game with a look and feel that really draws in retro sci-fi junkies like myself. Which seems to be this companies thing. Simple redemption games with a little more style than the average. While I’m not a big player of these redemption sytle games, I can get behind a company that wants to up the ante in terms of style. You can check out the ICE website here and peruse their line of products. I’m sure you’ll recognize their money maker, the Deal or No Deal machine. Be warned, the website has a loud advertisement on the front end, so hit hit the mute button before you venture over there.
As far as Rock n’ Moon Rally goes, the whole thing has this neat 1950′s flying-saucer-movie vibe to it with very stylized aliens, a background out of a comic and sound effects out of War of the Worlds. The premise is very simple: two players control their bike riding alien on the moon. The faster the players spin the roller ball, the faster their alien bikes around the track. The winner gets the glory, a victory lap and some tickets.
I guess ICE also had a much larger, four player version of this game called Spacey Racers, so if you really want to get your retro redemption thing on, you can try and track one of these bad boys down. While not being a game I would normally stick any tokens into, Rock n’ Moon Rally’s ultra retro vibe really caught my eye and I had to try it out. It’s fun, simple and really fun to look at in motion and (if nothing else) a nice artistic addition to an arcade full of crap.
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Tags: arcade, coin-op, interactive concepts in entertainment, retro, sci-fi
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