Comments on: Time Traveler by Sega

By: flashy

flashy — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:00:56 +0000

Oh yeah! I remember playing this game AND that similarly holographic fighter at the Forest Mall in Fond du Lac, WI, way back in the day! Thought it was the most amazing thing ever! I can’t even begin to fathom how much money I tossed into those machines trying to finish them!

By: SimpleNate

SimpleNate — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:06:52 +0000

I remember playing this! I remember not grasping the idea of quicktime events too well…

By: Santa Faust

Santa Faust — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:58:45 +0000

Silverlake Mall. Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. 1992. My friends and I had all cut class that day when we found this at the arcade. It played a lot like Dragon’s Lair (re: ass) but I distinctly remember staring at this thing in awe and thinking that I must’ve been standing right on the cusp of that awesome future I’d grown up believing in. The one with anti-gravity belts and robo-whores.

Any day now. Any day…

By: Tondog

Tondog — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:11:12 +0000

I remember this very vaguely, as I’ve seen it maybe once in my entire life. From what I recall, it was damned awesome.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:20:40 +0000

Ah yes, Time Traveler. An amusement park near me had one of those cabinets & every time we went, I had to try it at least once. It truly did play like shit, but I couldn’t stay away from a fucking HOLOGRAM game. One of the things I remember most about it was that shit like Cavemen, Cowboy Shootouts, Wizards, and Mad Scientists made sense. But, even as a kid, I was all WTF?! about one level that had you teleporting into a major league baseball game where you had to duck the pitch and the hit.

This also reminds me that that same amusement park had another hilarious cabinet.

SONIC BLAST MAN!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Blast_Man

I believe this game is the first ever to feature a GIANT ENEMY CRAB who’s WEAK SPOT you targeted for MASSIVE DAMAGE!

By: badbad_leroybrown

badbad_leroybrown — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:30:42 +0000

Now that is a blast from the past dude. I remember playing that game when it came out in my local arcade and being completly flummuxed as to how games could be like that. It’s pretty dumb from what I could remember.

By: Zinswin

Zinswin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:54:03 +0000

Yeah, I have fond memories of this game. Back in the day Stillwater had a cheap-o movie theater (99 cents!) with an arcade across the way. This game was in there and my friends and I would play this and the widescreen X-Men beat-em-up. (Nothing can move the Blob!) Time Traveler was mind blowing for its time.

By: damo

damo — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:17:27 +0000

I remember seeing this one in the arcade when I was a kid and thinking it looked cool, but I never played it. FOUR entire quarters was way too much, I could play two or three other games with that!

Plus, DJI has it right, I had tried Dragon’s Lair and made it absolutely nowhere, and I could tell this one had the same kind of gameplay.

By: D.J.I.

D.J.I. — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:19:06 +0000

They must have made multiple titles for that style of arcade unit, because I remember playing one of these a few times and I distinctly remember it was a Street Fighter type game.

Looked neat, played awful. God awful.