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Whenever I go to an arcade now-a-days (yes, I'm going to post about video games again LM) I always end up in the "classic games" section. But I never play them. Sometimes just looking at Donkey Kong or Defender is enough to satiate whatever nostalgic nonsense I was craving, but mostly its because they don't have the games I want. I don't want to play Pacman, I want to play the crazy trackball football game with X's and O's that made your arm hurt. I want to play Zaxxon and the Red Barron, not centipede or Galaxia. What I really want to play is the above game that I have poorly drawn from memory and can't remember the name of. You were the triangle space ship that bounced off the walls, but I can't really remember what the bad guys looked like. You had a fire button and a knob that you could turn to change your direction and a thrust button. It was similar to but much better than asteroids, and a contemporary. If anyone remembers it let me know.
UPDATE: I FOUND IT! Spent way too long looking on KLOV but it was there! . It's called Omega Race and it's the only vector game by Midway - that's part of the reason it was so hard to find because I was assuming it was Atari who seems to have made most of the vector games. The other tricky thing was that the game is not a race, it's more like asteroids. Maybe they mean a race of peoples called "Omega". My drawings turned out to be pretty good. Now I have to find one on ebay
