12 Facts About Electro-mechanical game

In 1941, International Mutoscope Reel Company released the electro-mechanical driving game Drive Mobile, which had an upright arcade cabinet similar to what arcade video games would later use.

Missile, a shooter and vehicular combat Electro-mechanical game released by Sega in 1969, had electronic sound and a moving film strip to represent the targets on a projection screen.

Notably, the Electro-mechanical game's concept was adapted by Tomohiro Nishikado into Taito's shooter video Electro-mechanical game Western Gun, which Midway released as Gun Fight in North America.

The Electro-mechanical game displayed three-dimensional terrain with buildings, produced using a new type of special belt technology along with fluorescent paint to simulate a night view.

The Electro-mechanical game used mirrors to project images of model planes in front of a moving sky-blue background from a film canister on a rotating drum.

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The Electro-mechanical game was a hit, but too large for most locations, so it was followed by a scaled-down version, Sky Fighter II, which sold 3,000 arcade cabinets.

In 1972, Sega released an electro-mechanical game called Killer Shark, a first-person light-gun shooter that used similar projection technology to Sega's earlier shooting games, and made an appearance in the hit Steven Spielberg film Jaws.

In 1977, Kasco released a shooting EM ninja Electro-mechanical game called Ninja Gun, which helped introduce a number of American children to ninjas in popular culture by the early 1980s.

New type of driving Electro-mechanical game was introduced in Japan, with Kasco's 1968 racing Electro-mechanical game Indy 500, which was licensed by Chicago Coin for release in North America as Speedway in 1969.

Speedway had an influence on Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, who had originally planned to develop a driving video Electro-mechanical game, influenced by Speedway which at the time was the biggest-selling Electro-mechanical game at his arcade, but he ended up developing Pong instead.

One of the last successful electro-mechanical arcade racing games was F-1, a racing game developed by Namco and distributed by Atari in 1976.

Mogura Taiji was introduced to North America in 1976, which inspired Bob's Space Racers to produce their own version of the Electro-mechanical game called "Whac-A-Mole" in 1977, while Namco released their own popular "mole buster" Electro-mechanical game called Sweet Licks.