Stumbled upon an old video clip (from 1983) showing a coin operated game called “Herpes”, no joke.
Here’s a link to the video I found this in.
It’s in a coin op cabinet that looks pretty custom, and the graphics look similar to Atari 8-bit graphics. My gut says this is a bespoke game, with an Atari buried inside (like the Exidy Max-A-Flex system)
Can anyone provide any more information on this?
This is pretty fascinating that I can’t even find much information on the series that this is from. Everything I can find about Arena It’s all true is just that it exists and who was involved. Very little in the way of details.
For anyone who doesn’t want to scrub through that whole video, the segment about Herpes starts at 1:09:14. Here’s a deep link to that timestamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9HKI1dU_Yo&t=1h9m14s
Looks like it may be Ray Davies who is presenting the game in the clip. I’m doubting that he actually programmed it :)
edit: prob not, found the scene with Ray Davies https://youtu.be/S9HKI1dU_Yo?t=2767
Are you suggesting it’s Ray Davies from The Kinks?? He would have been 38-40 at the time of the video, the guy in the video looks younger.
Yeah, I’m not sure, from the cast list he looks similar.
It doesn’t look like Ray Davies to me. Very interesting show, it’s kind of like Black Mirror if it was done in a more experimental pseudo-documentary format. It’s about the “Video Age” lol.
