Journey (arcade game)
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| Developer(s) | Bally Midway |
| Publisher(s) | Bally Midway |
| Designer(s) | Marvin Glass and Associates |
| Release date | 1983 |
| Genre(s) | Action |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
Journey is an arcade game made by Bally Midway in the 1980s. In 1983, the release of the Frontiers album brought the band Journey to the forefront of 1980s rock music. Bally/Midway decided to ride this wave of popularity and created an arcade game based on the band. The game was intended to be released to coincide with a US tour by the band, and hence a second team of developers (Incredible Technologies) were drafted in over the Christmas period to finish the game.
The featured members of the band are: Steve Perry, Neal Schon, Steve Smith, Jonathan Cain and Ross Valory. Although they have cartoon bodies, the faces of the members are shown as black and white photographs, taken of the band while on tour. The photo technology was originally to be used in another game, which would take photos for the high scores. However, the game in question failed location testing when one player flashed at the camera.[1]
The game starts out with the player choosing one of five planets to travel to. Each planet features a minigame starring one of the Journey band members, with the objective of collecting his musical instrument (or, in the case of Steve Perry, a microphone).
Once the instruments are collected Journey performs a concert. During the concert sequence, an edited, looped version of "Separate Ways" is played through a cassette player inside the machine. The nature of these units mean that very few are still in good working order, which could explain why the game is quite scarce at this point, rarely being seen at arcades.
In the "Connect" section of the June 2007 issue of Game Informer magazine, Journey was number 9 on the "Top 10 Worst Licensed Game Ideas (ever)".
[edit] See also
Other videogames featuring musicians:
- Journey Escape
- Michael Jackson's Moonwalker
- KISS: Psycho Circus: The Nightmare Child
- Winterheart's Guild (starring Sonata Arctica)
- Revolution X (cameo by Aerosmith)
- Omikron: The Nomad Soul (cameo by David Bowie)
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (cameo by Phil Collins)
- Iron Maiden: Ed Hunter
- Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (cameos by Slash, Tom Morello and Bret Michaels)
- Guitar Hero: Aerosmith
- Queen: The eYe
[edit] References
- ^ Kent, Steven L. (2001). The Ultimate History of Video Games. Roseville, California: Prima Publishing, 174-175. ISBN 0-7615-3643-4.
[edit] External links
- Journey at the Killer List of Videogames
- Extensive resource on the arcade game
- Arcade Collector Chris Alcott's Journey Game
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