I used to love to go into the arcade at Nay Aug Amusement park. My grand father used to give me multiple rolls of quarters, which to me felt like a fortune. I used to play the arcade games for hours. I’m trying to find pictures of some of the games I remember, but if you happen to remember any of the machines that used to be at Nay Aug, it would be great if you could drop a comment on the site.

The first one I remember is Sea Wolf. I remember it because of all the noise it used to make. It was a constant background noise at the park.

 

 

I found these images at Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum.

Sea Wolf, Midway, 1976, electronic video game version of Sea Devil (1970), a submarine game where the player looks through a periscope to shoot ships on a black and white video monitor with a color overlay. . . . Torpedos are launched with a thumb button on the right handle of the scope. Mines floating across the screen can block players torpedoes. Fast-moving PT Boat (worth most points) is hardest to hit. Game ends when time expires. Bonus time is added when player reaches operator-selectable point level. Players look through a periscope to aim at ships. A targeting cross-hair and the number of torpedos remaining are seen through the scope. When the player has launched five torpedos, a red “RELOAD” light comes on momentarily. These are not shown on the screen, but are back-lit transparencies reflected inside the scope. Likewise, when ships are hit on the screen, an explosion “light” is reflected inside the scope. . . . The most memorable and distinguishing sounds from this game have to be the sonar and the sound of the PT Boat racing across the screen (oscillating, buzzing sound).

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