Ice Cold Beer

Ice Cold Beer

released on Dec 31, 1983

Ice Cold Beer

released on Dec 31, 1983

A mechanical arcade game released in 1983.


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On rainy days in elementary school we would play board games for recess. One of the games was one of those two stick mazes with holes. You'd move the maze around, twist and turn the whole 3D space, and try to navigate the metal ball paste holes and to the finish. It was really fun and a lot of kids would watch and take turns. A real spectator sport.

This game really brought me back there. Played it at a bar for a while with "the boyz" and we were absolutely shrieking with delight advancing very slowly up the board.

Very cool tactile feel. It's definitely skill based and you can feel yourself getting better. The aesthetic with the cabinet art and the beer sliding theme is neat and frames the whole package.

If you see one of these at an arcade or bar definitely feed it a few quarters. It's neato.

This is an odd one. Not a video game but it is a mechanical arcade game with joysticks and so it fits in. It is very skill based if it's calibrated right because the speed that the motors move is perfectly in sync to raise/lower the bar and, of course, gravity is constant. I had a blast even though I wasn't very good at it. Me and my wife both got to the 3rd hole but never got further. If we had more time though I may have tried more and I feel like you could really get a good strategy going. Definitely worth a play or two.

You Put The Ball In Holes (but not the wrong ones, follow the numerical order). two 2-way joysticks control a motor on each side, which dictates the height and angle of a metal bar, which the ball will roll on.

there isn't much else to it, mechanics dictated by electric motors and gravity, but it's fairly engrossing. play it if you see it. i prefer an ice cold unsweetened green tea or water, though.