Everyone's favourite Sega game from 1991! Pig Racing!
What? You mean you're not nostalgic for Pig Racing? You've never heard of it? OK well I hadn't heard of it before I started this project either, but I became fascinated by it. Partly because of it's derby mechanic, partly because it was very rare and it took me a long time to find decent images, and partly because it hearkens back to some of the very earliest electrified arcade games of all time!
First off, I bought the flyer. Enjoy!
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| Pig Racing - ピッグレーシング by セガ (Sega) |
You can see some footage of Pig Race at 7:12 in this video: (link goes to timestamp, embedded video does not)
Let's go back to some arcade ancestry and look at my old post "arcade photographs from the collection of James R. Smith".
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| sign says: "Patented THE CONY RACE May 15 1923" |
These are group carnival arcade games where players compete in a basic task to advance their character. Whoever gets to the end first wins the race! I like these kinds of carnival games because the profit comes from multiple players competing, not from a potentially bunco game.
In The Cony Race players use the lever to hit their ball into a goal.
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| Monkey Pinball |
Monkey Pinball has a nearly vertical pinball playfield and you shoot a ball into scoring holes with a small lever.
Electrification first came to carnival arcade installations like these, and so what we are looking at are some of the earliest attempts of utilizing electricity in arcade games.
Pig Racing follows in these footsteps.
Pig Racing was included in a 1991 Sega catalogue. Then the first appearance I've seen in a magazine is December 1991.
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| from a 1991 Sega catalogue |
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| Game Machine 1991-12-15 |
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