Year: 1993
Company: シグマ (Sigma)
Scotfield is probably the largest single electromechanical arcade game ever built. It is like all of Sigma's prior derby games, where electromechanical horses ride around a track and numerous players bet on them. It is a very simple kind of idea that spawn decades of iterations. Derby games from the 1920s were run off bellows, had mechanical horses, and allowed multiple bets. This is the same idea, writ grand.
The image I am using for this game is from a flyer for Rongo Rongo, a multi-floor arcade that featured a casino on floors 1 and in the basement, Scotfield occupying floors 2 and 3 to accommodate the tiered seating, and then the legendary BATTLETECH immersive multiplayer game set up on the floors above it. More on Rongo Rongo from nazox2016. (archive)
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