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Remem­ber the Holo­gram Time Trav­eler arcade that made it’s appear­ance in arcades in the early 90s? Well, I do. I can remem­ber search­ing through my pock­ets for tokens to oper­ate this machine. For its time, it was pretty amaz­ing. It uti­lized early tech­niques of the psuedo-hologram, wherein the image of the Cow­boy is pro­jected onto the view­ing area via mir­rors. It was a lit­eral smoke and mir­ror effect.

The premise of the arcade was to con­trol the Time Trav­eler and try to get him out of tight spots. It was from the cre­ators of the Drag­ons Lair arcade so in a sim­i­lar fash­ion it used timed sequences where the player had to tap the but­ton at the right time in order to per­form the action.

If your mem­ory is get­ting worse or you’ve never heard of this arcade machine, check out this write up on the “Holo­gram Time Trav­eler”.

Speak­ing of arcades, noth­ing is bet­ter than free. Which is why this page is the coolest. Like many sites such as Shock­wave or RealAr­cade it show­cases sev­eral Flash-powered (or Java-powered) games. How­ever, the thing that makes this link extra-cool is every­thing is on one page. It’s a dig­i­tal arcade on the web, or a Web­Cade.

So many choices, so lit­tle time.