Sega's Battery Hen, Egg-Destroying Arcade Game
Oh Sega. Spotted in some run-down Boston arcade by a UK:R reader, this is Sega's Wack-A-Doodle-Do. In which "animated roosters & hens raise their heads, gobble, squawk and cluck as the player races to wack each egg yolk to finish a sequence". Note: these are not regular roosters & hens. They are gangster, robot chickens. So, yeah. Bad chickens. So don't feel bad about crushing their eggs/unborn young. The machine's flyer is after the jump if your hunger for ridiculous Sega arcade machines isn't quite satisfied.
"WACK-A-DOODLE-DOO" [UK:Resistance]
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I think they have one at the AMF in Belconnen, ACT. Seemed a bit strange, but then again, I find hiring shoes a bit weird.
"The Yolks on You"! It sure is, if you put your money in that puntastic abomination.
dslsd64
LOL, TURBOPUNS!
Chewbenator
@PsycheE: Sounds like you haven't been there in a while. They've been in decline for some time, and though they do have Afterburner Climax, a lot of the better machines have been vanishing or in disrepair for a while. The whole elevated section of fighting games was stripped down to next to nothing, and in 3 days the place is gone in favor of an Ikea as mentioned above. Sad times. I'm gonna miss getting my Derby Owners Club fix. :(
Grave
@Sasquatch: We can always protest the decision to make Somerville even less fun by getting piss drunk and riding go-karts around the Ikea! Who's with me?!
Grave
Yeah, there's one in the main arcade building of Cedar Point.
CLUCKY, PLUCKY, LUCKY, DUCKY... AND CRISPY.
It's annoying and I don't even work in the arcade!
ServiceMaster
@criminallyinane:
Hey, that's exactly it. Thanks.
fuchikoma
Yea, thats from Good Times in Sommerville Mass. I gave it a whirl back in the day.
Its not some run-down arcade place. Its a huge sports bar with 100" screens everywhere, a laser tag, caged baseketball, bumper cars, 40+ pool tables, and probably the only place in MA where the newest arcade games are displayed first. Let me remind you that this is the interior of a building.
PsycheE
@fuchikoma: Check out [x-entertainment.com] . Other people remember the chicken thing too.
criminallyinane
Wow, this reminded me of a toy vending machine I used a lot as a little kid - there was just one creepy I think lacquered/gloss painted hen, and when you dropped a quarter in it would move and cluck for a few seconds before dispensing a resealable plastic egg with a toy in it. I don't think I've seen one of those in... about 22 years? Wow.
@dunetiger reads kotaku, seems pleased:
x_x; AAAAAAAAAAUGH!!! *echo*
FATALITY: DUNETIGER WINS
fuchikoma
Early shades of Billy Hatcher?
GOOR
The Chinatown in NYC had called the "Dancing Chicken," a real chicken would come out of its cage dance around and play tic-tac-toe with you. The little shit beat me everytime, but this game crafted by Sega from times of yore has nothing on the one I played. Playing against real life poultry is serious business.
Trowble (XBL/PSN)
How old is that thing?
EmeraldDragon
We've got one of those at Adventure Crossing here in Augusta, GA. and let me tell you. IT. IS. ANNOYING. It's like the loudest machine in the arcade, always shouting out the names of the chickens. We gave it a shot and of course half of the buttons you whack were broken.
As I collected my meager 2 tickets, I felt a bit defeated. I guess the chickens won that round.
tweezy
Ah, I remember the way this machine talked. Memories. It'd stick with you for hours if not days.
Spaceboy
We have this in Lake George, NY. Never played it, but this weekend, I'm gonna play it like it's 1990!
xAnarChisTx
I'm really gonna miss the Good Time Emporium. Where else could I get drunk, play video games, go to the batting cages, eat the worst food ever made, and possibly get stabbed all in one night? Nowhere, that's where. I hear they're putting in an Ikea in its place.
Sasquatch
Yep, that's at Good Time Emporium, I've seen it. Almost inserted money while drunk once! Said run-down arcade will be closed in 3 days, and it's a shame. No more drunk go-karts, no more laser tag, no more Derby Owners Club. Despite the gangs, the violence, and the general filthy atmosphere, I'm gonna miss it.
Grave
Lol, the names.
See the last two? Ducky and Crispy?
Is that a reference to Crispy Duck? :-)
CaptCHAOS
yeah! i used to live near an arcade in new hampshire that had one of these. i don't think i've ever seen a single person play it.
thetrueyuiop
You can tell how evil they are by the neckerchiefs they wear! All gangsta chickens wear them. Roosta Gotoku!
dunetiger reads kotaku, seems pleased
No animals were harmed in the making of this arcade game. With the exception of the ones you see before you.
Green-clad Gamer Dude
i'd waste quarters on it
Gypse-scum
I really don't see why they didn't make it as a console manufacturer. They put this technology in a home console and it's game over for the other three.
karnsatron
This minigame totally should've been in Shenmue.
archibaldleech
Also, when's the next-gen update!?
Evdor