Journey is an arcade game released by Bally Midway in 1983. Rock band Journey had enjoyed major success in the early 1980s, and Bally/Midway decided to ride this wave of popularity by creating an arcade game based on the group. Its release was intended to coincide with a US tour by the band.
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i couldnt identify any song in this besides dont stop believing. im a fake journey-head. anyway, to quote wikipedia:
"Although they have cartoon bodies, the faces of the members are shown as black-and-white photographs taken of the band while on tour. The photo technology was originally to be used in another game, which would take photos for the high scores. However, the game in question failed location testing when one player engaged in exhibitionism."
an incredibly uninteresting game with a bunch of weird shit surrounding it. just look up a playthough of it, you're not missing anything. need to meet the dude who presumably whipped his cock out at this midway location test
"Although they have cartoon bodies, the faces of the members are shown as black-and-white photographs taken of the band while on tour. The photo technology was originally to be used in another game, which would take photos for the high scores. However, the game in question failed location testing when one player engaged in exhibitionism."
an incredibly uninteresting game with a bunch of weird shit surrounding it. just look up a playthough of it, you're not missing anything. need to meet the dude who presumably whipped his cock out at this midway location test
I like Journey's rock anthems plenty, but I still can't fathom how they were popular enough for them to get a tie-in video game made. It's a bunch of lackluster minigames with some hilarious sprites of the band members, but nothing more than a curious advertisement.
We need to start letting bands have their own video games, it always results in something good, even if its bad. Played this at an arcade last night and it felt so delightful to be as utterly baffled as I was playing it. I did not finish a single one of the five mini games.