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Revenge from Mars (Bally, 1999) attraction mode was just so damn mesmerising when I first saw the game back in '99. The image kind of floats over the playfield, but you can still see through it.

Technically the game has a special (and very expensive) semi-mirrored glass and a CRT hanging above the playfield, with a similar trick Asteroid Deluxe had the pretty background image added.

The game integrates the CRT pretty well, there's virtual targets the game projects over existing playfield parts and uses them to register hits. This way you can see a martian on the playfield and hit them with the ball, even when in real life the ball hit the standup target behind the projection.

But as Marge Simpson would say, I just think it's neat.

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Somehow I ended up spending almost $40, just to light up three additional buttons on my arcade machine to match the one that's lit up now.

($5 worth of compatible WS2812B LEDs, $15 for three buttons that accept the LEDs, $9 worth of JST connectors, and $8 worth of wire)

Christ, Brad.....