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I remember playing those in the arcades at the Butlins Filey holiday camp in the 1970s! The pre-video electro-mechanical games. Major nostalgia blast!
Technology is just as much advanced by the sociopolitical environment and the individual inventors of the time as it is other technology. Technological advancement is not “inconsistent” merely if they have different levels in different areas as compared to real life.
This is especially true in a setting with magic, which can mean that even when one technology requires another first (such as harnessing electricity before seeing modern-ish computers) in real life, that’s not necessarily true in said setting.
Might be it.
Never really assumed that MLP took place in the past, always assumed it was present or loose.
Maybe it works like a mechanical watch, spring powered, like those old mechanical music player. So the level used before to tension the spring.
What fantasy setting?
A bit jarring with how inconsistent it can be at times imo.
Especially with DDR which came out in the late 1990s.
A bit lazy and takes away from the fantasy setting. All IMO
I think the general rule they use is that Equestria has the technology they need to have to make the scene work, but never more advanced than it needs to be. Like how when it comes to music they’ve got things like DJ Pon-3’s modern turntables, but for movies they only have reel-to-reel projecters, and then for something as simple as writing they still use feather quills and parchment.
Think of it like a giant gramaphone, which they do have. You turn the handle to twist a spring and then when released, it causes this note roll to turn, probably also a means to play music like a player piano. The rest of this could be done with simple lights , switches, and levers from the dance pad for the “wrong” display.
@Masem
I’ve been to an arcade once, I knew those bars were there for something. I figured it was for holding/stabilizing yourself while your legs do all the work.
Tender Taps can already draw a crowd on his own, but he would make this look easy.
your current filter.The handle thing? Well, its not moving so I doubt the screen is affected by it. Perhaps as a timer before the game session end?
@vevans0009
Don’t you realize that it doesn’t have a screen? It’s a roll!!! It’s more clear here:
your current filter.Edited
The writing for the show has never been too consistent on the levels of technology. Sometimes they depict the world has a pre-20th century like society and in other times they show very contemporary technology like this.
Equestria won’t have consistency because the writers treat it as a horse version of the US most of the time rather than a proper fantasy world.
Well, we do have TrotMania! :3
I might have a song suggestion…
Plays Daikenkai on Hard
Edited
Well, we never seen a screen from a arcade game on the show. So we don’t know how it would look like. Now we have.