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Sega Jet Rocket: The '70s arcade game with no computer or screen

Back in 1970, Sega introduced an arcade game that would pave the way for many of today's most popular video games. Known as Jet Rocket, the electromechanical marvel boasted several world-firsts – even though most people today don't know it ever existed.

The player was steering an air force jet on a nighttime mission, pushing a trigger button to shoot rockets at military targets passing by on the ground below. Inside the game's rather enormous cabinet was a large vertically oriented conveyor-belt-like "canvas" with a flexible foam relief map of the landscape (including the targets) on its outer surface. Each pair corresponded to one of five "target areas" which were arranged side-by-side to form a horizontal row of lights beneath the canvas, spanning the width of the landscape.

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