Journey (Arcade, 1983, Bally Midway/Richard Ditton/Elaine Hodgson/Scott Morrison/Steven Meyer)

This is Journey for Arcade; it's a game based on the popular 1970s band of the same name. In this game, you play as one of the five band members that hope in their spaceship to retrieve their instruments scattered around five planets. Choose one of them before the time reaches 0, as you select a planet to head to, you'll play as one of the band members:

Steve Perry - He is the Lead Singer of the band, surrounded by spinning turnstiles as he walks down to get his microphone. Then make it back up while shooting and avoiding the red turnstiles moving to blocks his way.

Jonathan Cain - One of the band members who is the Song Writer, is in a Donkey Kong stage going down jumping over moving keys to get his piano. When he gets it, the platforms will explode and now the blobs are flying after him in a vertical line.

Neal Schon - The Guitarist, is on his jetpack carefully descending down in the caverns to grab his guitar. This triggers the rockets inside to start shooting. Shot them to not get blasted and fly back up.

Ross Valory - Who is the Bassist moves on rising blocks and must hope off to the next one to reach his Bass. During the way back, the blocks will start to change, and turrets will come out shooting discs. The only way out is to be very quick with shooting them before they start the shots to make a path back to the ship.

Steve Smith - The Drummer in the band, jumps on the red drums like trampolines. He can't grab his Drums until all the other drums are blue. Then flying disc like symbols will start spinning up. They have pattern that makes it easy for you to predict when they will appear while shooting them.

After completing the mission it's time to start a concert and their hit song Separate Ways begins to play. It seems like the song is awesome too awesome that the groupoids listening are trying to get in. Don't worry, Herbie Herbert will be there to stop them from trespassing by. The more he blocks them, the more points scored. Unfortunately, they get fast and faster the more he does so. By the time one of the groupoids manage to slip by into one of three backstage entrances, the Journey band escapes leaving their instruments behind for them to be taken back which ends the music. Now the mission starts back again, but this time the obstacles become very difficult and fast. If one of the band members make a mistake, then a chance is gone. At 20000, 60000, 100000 and so on for every 40000 points reached an extra chance is given. Keep in mind that the game is over once all the band members have made a mistake on the last. This is a really nice game to play although it didn't do well when it first released and had no ports. What should be noted is the fact that not only were the characters heads were from photographs. It was also the first Arcade game to have music being played from an Internal Cassette Deck from the back. This explains why you hear the music as it was actually not in game, but it's outside.