Pig Out at the Galloping Ghost Arcade, Chicago

Pig Out is an arcade game produced by the Leland Corporation in 1990. The title including the slogan “Dine like a swine” use Frankfurter Highlight, Nick Belshaw’s 1978 extension of Letraset’s original Frankfurter from 1970.

In this game, a bunch of little piggies run around in a gym-like maze trying to eat up all the goodies on the road. They must avoid an evil butcher and several big bad wolves chasing them.

Read more about Pig Out on the website of the International Arcade Museum and in the LaunchBox Games Database.

Full arcade cabinet

Title screen

Flyer for Pig Out featuring two weights of ITC Benguiat Gothic

Tailgunner is a monochrome vector arcade game. The single-player shooter game was designed by Dan Sunday and Larry Rosenthal at Vectorbeam and published by Cinematronics in 1979.

The game logo on the front of the cabinet features a very rare typeface. It’s Vincent, here used with a hyper-extended g. The geometric typeface constructed from straights and quarter circles was drawn by Trevor Vincent, then a London-based freelance graphic designer, reflecting his interest in Art Deco. In 1973, the typeface was among the winners of a competition held by Letraset and produced for dry transfer lettering.

The spaceship decal on the sides presents the name in another futuristic 1970s face. It’s the multiline Stack. Designed in 1969 by Les Lawrence, it was first released by Face Photosetting around 1979, and subsequently adopted by Photo-Lettering, Mecanorma, Letraset, and Chartpak. The same design also appears on a flyer and the manual.

Cover of the service manual, with a 1979 date inside. The Cinematronics Inc. logo uses Eurostile. A pdf of the manual is available from Museum of the Game.

A colored version of the spaceship image as seen on a flyer. Secondary type in Helvetica Italic.

The back of the flyer lists the player and operator features and depicts the cabinet with the logo in Vincent.