Amazing '70s arcade games use real model motorcycles

This is going on the list of the reasons why I wish I’d been a teenager in the ’70s, right after long hair actually being fashionable. These two restored arcade games — Sega Moto Champ and Bally Hill Climb — use actual model motorcycles instead of the pixelated versions that became technically feasible a few years later. It’s kind of like how your mom thinks your computer works; levers and cables control the movement of the bikes and, in the case of Bally Hill Climb, the bike actually has a motor driving the rear wheel that, in turn, spins the drum that serves as an obstacle course.
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