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Here is what I recall... It is an arcade game. It is a one or 2 person fighting game. My guess is that it was around in the late 80's early 90's. The one thing that distinguished it in my mind was one of the characters looked alot like the "Predator". Does anyone have any idea what I am talking about? :D
The one thing that came to my mind was Alien Versus Predator arcade game.
Can you try to be a bit more specifc?
Is it one-on-one fight or is it scrolled through waves of enemies like the AvP above?
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Was it by chance Killer Instinct? The character Fulgore has a Predator-like look to him.
Killing Instinct, a game in the late SNES era, being referred to as "old school"...
Man, I feel so old right now.
Me too.
I wasn't fan of Killer Instinct so I didn't remembered Fulgore at all. It's not that old, by the way... I played it after Mortal Kombat after all.
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lol We all need to take a look at the wisps of grey coming into our hair/beards and admit that we are becoming the relics of todays youth.
Killer Instinct was first an arcade game nearly 20 years ago!
Does anyone remember an even older game (1988ish) called Assault, with the dual tank controls. How rich I would be if I had back all the quarters I pumped into that thing!
Does anyone remember an even older game (1988ish) called Assault, with the dual tank controls. How rich I would be if I had back all the quarters I pumped into that thing!
Heck, yeah! That was probably my all-time favorite tank game. Nifty levels (including the aerial-view pads), and being able to 'roll over' to get out of the way? Great stuff.
Older yet? I'm still waiting for a remake (or rather, rebuild) of my favorite Pac-Man game: Baby Pac-Man.
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Did any of you see an actual Pong machine?
EDIT: It has been one hell of an experience seeing the evolution of video games from pretty much their inception. The 80's were definitely the heyday for the arcade based games, Assault was a great one, but so were Crazy Climber, Spy Hunter, Tailgunner, Donkey Kong, Tron, Tempest, 1942, Qbert, Qix, Battlezone and all the countless others that ate the $25 worth of tokens you could get for $20 back in the day ... and if I saved and invested the cash that I had spent back then, I could probably retire right now.
lol We all need to take a look at the wisps of grey coming into our hair/beards and admit that we are becoming the relics of todays youth.
Killer Instinct was first an arcade game nearly 20 years ago!
Does anyone remember an even older game (1988ish) called Assault, with the dual tank controls. How rich I would be if I had back all the quarters I pumped into that thing!
My buddy Jim and I loved Assault. I could swear it was even older than that! 1988-ish, really? Weird.
Did any of you see an actual Pong machine?
EDIT: It has been one hell of an experience seeing the evolution of video games from pretty much their inception. The 80's were definitely the heyday for the arcade based games, Assault was a great one, but so were Crazy Climber, Spy Hunter, Tailgunner, Donkey Kong, Tron, Tempest, 1942, Qbert, Qix, Battlezone and all the countless others that ate the $25 worth of tokens you could get for $20 back in the day ... and if I saved and invested the cash that I had spent back then, I could probably retire right now.
Yes, my stepdad worked for a hotel near the airport here, and people would come and go with all sorts of gadgets and gifts, and sometimes they would end up in the lost and found. One day when I was 6 or 7 he came home with a Pong machine.
This was 1976 or 1977. I often use it to point out to the teenagers (and some twenty-somethings!) posting to sites like The Escapist that, not only were video games NOT invented the day they were born for their sole amusement, but neither were they the first generation to grow up with video games.
My earliest coin-op addictions were Vanguard, Phoenix, Gyruss, Tempest, Space Fury, Defender, Berserk, Bump and Jump, and Rolling Thunder.
While not the first arcade games for me, those are the ones I spent the most quarters on. There was one fantasy game I remember playing alot but the name eludes me. You controlled a guy with a spiked ball and chain (side scroller).
Ok add me to the "ancient gamer now feeling even older" crowd. :/
There was one fantasy game I remember playing alot but the name eludes me. You controlled a guy with a spiked ball and chain (side scroller).
That sounds like Rygar, but it might be a different one...
It want Rygar, something like it though. :)
Found it. Black Tiger by Capcom 1987
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Black_Tiger_game_flyer.png
Ah, of course!
I haven't played that one.