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I'm not one of the older crowd, but I have spent my share of time in an arcade. I've always been partial to the Street Fighter games and the shooters. Specifically the target practice ones. I've always been good enough to last a long time at those, and memorizing patters (combos) was always easy for me.
and I havn't played it in the arcades, but I do have Dance Dance Revolution at home that I'm amazing at. I know it's funny to laugh at the overweight guy dancing at those things, but what happens when he's better then everyone else? The answer: people stop laughing and start asking for tips.
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Ok, I know older of us on this board spent every quarter at the local arcade. I spent mine on the stand ups like Star Wars, Gautlet, Black Tiger and Street Fighter. What did everyone else play.
Donkey Kong
Dragon SlayerStar Wars
There were others but those were the big 3.
Hmmm. If i would have saved all those quarters and invested them into Microsoft, I'd be a retired millionaire and own the coin-op games. 20-20 hindsight can be a real bee itch. Ouch!
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Street Fighter, 1942, Gauntlet, Mortal Kombat were my choices to blow my quarters on.
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Back in the day, I loved Street Fighter (of course), Altered Beast, Mortal Kombat (although I was terrible at it), the various shooting games and all of the Neo Geo games.
But when I was in college there was an arcade of sorts in the basement of my dorm, so I more or less majored in Soul Edge and Soul Caliber, with a minor in the Samurai Showdown series.
Street Fighter, Area 51, House of the Dead and The Simpsons Arcade Game. *snickers at the last* My brother and I OWNED that one as Lisa and Bart. Only game we ever got our parents to play while they were yelling at each other over air hockey.
Shooting games were my strong point though. That and DDR/Para Para Paradise later on. and the Taiko Drumming arcade game...
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The Simpsons Arcade Game. *snickers at the last*
I remember that game! They had it at my local bowling alley growing up. I was never able to actually do anything. I'd play with my friend, and he'd be all killing the everything, and I'd be running around in circles trying to figure out what the buttons do before I died...
...and the Taiko Drumming arcade game...
You do know that's coming to DS, right? :)
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Ah man...Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat, Altered Beast was awesome, Gauntlet, The first WWF wrestling game, and Galaga of course.
I love Galaga so much that I bought a fully refurbished galaga arcade game (all Galaga exterior art - so it looks brand spankin' new, like it would have in 1982) - but it also has Ms. Pacman, Donkey Kong, and Frogger as playable options.
All those quarters and hours invested as a child . . .
I played a lot of games here and there, but I really liked Smash TV and Double Dragon in the arcade. I also liked NBA Jam and a little bit of Street Fighter.
Spy Hunter, the first Mario Brothers, and later, that somewhat realistic fighting game with Sarah. Oh how the name of that game eludes me.
...that somewhat realistic fighting game with Sarah.
Virtua Fighter? o.O
Q-Bert. Played it when it first came out. Gotta love his annoyed pseudo-cussing.
Faves: Centipede, Missile Command, Pac-Man.
More modern devourers-of-quarters: Street Fighter (thru Marvel vs. Capcom, with nigh-epic skills on Marvel vs. Street Fighter at one time), a little Samurai Showdown and Soulcalibre. Most especially the old X-Men side-scroller (especially with all 6 players available for massive mayhem). My skills in THAT were epic, especially with Dazzler or Storm.
Anyone remember Rampage and Spy Hunter? I played those a lot as a young kid in the arcades, among many others. Various pinball games sucked down my parent's quarters as well.
Both my parents and grandparents bowled a lot when I was younger, so I was given a bunch of quarters to last me through the evening in the arcade while they were bowling. I had to use them wisely so I played games I was good at.
Double Dragon, Boulder Dash, Operation Wolf, After Burner, Chase HQ, Mortal Komabat series, Street Fighter series, Pac Man, Zaxxon, Space Harrier, Strider, Tekken series, Golden Axe series, House of the Dead series, Time Crisis, Outrun, Alien 3: The Gun, Bomber Man, King of the Monsters series, R-Type! :D
Add Rampage and of course GAUNTLET!!! to my list
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Really old stuff- Centipede was a fav, Joust, Asteroids, and the various Pac-mans.
A little later...
Double Dragon, Guantlet, Virtua fighter, Star Wars, and Mortal Combat (the first one), I could kill anyone who wanted to step to me at Mortal Combat, I once stood playing for 5 hours on one quarter while random idiots took turns trying to beat my Sub-Zero. Smack talk helped some.
I also remember one with fighters(one was a dwarf) riding dinosaurs or something....Used to play that alot. *EDIT: Golden Axe!!!* Wish I owned that machine.
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Really old stuff- Centipede was a fav, Joust, Asteroids, and the various Pac-mans.
A little later...
Double Dragon, Guantlet, Virtua fighter, Star Wars, and Mortal Combat (the first one), I could kill anyone who wanted to step to me at Mortal Combat, I once stood playing for 5 hours on one quarter while random idiots took turns trying to beat my Sub-Zero. Smack talk helped some.
I also remember one with fighters(one was a dwarf) riding dinosaurs or something....Used to play that alot. *EDIT: Golden Axe!!!* Wish I owned that machine.FH
Wasn't that Golden Axe? I loved that one, and the original Star Wars with the attack on the Death Star over and over and over and over...
Wasn't that Golden Axe? I loved that one, and the original Star Wars with the attack on the Death Star over and over and over and over...Really old stuff- Centipede was a fav, Joust, Asteroids, and the various Pac-mans.
A little later...
Double Dragon, Guantlet, Virtua fighter, Star Wars, and Mortal Combat (the first one), I could kill anyone who wanted to step to me at Mortal Combat, I once stood playing for 5 hours on one quarter while random idiots took turns trying to beat my Sub-Zero. Smack talk helped some.
I also remember one with fighters(one was a dwarf) riding dinosaurs or something....Used to play that alot. *EDIT: Golden Axe!!!* Wish I owned that machine.FH
Me and my friend completed Golden Axe once -we were SO chuffed with ourselves but we had to spend our bus fair home on extra credits to pull it off. Later that night on the way home we got chased by glue sniffers and had to hide under a JCB! Ah... to be young again!
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Really old stuff- Centipede was a fav, Joust, Asteroids, and the various Pac-mans.
A little later...
Double Dragon, Guantlet, Virtua fighter, Star Wars, and Mortal Combat (the first one), I could kill anyone who wanted to step to me at Mortal Combat, I once stood playing for 5 hours on one quarter while random idiots took turns trying to beat my Sub-Zero. Smack talk helped some.
I also remember one with fighters(one was a dwarf) riding dinosaurs or something....Used to play that alot. *EDIT: Golden Axe!!!* Wish I owned that machine.FH
GOLDEN AXE!!! That was it! I think the BBEG at the end was named Death Adder - and he looked like a Warduke ripoff kinda.
I spent days playing that game.
Ah yes, another thread where we get to age ourselves ;)
All my money went to the racing game, geesh, I'm so old I can't even remember the name. The guys hated being beat by a girl in a driving game. What can I say, velocity is my drug of choice.
This place, 1984, is going strong in my home town. Five bucks gets you unlimited credits! Kind of takes the fun out of "Smash TV", "Gauntlet", "Golden Axe", "P O W" and a few others with an actual 'end'. Still, playing "R-type", "1942", "Spy Hunter", "Sinistar", "Tempest", "Elevator Action", and "Mappy" till you get massive wrist cramps is a blast...not to mention "Gyruss"!!! Remember that one?
Back in the day, it was "Ms PacMan", "Dig Dug", "TRON", "GORF", "Defender", "Bump n Jump", and "Popeye" that got my quarters. I remember taking a check into a bank that I got for raking rocks all day (something like 30$) and when they asked me how I would like the cash, I said "Quarters"!
Someone figured out a way to glue some pennies to his big-ass pocket comb (remember those?) and balance it between the two buttons on "Track and Field" and totally mop up the place setting all kinds of records.
And looking at the Coin Op Museum, I remember the four-way "Hot Rod" game taking up a lot of my college textbook cash. (4way hotrod...heh)
ooooh, and Contra.
"Smash TV"
I loved that game!
I loved that game!
"Good Luck...you'll need it!" "I'd buy that for a dollar!", "Big Money! Big Prizes! I love it!" "Total Carnage! I love it!" "Dude!"
I loved that game!"Good Luck...you'll need it!" "I'd buy that for a dollar!", "Big Money! Big Prizes! I love it!" "Total Carnage! I love it!" "Dude!"
Lol! Good times and fond memories! I wanna run out to the computer shop and see if I can score an old second hand SNES and a copy of the Super Smash TV game now!
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Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Asteroids, Centipede, Wack-a-Mole, Star Trek, Star Wars (these two are the old blue line, black screen 2D games), more Pac-Man, followed by a little more Pac-Man. I used to love Chucky Cheese! I remember when Dragon's Lair came out, and it cost like $1 to play--I always fell down the shaft at the very beginning; I could never figure that game out. The buck I spent on that machine meant more than an hour lost from any of the other games, so I didn't try it too often. I love the arcade at Yongson Garrison's P/X, in Seoul, Korea--it's still packed with 1980s games!
and "Burgertime"! I remember a commercial on tv for that one. and here it is
Trying to remember a couple driving games that I played.
1- is an OLD '3-d' racing game that might just be a modded Zaxxon game(same look and era), but you drove a funnycar dragster looking thing and had to jump over broken road while blasting others racing against you...really primitive graphix. Sit down arcade.
2- is much later and was a off road driving game and might have even been named after a famous 4x4 dude. Driving trucks and could pick up powerups and $$$ and a had a nitrous button (which I remember pushing almost constantly). This one was a stand up and 3 people could race together. Not much else, I remember it in a mall near a McDonalds and we would drink a lot of schnapps and sneak in burgers and race!
3- was one from about 1986. Top view formula-1 racers pick up powerups and cash. Between races you spent points/cash on Acceleration/braking/top speed/something? by turning the steering wheel and pressing the pedal to choose. There was almost always a shortcut over a dirt path that you could drive thru. Seems like the road had walls and you took damage if you hit. Maybe the 4th power buy was a quicker recovery time. 2 or 3 people could race against each other and a couple computer cars. Lots of color details in asphalt, oil slicks, road signs, shadows under bridges, and dirt.
And wikipedia has a list by year, so I am going to look for this other one I remember that the screen went taller than wider and 3 people could play and you had a bunch of different warriors from all kinds of backgrounds (archer, boomerang thrower, machinegunner, bazooka dude, spear thrower, flamethrower, maybe even lasers?) anyway, you took one of yer guys and had to get close to a captured warrior. Destroy his captors without damaging him/her and then lead them the rest of the way to the top of the screen. I think you had to leave one enemy alive and then race the rest of yer ever-growing company from bottom to top and then kill the last guy with yer last guy. It seems that if you killed the last enemy, however many guys you still had 'in reserve' would be gone when you got to the next 'level'.
Did NOONE here play the side scrolling D&D that Capcom put out? Those two games are some of my absolute favorites to play with friends, we once traveled an hour and a half to find a machine that had the option to play with 4 people. I also loved other games on that engine, like Aliens vs. Predator(which I still play via emulation). Aside from that, the vast majority of the games everyone else has mentioned I either own some version of or remember playing constantly. I still go to chinatown fair and play Samurai Showdown 2(although I still think 4 was the best one), King of Fighters 11(a fighting game series I truly grew up with- I remember playing King of Fighters '94 back in..1994), The Rumble Fish, Rage of the Dragons, the fighting game version of Double Dragon, assorted shooters(more recent versions of 1941, Gigawing, and the classic Raiden, which I just got for Ps2), and strange imported japanese fighting games like Angel Heart(at least I think that's the name).
Did NO ONE here play the side scrolling D&D that Capcom put out?
Yes. Yes I did. :D
Fear not, I played quite a bit of the D&D sidescroller as well. I played a bit of Gauntlet (most recent version) and Golden Axe 2 as well (preferred archer and centaur, respectively).
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I, too, played the D&D sidescroller ("Sticks to Snakes!"). I think the real arcade giants of my younger years were things like Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat. I spent a lot of pocket change on those. I also enjoyed the Simpsons arcade game greatly. In fact, one of my friends and I managed to talk our parents into giving us $20 each to go to the arcade. We got our tokens and took over the Simpsons arcade game. We beat it, too! It took a healthy chunk of change to pull off, though.
I was also a big fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sidescroller beat-em-up game, I think it was called 'Turtles in Time' or something like that.
And, of course, when I was a little bit older and no longer parentally supervised, I played Time Killers! Such an awesome game... and WAY bloodier than any Mortal Kombat.
I spent truck loads of quarters on Gauntlet and Tempest.
I remember when Diablo came out! I was, like five or six years old. Then Diablo 2 came out when I was in the fifth grade. That was pretty cool. What's a Pac-Man?
I think, like, you guys are, like, old enough to be my parents, or something.
...and the Taiko Drumming arcade game...You do know that's coming to DS, right? :)
Really!? *starts pinching pennies for THAT*
I love the TMNT side scroller too. Tried playing it again a while back and was summarily out of lives within five minutes.
taiko drumming arcade! That sounds almost as fun as session mode in guitarfreaks! My former roomie is willing to drive me two hours with another friend for us to drop 50 dollars(each) on session mode!
Altered Beast is one of the loveliest games. It should win a Nobel Prize.Isn't that the one where you start out as a normal guy but you pick up power-ups to turn into a werewolf or something?
POWER. UP.
...I do have Dance Dance Revolution at home...
Ugh. Just watching people play DDR makes me want to have an epileptic seizure.
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Just watching people play DDR makes me want to have an epileptic seizure.
Watching people play DDR makes me want to eat greasy pizza and drink a double milkshake. Video games aren't supposed to be for active people! Video games are supposed to lead to obesity and bedsores! Therefore, when I see DDR players, I must balance the cosmos by embracing their gluttony and sloth (which they have clearly disregarded) as my own.
Yeah, I'm overweight. But if it weren't for people like me picking up the... uh... slack... for people like that, the Earth would spin off it's axis and we'd all be hurtling into the sun! Keep that in mind the next time you see people picking on a fat kid. You owe it to them.
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Lol! Good times and fond memories! I wanna run out to the computer shop and see if I can score an old second hand SNES and a copy of the Super Smash TV game now!I loved that game!"Good Luck...you'll need it!" "I'd buy that for a dollar!", "Big Money! Big Prizes! I love it!" "Total Carnage! I love it!" "Dude!"
Nintendo doesn't support the NES or SNES anymore, so another company is making a box with two slots, one for old NES and one for old SNES games. I've seen it at the local used video game store for about $60. for the game, you might have to hunt some more, but hope that helps with the system.
Nintendo doesn't support the NES or SNES anymore, so another company is making a box with two slots, one for old NES and one for old SNES games. I've seen it at the local used video game store for about $60. for the game, you might have to hunt some more, but hope that helps with the system.
Oh! What a treat that would be! :D Hmmmmm... Wonder if ebay would have one?
...I do have Dance Dance Revolution at home...Ugh. Just watching people play DDR makes me want to have an epileptic seizure.
My daughter has a DDR mat, the kids play it all the time...upstairs...right above my head, sigh, we've been rethinking that gift.