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Reef
11-13-2004, 09:16 PM
I don't mean to beat down the "best of" threads with another, but...

My favorite is X-Men. The one where you could be wolverine, storm, colossus, dazzler, or nightcrawler and fought bosses like Blob, Pyro, and some wolf dude. Each character also had their own mutant powers you could use every so often. Pure awesomeness

Men the Master
11-13-2004, 09:26 PM
Pong is King.

Nepa
11-13-2004, 09:33 PM
I'll vote for Bubble Hockey.

astroglide
11-13-2004, 09:42 PM
street fighter 2

The Dude
11-13-2004, 09:50 PM
In an interesting dichotemy, Street Fighter 2 and Pac-Man are tied in my book.

mikeyvegas
11-13-2004, 09:54 PM
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street fighter 2

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i concur. I spent many hours as a youth playing this game at the local pinball petes.

astroglide
11-13-2004, 10:02 PM
i think it's "dichotomy" and it usually involves opposites

Duke
11-13-2004, 10:15 PM
I like Galaga. Ms. Pac Man was great. Tetris wasn't covered well in its arcade incarnation. Street Fighter 2 was a fantastic game, and deserves mention. It changed the face of the arcade.

And if we can mention pinball games, well, I'll have to go with Pin-Bot. I have yet to get the damn thing to say: "You Control the Universe." NOW - I - SEE - YOU. It's a great pinball game, really.

~D

astroglide
11-13-2004, 10:19 PM
for pinball i like theater of magic, twilight zone, and addam's family the best. space jam was fun because of its ease.

cjromero
11-13-2004, 10:41 PM
Galaga and Tron.

Daliman
11-13-2004, 11:05 PM
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i think it's "dichotomy" and it usually involves opposites

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It is, and they were.

Bobby Digital
11-13-2004, 11:16 PM
Point Blank, if not that then Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, NBA JAM, or Mortal Kombat 2.

Thythe
11-13-2004, 11:19 PM
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i think it's "dichotomy" and it usually involves opposites

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It is, and they were.

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Exactly. You don't get much more different than street fighter and pac man.

Dynasty
11-13-2004, 11:24 PM
I probably enjoyed WWF WrestleFest more than any other. An earlier and lesser known wrestling game called MatMania is also a favorite.

YourFoxyGrandma
11-13-2004, 11:29 PM
For about a year, the ice rink where I worked had a Galaga machine. It cost a quarter to play. In that year, I probably spent something like $50 on that game.

Ms. Pac Man is a close second.

scotnt73
11-13-2004, 11:29 PM
galaga for me as well

Sponger15SB
11-13-2004, 11:51 PM
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for pinball i like theater of magic, twilight zone, and addam's family the best. space jam was fun because of its ease.

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street fighter 2


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astro you could not possibly be more right in your choices....good job!

nobody has mentioned a straight shooting game so i gotta say area 51. I used to pull 100+ hits in a row at least 1x a game and then 50+ in a row about 3x a game.

ClaytonN
11-14-2004, 12:14 AM
Oh my god, Area 51. Don't get me started.

In my usualy venture at the sports bar after church on sundays, I'd play that damn game every time. Got to a point where I'd try to beat it on 1 credit. Sickening.

What an awesome shooting game.

Jim Kuhn
11-14-2004, 12:14 AM
Baby Pac Man! It was a combination of video game and pinball when video games first came out.

Thank you,

Jim Kuhn
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blackaces13
11-14-2004, 12:19 AM
I was gonna say Gallaga.

pokerkai
11-14-2004, 12:28 AM
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for pinball i like theater of magic, twilight zone, and addam's family the best. space jam was fun because of its ease.

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theater of magic is awesome...

Nepa
11-14-2004, 12:49 AM
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for pinball i like theater of magic, twilight zone, and addam's family the best. space jam was fun because of its ease.

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Did you ever play Terminator 3? I vote for that as the best pinball machine ever.

OrangeHeat
11-14-2004, 01:12 AM
addam's family hands down on the pinball.

Pac-man has to be on the list of hte greatest.

Orange

Richard K.
11-14-2004, 01:31 AM
Stargate. And, it isn't even close /images/graemlins/grin.gif.

ArchAngel71857
11-14-2004, 01:50 AM
Star Wars Arcade Trilogy.


-AA

Sooga
11-14-2004, 02:13 AM
arcade game: Out Run
pinball game: Pin-Bot

Q8offsuit
11-14-2004, 02:16 AM
The fact that Burgertime has not been mentioned yet is a travesty.

edge
11-14-2004, 02:21 AM
My first thought when I saw the title was X-Men.

ilikebigbets
11-14-2004, 03:28 AM
No one has mentioned Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. That game was sick. I loved it way back when.

ilikebigbets

Ed Miller
11-14-2004, 03:32 AM
street fighter 2

Good call. It gets extra points for playing 1000x better as an arcade game vs. console.

astroglide
11-14-2004, 03:59 AM
the physics on the snes version were MASSIVELY different (mainly noticed in jump attacks/ground swings at jumpers). not to mention the absence of glitches to make the already dominant guile hilariously overpowered. anybody that bought the snes version and considered it the same as the arcade one without a joystick was high as a kite.

astroglide
11-14-2004, 04:01 AM
yeah that was fun. tmnt games are a bit broken though because bo = range = superior. donatello, leonardo, michaelangelo, raphael was the order of things on almost all the tmnt games (especially the highly difficult original nes one where you could hit through walls).

Niwa
11-14-2004, 04:04 AM
I agree. Street Fighter 2 !

CalmIxian
11-14-2004, 04:35 AM
Double Dragon. Hands Down.

astroglide
11-14-2004, 04:48 AM
elbow. elbow. elbow. yawn. i have deceptively fond memories of that one too but i think it's really not even on the map. i like the nes version better.

rusty JEDI
11-14-2004, 05:13 AM
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elbow. elbow. elbow. yawn. i have deceptively fond memories of that one too but i think it's really not even on the map. i like the nes version better.

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Just turn around and back kick. It was unbeatable.

rJ

astroglide
11-14-2004, 05:18 AM
elbow is way more powerful and knocks down. you just have to get off of their horizontal plane and hit upon approach.

Blarg
11-14-2004, 05:19 AM
When I was a kid I couldn't afford games much, and when I was in college I was poorer still, so I had to extend the rare times I played as long as possible. That's one reason I loved a game I could drag out forever on a single quarter, and kept me on edge the whole time -- Qix.

Niwa
11-14-2004, 05:54 AM
I like TMNT /images/graemlins/smile.gif

ThaSaltCracka
11-14-2004, 07:34 AM
TMNT
Simpsons
Wolverine
T2
Generation X
Stryder
Cabal
Time Crisis
Cruisin USA
Rush 2049
Street Fighter 2
X-Men vs. SF
Capcom vs. Marvel
Point Blank
King of Fighters

Plus most of the old school ones already mentioned.

the list could go on and on....

Rushmore
11-14-2004, 10:13 AM
I don't have time to read all the other responses to this post, so please excuse me if my response is redundant.

The answer is DEFENDER. It could not be improved upon. The controls required a lot of dexterity, and the game itself was excellent.

I hope all of you youngsters can go to some old arcarde somewhere, where the owner knows what's what. Maybe he's left DEFENDER on the floor, back behind all of the basketball games and games where you karate kick a bunch of ninjas.

Go there, find the DEFENDER machine. Bring a lot of money, and have a few hours put aside.

Then you will know. Yes, you will know.

Duke
11-14-2004, 10:27 AM
Did everyone forget Arkanoid, or didn't people think it was as badass a game as I did?

Sure, I love Galaga, but Arkanoid was a game worthy of mention.

~D

Bulldog
11-14-2004, 11:54 AM
Cyberball
Joust

The Ocho
11-14-2004, 12:23 PM
Golden Axe.

AngryCola
11-14-2004, 12:50 PM
Galaga is my number one.

Also, Joust and Crystal Castles, because I'm weird. /images/graemlins/spade.gif

codewarrior
11-14-2004, 01:00 PM
Galaga
Defender
Vangaurd
Zaxxon
Centipede
Joust

mmbt0ne
11-14-2004, 02:29 PM
Time Crisis 2, I used to go to the movies 2 hours early, just to play it.

whiskeytown
11-14-2004, 02:33 PM
this isn't an arcade game, per se...

but the Atari 2600's "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was one of the first puzzle games I've ever played (a la MYST)and took my child prodigy mind a month to solve...

that really got my attention...I still play it sometimes for the hell of it on an Atari emulator. I'm gonna go with that.

Arcade - Donkey Kong....many a child's allowance spent on that and DK Jr.

RB

River2Pair
11-14-2004, 02:53 PM
WWF Wrestling Challenge, and its not close.

Sponger15SB
11-14-2004, 03:01 PM
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Oh my god, Area 51. Don't get me started.

In my usualy venture at the sports bar after church on sundays, I'd play that damn game every time. Got to a point where I'd try to beat it on 1 credit. Sickening.

What an awesome shooting game.

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I got so good at that game when I'd play with my friends I'd stand as far back as the gun allowed and use my left hand and I would still get the slide bar all the way to my side.

hehe

NoPeak
11-14-2004, 03:08 PM
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arcade game: Out Run
pinball game: Pin-Bot

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exactly, these were my two chices

Mano
11-14-2004, 03:09 PM
I'm pretty shocked noone has yet mentioned asteroids or missle command.

daryn
11-14-2004, 03:16 PM
point blank is awesome.


also i'm not sure i can be beaten at the original mortal kombat, or mk2 arcade games. i'm serious.

Sponger15SB
11-14-2004, 03:20 PM
let me guess.... sub zero... freeze, uppercut, slide, trip?

point blank was good but my local arcade's light gun was all messed up so you ended up shooting in crazy places.

Mars357
11-14-2004, 03:22 PM
The original Donkey Kong...
I also loved playing the arcade version of Dragon's Lair

daryn
11-14-2004, 03:26 PM
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let me guess.... sub zero... freeze, uppercut, slide, trip?

point blank was good but my local arcade's light gun was all messed up so you ended up shooting in crazy places.

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nah i just beat mofos all day long. i would literally play for hours on the same credit with a line of guys behind me. i would let the other guy choose my character if he wanted. i got a lot of practice with sonya that way.

MK was never really a "combo" game

Sponger15SB
11-14-2004, 03:30 PM
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MK was never really a "combo" game

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ha, well obviously you weren't very good at it then /images/graemlins/grin.gif

daryn
11-14-2004, 03:33 PM
we are talking about the original right?

Sponger15SB
11-14-2004, 03:38 PM
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we are talking about the original right?

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yes.

the later versions starting with MK 3 &amp; trilogy relied heavily on combos, however 1&amp;2 you could still pull off some rather sweet ones.

astroglide
11-14-2004, 04:23 PM
mk was a huge juggle game, especially revisions 1 and 2. sub-zero could jk/jk/slide/jk in that one, etc. even in the later revs kano, cage, and raiden could jp people indefinitely in the corners.

ThaSaltCracka
11-14-2004, 05:52 PM
if you could get a good gun, Point Blank was awesome.

Ray Zee
11-14-2004, 08:57 PM
paper boy, frogger, donkey kong, duck hunt.

the new games come with a 200 page book you have to study just to make them work.

Lawrence Ng
11-14-2004, 10:12 PM
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street fighter 2


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Agreed.

Slacker13
11-14-2004, 10:21 PM
I can spend a few hours playing Galaga, still a great game IMO.

B00T
11-14-2004, 10:24 PM
only one mention of it in this thread... it desrves its on post...


NBA JAM

You guys just sick of it because it has been ported and replicated by every other sport? When this game first hit the arcades (yes with Shaq on the Magic) it was untouchable...Lines to play this game all over the place. Even if you hated basketball this game was popular.

One other arcade game that I am surprised has gotten no mention. Dance Dance Revolution. Surely poker players are not the type to do such activities (generally speaking those are different personality types. Those games absoultey skyrocketed in recent years.

KJS
11-14-2004, 10:28 PM
x

Sponger15SB
11-14-2004, 10:38 PM
back when i was way younger me and my dad would go to vegas and he'd leave me in the video arcade while he gambled and i'd just play NBA jam over and over and over again.

/images/graemlins/frown.gif those were the days.

I can't believe I forgot about that but usually when I think of arcade games I think of non sports games.

It was copied a lot, but NFL blitz was awsome. I once beat a kid so bad his mom got started yelling at me.
(why do i feel the need to brag about my video game prowess in every one of my posts in this thread *sigh*)

Michael Davis
11-14-2004, 10:54 PM
Rampage.

-Michael

blendedsuit
11-14-2004, 11:09 PM
Metro Police Trainer.

Bulldog
11-15-2004, 08:45 AM
Pinball: Black Knight 2000, Taxi

astroglide
11-15-2004, 11:33 AM
get ready for battle
get ready to fight
you can do it, you can do it
beat the black knight!

HA. HA. HA. NO WAY.

nicky g
11-15-2004, 11:34 AM
Best Pinball was Twilight Zone.

Never that into arcade games; I remember thinking the Terminator 2 one was pretty amazing at the time though.

ThaSaltCracka
11-15-2004, 12:13 PM
I can't believe I forgot Rampage and NBA Jam, oh well, both of those were always fun, especially Rampage. I am also going to throw out Raiden, 1942 and Bust a Move.

Dominic
11-15-2004, 02:04 PM
Asteroids

DukeSucks
11-15-2004, 07:37 PM
Showbiz Pizza used to have a pretty cool arcade version of Indiana Jones

nolanfan34
11-15-2004, 08:02 PM
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only one mention of it in this thread... it desrves its on post...


NBA JAM

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Finally read this today. NBA JAM was the best. Especially putting in the code to play as the Air Max guy, who dominated. I was never so excited, then disappointed for an arcade game to come out on SNES. The NES version royally sucked.

Street Fighter II also gets another vote.

AND - no one has mentioned the original Punch Out, with the green hero boxer, and a separate big button you'd pound on to do an uppercut.

daryn
11-15-2004, 08:27 PM
body blow! body blow!

youtalkfunny
11-16-2004, 01:32 AM
Favorite pinball machine: "The Phantom of the Opera". Nothing special about it. Just that when you lost the ball, it played the sound effect of a woman screaming. Then, while you were waiting for it to total all the bonus points, hitting the flipper buttons would produce a sound effect of a whip.

You know that sound you make with your mouth when talking about your p*ssy-whipped friend? You know the sound, "whhoo-PISSSHH"?

The left button went "whoo", and the right "PISSSHH!" And for those few seconds, we teenage boys just went nuts whipping the hell out of some imaginary screaming woman.

whoo-PISSSHH! whoo-PISSSHH!! whoo,whoo,woowooPISSSHH! PISSSHH-PISSSHH-PISSSHH-PISSSHH-PISSSHH!!

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i'm not sure i can be beaten at the original mortal kombat, or mk2 arcade games. i'm serious.

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I never found anyone who could beat me at bubble hockey. Never found anyone who could give me a close game.

To get a game for money, I had to spot things like, "If my center gets a clean breakaway off the face-off, I have to pass the puck before taking a shot," or, "I won't use my center." Then I'd start scoring from the wings and the point.

(That "useless" center still got his share of deflections and tip-ins!)

I played some last year, first time in at least 15 years. I was visiting my cousin, who fixed up his basement into a rec room, and had an arcade-quality bubble hockey game. I was trying to convince everyone just how good I was at this.

Even as I was scoring goals WITH MY FEET, they kept saying, "You're not going to beat me."

Even as I was scoring goals WITH MY EYES CLOSED, they kept saying "You're still not going to beat me."

Then I pulled out the stopper: My defenseman had the puck behind the net (or as close to "behind the net" as he could be), and I called "bank shot". I whistled one up the right boards and beat him glove-side.

While waiting for the face-off after that one, I heard, "Maybe you ARE going to beat me."

astroglide
11-16-2004, 01:41 AM
i don't know what bubble hockey is, but i'm sure you were better at it than daryn was at mk 1/2 based on his "combo" comment and automatic declaration of invincibility

J.Brown
11-16-2004, 01:47 AM
Paper Boy!!!!!!!!

Ray Zee you have moved even further up in my book!

I forgot all about that game, great one for sure.

I loved Tron, Track and Field, and especially Punch Out.

carry on-----great topic. J.

youtalkfunny
11-16-2004, 01:48 AM
Like foosball, only it's hockey, with a big transparent bubble covering the playing surface, to keep the puck from flying off the table. Players manipulated foosball-like handles, but stood behind their nets, not on the sidelines like foosball players.

Funny, I suck at foosball. But I was unbeatable at that hockey.

daryn
11-16-2004, 02:23 AM
those were the days. i just couldn't be beaten baby. why would i feel the need to embellish? it's not like i'm always coming out and saying how i'm the best at this/that.

astroglide
11-16-2004, 02:52 AM
beating up your local yokels while lacking the fundamental knowledge that the game is combo-based only proves that you had/have a long way to go. it speaks much more about your competition than it does yourself.

daryn
11-16-2004, 02:54 AM
i still say that game is in no way combo based. a real combo-based game was like... killer instinct or to a lesser degree than that, street fighter 2

astroglide
11-16-2004, 03:59 PM
juggle combos. i was a complete juggling game, especially on early revisions.

ThaSaltCracka
11-16-2004, 04:37 PM
MK had combos. I remember having the first one on SNES and there were definitely combos in the game. There weren't any particular buttons to push to make a combo, you just had to put the punches and kicks together right to get them.

Richard K.
11-17-2004, 12:35 AM
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