favorite arcade game

[beerbandit]

the combination of seeing all the game threads and playing rampage last weekend at the bowling alley, i start this thread


mutliplayer -- super off road or golden tee


cant go wrong with pac man though


cheers

[pshreck]

X-Men, the arcade.

Specifically the one on the massive screen, with 3 other dudes playing with you.

[Duke]

Big Buck Hunter II

~D

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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X-Men, the arcade.

Specifically the one on the massive screen, with 3 other dudes playing with you.

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This is a good choice. I'm going with Ms. Pac Man followed closely by X-Men and similar (Simpsons), then Viper (top-scrolling plane shooter), then some sort of cop/sniper/shooting game. Also, there are two games that they used to have in the Grand Casino Hinckley (I'm talking circa 1996 here) that I have no idea what they're called, but they were awesome. The first was an F-16 simulator, the other was some sort of tank game. In the end, though, it's all about Ms. Pac Man.

[Macdaddy Warsaw]

Time Crisis has always been good but I like police 911 now, even though I look rather silly playing it. I'm a light gun fan, but X-Men is good too and I really liked the Simpsons game.

[Shajen]

Street Fighter in the arcade was the nuts.

[LaggyLou]

Missle Command

[chaas4747]

Silver Strike Bowling, or Golden Tee.

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

Dance Dance Revolution?

[bdk3clash]

Galaga.
1st Mortal Kombat has a special place in my heart.

[pshreck]

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Dance Dance Revolution?

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Dont say it.

[Superfluous Man]

I spent ungodly sums of money playing Cadillacs and Dinosaurs back in the day.

Also, the original Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter II.

[cjromero]

I second bdk on Galaga, with Golden Tee a close second.

[Paluka]

Mortal Kombat II. Multiplayer only, playing the computer blows.

[Duke]

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Dance Dance Revolution?

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My 5 year old niece likes the one with like 50 Korean pop songs to choose from.

~D

[Duke]

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Mortal Kombat II. Multiplayer only, playing the computer blows.

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For games that you find in arcades, I'll go with this as well. I stick to BBH2 for bar games, followed by Golden Tee.

It took me nearly a week to figure out the fatalities and all for Sub Zero.

~D

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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Dance Dance Revolution?

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My 5 year old niece likes the one with like 50 Korean pop songs to choose from.

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I'm sorry. Does she make Uncle Duke play with her? I bet you can bust all kinds of moves on that thing.

[mmbt0ne]

Ninja Turtles

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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Ninja Turtles

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YES! I'm putting this in ahead of X-Men.

[Duke]

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I'm sorry. Does she make Uncle Duke play with her? I bet you can bust all kinds of moves on that thing.

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I could out-DDR the asian kid from the "You Got Served" South Park episode.

Actually, I played the game once and was really bad at it. Seeing as it's only cute when a little kid sucks at a game, I have chosen to refrain from it since.

~D

[pudley4]

720° - "Skate or Die"

Runners-up:

Dragon's Lair
Galaga
Gauntlet

[lucas9000]

http://www.gwinnetttv.com/arcade_games/pics/MS-PACMAN_LEFT.jpg

http://www.retrocrush.com/archive/tron/cabinet.jpg

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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http://www.gwinnetttv.com/arcade_games/pics/MS-PACMAN_LEFT.jpg

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I want one of these in my house so bad.

[lucas9000]

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720° - "Skate or Die"

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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lucas9000]

http://www.sega-am2.co.jp/18wheeler/arcade/imgs/cabinet3.gif

the bench seat is key.

and as someone else pointed out, this is the best:
http://www.ggdb.com/img/ggdb/vol0/30_2_fs_gm.jpg

[Wingnut]

Mach 3 - the laser disc fighter/bomber game

[Lumpy]

Old Skool:
Star Castle or Rip Off

Modern:
Golden Tee

[Soul Daddy]

I'm partial to the old line art vector graphics games.

Disc Tron
Tempest
Star Wars

I definitely popped a lot of tokens in 720 as well.

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

Oh yeah... 1942 was pretty sweet too. I'm a sucker for scrolling plane shooters.

[KJS]

nm

[Reef]

why the hell isn't the "url" function working? about 2 months ago (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=exchange&Number=125676 8&Forum=f20&Words="best%20arcade"&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Main=1256768&Search=true&wh ere=bodysub&Name=14359&daterange=1&newerval=1&newe rtype=y&olderval=&oldertype=&bodyprev=#Post1256768 )

[Eurotrash]

newer school - Mortal Kombat II

older school - Spy Hunter

[wayabvpar]

Adult years-
Golden Tee
NFL Blitz
Some NBA game with giant heads in the players (fun as hell)

"Classic" arcade games
Galaga
Stargate
Robotron
Star Wars (the sitdown cockpit version)
Tron
Pinbot (best pinball game ever, with aplogies to Carnival)

[offTopic]

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Old Skool:
Star Castle or Rip Off


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I once played Star Castle for five hours on one token and left with around 80 ships left. Went to an amusement park a couple months later and played one with the difficulty cranked way up and lasted about 30 seconds.

[Fred G Sanford]

Defender

Scramble

[Fred G Sanford]

Forgot ...Wizard of War

[kgrad5]

point blank, i loved that game

[nolanfan34]

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Some NBA game with giant heads in the players (fun as hell)

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NBA Jam. Gotta use the code to get Air Max, and pair him with Kendall Gill on the Sonics. Unstoppable.

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Star Wars (the sitdown cockpit version)

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Agreed.

And happy B-day.

[wayabvpar]

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Some NBA game with giant heads in the players (fun as hell)

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NBA Jam. Gotta use the code to get Air Max, and pair him with Kendall Gill on the Sonics. Unstoppable.

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Star Wars (the sitdown cockpit version)

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Agreed.

And happy B-day.

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NBA Jam! That was it. When it was out, I lived within walking distance of the Lucky 7 in Kirkland. My roommates and I used to GO AT IT playing this game (we all created our own characters and leveled them up). You haven't lived until you have swatted your buddy's dunk back in his face will simultaneously causing him to spill his Jack and Coke.


TY for the b-day wishes. One step closer to the grave...

[bunky9590]

Pong. Discuss.

[crownjules]

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X-Men, the arcade.

Specifically the one on the massive screen, with 3 other dudes playing with you.

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Only 3? What about the massive cabinet version where 6 people could play at once? Now THAT was awesome.

TMNT also ranks way up there and Simpsons.

Double Dragon will always hold a place in my heart.

There was also a game, I think it was Neo Geo based, that was Double Dragon style fighting. Thing was, as I remember it, enemies dropped orbs or something and they shape shifted you into various forms (and I'm not thinking Altered Beast). I liked it, but have not been able to come up with the name and been looking for years now. Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?

[Sporky]

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Mortal Kombat II. Multiplayer only, playing the computer blows.

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nothing can touch this in my book.

[cnfuzzd]

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Galaga.
1st Mortal Kombat has a special place in my heart.

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i could crush you in galaga. If i was as good at poker as i am at galaga, my winrate would be roughle 1BB per hand, at least. Also, galaga is the greatest arcade game ever.

For the record, since i seem to do a lot of pointless bragging on old video game threads, i thought some context would be usefull. My parents divorced when i was roughly 18 months old, and my dad sued for custody. However, we didnt have much in the way of money or a babysitter, so i went to work alot with him. He worked for an amusment company. When i was still young enough to be car-seat bound, i would sleep in a display case. I was literally raised in an arcade, surrounded by what now are cheap old arcade games. The first party i ever went to was when i was 8, my dad took my to his works st patty's day party, which was a huge event at their bar. I pissed some stupid twenty year old hottie off when i wouldnt give her the spud mckenzie toy i won out of one of those crane machines. (I also pwn all crane machines, if they arent rigged.) This probably helps to explain alot of my other posts, now that i think about it....

As some anecdotal proof of my dominance, once my debate team was on a layover in atlanta waiting to fly back. I found a galaga machine, but only had two quarters. Two hours later, my debate partner found me still in front of the galaga machine, with one quarter left. I believe i topped 400K that time.

peace

john nickle

[TimM]

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why the hell isn't the "url" function working?

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double quote marks in the URL.

[The once and future king]

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Defender, Scramble

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Ding we have a winner. Some of the younguns may not see why.

[Reef]

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X-Men, the arcade.

Specifically the one on the massive screen, with 3 other dudes playing with you.

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change it to the 6 man one.. and end of thread. Followed closely by SFII

[Stuey]

Bubble Bobble
Araknoid

[stabn]

Arkanoid.

[AngryCola]

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i could crush you in galaga.....
...Also, galaga is the greatest arcade game ever.

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[bholdr]

my Kazuya-Hworang will dominate your Jin-Jun.

[wonderwes]

http://images.webmagic.com/klov.com/images/N/cNBA_Jam.jpg
http://images.webmagic.com/klov.com/images/10/1085720495.jpg

MK II and Arkanoid, and Bubble Bobble also took a lot of my quarters.

[rusellmj]

Super Off Road friggin rules!

I loved Missle Command when I was a kid. (I think I just dated myself).


Russ

[Daliman]

Zaxxon

[Daliman]

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the combination of seeing all the game threads and playing rampage last weekend at the bowling alley, i start this thread


mutliplayer -- super off road or golden tee


cant go wrong with pac man though


cheers

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Also, semi-funny story about Pac-man. Those of you familiar with card counting and its history may know of Ken Uston. One of the great card counting pioneers, and a very flamboyant gambler. Lived fast, died early, etc.

Anyways, when he first found out about this game, he played it for like 18 hours straight. He soon figured out a pattern for it, and wrote a book on it shortly thereafter. One of histories great gamblers was a video game nut/author.

Amazon.com book listing of it. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0451118995/qid=1109402745/sr=1-22/ref=sr_1_22/104-8747694-5447167?v=glance&s=books)

[Sheriff Fatman]

In roughly chronological order I lost countless hours of my youth to the following:

Track & Field
Hyper Sports
Kung Fu Master
Super Sprint
Space Harrier
Out Run

I'd probably pick Out Run as my favourite if pushed.

Sheriff