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OK, top 5 favorite Arcade Games (1 Viewer)

Wow, you guys really brought me back to my childhood days at the shore. Mad Dog McRee, I haven’t thought about that game in about 15 years. Mr. Do! awesome. Food Fight, Crossbow, the original Tron, Indy Jones and the TOD. Good stuff…

Top 5 is tough but after reading the thread, these would be them: I’m sure I am missing one that hasn’t been mentioned yet.

1) Super Mario Bros was my all time favorite before it came out on the console. I probably spent the most coin on this game.

2) 720 was great but got real hard, real quick and it was better to let the game start over, then spend another quarter after the bees got you. They would give you a 5 sec start before re-sending the bees again.

3) The original Punch Out

4) Ms. Pacman

5) NBA Jam- Came out quite a few years after the rest on my list, but this game was plain fun to play against others.

Honorable Mentions: Track & Field, Gauntlet, Frogger

2 games no one mentioned that I played all the time. Q-Bert and Zoo Keeper.

 
Can't think of the name of the game, niether Karate fighter or kung fu fighter are showing on the video game database.

you were a karate guy that walked continuously to the right of the screen. The enemy karate thugs would come attack you from the front and back, most attacked, but some threw knives, and some even used smoke tricks and appeared from the smoke. I think snakes attacked to(?). You could punch, kick, duck (knives), jump (snakes).

Anyone remember this game?

 
Raylove said:
Can't think of the name of the game, niether Karate fighter or kung fu fighter are showing on the video game database.

you were a karate guy that walked continuously to the right of the screen. The enemy karate thugs would come attack you from the front and back, most attacked, but some threw knives, and some even used smoke tricks and appeared from the smoke. I think snakes attacked to(?). You could punch, kick, duck (knives), jump (snakes).

Anyone remember this game?
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Double Dragon?
 
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nah, you couldn't move your guy around the screen. He would walk but wouldn't really go anywhere till the end of the stage. The "catwalk" he was on moved keeping your guy in the center of the screen, but giving the appearance that he was moving. It was a single player at a time.

Sometimes there were crates you sometimes had to jump over.

 
Johnny Detroit said:
Ghost and Goblins was one of the hardest video games in the history of video games.
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My buddies had that console in their rehearsal studio. It was damn hard. GalagaZaxxonFrogger (Costanza!!)Track and Field (A dude that didn't have his right hand used to rule that game in the local arcade). DefenderMy all time fave of Pinball machines: Funhouse. Used to play that at Doctor Bombay's in the Mission with my roommates, drinking beers @ 10 am until the happy hour at Jack's Elixer.
 
Johnny Detroit said:
Ghost and Goblins was one of the hardest video games in the history of video games.
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There is a glitch...that I swear I invented/found...by accident.If I remember correctly...at the end of the first board...after you have killed the badguy who gives you a sack of cash...just before you have to make your first jump over any water...you hit the tombstone a bunch of times (don't remember how many)...when you do this...some kind of demon comes out and hits you with a spell that turns you into a frog. If you time it right...wait until you have like 10 seconds left to make that jump over water to start next board...hit the tombstone a bunch and thing will turn you into frog right as time expires.You'll end up being a half pixelated frog/knight...and time will turn off...you now have unlimited time to go back and kill as many badguys as you want...run the score up, get free lives...etc. If I remember correctly, they can't even kill you (but am not sure...been a long time).The first time I got to the end...after this game being the hardest thing on Earth...guess what they do to you? If you don't have the "cross-shield" equipped...you cannot kill last boss. And you get the cross somewhere like two levels prior...least, that's what happened to me.Then...if you do have the freaking crossshield and beat the guy...they start you over...you HAVE TO BEAT THIS GAME TWICE...unbelievable.One of the greatest ever made.
 
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Bionic commando (Yes the arcade version)

Ikari Warriors

Galaga

Run-N-Shoot

Contra

Stryder

Commando

Star Wars

Not sure of the name, but the boxing game made by sega that had these two metal handles that acted as your fists.

 
Commando

Donkey Kong

Afterburner

Pole Position II

Star Wars

The last 2 were the best when they were in the sit down cockpit cabinets

 
One of my favorites that I haven't seen mentioned was Cruisin' USA. They had one at the place I worked in high school and I owned all the time records.

Spyhunter, NBA Jam and Street Fighter II would be on my list as well.

 
I think I spend 2/3 of my free time during my sophmore year at college playing Cyberball. There had to be 2 dozen other losers that played that game regularly, and at any given hour on any given day, there would be a crowd of degenerates around the Cyberball machine, scaring the other arcade patrons, stinking the place up with stale food, cigarettes, coffee, and booze, yelling at eachother, swearing, taunting, touchdown celebrations, the works. I am sure that when I die, it will be one of my top ten memories.

Oh, and Rampart. I also played hella amount of Rampart. Kind of a precurser to tetris where you had to build a wall around your castle, except you had little cannons and could blow up the other person's walls. Good times.

 
lots of great ones here...thought I'd add a few not often mentioned...

ZooKeeper

Food Fight

Millipede

Rastan

CyberBall

Mappy

And I just got finished playing my 39-in-1 arcade game :wall:

 
Boot said:
Evilgrin 72 said:
Tron

Track & Field

Mad Dog McCree

Daytona USA

The old Star Wars game where you had to blast tie fighters
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They had one back in the summer of, I think, 1991 or 1992 at Frank's Arcade on the boardwalk in Point Pleasant, NJ that was broken so that you had unlimited bullets and never had to reload. I discovered it one day and realized if I held the gun with my left hand and put my right index finger on the trigger, I could rattle my finger back and forth inside the little ring that houses the trigger (not a gun guy) and fire about 20 rounds a second. It was like having a submachine gun in the Old West. I had about 30 people crowded around the machine cracking up when I had to draw against those dudes... the guy's on screen, hand poised above his holster, waiting.... waiting..... Meanwhile, I have the gun pointed at him the entire time (since pointing down was reloading and this was what was malfunctioning, you didn't have to have the gun pointed down to start.) The nanosecond that he moved his hand to go for his gun, he took anout 35 rounds in the chest at Uzi speed. People were rolling, it looked so funny. That was as much fun as I have ever had on a video game.
 
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Robotron 2084 - one joystick for each fist.

Phoenix - the cheeping birds haunt my dreams.

Flash pinball machine - used to play this at the Holiday Inn in Ocean City, Maryland every summer.

 
Internet Arcade Offers Over 900 Classic Arcade Games To Play OnlineOver 900 classic arcade games are only a few keystrokes away.

The Internet Arcade debuted on Saturday with hundreds of games that are available to be played, Entertainment Weekly reports.

While the games are browser-based and function with ease, not all of them are guaranteed to work. These versions are emulations of classic games, and as a result some of them run into scaling, control, or other technical issues.

Firefox is the recommended browser for best results. Housed at the Internet Archive, games range from classics like Paperboy to Street Fighter II.

Jason Scott, one of the creators behind the project, discussed the work that went into the endeavor.

“Obviously, a lot of people are going to migrate to games they recognize and ones that they may not have played in years,” he stated on his blog. “They’ll do a few rounds, probably get their asses kicked, smile, and go back to their news sites.”

Scott even hopes that the project helps to influence the future of gaming.

“And my hope is that a handful, a probably tiny percentage, will begin plotting out ways to use this stuff in research, in writing, and remixing these old games into understanding their contexts.” he said. Time will tell.”
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Stream of Consciousness that come to mind:

Donkey Kong (first arcade game I enjoyed playing... didn't like Pac-Man)

Punch-Out

Dragon's Lair

Ikari Warriors

Star Wars enclosed sit down

Tron

Bionic Commando

Strider

Gauntlet

Smash TV

NBA Jam

Paperboy

Marble Madness

NARC

Off the beaten path favorites:

Tecmo Bowl - 4 person

Nintendo Arm Wrestling (Punch Out conversion kit)

Police Trainer

 
Don't care that I'm late.

Tempest

Star Castle

Pac Man (NOT Ms. :hot: )

Defender (NOT Stargate :hot: )

and Dragon's Lair, which was the best game ever for getting people to gather around you, oohing and aahing, if you knew what you were doing.

Full disclosure: I purchased "how to win" books for both Pac Man and Dragon's Lair. :bag:

 
I am totally wrong about one of those five, which absolutely must be replaced by Joust. But I'm unsure which. Probably Defender.

 
Time Pilot

Crazy Climber

Elevator Action

Front Line

The last one is one I only played once or twice and haven't been able to recall the name, but I'll never forget it. You were the pilot of a B-1 bomber and the premise was similar to the Activision game River Raid but with much cooler graphics and I think you actually had nuclear missiles at your disposal. I seem to remember some legend to the effect that it had been pulled from the arcades because it was too realistic. Either way it was a cool game that I didn't get enough of.

 
Man what an awesome thread. Just spent a half hour starting from post #1 with Google images open to reflect back on a bunch of these. I can't name just 5. Growing up in the 80's/90's was the awesomest.

 
Charlie Steiner said:
Time Pilot

Crazy Climber

Elevator Action

Front Line

The last one is one I only played once or twice and haven't been able to recall the name, but I'll never forget it. You were the pilot of a B-1 bomber and the premise was similar to the Activision game River Raid but with much cooler graphics and I think you actually had nuclear missiles at your disposal. I seem to remember some legend to the effect that it had been pulled from the arcades because it was too realistic. Either way it was a cool game that I didn't get enough of.
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Night Bomber?
 
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Corporation said:
Charlie Steiner said:
Time Pilot

Crazy Climber

Elevator Action

Front Line

The last one is one I only played once or twice and haven't been able to recall the name, but I'll never forget it. You were the pilot of a B-1 bomber and the premise was similar to the Activision game River Raid but with much cooler graphics and I think you actually had nuclear missiles at your disposal. I seem to remember some legend to the effect that it had been pulled from the arcades because it was too realistic. Either way it was a cool game that I didn't get enough of.
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Night Bomber?
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Night Bomber was out in the early 70's, I'm pretty sure this one came out in the early 80's.

 
I've been playing a lot of these old games via MAME. Most games were much better in my memory than they were on the PC, but the first 5 minutes of playing was still very good to bring back those memories. Ones I've liked re-discovering:

Galaga

Food Fight

1942

Donkey Kong Jr.

Most did not age well at all. 2 things I forgot about that I loved: (1) the sound effects in Joust- just great. (2) the game Arch Rivals where you can punch the other basketball team. Pretty funny.

 
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