Your favourite Arcade Games?
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Topic: Your favourite Arcade Games?
Posted By: Odvin Draoi
Subject: Your favourite Arcade Games?
Date Posted: August 19 2019 at 10:52
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I didn't include some earlier classics like River Raid, Space Invaders etc. If I hadn't narrowed down the scope, there would be plenty of games missing. So mostly from the 90s, what is your favourite arcade game? Or else, out of the list which "other" is your favourite? Mine is Dungeons & Dragons - Shadow over Mystara. I used to be like a grandmaster in lots of fighting games. My favourite has always been Street Fighter II', regarding "challenges". Raguy is one of the most underrated games that I know. Awesome fun. This list includes mostly my favourite games, yet I also tried to include various types of games. Note: There are zibillions of Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat etc. versions. So for example if you like Street Fighter Alpha II, just pick Street Fighter and specify your favourite version on the comments section. Same can be applied to the games with more than one versions. Here we go.
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: August 19 2019 at 11:06
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Im a Tekken fanboy but i also love Mario -------------  
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Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: August 19 2019 at 11:14
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Phoenix, probably. ------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: August 19 2019 at 11:49
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Of the ones listed in the poll, probably only Golden Axe. Most of my favorites come from the 80s Ms Pac Man Phoenix Galaga Sinistar ("run coward!") Xevious Time Pilot Pleiades Zaxxon Tempest And many more that I'm sure I'm forgetting
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Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: August 19 2019 at 16:03
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How the hell do you have a Shadow Priest as your avatar and misspell Mortal Kombat on your poll?! Mortal Kombat, specifically 2 and UMK3, all the way! ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Odvin Draoi
Date Posted: August 19 2019 at 16:18
OMG. Did I write it Combat? OMFG. I'll immediately change it if possible. BTW I changed my avatar, but before seeing your post. Coincidence. 
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Frenetic Zetetic wrote:Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: August 20 2019 at 01:38
I'm just teasing my man! GREAT THREAD in all honesty, breath of fresh air here lol. I'm a 90's arcade vet, grew up then. Super biased for that level of nostalgia. Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat, Turtles in Time, Contra, etc! I'm lucky enough to live here in NH where we have FunSpot; the biggest arcade museum in the country .------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Howard the Duck
Date Posted: August 20 2019 at 05:37
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I'm surprised that I'm the first voting for Mario - feel like that's what most mainstream gamers would go for in this list. ------------- MacGyver can do a super guitar solo with a broom and an elastic band. Can you do better? |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: August 20 2019 at 07:24
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Hi, Goodness ... I never played any of them. My first game playing was EVERQUEST ... and then WORLD OF WARCRAFT. Since SONY and some megalomaniac folks in the EQ offices went on to kill EQ, I went over to WoW, along with many of the greatest players in EQ, some of which are still with Blizzard ... to give you an idea of what SONY knew about the folks they had in house, and instead kept idiots at the controls. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: August 20 2019 at 09:45
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I was raising rug rats in the 90's so no 'me' time for games.....but in the early 80's I was a serious arcade dude. Dumping tons of quarters into machines daily....... Galaga was my paradise and Tempest was always a good challenge. -------------   
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Posted By: Odvin Draoi
Date Posted: August 20 2019 at 09:55
Thanks.  Arcades were great, and never replaceable by comfortable console gaming at home. Even the arcade joystick is not enough for anyone to breathe that atmosphere and enjoy the vibe. I spent tremendous time and money in the arcades, from the mid 80s until mid 2000s. I haven't much from then on, as they aren't as used to be. Just like forum culture, arcade culture is diminishing. That experience had, and still has no equal. |
Posted By: Odvin Draoi
Date Posted: August 20 2019 at 10:11
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BTW, for the 80s gamers, I really advise the movie: "The Last Starfighter" (if you haven't watched yet). https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/" rel="nofollow - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/ |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: August 20 2019 at 10:18
Coco Savage baby. ------------- |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: August 20 2019 at 10:23
In my early 20s, I've spent more time with this baby than I did with my girlfriend...better than beer, drugs and sex. Let's hope for an international Addams Family pinball tournament, I'm pretty sure I still can compete with any South Koreans out there.  ------------- |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: August 20 2019 at 11:43
Forgot about that. My all time favorite pinball machine and I'm not really a pinball guy. Much preferred video games.
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Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: August 20 2019 at 11:47
Couldn't agree more. My town had an arcade that everyone went to. It was half arcade and half pool hall. I'll never forget the excitement of scrambling to find whatever change I could and then beg a parent to drive me and my friends there. It saddens me to walk into what passes for arcades these days. It's all skee ball and machines that spit out tickets to trade in for cheap plastic crap.
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Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: August 20 2019 at 18:14
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Dragon's Lair. Old style animation with individually drawn cells. React the right way with the joystick at the right time and the optimal scenario for the hero occurs. Not a good game really, but my friends and I liked animation and sword & sorcery type fantasy, so we played it and played it again and again and had a wonderful time despite how primitive the game was. We finally got through it to the end. ------------- A curse upon the heads of those who seek their fortunes in a lie. The truth is always waiting when there's nothing left to try. - Colin Henson, Jade Warrior (Now) |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: August 20 2019 at 18:21
aaah sweet memories ------------- |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 29 2019 at 00:33
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You don't have Galaxians or Space Invaders on the list. They were my favourite arcade games.
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Posted By: Odvin Draoi
Date Posted: September 29 2019 at 05:32
I explained that. I omitted the early 80s and before and also most of the new millennium. Otherwise the list would be kinda random, excluding lots of classics. I focused on the 90s games, generally. Otherwise I love River Raid, for insance. I would have definitely included that. I added an "other" option instead. |
Posted By: patrickq
Date Posted: September 29 2019 at 16:26
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 29 2019 at 16:48
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I was more of an 80s arcade guy. I'm voting other for Tron, but probably played Galaga the most. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 29 2019 at 20:26
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We have a cool event called California Extreme once a year in Santa Clara, CA It's a massive conference room (or two) of retro arcade games from the 80s and 90s You pay admission and all games are free. It's freekin amazing There are hundreds and thousands of games you never knew existed Favorite? Impossible. The Mario Bros games are close though -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: September 29 2019 at 20:35
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Galaga Wizard of Wor Defender Mario Eight Ball Deluxe Chexx Hockey Missile Command All I can remember. 35 years ago is a long time.
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: September 30 2019 at 06:18
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Wow.... only one I know in the list is Super Mario (which was name Donkey Kong back then if memory serves), but then again, I roamed, squatted and looted arcades & pool halls in the 80's, not the 90's. Never much into videogames (the first Star Wars games, a bit of Asteroids and that was mostly it), but I was a king at pinballs in a few Yonge Street arcade/halls... Used to play for hours for one 0.25$ and even made money selling free games that I won. I even got banned in a few of them arcades and other halls would shut down the machine or even ask the technician to change the parameters (inclination of the machine or bumper directing your ball down the middle)
My preferred one was Black Night (arcades) but I was best at Spiderman (at Uni) Had a buddy who owned a machine in his basement, and he had installed a beer holder and an ashtray screwed on the side, he rolled his joint in the right hand bottom corner and I know for a fact that he screwed a few times his GF on it, since she would sit on the glass window so he would worry about her instead of the machine.
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Posted By: Odvin Draoi
Date Posted: September 30 2019 at 09:26
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I was kinda expecting the pre and early 80s arcaders would be dominant here, but I was at least assuming to see some '90s gamers here too. I guess there are zero like me, at least not in my level of passion for the '90s games. I also had begun going to arcades in the mid-'80s, yet my real enthusiasm began with the early '90s. If we don't count River Raid that I first played in mid-'80s, my real addiction began with Double Dragon II (beat-em-up), that I first played in 1990 or sth. Perhaps one of you could create a poll for the earlier arcade games. Anyway, cool to read all your experiences and reflections here. Thank you all. |
Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: November 22 2019 at 18:39
| Ohter: Tempest (old school.... very old school) |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: November 23 2019 at 00:07
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During the 80s, the arcade game I enjoyed playing the most was Tutankham, but the arcade game I was best at was Battlezone, which I had mastered. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |