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      CommentAuthorstsparky
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2008
     (1897.21)
    In Japan - it was this addictive Lupin the 3rd game. Here - my favorite was a weird Pole Position clone that seemed to embody SuperCar and a race up various transport corridors.
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    pre-1980
    space invaders
    asteroids
    galaxian

    1980-84
    Qix
    Time Pilot '84
    Xevious
    Berzerk
    Galaga
    Wizard of Wor

    1985-89
    Darius
    Super Contra
    After Burner II
    • CommentAuthorWinther
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2008
     (1897.23)
    I have very fond memories of the Asterix arcade game. Walking around, punching Romans, kicking Romans, bitch-slapping Romans, twirling Romans over your head and throwing them, pounding Romans into the ground. Those were simpler times. Played it again recently on MAME. Still fun, but it's just not the same, playing it on a computer.

    I'll add my ditto on Metal Slug. I also remember the first time I played Mortal Kombat on an arcade. Before then I'd played it on my Sega Mega Drive (or Genesis, depending on your location), where everything was censored, and Sub-Zero's Fatality was an uppercut that punched the opponent out of the frame. I've probably been between 11 and 13 the first time I played the real thing. At that age, the blood and guts and tearing-people's-head-off-along-with-their-spiney-goodness was a revelation.

    Of the somewhat newer stuff, I enjoyed the Time Crisis games.
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    ^ Oh yes. I spent a lot of time in college playing Time Crisis 2. Stupid amounts of fun!

    The CapCom beat'emups were all gold; Street Fighter Vs. Marvel Heroes was brilliant.

    Before all of that, when I was really little, I was impossibly impressed by Space Harrier. "Welcome to the Fantasy Zone!" POW! Yeah, that shit was awesome. Except not really. But I was very small.
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    I was impossibly impressed by Space Harrier. "Welcome to the Fantasy Zone!" POW! Yeah, that shit was awesome. Except not really. But I was very small.

    Oh, but it was really awesome. Another great game.
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    Oh yeah, I forgot all about Time Crisis! The fact that the guns have recoil makes it two times the awesome. Still, it doesn't beat the novelty of Lucky & Wild...
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    Double Dragon, baby. It's all about punching guys in the face with your fists because they kidnapped your girlfriend. And isn't there something in that for all of use?
    • CommentAuthorWinther
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2008
     (1897.28)
    Double Dragon, baby. It's all about punching guys in the face with your fists because they kidnapped your girlfriend. And isn't there something in that for all of use?


    Indeed. But I'll always think of Double Dragon as a console game. Spent a lot of time with the Master System version.
    • CommentAuthorfro
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2008
     (1897.29)
    Favourite game I've actually played in an arcade - Metal Slug 2.
    If we're counting home console versions it's Last Blade 2. I really can't name anything that game does wrong. I also liked House of the Dead 3 a lot, but that's probably got more to do with the big plastic shotgun than the way the game played.
    • CommentAuthoramp
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2008 edited
     (1897.30)
    Gauntlet, specifically Gauntlet II. I think i spent a lot of '88 playing that game.

    Also Raiden or any similar two player vertically scrolling shooters.

    or Double Dragon, Golden Axe.

    I loves me some co-op.
    • CommentAuthorFlabyo
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2008
     (1897.31)
    Gauntlet 2 has the most memories for me.

    After that, probably Double Dragon, Outrun and Street Fighter 2.
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      CommentAuthorMegaGoosey
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2008
     (1897.32)
    Old school stuff
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    -Bubble Bobble
    -Bust a Move
    -Magical Drop
    -Raiden (and many of the like)
    -Metal Slug (series)

    New-ish stuff
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    -Street Fighter 3: Third Strike
    -Time Crisis 2
    -Ikaruga
    -Outrun 2
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      CommentAuthorMark R
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2008
     (1897.33)
    Galaga was one of my favorites. Thinking back, there's a rush of arcade memories coming to me, but Galaga stands out the most.
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    ninja gaiden....hands down
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      CommentAuthornoblelion
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2008
     (1897.35)
    @Tacopunch - Hell yes, Smash TV. I played that game to DEATH.
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    oh, the star wars sit down one with obi-wan telling you to use the force as you were going eek and aaagghh through the death star. vector graphics, oh yes. and the stand up periscope viewer styled battlezone one. probably giving my age away now.
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    Good God, I can't think of just one. I'd say the sit-down Star Wars game may have sucked more quarters from me than any other, but I loved them all, pretty much...
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    PINBALL:
    pinbot
    lady pinbot (you get a bonus for getting the ball in her mouth? how did i ever grow up pervy?)
    fireball! ( the 60s machine OR the "remake")
    medieval madness
    and then there is a machine i used to play all the time when i was younger that i havent seen since like 1991: it had two levels and a bunch of "enemies" that you had to hit on the second level. if i remember correctly, they mildly resembled comic book villians, wearing sci fi armor. fuck if i know, but i would shit myself if i saw that machine again!

    arcade:
    in the interests of saving space, i will just say the red NEOGEO machines that had four cart slots in them. so many good games on those!!
    galaga, of course
    virtua fighter 2+3
    mortal kombat 2
    marvel vs capcom
    soul calibur
    nba jam
    and a game i have only seen at one arcade, and never ported (in the us) called DOLPHIN BLUE. its super badass.
    • CommentAuthorfro
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2008
     (1897.39)
    @MegaGoosey

    What is it that people like about Ikaruga? I've never been able to enjoy it in the slightest.
    • CommentAuthorFlabyo
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2008
     (1897.40)
    Ikuraga belongs to a group of shooters known as 'Bullet Hell' games, where it's less about reflexes (ie, reacting to whats coming at you) and more about learning the pattern (best route) to move through the levels. Shooting is almost an afterthought in them (cf Psyvariar on the PS2 and Triggerheart Exelica on the 360).

    They don't appeal to me either, when I play shooters I much prefer things more in the Darius and R-Type mould.

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