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    What is it that people like about Ikaruga? I've never been able to enjoy it in the slightest.


    theres room for all kinds of vertical shooters, ikaruga is the awesome.
    i personally think MARS MATRIX smokes that game though.
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    Christ but some of you people are old.

    The summer of my senior year of high school my best friend and I spent a good chunk of time in the air-conditioned bliss of "Diversions" arcade up on the far North side playing Virtua Fighter 2


    It's a game that breeds the geekiest, nerdiest obsessives. The combinations and styles of fighting are fucking DEEP on this beast. There was one character, Akira, who was all counters. Several characters could be played in completely different styles. My choice of fighter? Shun Di, Drunken Kung-Fu master.


    Yeah, if you hit a combo just right, or did enough damage, he would drink and wobble around.
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    shun owns in that game. i have a sega saturn and arcade sticks, but it cant replicate the joy of the arcade. also see: sarah

    dont see: kage. i could absolutely never learn how to play as him well.
    • CommentAuthorCrusherJoe
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2008
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    Put me down for another sit-down Spy Hunter (made Peter Gunn my personal theme song, and started collecting different versions of it) and Joust, with a well trained partner to play beside.

    Love pinball, though. Caught myself on a video in a zen symbiosis with the metal ball, moving my body as it got closer or further away. Funny stuff.
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      CommentAuthorthom_wong
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2008
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    Golden Axe
    Raiden III
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      CommentAuthorFauxhammer
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2008
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    I used to fucking OWN at Q*Bert.
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      CommentAuthorDebbieM
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2008
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    Defender!

    More people broke their BBC spacebars....
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    Galaga was one of my favorites. Thinking back, there's a rush of arcade memories coming to me, but Galaga stands out the most.

    I'm always intrigued at how often Galaga gets mentioned whenever I see a thread like this somewhere. It's a great game, one of my favorites also ('88 version was also great, those 20 yrs ago holy fuck), but there have been countless good vertical shooters, and it didn't seem particularly popular in the day.
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    Galaga is a mystery to me, too. I didn't care for it much in the arcade and I've never gotten the love for it today. I understand that people love it to bits, I'm just not sure why.
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    even though i grew up in arcades (well, bars too) i honestly didnt get into galaga until about four years ago when my local pizza place got one. we could walk down there, get a pizza and pitcher and throw down on that and original SF2. crucial.
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    I think Galaga is just a smoothly-playable game. Not too easy, not too hard, doesn't get too hard too fast as you progress.
    • CommentAuthorScottS
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2008
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    I really dug this game called ELEVATOR ACTION (Which sounds really dirty now, but that's probably just me). And Karate Champ. I loved me some Karate Champ.
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    ELEVATOR ACTION was pretty fun.
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      CommentAuthorkaolin
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2008
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    Didn't aerosmith write a song about that game? ;)
    • CommentAuthorDracko
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2008
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    I'm having a time out until I can learn some manners.
    Jesus, where to start?

    I'm going to say <em>Rolling Thunder</em> for the moment as it hasn't been mentioned. The original is the best one, the second one is okay but does away with a lot of what made the first one work. The third one doesn't count as it was console-only.
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    Rastan (1987) was seminal in my introduction to video games.

    Rastan cabinet Rasstan gameplay

    You basicaly play as a sort-of-Conan like Barbarian who swings his sword incredibly slow and has questionable hit-detection. I love it for being an introduction to flashy looking games with moderately poor controls, a mainstay in my experience of playing games. The site I got the images from notes that if you die on the final stage, you can't continue--another facet of arcade game history, cheaping you out of as much money as possible.

    EDIT: Totally forgot about Time Crisis! A friend and I used to pour quarters into a Time Crisis 3 machine in college at the student union.
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      CommentAuthorEgon
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2008
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    I used to kill it on the Midway pinball games like my name was Tommy. Batman, Twilight Zone, Dracula and Indy were all great.
    • CommentAuthorJigsy Q
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2008
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    Oooooh the money I blew on Rastan. That was one of the first arcade games I ever played that had an actual ending, and I HAD to reach it.

    As a kid I also loved Popeye, Arabian, Moustrap, Venture, and Make Traxx. Oh and Time Pilot.
    • CommentAuthordtfischer
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2008
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    Quartet
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      CommentAuthorkaolin
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2008
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    Holy crap, ditto Rastan. I never even noticed its name, but it was addictive pretty for some reason--so thanks for posting the image. ;)

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