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      CommentAuthorkaolin
    • CommentTimeApr 23rd 2008
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    @James Cunningham/Synthsapien - Black Tiger

    Another game I played many times but completely forgot. I'm loving this :)
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    King of FIghters and Garou: Mark of the wolves will always be awesome to me.
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      CommentAuthorWil
    • CommentTimeApr 23rd 2008
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    I can't believe I forgot Tempest, Elevator Action, and Rastan.
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      CommentAuthorMark R
    • CommentTimeApr 23rd 2008
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    @Roque

    That link to "Galaga" is great. Gonna wear out my space bar...
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      CommentAuthoryorko
    • CommentTimeApr 23rd 2008
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    SF 2 , Snow Bros, Juju's, the first Contra, among many
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      CommentAuthortedcroland
    • CommentTimeApr 23rd 2008
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    If we're going to go console...

    For me, it never got better than...
    • CommentAuthorMalifer
    • CommentTimeApr 24th 2008
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    It's kind of sad how arcades are a thing of the past now. These home machines are fine and with web based play it's nice to have interaction, but it's nothing like the experience of an arcade.

    These kids of the new age have no idea about the sound of a room full of 100 arcade machines blipping and blooping.
    They have no idea about the unwritten law of the quarter placement, and you watch where your quarter is in line on the faceplate of a machine like a hawk.

    My favorite Arcade game is
    Dragon's Lair

    and man did I suck at it, but that didn't matter it was like nothing else in the room.

    Many props Space Ace and to
    Hologram Time Traveler
    Arcade
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    oh, man remember when the holgram sega game was like the centerpiece of arcades? oh, misty eyed nostalgia...

    but yeah, i totally know what you mean. the arcade thing is one subject where i am acutely aware of my rampant old manism. one of my best friends that i grew up with sent me a picture of a "deal or no deal" machine taking up the majority of one local mall arcade with the caption " this is what the aracde has come to?! weep now."
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      CommentAuthorrickiep00h
    • CommentTimeApr 24th 2008
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    @pi8you

    6-person, dual-screen X-Men all the WAY.

    Also, the original TMNT arcade game, the 4-person SEGA Daytona USA, Tetris, and Street Fighter II. And Mortal Kombat II.

    Oh, and the Star Wars Trilogy sit-down that came out right around Phantom Menace. It was basically a rail shooter, and I dumped almost $200 in it in the Scottsdale AZ GameWorks.

    But I fuckin' beat it.
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      CommentAuthorroque
    • CommentTimeApr 24th 2008
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    arcades are still alive and well here in Japan. they don't have my favorites like Galaga, Ms. Pac-Man, Tempest et al, but there are a bunch of old school fighting games and vertical shooters mixed in with the newer survival horror and music-based stuff. arcades tend to be divided into the girl section (boopy kawaii blink-blink games) and the guy section, which has the cool stuff. upstairs they generally have the more "adult" gambling games like pachinko.
    • CommentAuthorSean Ward
    • CommentTimeMay 7th 2008
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    @rickiep00h

    One day about three years ago I found this "youth center" thing that was basically a game room with a church in the back, and they had a Star Wars Trilogy cabinet... rigged up for Free Play.
    It was excellent--by the time I got to Hoth there was a crowd formed around me, chanting "Harry Potter! Harry Potter!" because apparently they thought I looked like Harry Potter.

    There was also the Episode One Racer game. I preferred the console version, especially because there was a cheat that allowed you to sort of replicate the arcade controls through the use of two controllers. This predated the Wii by about eight years.
    • CommentAuthorjcfiala
    • CommentTimeMay 7th 2008
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    Heh. Tempest is my choice. I have major love for that game.
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      CommentAuthorFearlessfoz
    • CommentTimeMay 7th 2008 edited
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    At the high school I went to we had a Pole Position game in the student grill. I dropped many a quarter trying to beat that freaking game. I was awful. I hardly ever remember getting much past the second level of races. Spinouts and crashes. At least the crashes had an excellent explosion.
    Also we had a bubble hockey game that was a USA vs USSR setup. That machine took every last quarter that was available to me, especially after I got sick of sucking at Pole Position. The hockey game I got pretty good at. Man... we got busted so many times being late for soccer practice because of the epic battles under the plexi-dome. I ran a lot of laps.
    Cool thread. I did like Joust, Tempest, and of course Donkey Kong.
    I don't think anyone has mentioned it yet but I used to play a game called Saxxon on a tabletop that was pretty cool.
    • CommentAuthorjayverni
    • CommentTimeMay 7th 2008
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    @Fearlessfoz

    I had a friend at college (U of Delaware) that used to play a game with what I remember to be a bizarre oriental dragon type creature at the end of each level. It was incredibly fast paced, intense almost psychedelic imagery, and the controls seemed (to my feeble half stoned mind) to be backwards. I can't remember the name, but I swear after reading your post it was Saxxon. Can you describe it? The one I remember was a stand up cabinet, not table top, but it seemed to flash in my hazy memory a bit. I couldn't play the game to save my life, but I would watch my buddy keep maintaining all 10 high scores while listening to Slayer or some other metal band in his walkman. I remember it being quite hypnotic. I searched for Saxxon, but couldn't seem to find any pictures or descriptions...

    P.S. is that foz as in Fozzie The Bear? Had another friend in high school (although no student grill with video games) who went by Foz
    • CommentAuthorWilliam
    • CommentTimeMay 7th 2008
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    Robotron I love the mommy levels
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    Zaxxon! With a "Z"!

    Zaxxon!

    I couldn't play it to save my life, but I still remember it. Also, a game called Turbo that maybe a dozen people nationwide remember was always much more fun than Pole Position.
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      CommentAuthoragentarsenic
    • CommentTimeMay 8th 2008 edited
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    Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo. I suck at Tetris and all puzzle games except for this one. I picked it up like an autistic savant crack baby.
    It just does what I've always wanted to do in Tetris - I don't want to build wimpy girly lines that flash, I want MANLY BLOCKS AND EXPLOSIONS!

    Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo
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    @jayverni
    James Cunningham has it right, it's Zaxxon....
    I remember there was a big ass robot at the end of the first level that it took me probably 40 bucks worth of quarters to master... of course like Pole Position, I sucked so that was as far as I probably ever got.
    Foz as in Fosdick. There was a Lil'Abner character Fearless Fosdick that all of my older teachers, or people I met growing up would reference. It seemed like a natural for a web name. But believe me I heard or was called Fozzie Bear about a billion times... no worries... I was a muppet fan... and the bear was funny.
    Again... great thread. I had completely forgotten about half of these games.
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    Say what you will, but the Die Hard arcade game is the king of all arcade games, standing atop burned out shells of Silent Scope and Deer Hunter consoles with triumphant vigor.



    Possibly only challenged by The Simpsons arcade game.

    Does anyone remember a two-player arcade driver where you played two cops in a car chase? I remember it was amazing because one person can shoot from the "passenger seat" and the driver can also shoot if he/she wishes?
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      CommentAuthorFerburton
    • CommentTimeMay 9th 2008
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    Wow... this is actually hard...


    Um... I'm gonna have to say the first Mortal Kombat, it's the first arcade game I can remember playing, and I remember playing it as often as possible until I got my SEGA. Other then that.... the library is just filled with so many games I enjoyed playing, picking a favorite is impossible, probably X-MEN, the four player one, simply because it meant I could play as Nightcrawler, who was always a favorite of mine.

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