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Greatest Arcade Games of All Time
We went to Las Cruces today and went into the Mall. They have an Arcade there and it got me thinking back to the past. This was when the Atari 2600 was out and there was no real competition. The arcade games were 100x better than anything you could buy for the 2600. I don't think it was until the NES came out that comparable graphics were possible on some games and the PS1 really made the Arcade archaic. So what were the greatest Arcade games of all time?
I spent my money on (in chronological order): Donkey Kong Jr. Street Fighter (we would line up quarters on the machine to play) Star Wars (the one that you sat in) Super Mario Brothers Legendary Wings Heavy Barrel (some of you might not know this game, but it was the absolute best game I've ever played in an Arcade) |
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11-11-2006, 05:22 PM | #2 |
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PacMan, Frogger, and Donkey Kong.
I always played After Burner a ton too. Just liked that game. |
11-11-2006, 05:26 PM | #3 |
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Journey Track and Field (Until our local arcade put up blockers so you couldn't pound on the buttons. Was this a national thing?) Jungle King (The only game where my quarter lasted more than 30 seconds) Bezerk |
11-11-2006, 05:27 PM | #4 |
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I am just lost in the arcades nowadays. I am scared to play games as the kids will probably walk up behind me and laugh at me. Even at Dave and Busters I usually find myself on an old version of NBA Jam or some sort of driving game.
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11-11-2006, 05:35 PM | #5 |
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Double Dragon
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11-11-2006, 06:14 PM | #6 |
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Where do I start?
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11-11-2006, 06:22 PM | #7 |
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11-11-2006, 06:25 PM | #8 |
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I don't know about the greatest, but the three most important are definitely:
1. Pong 2. Space Invaders 3. Pacman |
11-11-2006, 06:27 PM | #9 |
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Gauntlet |
11-11-2006, 06:32 PM | #10 |
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Atari Football. The one with the trackball and the players as Xs and Os. I can't tell you how many times I got my palm ripped by the trackball on long runs.
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11-11-2006, 06:34 PM | #11 |
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Street Fighter II
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11-11-2006, 06:37 PM | #12 | |
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Qix was interesting at the time.
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They did this at our arcade as well. But there was a way around it, if they put the blocks on the left and right edges. We took a pencil or popsicle stick and hit it like sending a telegram. We never figured out a way to get around the guards at the top of the buttons.
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11-11-2006, 06:43 PM | #13 |
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I played the hell out of John Elway football. The post pass was a big favorite. I also liked World Series Baseball and was it 980?
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11-11-2006, 07:02 PM | #14 |
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The earliest I remember arcade games was when I was young and my parents were in a bowling league. they would take me to the bowling alley where there was a small arcade. There wasn't much for us to do while they were bowling except for messing with the video games. They would give me a buck or so when we went, but this normally didn't last too long as each game was a quarter and I sucked at all of them. It was mostly standing around and watching the older kids play the games. Pole Position, Super Mario Brothers and Punch Out stand out as memories form there.
I can then remember being a young kid, probably early grade school, and going to Showbiz Pizza (called Chuck E. Cheese now) for birthday parties back when the video games were still the main attraction in the game room. I absolutely loved the game Front Line and I also played the heck out of Peter Pack Rat. Then there was skating parties in grade school. My friends and I would bore of the skating pretty quickly, so we spent the rest of the time at the arcade games. I remember playing Bad Dudes, Rush N' Attack, and Renegade there. As I got a little bit older my friend and I would stay over at each other's places almost every Friday night and play Nintendo. Then Saturday morning whoever's house we were at our parents would take us to Putt Putt for Super Saturday. 1 game of putt-putt (which we rarely played) a soda, a candy bar and FIFTY TOKENS for 5 dollars. Our tokens would usually last us a few hours and it was a great way to actually beat some of the games that it was too expensive to otherwise such as Cadash, UN Squadron, and TMNT. Other games I remember and love: Tournament Cyberball Mortal Kombat Pit Fighter Final Fight Xenophobe Tecmo Bowl (4-player version where you spun the joystick around to breack tackles) High Impact Football Race Drivin Ahhh, the memories. Incidentally I've relived a lot of these games through MAME in the fairly recent past. My 6-year-old daughter absolutely loves to play old arcade games like Final Fight, etc. on MAME with me which is really cool. One other game I wanted to mention was one that I only saw when I spent a year in Tokyo just out of high school. It was called The Outfoxies by Namco I think. The premise was it was a one on one duel between two players. You could play against another person or the AI and you chose from a variety of different characters. The cool part was the different environments the game had. There were different weapons (swords, guns, rocket launchers, etc.) strewn around the board and the environments each had a count down. When the count down came to an end the environment would destruct, but they usually partially destructed in different ways prior to that. There was a train, a plane a museum a factory and some others. It was a very cool game and I've also found it on MAME and played it too.
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11-11-2006, 07:10 PM | #15 |
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Bump n Jump
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11-11-2006, 07:23 PM | #16 |
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Ooh, Bump n Jump was good on the Intellivision.
I'll second Rampage, Spy Hunter, and Punch Out. Though I stunk at Punch Out and usually just ended up watching people. I also liked 1942 (?), Tapper, and that baseball one where you pull back the little metal rod to pitch/hit (I think that's come up before in a similar thread a ways back).
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11-11-2006, 07:49 PM | #17 |
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I didn't go to arcades much, but a few games I remember enjoying:
Splatterhouse Golden Axe Afterburner TMNT Rampage Spy Hunter Smash TV NARC Final Fight Street Fighter 2 Pit Fighter Super Off-Road |
11-11-2006, 08:02 PM | #18 | |
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11-11-2006, 08:17 PM | #19 |
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Karate Champ was probably the first game I was truly addicted to.
Dragon's Lair is a classic as well.
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11-11-2006, 08:23 PM | #20 |
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Hrm. I forgot Gauntlet, and Kung Fu Master.
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11-11-2006, 08:33 PM | #21 |
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I LOVED that game. Karate Champ was just an incredible game for its time.
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11-11-2006, 08:44 PM | #22 |
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Here are some I liked to play. I thought this stuff was great, way better than pin ball machines
Defender Donkey Kong Crazy Climber Battle Zone Joust Wizard of Wohr Tempest Centipede Tron Galaga (spelling?) |
11-11-2006, 09:34 PM | #23 |
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11-11-2006, 09:36 PM | #24 |
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I played more pinball than arcade games, but R-Type cost me many rolls of quarters.
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11-11-2006, 09:44 PM | #25 |
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Anyone play a football game with robots instead of players, and when you bitch slapped somebody the robot would explode, or start smoking as a sign he was about to explode? I can't remember the name of the game.
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11-11-2006, 09:47 PM | #26 |
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Cyberbowl.
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11-11-2006, 09:47 PM | #27 |
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11-11-2006, 09:53 PM | #28 |
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Tournament Cyberball was the greatest arcade game in the history of history, and once it comes to Xbox Live Arcade or GameTap, I'm never leaving my house.
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11-11-2006, 10:43 PM | #29 |
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Yep, Cyberbowl was great.
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