Topic: What was your favorite arcade game?

[Ravok]

 Dude ide love to see one again! Boy would that bring back memories.
 What games did it have tennis hocky & tennis ?    
 BY the way Battel Zone was an outstanding game of its time as well !! One of my favs. forgot all about it

[Bonk]

Ya, it was one of the four game models - hockey, tennis, and a one player version of each I think. I can see it plain as day in my head but I cannot find the model on any of the retro sites so far... I must ask the old man about it.  

[Aldaron]

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Atari made some great games!  My two favorites were Marble Madness and Tempest.  Xevious and Crystal Caverns weren't far behind.  Crystal Caverns was interesting in that one of the levels was made from the high scorer's initials.

I also loved Pole Position, but my favorite driving game was Sega's Outrun (that one gave me a seizure).

BTW if you loved Asteroids, you owe it to yourself to buy a Vectrex system off of eBay.  Its built in game, Minesweeper, is probably the best of the Asteroid clones.  

Toys R US has the Atari controller with 10 Atari games built in or if you like Intellivision it has 25 games, both for $19.95 USD. Go on, indulge your nostalgia and play the old time favorites. Oh and the Atari has Adventure as one of it's games

 

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  Battle Zone! It rocked! Another green monochrome wonder! Good value for your quarter that was. (It had a plastic viewport for each player and two joysticks each to control your tracks?)

Nope it wasn't Battle Zone, I remember that one.

[Ravok]

 You didnt like Battel Zone ? the game its self or the type of game it was ?
 Not criticising just wondering  

[Kmelew]

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 im trying like heck to remember Gauntlet? I remember playing it but for the life of me i cant remember what it was like! Could any body Help?  

Elf needs food--badly.  Wizard is about to die.  

[E_Look]

I was too shellshocked after paying my bowling tabs to put any quarters out for the (albeit) cool looking game machines on the back wall of the alley.  

[msnevil]

Atari has a cd game collection out now called, Atari -80 classic games in one. (19.99)

It has some of my old favorites like Centipede, Temptest, Warlords and Asteroids.

or

http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/80s_games/arcade.htm


http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/80s_games/onlinenintendo.htm

nintendo emulater- my favorite Bards tale.
 

[grimbeard]

I knew I was a Trek nerd when I went into the arcade and dumped quarters into that sit down Star Trek game where you cruised around hunting Klingons.  Great game.  I loved Donkey Kong JR and BurgerTime alot.  Spent a lot of time on Elevator Action (spy vs spy game).  Defender was my all time favorite though. Mostly because the Defender looked alot like a BSG viper.  I also was fond of Lunar Lander.

[Bonk]

I realized that Battlezone was singleplayer over at coinop.org when I looked at the picture of the cabinet. Yup it did have the plastic viewport - but only one, I wondered did they ever make a two player model? Im sure I recall that game head to head. Perhaps there was a 2 player takeoff of it. Did the one you recall have the same green 3D wireframe graphics?

Grimbeard liked BurgerTime, hehe, as I recalll that one was pretty silly too.

Its weird, I was just thinking about DigDug when I realised that the restaraunt I now live over used to be an arcade in one of its incarnations when I was a kid. Must be some old arcade ghosts here that brought this nostalgia on!  

[DreadlordGW]

I played alot of the origional Star Wars game.  And spy hunter

[Aldaron]

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 You didnt like Battel Zone ? the game its self or the type of game it was ?
 Not criticising just wondering  

Where did I say I didn't like it. I just said it wasn't the one I was thinking of BZ was the first 3D out there of course I liked it.

[Ravok]

 I was just  confused thats why i asked.
   

[drb]

Easy question to answer. During the eighties a friends father owned the local arcade and I befriended the coin jockey/tech, so I didn't spend my paper route money on the games they were always free for me. Wasted it instead on a certian Rampart game later on. Funny Bonk I seem to remember the mulitplayer game to be exactly as you describe them. I wonder, were you there?  
The Williams Black Knight pinball table was the one that did chew up my time, I simply loved it. As I mentioned I befriended the tech because he was a pinball freak as well so he kept the tables in perfect repair even though the money makers were the video games. Sadly, I have given up on arcades because the pinball tables always have a flipper or sink hole or ramp,or something  that doesn't work properly; a sure fire way to ruin a pinball wizard's day.

Cheers,

drb  

[Bonk]

You know, the kind where you actually had to go out to the arcade and put a quarter (or a few quarters) in the machine to play, the kind that could blow 5 of dad's dollars faster than he could blink? (These console boxes might actually be saving parents money come to think of it...)

Anyway, my favorite:

Rampart! (The four player trackball version) - you built fortresses then tried to blow them up faster than your opponent to grab territory. It was a game of building strategy and the fastest hand on the trackball. It was a blast, always got loud and rowdy with four players, and it always ate up all my lunch money!

Rampage was a close second for the same kind of multiplayer action and the general sillyness of running around as godzilla or king kong,  climbing builings, smashing cars, eating people and grabbing choppers out of the air!  

[Sirgod]

Hmm. Good post. I'd say in the 70's It was Asteroids, or Space wars.

80's There again not really sure. Guantlet would have been high on my list.

90's I really didn't play that many to offer a good sound choice.

Naughties, I'd say there are quite a few good ones out there. There was one called AD&D or something like that that was pretty good.

Stephen

[Bonk]

Asteroids - the perennial favorite, I loved the old tabletop two player version with the monochrome green display, paddle and two button control, I forget who made it - I only ever saw one like it.

Guantlet, an interesting choice - it was a bit RPGish no?  

[Sirgod]

Gauntlet was I believe A psuedo RPG, In the since It was an Action Game IMHO, With RPG elements in the since you had Faithfull Characters such as Elf , Barbarian, etc. But they really didn't Level up or the like.

As for Asteroids two player Table Top, wasn't that By Atari also?

I'll have to look through a few sites to make sure.

Stephen

[Bonk]

Ah, I recall gauntlet now, that was a fun game. The tabletop asteroids probably was made by Atari too, but don't go to any trouble just to find that out (I am kind of curious now though...) If I ever had the money and found one of those I'd buy it up right quick to put in my basement (if I had one).  

[Aldaron]

Have to go with a game I don't remember the name of and probably wasn't very well know. It was vector graphics and 2 people played at the same time as tanks protecting fuel pods (or something ) in the middle of the screen. The computer AI would rush in and try to steal the pods and run off the edge of the map, got real challenging when the pods were all over the screen.

Next would be in the 80's that each player had the choice to drive a tank or helicopter and could switch back and forth. The computer played the enemy.

[BortaS]

Tron!