Topic: What was your favorite arcade game? (Read 14346 times)

Kmelew · « **Reply #40 on:** December 27, 2003, 02:06:41 pm »

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.

Ravok · « **Reply #41 on:** December 27, 2003, 02:12:21 pm »

Mine had to be Defender . We had a table top model in our barracks back in 79 when i first joined the USAF & somboby rigged it up so you did not have to put quarters in it any more & every body was battleing it out to see who could get the higest score.
Great game insanely fast action & good graphics Lordy i havent thought about this in years

Bonk · « **Reply #42 on:** December 27, 2003, 02:31:11 pm »

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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.

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?)

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Tron!

I got a lot of mileage out of Tron as well, I loved the bikes part - just like Qbasic Nibbles!

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

LOL @ "that one gave me a seizure"... hehehe. I liked pole position too but never did very well at driving games.

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Lordy i havent thought about this in years

It does seem to bring back lots of good memories.

Anybody remember Zaxxon?

The Postman · « **Reply #43 on:** December 27, 2003, 02:37:18 pm »

I do remember Zaxxon and I include in my list along with Battlezone.

Blyre · « **Reply #44 on:** December 27, 2003, 03:40:28 pm »

Spyhunter, Gyruss, Crazy Climber, and Elevator Action were four of my favorites that come to mind.

Wallace

TB613 · « **Reply #45 on:** December 27, 2003, 03:46:31 pm »

Pinball has always been my favorite with Asteroids, Galaxian, Defender, and Space invaders being close behind.

Ravok · « **Reply #48 on:** December 27, 2003, 04:14:22 pm »

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?

Bonk · « **Reply #49 on:** December 27, 2003, 04:29:59 pm »

I only vaguely recall Gauntlet, it seems Sirgod is the resident Gauntlet expert, perhaps he could elaborate? Or perhaps this will do: Gauntlet (1985) at Coinop.org All I clearly remembered was that font for the title. (lots of info on that site...)

Ravok · « **Reply #50 on:** December 27, 2003, 04:38:12 pm »

Thanks bonk i remember now ive been gaming since PONG came out {Anybody old enough to remember that one} and theay all run together

God im gettin OLD!!!!

Lepton1 · « **Reply #51 on:** December 27, 2003, 05:21:05 pm »

One of my favorites is Galaga. I play it whenever I see it. For those of you whom may not remember, it is a space invaders type shooter where they can come down and capture one of your ships, then if you shoot that guy you get it back in the form of a double ship. Also two vector-based games, Star Trek of course and Space Duel. The last one is an Asteroids type shooter with geometric objects instead of asteroids and two ships tethered together that two players could play together. For those of you jonesing for those old arcade games, I suggest you look into MAME, a game emulator that allows you to play all those old arcade games. Awhile ago, I was able to play Pac-Man, BattleZone, SpaceDuel, Joust, Spyhunter, Gauntlet, Galaga, AeroFighters, Star Trek, Star Wars (the vector version), on and on for nothing. If you do a search for MAME, I recommend the Germany site (ends in .de). That has the most up-to-date MAME versions and alot of ROMs (the game programs). It's also available on GameSpy under classicgaming.com I think.

Bonk · « **Reply #52 on:** December 27, 2003, 05:34:25 pm »

Oh ya, logged many hours on a pong console. I think my dad still has the working unit in a closet somewhere!

Ravok · « **Reply #53 on:** December 27, 2003, 05:40:24 pm »

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 · « **Reply #54 on:** December 27, 2003, 05:45:58 pm »

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.

Ravok · « **Reply #56 on:** December 27, 2003, 08:54:51 pm »

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

E_Look · « **Reply #58 on:** December 27, 2003, 10:29:12 pm »

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 · « **Reply #59 on:** December 28, 2003, 12:40:45 am »

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.

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