Author Topic: Favorite Unknown 80s Games (Read 19410 times)

tommyinajar · « **Reply #40 on:** February 15, 2011, 01:20:40 am »

I always liked Lode Runner http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8441 (Got hooked on my //c)

& I still fire up Carnival quite often http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7286

& maybe Elevator Action

boardjunkie · « **Reply #41 on:** February 15, 2011, 10:19:47 am »

Carnival and Elevator Action were hits of the day.....hardly unknown....

Cakemeister · « **Reply #42 on:** February 15, 2011, 12:52:53 pm »

Have you ever played Karate Champ?

Full point!

Donkey_Kong · « **Reply #43 on:** February 15, 2011, 01:03:17 pm »

Quote from: RandyT on February 04, 2011, 07:12:29 am

Not unknown, but probably not too common. Was one of my favorites at the time. Also historic, as it was the first game with voice synthesis.

According to the person posting the video, that game was:
"the first with speech synthesis."

Kind of a neat little fact...He says "Lucky" alot....what when you don't blow up? lol

tommyinajar · « **Reply #44 on:** February 15, 2011, 01:28:21 pm »

Quote from: boardjunkie on February 15, 2011, 10:19:47 am

Carnival and Elevator Action were hits of the day.....hardly unknown....

Ahh I have to kind of disagree with you on Carnival, relativity unknown unless you actually played it in the arcade, I doubt anyone under 35 ever played it before. Also the OP stated "enjoyable" games he might have missed for his son's cab, I could also say "Death Race" which I enjoyed immensely but I doubt anyone under 40 would appreciate it today...

(+_+) · « **Reply #45 on:** February 15, 2011, 02:39:40 pm »

I liked megatack. Didn't see it in too many arcades.

What I liked was the music/sound affects that went with it. It had a ring to it.

javeryh · « **Reply #46 on:** February 15, 2011, 05:38:52 pm »

I love Jumping Jack - it is tough! Lady Killer is great too but not suitable for kids.

leapinlew · « **Reply #47 on:** February 15, 2011, 06:13:22 pm »

Did you guys ever play looping?

This is the colecovision console version of it

http://www.gamesdbase.com/game.aspx?mame=looping

I've only seen 1 in the wild and it doesn't work right in my version of Mame. Maybe they fixed it.

WareWolF · « **Reply #48 on:** February 15, 2011, 07:40:46 pm »

Roc & Rope is great. One of my favorites. There was a colecovision port of it also.

Woodshop Flunky · « **Reply #49 on:** February 16, 2011, 11:50:21 am »

Tried a couple of these. Still have others to try.

I really like Juno First, Dr. Micro, and Ladybug. I'm having to fight the urge not to play these on my laptop (really want to wait until the cab is built before I give them a go).

WareWolF · « **Reply #50 on:** February 16, 2011, 07:41:55 pm »

Another less popular game I used to like is Mouse Trap (Exidy). There used to be a few around back in the day, but I have never seen one for sale.

Dexter · « **Reply #51 on:** February 17, 2011, 02:51:58 pm »

Quote from: Cakemeister on February 15, 2011, 12:52:53 pm

Have you ever played Karate Champ?

Full point!

one of my favourites. Plays great in Mame as a single player if you remap your second joystick as the original right hand stick.

Woodshop Flunky · « **Reply #52 on:** February 27, 2011, 05:19:30 pm »

Stumbled across this one that seems fun to me, Battlantis. I don't know if it's an "unknown" 80's game, but I had never heard of it!

D_Harris · « **Reply #53 on:** February 28, 2011, 01:01:44 am »

There's been mention of a lot of games that were actually pretty popular do not fall under the category of "obscure".

There were three relatively obscure games that I played and had gotten very good at. The more prevalent of them has been mentioned once in this thread, and that would be "Nova 2001".(Which Funspot put on the floor last year).

The other two I played were "Mazer Blazer" and "Freeze".

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

bkenobi · « **Reply #54 on:** March 01, 2011, 11:58:19 am »

I can't help it. I love I'm Sorry.

http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/romset/imsorry

Epyx · « **Reply #55 on:** March 01, 2011, 12:03:06 pm »

For me, the BYOAC High Score competition has been responsible for a few unknown games that have become favourites like Speed Rumbler and Funny Mouse.

VanillaGorilla · « **Reply #56 on:** March 01, 2011, 12:09:30 pm »

Quote from: leapinlew on February 15, 2011, 06:13:22 pm

Did you guys ever play looping?

I've only seen 1 in the wild and it doesn't work right in my version of Mame. Maybe they fixed it.

Looping was awesome on Colecovision!! I used to love Cosmic Avenger too... The arcade version of Looping is WAAY harder though

, if you can believe that (Coleco was hard enough already)! Seems to work fine in MAME 1.41.

richard d · « **Reply #57 on:** March 01, 2011, 02:37:52 pm »

I remember a game called "New York New York" in the very early 80s; I only saw it in one pizza joint my parents often took me to in Webster, Texas. It was a Space Invaders/Galaga type game. I've never seen another, not on MAME or with any Internet searches

richard d · « **Reply #58 on:** March 01, 2011, 02:40:50 pm »

What was the game with the penguin that pushed around the blocks of ice?

Xiondz · « **Reply #59 on:** March 01, 2011, 02:54:44 pm »

Quote from: richard d on March 01, 2011, 02:40:50 pm

What was the game with the penguin that pushed around the blocks of ice?

It's PENGO
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8989

popsicle · « **Reply #60 on:** March 01, 2011, 09:30:25 pm »

Mario's Flying Pizza on Nasa 1?

richard d · « **Reply #61 on:** March 02, 2011, 01:38:49 am »

Hell yeah Mario's Pizza!

richard d · « **Reply #62 on:** March 02, 2011, 01:51:38 am »

Found a Youtube video of it.

mgb · « **Reply #63 on:** March 02, 2011, 12:33:12 pm »

Quote from: richard d on March 02, 2011, 01:51:38 am

Found a Youtube video of it.

Cool, I've never seen that game.
heres the Klov listing http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8858

Hurray Banana · « **Reply #64 on:** March 02, 2011, 02:58:54 pm »

Quote from: javeryh on February 15, 2011, 05:38:52 pm

I love Jumping Jack - it is tough! Lady Killer is great too but not suitable for kids.

+1 for Jumping Jack, started playing this a few months ago, it tries to sucker you into a hopping rhythm. Love most of the Universal games (even tho' they are mostly rock hard) like space panic, do's castle etc...

ubermick · « **Reply #65 on:** March 02, 2011, 03:05:25 pm »

Quote from: Woodshop Flunky on February 01, 2011, 11:25:41 pm

After asking around, I've yet to meet ANYONE who has ever played Roc'n Rope.

There was a wee shop in town who had the grand total of two cabinets in there, one of which was Rock n Rope. I've played it, I loved it, and will be on the lookout for it! Thanks for reminding me about it.

milhouse · « **Reply #66 on:** March 02, 2011, 03:11:31 pm »

Quote from: mgb on March 02, 2011, 12:33:12 pm

Quote from: richard d on March 02, 2011, 01:51:38 am
Found a Youtube video of it.

Cool, I've never seen that game.
heres the Klov listing http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8858

Its in MAME but listed as imperfect. http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/romset/nyny

newkillergenius · « **Reply #67 on:** March 02, 2011, 03:23:38 pm »

Just wanted to +1 Dr. Micro, and suggest Complex-X?

It's control oriented, but really fun.

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=11015

CrazyKongFan · « **Reply #68 on:** March 02, 2011, 03:33:41 pm »

Quote from: Epyx on March 01, 2011, 12:03:06 pm

For me, the BYOAC High Score competition has been responsible for a few unknown games that have become favourites like Funny Mouse.

Glad to see you still like it

I still fire it up occasionally, but haven't been able to get close to my record.

edge10 · « **Reply #69 on:** March 02, 2011, 04:29:59 pm »

I never saw this in the arcades, but how about War of the Worlds:

ZWC11 · « **Reply #70 on:** March 02, 2011, 04:33:10 pm »

Not sure if it's really unknown, but Pipis and Bibis (not kid friendly)

Didn't really know about this until I played the censored version on an Ultracade like 6 or 7 years ago. Very fun and addicting, but EXTREMELY hard once you get towards the end levels. Then I discovered it on MAME and was shocked to see naked ladies in it lol. Apparently the operator could choose in the options the clean version (where you get to look at the women after each level with their clothes on) or the uncensored version (With their clothes off).

And regards to some of the previous posts:

Jumping Jack and Speed Coin use to be some of my favorite games of all time!

Woodshop Flunky · « **Reply #71 on:** March 03, 2011, 01:55:52 am »

MagMax is another one I played as a kid that gets me blank stares when I mention it.

richard d · « **Reply #72 on:** March 03, 2011, 10:41:19 pm »

I dodn't remember MagMax from the 80s either, but it's on my Xbox MAME emulator and it's pretty cool, I'm gonna have to give it some practice, it's pretty tough.

Dexter · « **Reply #73 on:** March 04, 2011, 07:26:11 am »

Quote from: Woodshop Flunky on March 03, 2011, 01:55:52 am

MagMax is another one I played as a kid that gets me blank stares when I mention it.

Yeah, I used to play Magmax when I was younger, great little game. Only ever saw it in one arcade over here.

30k feet up · « **Reply #74 on:** March 04, 2011, 12:01:41 pm »

Quote from: Cakemeister on February 15, 2011, 12:52:53 pm

Have you ever played Karate Champ?

Full point!

Karate Champ FTFW.

Mikezilla · « **Reply #75 on:** March 04, 2011, 01:27:11 pm »

Jesus god I have never played ANY of the games you guys have mentioned. Not a single one.

newmanfamilyvlogs · « **Reply #76 on:** March 04, 2011, 01:39:02 pm »

Quote from: Mikezilla on March 04, 2011, 01:27:11 pm

Jesus god I have never played ANY of the games you guys have mentioned. Not a single one.

Noob. (:

DNA Dan · « **Reply #77 on:** March 05, 2011, 11:30:53 am »

How about Venture?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA9Y-63-tss&feature=player_embedded#at=36

I guess anyone's idea of "obscure" depends how old they are.

richard d · « **Reply #78 on:** March 07, 2011, 12:12:51 am »

No ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---, I thought "Venture" was very common.

mgb · « **Reply #79 on:** March 07, 2011, 12:19:14 am »

Venture was very common.
Though I'd say when I was a kid, we played it more on Atari then at the arcade.


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