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What killed the Arcade for you?

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Donkbaca:
moon patrol?  Centipede, I was fired up wehn I got my trackball,  gonna play me some centipede, then 3 minutes later I was over it.  C'mon, frogger? Seriously?  Do you actually play these games?  That being said, the early 80's had the pac man craze and galaga, there are some WAY WAY better games then centipede and moon patrol

I think the late 80's had stinker games. 

I would say 81-6 and 91-96 pretty much has most everything I am interested in playing.

saint:

--- Quote from: Donkbaca on April 28, 2011, 06:53:47 pm ---moon patrol?  Centipede, I was fired up wehn I got my trackball,  gonna play me some centipede, then 3 minutes later I was over it.  C'mon, frogger? Seriously?  Do you actually play these games?  That being said, the early 80's had the pac man craze and galaga, there are some WAY WAY better games then centipede and moon patrol

I think the late 80's had stinker games. 

I would say 81-6 and 91-96 pretty much has most everything I am interested in playing.

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Centipede and Moon Patrol would be on my classics list.

Donkbaca:
Call them whatever you want. They are a snore.

TOK:

--- Quote from: scofthe7seas on April 28, 2011, 06:42:11 pm ---
--- Quote from: TOK on April 28, 2011, 06:28:17 pm ---I could name 50 more great early 80's games no problem.

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I call shenanigans.

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Just look at KLOV's top 100 list. Almost half of them are from the period of 80-83, and there are still plenty that could be added. Look at the top 10 voted by readers and collectors.

I guess it all comes down to what you grew up with. Fighting games were OK (I even own a JAMMA fighter with a few boards), but don't get even 1/10th of the play the classics like Robotron and DK get.

Donkbaca:
The KLOV list is made by a bunch of folks who believe that arcades died with the leaf switch.

I think the best way to answer that is figure out what gets played most on cabs.  I mean on a mame cab you have competition from every game of every genre.  I bet moon patrol doesn't get played a whole lot. 

From trolling around here for a while, I would say top games for sure are:

Robotron
Asteroids (deluxe)
Defender
Joust
Stargate
Donkey Kong
Ms. Pacman
Tempest

New generation

Turtles
Xmen
MK 1-3
SF - all of them except the 3d ones
Bust-a-move.


Those are the ones where people are like, "I can't wait to finsh my cab so I can play some xxxx"

nobody ever says, I can't wait to finish my cab to play some arkanoid....

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