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Most memorable (WOW!) Arcade video games
mimic:
Defender - wow for stuff exploading, sparking, sfx.
battlezone - wow for being totally different for the time and I think for being the very 1st FPS
xevious - wow for best graphics at the time.
final fight - wow for biggest sprites or characters on screen and great beat'em up (I don't care if SFII might've been 1st or not, I never did)
DaveMMR:
I think Dragon's Lair got the biggest wow for it's time compared to other games. An actual "Cartoon", that looks like a Disney cartoon mind-you, that you "controlled".
wp34:
Hard Drivin'
Seems silly now but I remember the first time I played it thinking I was driving a real car.
RayB:
--- Quote from: wp34 on July 05, 2011, 11:28:46 pm ---Hard Drivin'
Seems silly now but I remember the first time I played it thinking I was driving a real car.
--- End quote ---
Same here. Feeling the road via the steering wheel? SO COOL, and I assumed it felt like a real car. (Yeah I should have had a drivers license by then, but alas I relied on the subway and my own two feet.)
I'm assuming the theme here is games that personally got "WOW!s" out of us:
OutRun sitdown: "IT MOVES!!!!"
rackoon:
SPACE INVADERS!
The fist arcade cab I ever saw. I was really in to pinball and one day I went to play a few games and next to the pinball games was a space invaders cab.
Still remember that moment I was at bear valley ski resort in the early 80's. I had a corn dog in one hand and a bunch of quarters in the other. I almost peed my pants. :o