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ChurchOfSolipsism:

I understand what the op is going for, but just pumping a game full of credits and playing it until you're through isn't "beating it". I would even say what discerns arcade games from many of the console games produced today is that you will get the most fun out of them if you play them again and again until you've mastered and beaten them with only one coin, while today's games are there to be played once and as soon as you've seen/ "experienced" the whole game, that's it. I'm not judging anybody for not playing a game "right" or "how the developers intended them"; I think both types of games have their merits, so I won't take side on this debate either. But saying that you "beat" a top-down-shooter just when all you did is play it through with lots of help from the coin button and selling it again because it then became boring is completely incomprehensible to me.

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D_Harris:

Outside of Pac-man, some of the others classics I'm aware of are Indiana Jones, Gun Smoke, Crystal Castles, Super Mario Bros., the Arkanoid series, Dig Dug, Donkey Kong, Jr. Pac-man, Ms. Pac-man, Pac-man Plus,  and Pole Position, just to name the classic games with and end that once reached, it can be said they were beaten.   ;D

(Though with Indiana Jones there is a final round that you play on until you die out).

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

Jack Burton:

Pretty much any game ever made by Capcom. 

ragnar:


--- Quote from: D_Harris on October 22, 2011, 12:12:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: ragnar on October 21, 2011, 11:06:33 pm ---Regarding anything that you can just pump quarters into.  I guess the point is to not list games like Pacman where the general goal to most mortals is to get the high score.  Some consider it beatable after level 256 (or whatever it is).

I guess I should have been more specific.  Side scrollers that come to a conclusion or games where you can select one path to victory and go for it (NBA Jam for example).

Pernsonally, i ma after games that are fun that I have not played before that I can try and beat to make things more fun.

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Beatable implies a goal to achieve. So why separate Pac-man from the other games. Pac-man is considered beaten if you get a perfect game all the way to and including the last screen. There may not be a fancy ending or trophy awarded over a dead boss, but once you do it no one can top you, and you'll have a score that can't be beaten.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

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Yes, but with Pac-man, the creators never intended it to be beaten.  They never considered someone getting to level 256 (thought it impossible I think) so they never tested the scenario.  I don't think a game is beatable just because it gets buggy or crashes if you get so far into it.

Eddie_Brock:


--- Quote from: D_Harris on October 23, 2011, 02:03:40 pm ---Donkey Kong
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I'm going to have to disagree with this one. The first level is so hard it would make modern-age gamers weep tears of frustration, and each subsequent level is just as hard.  :banghead:

I'll put my vote in for Aliens. It's the only game as a kid at the arcade that I was able to finish with a modest amount of quarters in my pocket.

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