Author Topic: Absolute favorite 2 games!!! (Read 15983 times)

sodapopinski · « **Reply #80 on:** March 26, 2005, 04:55:09 pm »

ghosts and goblins - even though its so damn hard
donkey kong jr.

Daniel270 · « **Reply #81 on:** March 26, 2005, 05:10:18 pm »

As far as favorites go.... I can't settle on just 2...

but, the two that have the most plays are:

Gyruss (wife's favorite)
Galaga

southpaw13 · « **Reply #82 on:** March 26, 2005, 05:11:36 pm »

**Robotron
**Stargate

Southpaw

markrvp · « **Reply #83 on:** March 26, 2005, 05:22:01 pm »

Pacman & Donkey Kong. If I had a nickel for every quarter I put in those . . .

Paul Olson · « **Reply #84 on:** March 26, 2005, 05:23:30 pm »

Donkey Kong - All time favorite
Bust A Move - The game I play most often

oldschool · « **Reply #85 on:** March 26, 2005, 05:33:53 pm »

robotron & metal slug

javeryh · « **Reply #86 on:** March 26, 2005, 05:38:27 pm »

Ms. Pac-man
Mr. Do!

They should just get married - they are perfect!

cholin · « **Reply #87 on:** March 26, 2005, 05:39:26 pm »

Pac-Man
Arkanoid (Breakout, whatever you wanna call it)

s4tay · « **Reply #88 on:** March 26, 2005, 06:16:33 pm »

Mine
Speed Buggy (Own one)
Mad Planets

Wife's
Ghost n' Goblins
Gyruss

Kid's
Metal Slug - All of 'em
X-Men

nomad · « **Reply #89 on:** March 26, 2005, 06:34:13 pm »

Arkanoid and Mario Bros.

I use MAMEWAH. It's easy to setup and there are a lot of places that tell one how to get various emulators working. http://home.comcast.net/~cpviewer/downloads.htm helps a lot for the ini files.

monkeybomb · « **Reply #90 on:** March 26, 2005, 09:33:41 pm »

Street fighter...all of them
88 games

I'm a little surprised at how many games are "Goleden Age" on the thread. I'm 28 and my donky kong/galaga experiences were very short. In a painful way. Especially spy hunter. I used to walk a mile and a half (seemed long at the time) to the arcade with $2. The last thing I could deal with was 18 seconds of spy hunter before my quarter was gone. Am I toward the young end of this hobby.

KenToad · « **Reply #91 on:** March 27, 2005, 04:32:03 am »

Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting (although original and Champion Edition are my nostalgia games)
Smash TV (I have four joysticks on my CP pretty much only for this game--a brand new toaster, Oh Yeah, give me about a hundred of those, gift wrapped, please

)

I second the opinions on the Spy Hunter writeup. I actually figured those techniques out in the arcade on a measly five dollar a week allowance. Luckily, at Silverball, the local arcade, you could get six tokens for a dollar (why didn't I save any of those tokens?) and of course the games only cost a token. I got to where I could play Spy Hunter through the boat stage twice on a single token--on a really good game, of course. The wheel/pedal/shifter setup is beyond my reach right now, unfortunately, or I would go for building a dedicated Spy Hunter something-or-other post-haste.

KenToad

uppy · « **Reply #92 on:** March 27, 2005, 11:55:32 am »

hmmm thats a tough one!
I'd have to say
1) Forgotten Worlds
2) Black Tiger

But any Capcom game pretty much does it for me

the3eyedblindman · « **Reply #93 on:** March 27, 2005, 12:59:26 pm »

Wow, only two?
For Arcade I would have to say Moonwalker and Terminator 2, although NFL Blitz and all Golden Tee's are right up there..And for the Genesis, my favorite system of all time, Id have to go with Sonic 1 and 2, and Battletoads

DaveJ-UK · « **Reply #94 on:** March 27, 2005, 02:36:51 pm »

Soccer Brawl
Street Fighter 2 Turbo: Hyper Fighting

At least they're the two I find myself playing most!

oldsage · « **Reply #95 on:** March 27, 2005, 02:43:47 pm »

Neo Drift Out Challenge
and either Marble Madness or Marvel vs. Capcom (what? it's a fun game...)

bowza · « **Reply #96 on:** March 27, 2005, 03:27:59 pm »

Asteroids
Hypersports

Not sure wich way round so put them alphabetical.

Waiting for Hypersports to be delivered so may change in a few days.

Bowza

RayB · « **Reply #97 on:** March 27, 2005, 11:00:04 pm »

Quote from: monkeybomb on March 26, 2005, 09:33:41 pm

I'm a little surprised at how many games are "Goleden Age" on the thread.

The Jerk · « **Reply #98 on:** March 28, 2005, 02:40:08 am »

The reason I NEED emulation.

Rygar
Black Tiger

redcoats · « **Reply #99 on:** March 28, 2005, 04:45:04 am »

Quote from: FractalWalk on November 05, 2004, 12:38:48 am

Robotron
Galaga

Nothing else is even close.

I agree, with my favorite being galaga.
I'm using 3DArcade as my front end and it is a little difficult to use but I've got it up and running very well.

KenToad · « **Reply #100 on:** March 28, 2005, 08:02:39 am »

Quote from: monkeybomb on March 26, 2005, 09:33:41 pm

I'm a little surprised at how many games are "Goleden Age" on the thread. I'm 28 and my donky kong/galaga experiences were very short. In a painful way. Especially spy hunter. I used to walk a mile and a half (seemed long at the time) to the arcade with $2. The last thing I could deal with was 18 seconds of spy hunter before my quarter was gone. Am I toward the young end of this hobby.

Monkeybomb,

I personally don't think you're young, being 27 myself, but, yeah, I guess our generation saw just the end of the "Golden Age" in the Arcades, at least in terms of maturity. All those college students could play games like Pac-Man for seemingly forever and I could only reach the third or fourth board on a good play--not to mention that I couldn't afford gauntlet, although I loved it. So, yeah, being pre-teen and broke in an 80s arcade just as the Golden Age ground to a halt surely wasn't the greatest of our gaming experiences. Still, I felt lucky that my local arcade hung on to the classics almost until the nineties. Playing two player Joust still beats the hell out of spinning the joystick and mashing buttons on Street Fighter 1 IMO.

KenToad

*Edit--Running MameWah, very nice frontend

GGKoul · « **Reply #101 on:** March 28, 2005, 10:03:03 am »

- Track & Field
~~- Galaga~~
- Gaunlet

Hoopz · « **Reply #102 on:** March 28, 2005, 10:18:48 am »

Wizard of Wor
Gauntlet

One of my best friend in the early 80's had an actual Wizard of Wor in his basement. We used to play on it for hours.

Absolutely nothing beats being 12 or 13 and having a full size, real life arcade machine in your basement.

Nocturnaloner · « **Reply #103 on:** March 30, 2005, 12:26:03 pm »

Elevator Action

Such a very simple game, and yet somehow, hypnotic. There's some kinda weird synergy that happens with these old games where the sound and the 'feel' of the game's response to the the controls when you're zoned into it...like buzzing down 6 or 7 floors in the elevator, floaty jump-kick takes out two spies simultaneously (thumpthump!) while you fire in mid air and take out a lamp on the way down (crash!)... then back to the elevator and buzz down 4 more floors...I dunno. Utterly compelling.

Joust

Again with the perfect combination of sound and controller feel. Every pixel, every wing flap, every detail of this game is so well thought out and designed. Everyone who's ever played it knows exactly how it feels to bounce from enemy to enemy, laying waste to all who oppose you... the claustrophobic feeling of knowing that a screenfull of enemies is above you, and you don't feel 'safe' until you're at the top of the screen, in control... With games like that, it doesn't even matter how far you get, how good you are, because just the basic play mechanic is so damn fun.

IntruderAlert · « **Reply #104 on:** March 30, 2005, 02:41:01 pm »

This is hard to do.. and I'm sure I'll change my mind as soon as I hit the Post button

Galaga

Mr. Do's Castle


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