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| Havok:
I think Street Fighter is the arcade equivalent of misheard songs. Check this out: http://www.kissthisguy.com |
| Level42:
I am so freaking old (37), I remember playing a MECHANIC racing game, where the car you drove was a little plastic thing with a sticker representing a racing car, and other cars would swoowsh by, faster depending on your gas pedal....thing is....those machines were mechanic, no random factor and after a while, I discovered there was one pattern and I think I could still play it today blinded :) Or there was this machine where a mechanic little bi-plane was going round in circles on an arm. You could go up and down and adjust the speed if I'm correct, and you needed to fly through a barn etc. Those were the games (next to the pinballs with reel-scoring) in the "arcade" that was at our camping site in mmmmmm, end of the 70's ? So imagine all of a sudden there's a game with a TV screen....only thing I see is white blocks swinging left and right and there's a steering wheel (like on the mechanic game). So What the hell is this, pop in a quarter (of a guilder) and there I was, playing my first ever videogame (I now know it was Nightdriver, or probably a clone). OK, so what has this to do with Ms. Pac Man I hear you say...well, it's the complete picture you need to have of that time. When you're 16, you grew up with at least Nintendo I guess....so unbelievably more sofisticated then the games I'm talking about. Now Ms. Pac Man for me....well that brings me back to uhmmmm 1982-83 |
| mccoy178:
The only game I have seen in the last couple of years I can invision talking about years from now is the Golden Tee series. That was the sole motivation for me stumbling into MAME. It is that single game that I know I can find at any bar and is fun for everyone to play. Now, I'm not sixteen, but it has been around for the last eight years, and I look forward to each new edition that comes out. I could play Tiger Woods untill I'm blue in the face, but you can't replace that machine. |
| quarterback:
--- Quote from: mccoy178 on August 08, 2005, 04:47:14 pm ---The only game I have seen in the last couple of years I can invision talking about years from now is the Golden Tee series. --- End quote --- |
| USSEnterprise:
Here's something sad: I'm 15 and was playing Space Invaders on MAME for 2 hours yesterday. I have a top score of 250,000 on MAME Centiped. 75,000 on MAME Ms Pac Man. |
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