Author Topic: Games you spent the most on as a kid (Read 12889 times)

Jabba · « **on:** August 26, 2005, 10:30:58 pm »

Between the ages of 11-18, I shudder to think how many quarters I pumped into various machines over the years.

What were the top 5 machines that took most of your money?

Me?

1. Asteroids. Every day after school we would line our quarters on the CP waiting for our turn. When you got the hang of it, you could play for hours.

2. Tron. Really, not a great game today by todays standards and from a gaming perspective, but definately had the "Attraction" back then.

3. Defender.

4. Galaxian down the street from Highschoold. Every lunchtime boy...

5. Tetris took quite a few from my childhood.

GameOver · « **Reply #1 on:** August 26, 2005, 10:54:30 pm »

1) Robotron!
2) Stargate
3) Dragon's Lair
4) Pac Man
5) Asteroids

JB · « **Reply #2 on:** August 26, 2005, 11:01:48 pm »

*feels young instead of old, for a change*

Roadblasters, without a doubt.
I was something like 5, and it was in the entry to the grocery store. Every week I got a 1$ allowance. And every week, 4 quarters fell into the Roadblasters machine.

Sure it wasn't exactly astronomical sums of cash, but I did it a lot.

ChadTower · « **Reply #3 on:** August 26, 2005, 11:21:16 pm »

There weren't any arcades where I grew up. The closest I came until later was the Satan's Hollow on the MS Scotia Prince. I used to cross from NS to ME and back several times a year, and every time I would pour my lunch and dinner money into that one Satan's Hollow that was buried in a stairwell in the automobile decks of that boat.

Bones · « **Reply #4 on:** August 27, 2005, 09:47:13 am »

Dragons Lair
Bomb Jack
Star Wars
Karate Champ
Exerion
Time Pilot

And of course Galaga and Gyruss......

TOK · « **Reply #5 on:** August 27, 2005, 11:41:27 am »

Congorilla (Donkey Kong bootleg that was at corner deli)
Xevious
Moon Patrol (ironically I started playing this one past it's prime because it was always open and it ended up being one of my all time favorite games).
Robotron
Rescue (check this out in MAME, great twin stick game).
Karate Champ

I desperately wanted to get good at Stargate. I was never great at Defender, and when that corner deli got a Stargate in, I was ready to commit. Unfortunately, it must have had some great players at its previous location and the Op had the difficulty maxed... Can't remember exactly, but I seemed to play really fast and gave extra guys at 25,000. Needless to say, I STILL suck at Defender and Stargate.

TheVengeance · « **Reply #6 on:** August 27, 2005, 12:18:16 pm »

Quote from: TOK on August 27, 2005, 11:41:27 am

Congorilla (Donkey Kong bootleg that was at corner deli)
Xevious
Moon Patrol (ironically I started playing this one past it's prime because it was always open and it ended up being one of my all time favorite games).
Robotron
Rescue (check this out in MAME, great twin stick game).
Karate Champ

I desperately wanted to get good at Stargate. I was never great at Defender, and when that corner deli got a Stargate in, I was ready to commit. Unfortunately, it must have had some great players at its previous location and the Op had the difficulty maxed... Can't remember exactly, but I seemed to play really fast and gave extra guys at 25,000. Needless to say, I STILL suck at Defender and Stargate.

Harry Potter · « **Reply #7 on:** August 27, 2005, 12:41:18 pm »

1. Strider
2. 1942
3. Galaga
4. Some 3D helicopter game

rohan · « **Reply #8 on:** August 27, 2005, 01:55:41 pm »

1. Smash TV (Spent $20 the first time I passed it)
2. Toobin
3. Time Traveler (I'll admit it...I even have the LD and player)
4. Final Fight
5. Street Fighter II
6. Dragon's Lair 2: Time Warp
7. Galaga
8. Tetris
9. Strider
10. Altered Beast (I'm not sure why people don't seem to like game.)

and many, many more.

paigeoliver · « **Reply #9 on:** August 27, 2005, 07:05:03 pm »

Earliest days it was Moon Patrol and Peter Packrat.

Later it was Golden Axe, Moonwalker, Final Fight, and Ironman Ivan Stewarts Super Offroad.

Much later it became "Pump it Up", which I have probably spent close to $1000 on.

the3eyedblindman · « **Reply #10 on:** August 27, 2005, 07:09:34 pm »

1. Golden Tee-Whichever year, wherever they are....
2. NFL Blitz-Whichever year
3. NBA Showtime
4. Moonwalker- last time I saw this machine at an arcade by my house it was the only game I played. (Thats Why I'm building a dedicated machine soon...)

missioncontrol · « **Reply #11 on:** August 27, 2005, 07:46:19 pm »

there were so many......

my bus stop for school was at this place called Tastee Freeze, they had a gameroom in the back so I spent my lunch money there everymorning. Super Mario Bros. was probibly the biggest money taker from me. I remember when nes came out and it came and I was thrilled that it came out with Super Mario Bros, but was quickly dissapointed to find that after level 6 (I think) that the worlds were completely different.

on another note the Tastee Freeze was the first bus stop for that bus I would miss the bus at least once a week because I was so busy playing that I didn't notice the bus picking everyone up until it was allready leaving. I would have to haul ass to the last bus stop across town to catch the bus........

missioncontrol · « **Reply #12 on:** August 27, 2005, 07:54:15 pm »

other games the Tastee Freeze had that took my lunch money besides Super Mario Bros:

Ghostbusters
Empire City: 1931
Mat Mania
Altered Beast

shmokes · « **Reply #13 on:** August 27, 2005, 09:10:52 pm »

Super Mario Bros.
Street Figher II

I played lots of games growing up (and am relatively young so many were really before my time), but those are the only two that I fell in love with and squandered ever cent I could scratch up on.

GameOver · « **Reply #14 on:** August 27, 2005, 09:33:58 pm »

Quote from: rohan on August 27, 2005, 01:55:41 pm

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3. Time Traveler (I'll admit it...I even have the LD and player)
.
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Was that the lame Sega holgraphic 'shooter' game? I didn't like that one at all. It was a novelty for about 5 minutes for me. I couldn't stand that one!

clanggedin · « **Reply #15 on:** August 27, 2005, 10:13:08 pm »

Double Dragon
Street Fighter II
BattleZone

jhanson · « **Reply #16 on:** August 28, 2005, 01:25:22 pm »

Gladiator
Growl
Double Dragon
Paperboy
Golden Axe II

Probably in that order. I used to stop at this little corner store on the way to school everyday and drop whatever change I had scrounged up into Gladiator. After a while, they replaced it with Paperboy, which I played a lot but could get a lot further on one quarter so I probably ended up spending less. Growl and Double Dragon were at my junior high hangout, this pizza place named (originally enough) the Pizza Shop. My buddy Mike and I would buy a couple of slices of pizza, a couple of Cokes, and drop a couple of bucks worth of quarters into one of those two games. After the Pizza Shop closed, we'd go over to the game room of this local hotel, where they had a ton of bad games (like Pit Fighter), but they had a few decent pinball machines and Golden Axe II.

Sephroth57 · « **Reply #17 on:** August 28, 2005, 01:44:23 pm »

DDR
IIDX: Beatmania
Dance Maniax
Gauntlet Legends
Star Wars Trilogy Arcade

DarkKobold · « **Reply #18 on:** August 28, 2005, 04:01:59 pm »

Im still kind of young

1. SF2
2. Simpsons
3. TMNT
4. Outrun

missioncontrol · « **Reply #19 on:** August 28, 2005, 04:19:42 pm »

better also add

Hard Drivin
Spy Hunter
Centepede
Bomberman
Crazy Climber

to my list also..........

SirPeale · « **Reply #20 on:** August 28, 2005, 04:38:29 pm »

Xenophobe
Tron Environmental
Sidearms

kevdave · « **Reply #21 on:** August 28, 2005, 07:07:50 pm »

Street Fighter 2
Hard Driven (use to play it at a bowling ally when I was younger...... so many quarters were lost in all its grace)
Pac-Man
NBA JAM TE

RayB · « **Reply #22 on:** August 28, 2005, 07:31:37 pm »

Can I answer "All of them"?

First exposure to games was in a convenience store... I would bring in the $10 I got as birthday money, intending to spend $1, next thing you know I spent it all. On SUPER COBRA and KICKMAN! Ack!

First time I played Gauntlet with 3 other players, I think I dumped $6 into it (sounds like nothing these days, but that's 6 x 4 = 24 credits in one session).

NIVO · « **Reply #23 on:** August 28, 2005, 07:44:00 pm »

galaxian
dig dug
tron
two tigers
phoenix
pleiades
roc n rope and a ton on 10-yd fight

Zero_Hour · « **Reply #24 on:** August 28, 2005, 07:51:01 pm »

The ones I played the most...

Scramble
Crazy Climber
Tempest
Wizard of Wor
Starhawk

geomartin · « **Reply #25 on:** August 28, 2005, 09:18:00 pm »

Most played by me at the Time Zone arcade at Oakridge Mall in San Jose, CA

Asteroids
Tempest
Missile Command
Sinistar
Zaxxon

Much later my brother and I became addicted to Double Dragon and Ring King.

Geo

psik0tik · « **Reply #26 on:** August 28, 2005, 11:10:17 pm »

moon patrol
1942
spyhunter
bad dudes

billf · « **Reply #27 on:** August 29, 2005, 01:54:37 am »

Zaxxon
Xevious
Galaga
Pacman
Centipede

fredster · « **Reply #28 on:** August 29, 2005, 09:51:47 am »

asteroids
galaga
ms pac
tron
defender

GGKoul · « **Reply #29 on:** August 29, 2005, 10:11:11 am »

I've been playing games for a LONG TIME now.. and I'm with RayB... All of them, arcades and pinballs and I played them mostly in Hockey Arenas.

Mr.Do
Time Pilot
Zaxxon
OutRun
Championship Sprint/Super Sprint (Which I own now

)
Virtua Racing (Which I own now

)
Highspeed Pinball
World Cup Pinball (Which I own now

)

Dartful Dodger · « **Reply #30 on:** August 29, 2005, 12:09:55 pm »

Elevator Action
Time Pilot (both of them)
Mario Bros
Crystal Castle

Clonedsheep · « **Reply #31 on:** August 29, 2005, 12:46:04 pm »

Crossbow
Mario Brothers
Xevious
Space Duel
Joust

I wanna go back.

Avery · « **Reply #32 on:** August 29, 2005, 06:39:31 pm »

This is tough because play time on, say Robotron (at which I am good) does not corelate to quarters pumped into an equal amount of, say Asteroids (at which I suck).

Defender (because I was an adict)
Ms. Pacman (becasue they were everywhere long after arcade games were the in thing)
Robotron (because, you know, you've got to save the last human family)
Joust (becasue there was one in my freshman dorm)
Space Invaders (because it was first)

canoshiz · « **Reply #33 on:** August 29, 2005, 10:40:40 pm »

Metal Slug, The Simpsons, Bust-A-Move, mostly SNK games. I'm relatively young, I guess.

toolaa · « **Reply #34 on:** August 30, 2005, 12:01:57 am »

Quote from: RayB on August 28, 2005, 07:31:37 pm

First time I played Gauntlet with 3 other players, I think I dumped $6 into it (sounds like nothing these days, but that's 6 x 4 = 24 credits in one session).

I was about 18 when gauntlet came out and to some degree beyond my arcade peak. A few friends and I pumped at least $30 bucks into that beast one night.

I would say that other memorable pocket drainers were:

Phoenix
Tempest
Blastroids
Major Havoc
Dragons Lair
SubRoc
Donkey Kong JR
Missile Command

drunkatuw · « **Reply #35 on:** August 30, 2005, 09:14:41 am »

I didn't think I was that young, but maybe I am...most of the games listed here weren't even in the arcade when I used to go. Here were the ones that took my money:

1. Mortal Kombat
2. TMNT
3. Street Fighter 2
4. Cruisin' USA
5. Ridge Racer

topher0002 · « **Reply #36 on:** November 27, 2007, 10:29:09 am »

Coinpushers =(

lharles · « **Reply #37 on:** November 27, 2007, 11:51:33 am »

Pac-Man
Donkey Kong
Battle Zone
Dragon's Lair, (mostly because it was 50 cents a play versus 25 for everything else)
Gauntlet(!)

billf · « **Reply #38 on:** November 27, 2007, 11:57:22 am »

Quote from: lharles on November 27, 2007, 11:51:33 am

Dragon's Lair, (mostly because it was 50 cents a play versus 25 for everything else)

So you played a game because it cost more than others?

polaris · « **Reply #39 on:** November 27, 2007, 12:03:08 pm »

Quote from: billf on November 27, 2007, 11:57:22 am

Quote from: lharles on November 27, 2007, 11:51:33 am
Dragon's Lair, (mostly because it was 50 cents a play versus 25 for everything else)

So you played a game because it cost more than others?

no he spent most on it cos it cost more

lharles · « **Reply #40 on:** November 27, 2007, 12:07:38 pm »

Quote from: polaris on November 27, 2007, 12:03:08 pm

Quote from: billf on November 27, 2007, 11:57:22 am
Quote from: lharles on November 27, 2007, 11:51:33 am
Dragon's Lair, (mostly because it was 50 cents a play versus 25 for everything else)

So you played a game because it cost more than others?

no he spent most on it cos it cost more

What he said.

missioncontrol · « **Reply #41 on:** November 27, 2007, 02:44:14 pm »

My bus stop was at an ice cream joint called Tastee Treat. In the back they had a few games that I'd play before the bus got there. Sometimes I'd miss the buss and have to haul ass across town to the last bus stop. Here's what I remember them having.

Super Mario Bros.
Empire City
Western Express
Mat Mania
Altered Beast

But there's no telling what game took my most money.

Joes Pizza had a few games I'd hang out and play. But then you have the classics such as Pacman and Centipede that have always erased quarters from my pockets.

EDIT:

hehe... didn't read the whole thread so I didn't see my previous posts. Didn't realize I was responding to a thread I responded to 2 years ago....

shardian · « **Reply #42 on:** November 27, 2007, 03:14:44 pm »

Without a doubt, the Mortal Kombat series.

bfauska · « **Reply #43 on:** November 27, 2007, 03:23:52 pm »

Probably Mad Dog Mcree, it was the one game I really focused on for any length of time, which wasn't very long, but at $1 a pop, it goes quick.

mountain · « **Reply #44 on:** November 27, 2007, 04:30:40 pm »

Galaga
Asteroids
Missile Command
Phoenix
Pacman

Galaga wins for the most quarters taken because I play it every time I see one and have been addicted to it forever. Asteroids probably sucked up the most quarters in the shortest amount of time though. I bet I dumped 3-5 bucks every time I played it. Since my MAME machine has been built, I bet I have played Asteroids 300 times. Still can’t get past 55,000…

boykster · « **Reply #45 on:** November 27, 2007, 04:31:21 pm »

Probably Zaxxon since that's the game they had at the nearby 7-11 for the longest dang time....

patrickl · « **Reply #46 on:** November 27, 2007, 04:35:18 pm »

Galaga
Operation Wolf
Star Wars
Outrun
Pole Position

ahofle · « **Reply #47 on:** November 27, 2007, 04:40:19 pm »

Toobin, although I wasn't exactly a kid.

JimmyU · « **Reply #48 on:** November 27, 2007, 05:33:45 pm »

I loved beat'em ups. X-men, Knights of the Round and TMNT all took a lot of my quarters back in the day.

MaximRecoil · « **Reply #49 on:** November 28, 2007, 12:15:35 am »

Super Punch-Out by far. I played it every chance I got for about a year (1987/1988). I had a rivalry going with an older kid for high score on the machine, so that "helped" (lol).

Other games I played a lot included:

Punch-Out
Karate Champ
Excitebike
Super Dodge Ball
Street Fighter II

danny_galaga · « **Reply #50 on:** November 28, 2007, 02:17:01 am »

1942
galaxian
space invaders

i tried asteroids, berzerk, frogger and defender, but really, really sucked at them so i didnt want to lose too much money on em! nowadays of course i can enjoy them more and can survive more than a few seconds

SNAAKE · « **Reply #51 on:** November 28, 2007, 05:41:41 am »

capcom vs snk 2 - ALL DAY EVERYDAY

polaris · « **Reply #52 on:** November 28, 2007, 05:48:29 am »

as a youngster when i would get bollocked for spending my pocket money on games instead of books for example.

i would say
pac man (they had one in the bakery)
gorf (in the burger bar)
frogger (in the train station)
moon cresta ( in the italian cafe)

we did have an arcade but my mums friend worked there so i was pretty quickly found out

Jimbo · « **Reply #53 on:** November 28, 2007, 06:06:40 am »

Our local sports centre was where I spent most of my money mainly on: -

Flying Shark
Out Run
Ghosts n' Goblins
Choplifter
Commando

Jabba · « **Reply #54 on:** November 28, 2007, 10:44:10 pm »

Marble Madness....what a great game....

and Spint......

And who could forget Wizard of Wor......

And holy crappers, I never paid more than .50 cents. I go to the arcade these days and see games for $1....Youch!

tommy · « **Reply #55 on:** November 29, 2007, 12:04:13 am »

I'm 29 but i first started going to the arcade at the time Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat first came out and those games were the best ever to play in an arcade. There were so many people who went to arcades at that time and playing other people in those games was the best times i remember having with games.

Nothing like that will ever happen again, after that the downfall of arcades had taken place but we still can relive the games with Mame.

I don't think having a good time in an arcade can ever happen again as it did in the early 90's.

Bones · « **Reply #56 on:** November 29, 2007, 02:08:11 am »

Quote from: danny_galaga on November 28, 2007, 02:17:01 am

nowadays of course i can enjoy them more and can survive more than a few seconds

Must be hard with your machine 2000 km's away. Just thought I should throw that in for good measure....

danny_galaga · « **Reply #57 on:** November 29, 2007, 05:27:07 am »

Quote from: Bones on November 29, 2007, 02:08:11 am

Quote from: danny_galaga on November 28, 2007, 02:17:01 am
nowadays of course i can enjoy them more and can survive more than a few seconds
Must be hard with your machine 2000 km's away. Just thought I should throw that in for good measure....

JamIt · « **Reply #58 on:** November 29, 2007, 10:23:28 am »

1. Mr Do
2. Double Dragon
3. Super Mario Bros
4. City Connection
5. Ms Pacman

unclet · « **Reply #59 on:** November 29, 2007, 01:14:28 pm »

PunchOut
Gaplus
Karate Champ

Chris G · « **Reply #60 on:** November 29, 2007, 01:31:27 pm »

Robotron
Mr. Do's Castle
Ms Pacman
Joust
Tron
Donkey Kong

Probably played Super Mario Brothers the most, though, because we could hit the credit button and play for free at the local liquor store where I grew up.

Did a lot of WATCHING of Dragon's Lair.

billf · « **Reply #61 on:** November 29, 2007, 01:47:10 pm »

Quote from: Chris G on November 29, 2007, 01:31:27 pm

Probably played Super Mario Brothers the most, though, because we could hit the credit button and play for free at the local liquor store where I grew up.

Now that's a childhood - growing up in a liquor store, sweet!

Spaz Monkey · « **Reply #62 on:** November 30, 2007, 11:21:12 pm »

In no particular order

BattleZone (once got the high score on a machine with only one working handle)
Tokio
Gauntlet
Killer Instinct
Side Arms
Ms. Pac Man
Street Fighter
Donkey Kong
Pac man
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
Black Knight (pinball)
Time Killers
Mortal Kombat
Joust (had to be the blue player)
Enviromental Disc Of Tron
Tron
Karate Champ ("Roundhouse Kick!")
Marble Madness
Sprint / Championship Sprint
D&D


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Author Topic: Games you spent the most on as a kid (Read 12889 times)

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