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Kremmit:


--- Quote from: MaximRecoil on September 11, 2006, 05:38:24 pm ---Back in the arcades of the 80's, a really good player on a machine would draw a crowd of spectators, hoping to get a glimpse of uncharted territory or see a new high score get set. Well, probably not with Super Mario Bros., since nearly everyone is good at that game.

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Yeah, I remember the arcades in the 80's too. 

The thing is, I just don't get many 13 year old boys showing up at my social functions these days.  Gotta entertain 30+ year old guys who used to behave like you describe, and their wives/girlfriends.  Ever see a 33 year old woman watch somebody play Gyruss all the way to Earth?  Me neither.

Now, when it's just the guys over for beers, then the rules change.

TOK:

If its a mainstream kind of crowd, not gamers, there is no way you need 100 games. Of the 14 or so non-gamers I asked what they wanted to see, only 1 didn't say Pac Man/Ms. Pac Man. The off-the-beaten-path one asked for Galaga.  ::)

Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Frogger and Centipede if you want to use a trackball. Pac/Ms. Pac will frustrate newbies if you have 8 way sticks.

My current strategy is to keep people totally out of the gameroom unless it happens to come up.  :timebomb:

jerryjanis:

Over the years here are the games that have really been popular:

Here are some rarer ones that I think you just gotta have:
Hat Trick, Irritating Maze (trackball game), Contra, SuperC, Rastan, Ghosts N Goblins, Ghouls N Ghosts, Chicken Shift, Ninja Baseball Batman, Snacks'n Jackson, Snakepit, Tapper, Space Zap.

Here are some of the more normal must-haves at my house:
Gauntlet, Gauntlet II, Robotron, Street Fighter II, Ms. Pac Man, Punch-Out!, Super Punch-Out, Marble Madness, Centipede, Tempest, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Contra, SuperC,  Arkanoid, Shinobi, Bad Dudes, Robocop, Galaga, Rampart,

However, the machine always ends up on Shuuz and it will stay that way until the party's over...  Not by my choice, it just happens that way.


vrf:

The Irritating Maze is a blast in a mixed setting.

Bluedeath:

You could organize a Street fighter an SNK beat em up  tournament with direct elimination.
Other games that are fun played in 2 are:
Wizard of wor
XMen (every player must leave the place to the next once his/her characher is dead).


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