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shardian:

I missed pretty much all of them too. I was a JAMMA era child. The arcades were 99% Schmups, fighters, and side scroller beat'em'ups.

Pretty much the only classic I ever saw on location as a kid was Ms. Pacman and Pole Position. I did play many originals on my IBM PC. Dig dug, Zaxxon, Defender, Space Invaders -  I played the crap out of those on the PC keyboard. I never even knew they were originally arcade games!

And I agree that Bosconian is the bomb! I first played it on the Jakks 5 in 1 TV thing.

Ginsu Victim:

I was born in '77, so I didn't miss out on much. However, there are plenty of games I didn't play until MAME because I was either intimidated (Sinistar) or just didn't have a lot of money on me to try everything.

Thanks to MAME, though, I've played so many great classics that I never had the chance to try before, like Sinistar, Satan's Hollow, Mr Do, Tempest, Pooyan, Discs of Tron, Gaplus, Gorf, and plenty more. There are also a lot of games that aren't from the "classic" era that are still great and I hadn't tried until they were emulated. Namely the entire Neo Geo collection. Sure, I'd played some Fatal Fury here and there, and King of Fighters 94, but most of my Neo Geo experience started with NeoRAGEx. It got me hooked on Baseball Stars 2, that's for sure.

danny_galaga:


--- Quote from: shardian on May 09, 2008, 10:50:33 am ---
And I agree that Bosconian is the bomb! I first played it on the Jakks 5 in 1 TV thing.


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same here. unfortunately i cant get it to work on my mame (78) and i can never get around to getting new batteries for the 5 in 1...

ahofle:

Same first 4 from your list (Bosconian, Zektor, Major Havoc, Black Widow).
Some other gems I never played in the arcades:
Juno First (GREAT game)
DonPachi
Snake Pit
Wacko
Puzzloop
Jumping Jack (hard game!)
Quantum
Cameltry
Aztarac
Chicken Shift
Flicky

Ginsu Victim:


--- Quote from: ahofle on May 09, 2008, 11:55:44 am ---Same first 4 from your list (Bosconian, Zektor, Major Havoc, Black Widow).
Some other gems I never played in the arcades:
Juno First (GREAT game)
DonPachi
Snake Pit
Wacko
Puzzloop
Jumping Jack (hard game!)
Quantum
Cameltry
Aztarac
Chicken Shift

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Cameltry. I only recently found out about this one and I'm hooked. It has made me appreciate my spinner I built even more.

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