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Top Five Games that you dumped the most money into growing up?
Namco:
As a kid I was attracted to quarter munchers and wasn't very good at games. Like I'd have a dollar and would play two 1-minute games of Dragon's Lair.
As a teenager I was better funded, but more skilled so although I played a smaller selection of games, I played them for longer and more often.
That said, here's my list as best I can make it:
1.) Street Fighter 2
2.) Double Dragon
3.) Samurai Shodown II
4.) Mortal Kombat
5.) Samurai Shodown
Honorable mention:
Elevator Action
Operation Wolf
Earthshaker
Pac-Man series
Tekken series
Donkey Kong 1 & 3
Dragon's Lair
Cyclone
Tron
Two Tigers
NBA Jam & NFL Blitz
Nam '75
Bubble Bobble
Dig Dug
Daytona USA
Namco:
--- Quote from: Zero_Hour on May 29, 2009, 02:58:55 pm ---...Honorable mention goes to the Dual Screen Cyberball that I played in college - probably spent a sizable percentage of what my tuition cost on that thing.
--- End quote ---
Samurai Shodown was my college. If I had 5 minutes between classes I would go play it and show up 15 minutes late to class. After I dropped out and was working full time making minimum wage, Samurai Shodown II came out and I spent my time on that.
Here's to the 10 unit video game :cheers:
drventure:
1) Targ
2) Spectar
3) Asteroids
4) Red Baron
5) Star Castle
Good times!
Ummon:
Like some above, I didn't have much to spend on them. And I wasn't that good at any of them. Then there were circumstantial logistics. So there were really only two that got attention, for as long as they were there/I was going where they were:
- Xevious, at the Quick Fart on the way to school (junior high)
- Gyruss, at Chuck E. Cheeses.
- well, and I guess Sidearms:Hyperdyne, once we started going to Peter Piper's. I was way into Robotech and stuff at that time.
LLUncoolJ:
If nothing else, this thread gives me some great ideas for games to play on MAME. Like a lot of you, I too was broke as a kid and had to search couch cushions and whatnot for my fix. The small town where I lived had an arcade for a while and at report card time, they would give you 2 credits for an A and one for a B. It actually made you look forward to report card time.
The other time I would be credit rich was when I went to my grandma's. There was an arcade a few blocks away that was supposed to open at 11am but the hungover college kid manning the place was always late. I'd get a couple of dollars from grandma and go up there and sit out front all pissed off waiting for it to open.
Once my grandma came to visit in Oklahoma and gave me $20 to go get my sister and me some candy. Like a crackhead, I stuck the whole thing into a Spy Hunter. I was gonna stop at $5, then $10.
And one more fireside story. I once lived down the street from a Peter Pipers Pizza. Me and a friend would go up there. They would give us like 4 tokens a piece for an hours worth of folding pizza boxes...talk about cheap labor! 4 quick games of Karate Champ or Track and Field and it was all over.
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