Which arcade video games have you completed?

[Jack Burton]

lol, it means putting in a quarter and playing till the game won't let you play anymore.

Most "modern" games aren't like the old ones and have a preset number of stages that you can complete before you see an ending and a game over screen.

[protokatie]

Ok, that's what I thought. Basically, playing until killscreen then? (ALA level 255 in puckman/pacman)

[Ummon]

Heck its one of, if not the first arcade game I finished. Just elbow your way through , almost too easy 
 

Yeah, that's the most powerful move in that game. DDII, not so much.

[mimic]

1cc (one credit completion) is not equal to "beating a game", or at least it wasn't in any arcade I've been to.

Seeing the credits/Congrats screen = beating a game.

Maybe I am just tired, but am I missing something here? What exactly is a "One credit completion"? Do you mean using one credit to end up back at the beginning again and/or repeating old enemies you already defeated in a "never ending" and/or "kill screen" game? Or maybe hitting high score, or even a roll over?
 

As I said before anyone can finish a game with a bag of money, but imagine gun to your head, 1 (one) quarter/coin in your hand and choice of one arcade machine and you will be spared if you finish it.
By finish I understand:
rolling the score,
seeing congratulatory credits rolling
and seeing all the levels and starting from level 1 again

 
Which arcade games could you pick and win?

BTW I recall completing 1 more game: 99 the last war! It's not very hard since I was able to finish it without the shield. Game was in a cabinet where there was only one button for fire and no shield whatsoever!

[DrFrag]

Shinobi
Robocop
Xain'D Sleena
Wonder Boy
Wonder Boy in Monster Land
Black Dragon
Midnight Resistance
Karnov
Time Crisis
Time Crisis 2
Point Blanc (on Insane mode)
Police Trainer
Double Dragon

That's all I can remember.  Mostly platformers, but a few lasergun games.

[protokatie]

1cc (one credit completion) is not equal to "beating a game", or at least it wasn't in any arcade I've been to.

Seeing the credits/Congrats screen = beating a game.

Maybe I am just tired, but am I missing something here? What exactly is a "One credit completion"? Do you mean using one credit to end up back at the beginning again and/or repeating old enemies you already defeated in a "never ending" and/or "kill screen" game? Or maybe hitting high score, or even a roll over?
 

As I said before anyone can finish a game with a bag of money, but imagine gun to your head, 1 (one) quarter/coin in your hand and choice of one arcade machine and you will be spared if you finish it.
By finish I understand:
rolling the score,
seeing congratulatory credits rolling
and seeing all the levels and starting from level 1 again

 
Which arcade games could you pick and win?

BTW I recall completing 1 more game: 99 the last war! It's not very hard since I was able to finish it without the shield. Game was in a cabinet where there was only one button for fire and no shield whatsoever!

Ok OK. Now I get it. It was a semantic thing I wasn't getting. The original poster meant "beating the game in one credit", you differentiated the concept into "beating the game (x # credits)" and "1 credit completion". That is what confused me. So your "1 credit completion" = the original posters "Which arcade games have you completed (in one credit)" intent.

Sadly, I have not really done that well in the one credit beating category. Although, I bet I COULD beat gradius (NES version anyways) in one credit without dying (only because I played the damnthing so many times). If NES games were to also be added in full: Ducktales comes to mind as a game I never even got hit once before completion, let alone dying. But that is NES games, not arcade games... (although it would be nice to get a few props for completing ducktales without a single hit, as that paricular objective isnt as easy as it sounds)


(Edit: forgot you were the original poster, mimic )

[Jack Burton]

Yeah, 1cc is the standard term for what is being discussed here.  You'll see it used all over message boards dedicated to various genre's of arcade games, particularly the shmups* crowd.

*shmup = shoot'em up.  Galaga, Gradius, 1942, Ikaruga, etc.

[Ummon]

Actually, 1942 and such I consider vertical scrollers, and 'stationary' ones vertical shooters - they're all 'shooters'. Never shmup, cos that sounds like a rom kiddie name from the 90s. Of course, I rarely abbreviate, etc, things.

[RayB]

Of course, I rarely abbreviate, etc, things.

LOL  That was funny. Intentional? 

[Ummon]

That was a rare case. It is a legitimate abbreviation, though, and has existed decades before net speak and whatever related felgarcarb.

Also, it came to mind that there's the 'perfect game'. Who's done that?

[quarterstringer]

Also, it came to mind that there's also the 'perfect game'. Who's done that?

I've gotten many "perfect games" in World Class Bowling.
The only games I've completed are Rampart and Maniac Square in MAME.