Your best "real life" arcade accomplishments.

[JesterDEV]

I would have to say that my best accomplishment was back in '84. I won a local Tempest tourny, and beat 16 other people and won a trophy. Ended up getting in a fight afterwards when someone tryed to steal it from me. Later "someone" broke into my house and stole it anyway.  

[JamesS]

Super Basketball.

I ruled that damned Game.  I wish I could play Donkey Kong half as well.

Only 100k player here on DK.  Oh how I love that game.

Now playing way too much Cyberball, I realize early 90's game, but I could not be beat in Tournament.

[F|end]

Usually get 1st place playin' Pinball Action in arcades!? I think that's a real acomplishment for me!

People here are "still" pretty good playin' that game!

[clok]

add me to the gauntlet group, I could play till I was sick of it.. Back in 88(0r 89 i cant rember) I was going to beat some record, cant remeber if it was for guantlet, or just playing Vid games.. Had a Local TV crew come film me start, and where going to film on and off and at the end. They had some offical who was going to confirm it all and so on... I was playing in a Stop N Go and they had a little rope baracade around me (and all the free pop I could drink!, think pee break). Iplayed a little over 16 hours and needed to take a break, I had enough food it could just tick for roughly 10 + hours and I would still be playing (again, its been awhile so I cant remeber exactly), since I they just had a camera on me ( to confirm) but nobody was around I left my friend at the machine to make sure nobody screwed with it..I was going to pee and when I get back he has a very sheepish grin and says he broke the joystick...

well He did... I just said Fug it and left... my greatest feat, left unfinished never to be tried again  

Oh I can play  (err, could) pacman on 1 quarter till the screw fugs up... and I learned it without a cheat sheet.. talk about quarters...and memory training...but once the investment was done..I could play a long time on a quarter...

Tempest is my favorite game, and cen get to the Orange levels on 1 quarter...but I'm not sure if that anything or not...(I sure thought it was when I did it).

Clok

[Rocky]

My first accomplishment was on Crazy Climber back in 80 at Penn State.  Arcades were new and the game room at East Halls had a Donkey Kong, Crazy Climber and maybe one other game.
I remember the first time I completed all 4 buildings. Wow, I must have had 15-20 people surrounding the game watching.  

The only other accomplishment was Spy Hunter. I could always put the high score on it!  Now, I use my custom built Spy Hunter controller on my Mame machine.

Rocky

[DARRYLICSHON]

I use to almost live in the arcade in the 80's i have mastered alot of games once i sat down in the star wars for 23 million ( 1 credit )took almost 12 hours                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        on missile command once you make it to 808.000 you get 99 free cities , the most i played that game on 1 credit was about 10 hours , the owner of the arcade got mad at me when i did it a few days in a row , told me to learn another game so other pepole could play the game and he could make some money, HA HA HA                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           defender i have also played for 8 hours                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       stargate for 8 also                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             I could land mach III on one credit both fighter and bomber                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            gravitar was a harder one but i finally did master that one , think i only played it for a few hours                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       robotron player for 9 hours.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       galaga always froze up on me after 2 million                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          pac-man was eazy just boreing , could only keep me intrested for maybe a hour                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            space duels i could only get alittle over 500 thousand it's really hard in the high levels                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Tempest i could get to the invisible  level , but it took me three quarters                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Topgunner i could get to the end on one credit                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  zaxxon i could also get to the end 1 credit                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           mr. do i could only get 600 thousand

[Jakobud]

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      robotron player for 9 hours.

Hmmm... for some reason that quote makes me question the validity of your entire post...

[DARRYLICSHON]

i was really addicted to most games , why do you not belive that i could play it for 9 hours , really on most games once you get to 1 million you can play until you want to quit , if anyone ever went to a place called Jupiter , which is in Cincinnati Ohio , you would see DCD on most of the games and it was on the top!! I would think you wouldn't belive the star wars , that was the hardset , cause you can't save any men ( other than 7 shields) . on robotron you could have 50 men saved up , which gives you time to let a friend play while you go take care of ,restroom food ,what ever , my buddy Les Chard could play most of the games as long as i could. But i did spend alot of money to get that good!!!

[AlanS17]

I think I got to the end of the game in KI2 the first time I played, too. I really like that game, though.  

I can remember playing for an hour on one quarter one time in Xmen vs SF. Only reason I didn't keep going was cuz I had to leave. I wasn't keeping track of my wins. (I don't like those fancy new 3-on-3 games, though.)

I'm also virtually indestructible Puzzle Fighter. I even had a friend go buy the game for Playstation so he could practice at home and he still invites me over so I can beat him.

Ummm.... yeah that's it. I may not be great, but at least I'm better than my friends...

[greven grevs]

As a teen I worked in an arcade called Power Play in the San Jacinto Mall in Baytown,TX. I had no life so I would go to work hours early to play a new game at the time [Street Fighter 2]. By the end of summer me and my friend were so good at the game that we would play for as long as we wanted , hours at a time, and then sell the game and hi-score to some kid for $0.50. We felt so cool beating people one right after the other and then getting our 50 cents back.
In my mind there were a gaggle of hot chicks watching me play and not the swarm of sweaty out of shape , pimply faced , and all around losers.

Not sure if it counts but I also rode the carousal for over 4 hrs. It was a slow night at work so I sat on the darn thing for over half of my shift. Til I got sick. It wasnt fast but man after hours of going in slow circles it catches up to you.

[Techoverload]

For me my best and most uppsetting arcade game were the same

S.T.U.N. Runner. When it came to my local arcade in N.H. when I was living up there it had a cardboard sign from atari on the top that said if you completed the game with a high enough score you got a T-shirt as a prize..... so within a week I had mastered the game. I could go from begining to end in one shot. I had all the tracks memorized as to where the boost pads and star were and could damn near play it blind folded....only takes about 5 mins. to go from start to finish if you take the right warp paths.

So anyway you get to the end and it shows in big numbers the top scores that you break through on the way to your score. Nobody could touch me.

I finish the game wright down the code and the address and send Atari a nice letter (being young and naive) I even tryed asking what it would take to be a game developer and wrote several ideas I had.

I checked the mail box daily for weeks and finally a letter shows up from Atari like 3 months later...........

Sorry we ran out of T-shirts....but thanks for playing.........

PISSED ME RIGHT OFF I mean come on how much does a T-shirt cost to get printed....especialy in bulk.

It was still fun to own a game like that...... Most of the games in the arcade had my initials on top of the list and I used to always love it when some kid I didnt know would watch me play a game and then see me put up my initials and say "oh my god thats you!!"

Heck I even have my Nick tattooed on my arm "WIZZARD" and yes I do know it should only have one Z but I used to use WIZZ on games with four slots for initials.

GOOD TIMES