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Favorite Not so well known arcade game
Minwah:
Snake Pit is awesome!
Dudeman:
Venture
Solomon's Key
I'm not sure how popular these are, but I hardly ever saw them in the arcades. If I did, I had to dump a lot of money on them.
ChadTower:
Satan's Hollow. Fantastic artwork and probably the coolest looking stick ever (better than Tron).
Tailgunner:
--- Quote from: Chris on January 22, 2007, 01:24:20 am ---You did miss out, I think. We were right there at the beginning. We were amazed by Space Invaders; we'd play Pong for hours at home. Sure they're nothing compared to Super 3D Blood-soaked Slugfest IV, but no other kids in history had seen the things we were seeing! And since the standard arcade cabinet shape and controls hadn't developed yet, we got a lot of really unique cabs. Starship 1 is a great example: play it in MAME and you'll laugh at how basic it was. But play it in an arcade, with the original cabinet and controls, and it's an experience. Tail Gunner, Battlezone, Lunar Lander, Sea Wolf, Sprint, Death Race (I loved that one!)... the cabs and controls made these games far more than the sum of their parts to an 8-year old kid who hasn't been jaded by all the 3D computer wizardry of modern movies and games. All that was lost with JAMMA and Neo-Geo making all the cabinets interchangeable...
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Agree 100%. I can vividly remember the first time I saw PONG, though to be honest the first video game that actually made a dent into my pinball fund was Breakout.
Last summer I went with my sister's family to Cedar Point, and honestly had more fun playing vintages games in their arcade than riding the rides. Playing Sea Wolf on a real cab was something I've missed for more than 30 years, they had one and playing it that way again was a special treat.
Since you mentioned Starship 1, I'll give a nod to it's cousin, Sky Raider. It's playable in MAME but doing so pales in comparison to playing it on an an original cab.
grantspain:
i have been very lucky to work in the video game industry since 1985 so i have seen alot of great games,here are some of my favourite "not so well known" games.
rygar
karnov
cavalon(when i was a kid)
spellunker
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