Main > Main Forum
Which arcade games have you actually seen/played in person
mimic:
I bet lists going to be long! Arcade games I have seen or played, in no particular order of names I still remember:
moon patrol - I played it few times, but always sucke (now I'm much better) plenty of cabinets everywhere,
mission xx - I've seen that cabinet in only one arcade, never again. I actually liked it. It reminded me sort of xevious in sense that you could shoot air and ground targets independently
grobda - loved it, but again only in one arcade ever,
green beret - abundant, played it only few times again sucked at it (still am) always liked to watch other play,
gryzor (later I found out it was really contra) it was here and there not too popular
defender - super hard! But I loved to watch people that knew how to play 'em,
1942 - bleh never liked this game, tried maybe couple of times
flying shark - great looking game, which I sucked at, again mostly particpated behinf\d someones shoulder
mk1, mk2, mk3, - never put a single coin, but played it many times on Amiga
warlords - loved it! Sole reason I purchased 2 spinners, very unpopular. again only one arcade had it for very brief period.
robocop - I don't remember playing it in arcades, but completed it on Amiga,
mikie - never played it at arcades, but I like it now on mame.
pac man - bleh to this day I don't understand the appeal,
donkey kong - never liked it,
street fighter 2 - again only behind a shoulder, never played it once,
vigilante - nothing special, I think I tried it few times,
commando - very hard (but I liked the action), again either ZX Spectrum or Amiga got most of my time.
Knuckle Joe - The only arcade I can assume I completed (made it past final boss, after which game would resume from beginning)
robotron - I liked to watch good players, can't recall if I ever tried once ,
tempest - one of my favorites!,
joust - never played once,
bosconian - back then I thought was hard, but now I like it,
bank panic - few times, available only in one arcade,
pit fighter - never played it, but I think it might have been first game either before or just after mk 1 to use digitized fighters, I was impressed.
galaga - never got into it, still not a big fan
time pilot - loved it.,
gorf - liked it better than phoenix and galaga and space invaders and whatever else was emualting than those other mentioned games combined,
xevious - loved it (mostly watch how others played and what's next!),
scramble - It was pretty cool,
cobra - as above,
shinobi - here and there, same on Amiga,
asteroids - it was pretty cool,
pole position - I don't think I tried once,
lode runner - again only one arcade had it, which on top of that was far away, I played few times and l liked it,
trojan - it was here and there, kind of liked it.
errr, uh, don't remember anyting more at the moment, will update as I recall (or not if no one cares!) :)
If you decide to post here and can't remember a game at the moment, then if you wanna add it later, please just edit your earlier post don't make 100 posts with different games
dmel75:
Having grown up in the 70's-80's (I am 36 now) I think I played them all. =) My favorite arcade games from that era are Elevator Action, Shinobi, Major Havoc, Ms. Pac Man, BurgerTime, 1942 and Galaga. Those games get lots of play on my Arcade cabinet these days. Back in the 80's I lived near some very well stocked arcades in Memphis, TN. "The Gold Mine" which was in the Mall of Memphis , the "Barrel of Fun" in the Hickory Ridge Mall and two Putt Putt Golf facilities that had large arcade rooms. They rotated out a lot of games so there aren't many of the US based games that I did not put my hands on at one time or another. Someday I want to travel to FunSpot and relive those times a bit.
severdhed:
i never really played that many real arcade games...
MS Pacman, TMNT, street fighter 2, MK, MK2, Cruisin USA, Cruisin World, stun runner, asteroids, crossbow, nba jam, pole position, trojan, samurai showdown, puzzle bobble, arkanoid, bad dudes, area 51, maximum force, lucky and wild, time crisis 2, target terror, hard drivin, sunset riders, xmen
that is all i can think of
Edited to appease the grammar Nazis
RayB:
They are called arcade GAMES, not "arcades".
mimic:
--- Quote from: RayB on May 02, 2009, 02:49:20 pm ---They are called arcade GAMES, not "arcades".
--- End quote ---
corrected, thx
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
Go to full version