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Nostalgia of the Arcade / Video Games

I can remember playing Elite for hours but cannot remember Elite 2.

90's
Street Fighter 2, Daytona, Mortal Combat 2, Smash TV (I used to love this game), Metal Slug, House of the Dead 2, Tekken 3, Primal Rage, Virtua Fighter, Puzzle Bobble, Soul Edge. These were mainly Arcade Titles that crossed over to the home platform on one version of the other - have to also mention 'Doom'

Im sure this was the time of Virtual Fighter, Virtual Cop etc - had these on the Dreamcast which was good fun when it lasted.
 
Here you go Bear, might jog your memory. It doesn't look much graphics wise, but the gameplay was suberb and the physics engine was spot on. Just landing on a planet gave a real sense of achievement.

https://youtu.be/HbegNmKRZUM
 
You can get emulators now for pretty much all the old-skool games machines; Atari 2600, Mattel Intellivision, arcade cabinets and so forth ..... Not to mention the home-grown BBC, Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Dragon 32, the imported Commodore 64 and other lesser-known early 8-bit home computers. Anyone up for a tutorial in persuading a Raspberry Pi, by means of emulation software, to pretend it's an old-skool bitty-box?
 
Man, why cant they invent a emulator box that connects direct to your TV? Beats digging out old NES/SNES consoles.
 
BecomingJulie said:
Anyone up for a tutorial in persuading a Raspberry Pi, by means of emulation software, to pretend it's an old-skool bitty-box?
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Me please! Or st least up for some thoughts or discussion on it. I have a spare Pi, it's not a v2 though, which I'm assuming would make life much easier.

Urbain said:
Man, why cant they invent a emulator box that connects direct to your TV? Beats digging out old NES/SNES consoles.
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Sounds like you could use a tutorial or something.
 
You can connect a Raspberry Pi up to a modern digital TV with a HDMI input; or to a less-modern analogue TV with a SCART socket. Older TVs with no direct connection, only an aerial input, are more problematic and may employ "live chassis" construction. If "You will need to use a UHF modulator and combine the stereo audio signals into mono, or use a separate amplifier and speakers" is too complicated, such sets are best left alone for now. Note that the original Raspberry Pi has a phono socket for video and a 3-conductor 3.5 mm. socket for stereo audio; the later B+ and Pi2 have a 4-conductor 3.5 mm. socket for video and audio together. Any Raspberry Pi specialist should have the cables you need. E-mail them a photo if in doubt; and if they don't seem too helpful, look elsewhere.

I have both flavours of Raspberry Pi (Model B 512MB with the original 26-pin GPIO port and Pi2 Model B 1GB with the 40-pin GPIO port), so I will see if I can do a universal tutorial. (And if anyone who knows their way around Windows wants to chime in, because this will otherwise have to be a Linux-centric affair because that's all I know ..... so if someone knows how to do things like writing an SD card from a raw data file under Windows, please say so) Off out soon to see if I can get hold of a suitable micro-SD card and full-size adaptor .....
 
BecomingJulie said:
if someone knows how to do things like writing an SD card from a raw data file under Windows
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https://unetbootin.github.io/
sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/

The reason I would have thought the Pi2 would be more suitable is that the ARM7 cpu allows you to run vanilla Ubuntu on it (my tvheadend server runs on Ubuntu on a Pi2), whereas the ARM11 in the og Pi has less distros for it and finding / compiling emulator packages maybe be trickier? I dunno much about it really though!
 
There is now an emulation thread here. I'm focussing on the Raspberry Pi (though everything that works on the Pi will also work unmodified on a PC running Ubuntu or Debian), but I think FUBAR might be in with a talk on running Emulators under Windows .....
 
Nah, I'm afraid I'm not that tech savvy. The only experience I've got is using Dosbox in order to run old dos games. But a lot of my old favourite Amiga games have dos versions available for free. A tutorial can be found here:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/239399/how_to_use_dosbox_to_play_classic_games.html

I've successfully played Frontier, Flashback, Another World, Zelda, monkey island, universe, and shit loads of other old adventure games using Dosbox.
 
It's already been mentioned (defender) but I was the king of-defender down our local chippy had a plastic ring tie and could clock up 50 credits a time with it We played that shit for hours , long before home computers come about.
Loved that game ❤️
 
2000 - pretty much all lists etc that show year 2000 arcade games are all newer versions of games already mentioned. The only exception and the only game that I can remember playing was Aliens exterminations. Probably a load more games that I played around this time but mainly on PS, PC, Xbox.

A few games that I've just spotted that I'm surprised nobody mentioned

Ghost n Goblins
Quake
CastleVania
Bomberman
Berzerk
Missile Strike



The biggest grossing arcade games of all time

http://www.usgamer.net/articles/top-10-biggest-grossing-arcade-games-of-all-time
10 - Donkey Kong
Nintendo
Cabinets Sold: 132,000
Revenue by 1982: $280,000,000
Inflation adjusted: $686,262,000

9 – Mortal Kombat
Midway
Cabinets Sold: 24,000
Revenue by 2002: $570,000,000
Inflation adjusted: $748,462,000

8 – Mortal Kombat II
Midway
Cabinets Sold: 27,000
Revenue by 2002: $600,000,000
Inflation adjusted: $787,607,559

7 – Asteroids
Atari
Cabinets Sold: 100,000
Revenue by 1991: $800,000,000
Inflation adjusted: $1,346,548,823

6 - Defender
Williams
Cabinets Sold: 60,000
Revenue by 1993: $1,000,000,000
Inflation adjusted: $1,588,463,873

5 – NBA Jam
Midway
Cabinets Sold: 20,000
Revenue by 1994: $1,100,000,000
Inflation adjusted: $1,704,501,968

4 – Ms. Pac-Man
Bally Midway
Cabinets Sold: 125,000
Revenue by 1987: $1,200,000,000
Inflation adjusted: $2,494,552,816

3 - Street Fighter II/Champion Edition
Capcom
Cabinets Sold: 200,000 (60,000 SF II, 140,000 CE)
Revenue by 1995: $2,312,000,000
Inflation adjusted: $3,582,553,228

2 - Space Invaders
Taito
Cabinets Sold: 360,000
Revenue by 1982: $2,702,000,000
Inflation adjusted: $6,612,228,000

1 - Pac-Man
Namco
Cabinets Sold: 400,000
Revenue by 1990: $3,500,000,000
Inflation adjusted: $7,681,491,635
 
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Ghosts n Goblins, man, oh god. It's so hard. Played through the MegaDrive version with my mate many moons ago and it's the only game I can think of where I've had invincibility cheats, extra life cheats, and still completely failed to finish the fucking game. I mean I find Sonic 1 hard nowadays though so YMMV.

edit: apparently it was Ghouls and Goblins I played, Ghosts was the first one. I assume that was even harder.
 
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I still own the original Nintendo Gameboy aka GrayBrick lol. I must say games were more wholesome back then. It's a bit sad to see the new direction that they have gone for me. My wife recently got me a game called 'the last of us' it's a zombie game (we love the walking dead). I played it for about an hour before I just got so disgusted by the language I could not continue playing. The graphics were awesome but could not get past the language (Maybe I'm old fashioned) I get a few "f" bombs here and their, but when it's every other word cmon. I then found out by email there is no way to shut it off. At least back then you could turn off blood in mortal combat types games.
 
My most popular arcadge games played in an actual arced were pacman, street fighter and galaxy. They didn't have any others in my shit hole of a town back then.
 
Ah nostalgia. Among others Rubble Trouble (Acorn Electron), Elite (BBC B), Rainbow Islands (Amiga), Street Fighter (SNES), GoldenEye (N64)
 
I did a few posts similar to this around that time about video/computer games - I seem to only play a few games now which are Destiny and Alienation.
 
I started gaming with a Atari 2600, but recently ended up buying a SNES and mega drive to relive my youth.
Ended up buying a Wii U and 3DS.
I never even play them I just like collecting shit lol.

Street fighter 2 is probably the best game ever, controversial I know :)
 
Silkworm, anyone? Shadow of the Beast trilogy on the Amiga, god the first one was near impossible to complete. Monkey Island was probably my favourite game of all time, the hours I spent on that I could've learnt another instrument.
 
I never really played arcade games as a kid, but whenever we went to the leisure centre to play football etc somebody would always end up trying to finish metal slug. I could never be arsed.

I remember being addicted to Donkey Kong 2 on the SNES in Linekars Bar Majorca (or maybe Tenerife?) for a fortnight though.
 
I remember an arcade game called GORF, with a synthesised voice. It used to utter phrases like "I devour coins" and "Prepare yourself for annihilation, space cadet" (actually, that sounded more like "Prepare yourself for a violation, space target"). If you cleared five different screens, you were promoted from "space CAH-det" to Space Captain, and then it started again only harder and faster. There were six ranks in all, represented by illuminated badges. It truly was a beautiful cabinet .....
 
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