Your favourite arcade game from years gone by?

[Nickstar]

Mortal Kombat 1 & 2 took all my cash, some of the fatalities are still melted into my brain. Went down hill after MK2 though so i never got into MK3.

 

[cAmmAc]

Raiden - That 2D flying ame where u hover above cities and stuff, and u got a million planes, tanks, missile launchers etc firing at u - it farken ROCKS!!!
I always play it on my lunch break when I'm snowboarding, and if I do well, it's usually an indication of how well I'll snowboard in the afternoon, or maybe that's just a little bit of superstitious crap!!!

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[RollinAlong]

Rygar
Double Dragon
Street Fighter 2

 

[sweet leaf]

Double Dragon and (so tacky i LOVED IT)
California Games on Sega Master System

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[Tarsarlan]

You're all nerd!
P.S: Galaga rocks!
-Tarsarlan aka sorry if I got into computer games a little later...

 

[mona]

oh fark! my thumb used to get so sore trying to make that bitch rollerskate fast on California Games. I was never good at surfing, but man i kicked serious ass in hackey sack and bmx

 

[BayCityRolla]

Does anyone Remember "Hyper Olympics" from the mid 80's...I used love that machine..you would use a 20cent piece to really make da dudes run fast while fucken up the buttons in the process....Shit I'm old !!
Cheers
The RollaGuy

 

[DoC]

I remember being sent to the shop by my mum as a little fella to get some milk and spending the entire $5 on galaga! Boy did i cop it when i got home!
Up there would be bubble bobble (love those red shoes!), wonderboy and wonderboy in monstorland. Oh and how good was lode runner!

 

[dragon]

I loved Wonderboy!
Mario Bros 1, 2, 3..
Wizard of War kicks arse! ive still got it..

Zelda on Super Nintendo.
and you can't forget Alex Kid...

 

[riichiee]

Street Fighter 2 -- Hyper Fight. (or was it Hyper edition.. can't really remember)
I used to be able to put in $1 and at least get up to Bison... if not cane him!
The original Mortal Kombat machine was pretty cool.. I can still remember the first time I pulled off SubZeros fatality..
ahhhh... those were the days....

 

[GoOsH]

god this takes me back
shinobi
sonic 1 & 2
river raid on commodore 64
Double Dragon
Mortal Kombat on mega drive
jeez, that accounts for half my childhood right there.....

 

[Adz-O-Rama]

ahhhhhhhhhh river raid!..how annoying was that noise when ya went over the fuel thingys...

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[Loco]

Totally agree with Psyentist.
Table Games:
Ghosts & Goblins
Galaga
1942
Wonderboy
Also rating a mention:
Pole Position (the original car racing game)
C64
Commando
Summer Games
Elevator
Atari
Space Invaders
Astroids
Frogger
Ahhh the memories!!!

 

[CC]

Double Dragon, Shinobi and Bubble Bobble.
I don't want to know how much money I wasted on those things.
Probably not as much as I have on drugs.

cc
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[van diemen]

I think us older people are right on.
Best Arcade Games:
Ghost and Goblins
WOnderboy 2 - Monster Land
1942
Karnov
Double Dragon
Hyper Olympics (just for the hurdles)
Galaga (both the original and 2000 edition)
Atari 2600
River Raid
Plaque Attack
Space Invaders
Missile Command
Phoenix
All the classics, what more can you say...
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[Shaman]

Anything on the C64 or Amiga500!
And remember - 'Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if pac man affected us as kids, we'd all sit around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music.'

 

[Shaman]

lol
Shoulda realised that quote started the topic.

 

[SpanishFly]

God I love this thread

SO many memories
Hey BayCityRolla - I sure remember hyper olympics....I rmemeber throwing a javelin at a really tight angle to take down the seagull flying above...
I also used that 20c coin trick on Decathlete...
But yeh I cant go past Shinobi (loved the bonus stages), bubble bobble, Wonder boy in Monsterland, Chase HQ, WWF, TMNT, SF2 MK, MK2...and all the others available on Mame hheheh

 

[cosmic_seadog]

van dieman... dude!! Plaque attack! You're a legend. Atari was the goods.. there were some weird games on there. Had one called Pressure Cooker, had to make hamburgers (i think i missed my calling).
Also ET on Atari 2600.. him walking around is the coolest sound. I wanna hear it on the dancefloor!
Talking about Atari's, how could we forget Pitfall? I remember 5am chrissy morning so vividly

The sound of him swinging on the vine was pretty good back then
[This message has been edited by cosmic_seadog (edited 12 December 2000).]

 

[Miss Peks]

You don't have to be old to have appreciated Atari 2600. I still have my Atari set, and sometimes I get it out just for fun

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Games I used to love playing were
Asteroids
Berserk
Space Invaders
Steeple Chaser
Pac Man.
Oh yeah Mona I remember California Games. My thumb used to get sore too.