Best Arcade Games

[Khephra]

[Mass_Liberal]

1. pong

n/t

[LuminousX]

2. Joust

[democracyindanger]

3. Tron?

No Tron?

NO TRON?!?!?!

On edit: NO FREAKING TRON?!?!?!?!

[frank frankly]

20. i like tron a lot

a whole lot

[frylock]

4. galaga

[nuxvomica]

35. Another vote for Galaga

The greatest arcade game. But I think I was addicted to "Donkey Kong" longer. Honorable mention goes to "Wizard of Wor" and "Pot O'Gold".

[Rabrrrrrr]

41. Wizard of Wor! Great game - friend and I played that for hours and hours

and got to be pretty amazingly good at it, too, consistently hitting the high levels.

[nuxvomica]

47. You musta known were to hide

Once I found the hiding places for all the levels, I was unbeatable. I still play it sometimes with my Commodore64 emulator.

[Rabrrrrrr]

49. Yep! Grab the corner, stand back to back,

and kill everything as soon as it turns the corner...

[bushisanidiot]

51. Wow, Flashback! My Cousin and I recycled coke bottles so we could

scrounge up enough quarters to play wizard of wor at the pizza hut! damn, i'm old..

[7th_Sephiroth]

60. Galaga

need...quarters....the hotel has an original galaga machine

[VelmaD]

40. Count me in for Galago too

I totally ROCKED at that game. I could roll the score over twice on one quarter when I was about 15. Used to drive my boyfriend at the time nuts 'cause it was his favorite too but I was WAY better at it. (I never once did that stupid girl thing and let him win.)

[Maddy McCall]

46. Another vote for Galaga

Love it!

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

5. GAUNTLET

Loved that game...should have bought stock in Atari back in 1985

[lazarus]

29. Gauntlet, heck yeah

Gods how I love that game.

Elf shot the food.

Wizard is about to die.

[Columbia]

58. One more for Gauntlet

[Khephra]

6. Hell, I did this from memory

If I had about 3428 options, I think I could fit them all in. Vote for other or the closest. I tried to give a representative group.

Wait a minute...I have an idea.

I did change Sinistar to Space Invaders.

[Sagan]

7. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom!

WHIP the thuggee guards!

[HamstersFromHell]

8. For me, it was Qbert

Could play that game on average 2 1/2 hours per token/quarter. They hated seeing me at the local arcade. Pac Man would have to be second. Loved Joust, but never could play it well.

[lazarus]

30. Is that all?

Me and a buddy went 14 hours on one quarter once. Stupid rec center closed.

Stupid rec center.

[U2Fanatic]

9. I'm a pacman girl

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. TEMPEST!!!!!!!!!

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. I have a ROBOTRON question:

I really, really loved the CONCEPT of the game, and played it a lot, but am I the only person who couldn't play more than about 45 seconds?

I mean, was that game like totally f-ing impossible, or what?

I was a hell of a good game player in my day, but Robotron seemed to jump in difficulty/level about tenfold of any other game.

First wave - easy
second wave - pretty hard
third wave - building a perpetual motion machine is more realistic than finishing this damn thing

[Khephra]

12. The faster the game, the better I did

I couldn't play games like Pac Man that depended upon patterns, but give me a in-your-face speed game and I did great. Robotron is one of the few games I could beat anyone on. Gyruss was another.

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. Amazing - I did well on all video games,

but Robotron was the anti-christ of video games to me, which always saddened me, because I loved it so much. One of the coolest ideas in video games, especially the independent 8-point movement of figure and firing.

But I could never get it, and neither could anyone I knew.

Kudos to you, Khephra!

[Khephra]

14. Thanks!

Blush

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

57. I agree I think Robotron was fricking hard

Sad how Williams recycled all the classic Defender noises... They were awesome noises though.

[trogdor]

34. Strategy point for Robotron.

You have to blast your way to the outside first thing.

Second, you have to get the pulsing circle things that spawn the conehead robots that shoot you.

Third, you have to save enough humans to get at least one extra life before you get zapped. The waves with the Mars Attacks aliens in them were especially rich in humans to be saved. If you made it that far, it really didn't matter how many lives you needed to finish it.

[MrSlayer]

15. Other: Dragon's Lair.

Dirk the Daring!

[Donkeyboy75]

16. Kicker!

I think all you did was run around and kick the hell out of people.

[PVnRT]

17. Defender, of those listed

I liked letting those whiny fucking humans get abducted, then having to shoot mutants in the blasted remains of the city...such fun.

[ronzo]

62. Yep. Defender and Stargate.

If I had a quarter for every quarter I put in those....

[FDRrocks]

18. Dude.. Tekken

best arcade game I've played, next to all pinball games, cept for the ones so darkly lit you can't tell wtf is going on.

[Rabrrrrrr]

22. Was that the 3D game, with t he ship sort of travelling to the upper right

of the screen?

Or was that something else? hatever the 3D game was, that was also brilliant.

[FDRrocks]

26. It a 3d fighting game.....

Im not sure what you are talking about. It was an arcade blockbuster, in all 3 incarnations (Tekken 1, 2, and 3). It's out for many consoles,

If you've never seen it, think of Virtua Fighter on steroids.

[Book Lover]

27. Yeah, that's the one I was thinking of!

There was one at the IHOP a block or so away from where I grew up. Oh, what the hell was it called?.... The ship was sort of delta-shaped, right?

[BigMcLargehuge]

31. Zaxxon

that was the one you are thinking of. The first Isometric projection type game where the ship had a physical place in three dimensions.

[Book Lover]

38. Yes!!

Oh by all the gods, that takes me back.....

[Rabrrrrrr]

42. Aye, that was it! Great game.

I loved sweeping down to the floor level and blowing things away. That just always looked so cool.

[Beaker]

45. didn't the ship in Zaxxon look kind of like the space shuttle?

or am i thinkin' of something else?

[Chovexani]

19. Old school? Donkey Kong, no question

Because? Shigeru Miyamoto is GOD.

If we're talking new school I'd say DDR or any other bemani game. Nothing like acting like a damn fool in public. :)

Inbetween? Street Fighter 2, for giving birth to an entire motherfucking genre. Too bad the series fell victim to the Capcom curse (see also, Resident Evil).

--C

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. Donkey Kong fucking ROCKED!

One of the best games ever. WAY THE HELL better than "Mario Brothers". What a bullshit, though interesting, game in comparison.

I loved Mario Brothers for the Atari 800, and for the first Nintendo, but the arcade version was just the shits.

[tedoll78]

23. I love Bust-A-Move!

The puzzle game!

And then there's Outrun.. I love driving games..

I've been looking for an F-Zero AX machine near here (Austin), but I can't find one. There's one in Metairie, LA (outside of New Orleans), and I'm going home to visit family in about three weeks, so I'll finally get to play it then. If you bring your GameCube memory card, there's a slot in the arcade machine allowing you to earn new vehicles and vehicle parts for your F-Zero garage at home. :)

[Rabrrrrrr]

24. And Crazy Climber!

I loved that game.

[POed_Ex_Repub]

25. R-Type

My thumbs hurt just thinking about it...

And what about these classics?

Tapper (The beer one, not the crappy Root beer one)
GOLDEN TEE!!!!
Anarkoid
1942
Centipede!

[CanuckAmok]

28. I always liked "Scramble"

Having to deak through all those brick high-rises in space.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

32. Too many great ones to choose... but I choose Other... ZAXXON!!!

[trogdor]

33. Man, I used to RULE Robotron!

I think my high score was in the tens of millions. I would put Genesis Three Sides Live in my Walkman and the tape would run out before my quarter would.

[Rabrrrrrr]

43. You are my god, then!

I saw your helpful hint up above - thanks for the tip. If I ever run across the game, now I'll know more about what's going on with it.

I couldn't last any longer than the opening bars of Afterglow.

[fudge stripe cookays]

36. "Crystal Castles"

I had a friend who worked at Chuck E. Cheese when I was in high school and slipped us free tokens. I kicked ASS at Crystal Castles!

[chiburb]

37. Pinball!!! n/t

.

[Anaxamander]

39. I've got 4 words for you: Street Fighter Alpha 2

Best. Fighter. Ever.

That is, if you're into old-school 2D! Which you should be. Honorable mentions include:

The King of Fighters '98
Garou: Mark of the Wolves
Street Fighter II Turbo
Super Street Fighter II Turbo
Street Fighter III: Third Strike

[Beaker]

44. Asteroids & Qix are my favourites-

I always hatrd the games where you had to play a certain pattern(like Pac-man)- I preffered games where you can manuever randomly.

[TheMightyFavog]

48. The Simpsons

Still one of the more widley available machines out there. Still only a quarter.

[proud patriot]

50. Road Blaster and Galaga

:evilgrin:

[fob]

52. Hey! I posted a "favorite arcade game" thread and my choice isn't here!

Starcastle, baby!

[Redneck Socialist]

53. Centipede rules

and Tempest is a damn close second.

[chiburb]

54. Whack-A-Nader !!!!

In case you haven't gotten over your GD2004 moment of insanity....

[VOX]

61. Yes!

:thumbsup:

[Undemcided]

55. Elite

Classic space trader game.

[slack]

65. one of the best

I loved this game.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

56. I voted Defender, but I can't believe you don't have Asteroids

up there... I still play this frequently (MAME emulator on PC), a beautiful, classic game...

[ironflange]

59. Q*Bert here

That is the one and only video game that I mastered. I could drop in a quarter and play for hours.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

63. I would never advocate PIRACY of any type of course, but...

http://www.mame.net/

http://www.mameworld.net/

http://www.classicgaming.com/mame32qa/down.htm

http://www.classicgaming.com/

http://www.klov.com/

[ronzo]

64. Missle Command

All night long! ;)