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Other Gaming => Console Gaming => Topic started by: BanzaiCat on October 04, 2018, 09:29:24 AM
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Not really 'console gaming' but more related here then to other categories, I think...
Been thinking of a few of my favorite classic stand-up (and sit-down) arcade games from back in the day. I think we talked about this recently but I'm a bit out of it at the moment.
Cyberball 2072 was one I played a lot with friends...might be a great game IRL too, who knows!
Star Wars was a big favorite, too...
There's many others but I'll leave it at that. What about the rest of you?
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I played that Star Wars game a crap ton. Same for the Star Trek Tactical Combat Simulator (another vector graphics game).
Gauntlet is probably my all-time favorite console game. The four person multi-player was awesome.
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Now I must think about this...
5. Red Baron
4. GORF
3. Track and Field (with trackball rather than buttons)
2. Star Wars
1. Dragon's Lair
Crazy thing is, I'd stuff a quarter in any of them today without hesitation...
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^I played the hell out of both of those. A few others I loved: Gyruss, Nemesis, Gorf, Gun.Smoke
Ninja'd! By both I meant Star Wars and Star Trek. Tail Gunner was another one.
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Track and Field was great. Agreed about the track ball. Not sure I ever played a version with only buttons.
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Gauntlet was definitely a blast with 4 players.
3 players we used to play a lot of Rampage!
Our favourite drinking spot, despite the fact we were underage, had a sit down Tempest machine that we must have easily bought with the amount of coins we pumped in to it while drinking. Years later our group actually aquired a sit down Tempest machine that one buddy is able to keep running. We still play that alot when we gather at his place.
Also remember playing lots of Zaxxon.
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Also remember playing lots of Zaxxon.
Same. I also loved Omega Race.
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Odd, I don't remember Omega Race at all.
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Nor I. ???
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Losers :Loser:
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I worked at a video game arcade the summer that Street Fighter II Tournament Edition was released. You can guess where there were lines for hours.
I enjoyed Galaga, but I really loved the hard-to-find Galaga '88.
Gorf & Tron were cool b/c there were multiple things in each game.
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Play Galaga '88 Online (https://www.retrogames.cc/arcade-games/galaga-88.html)
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Play Galaga '88 Online (https://www.retrogames.cc/arcade-games/galaga-88.html)
should I be scared that you knew about that ???
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I keep throwing quarters at the screen, but nothing is happening.
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S p a c e I n v a d e r s
And one where you had 2 stick-like cowboys shooting it out (can't remember the name).
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/technology/personaltech/find-old-video-games.html
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Written for the unwashed masses. Us geeks have known that stuff for years. :D
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It's always nice to see the hobby getting some love from the MSM.
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That's true.
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1: Omega Race was awesome. The one I played was controlled by a weird, stubby, metal joystick that I always felt was remaindered from some other thing.
2: My son and I have talked a lot about how my understanding of games was shaped by the design decisions of the quarter-eaters. All of them -- all of them -- ultimately came down to "F*ck You - Pay Me" and were built, after allowing a certain teensy adrenaline rush for success, to drive out anyone but the savant. So many fine examples exist, but can anything match the cruelty of "Dragon''s Lair", "Cliff Hanger", or "Asteroids" once that little beepy ship showed up? As the arcades faded and the consoles took over, the latter at first embraced this cruelty of design, in no small part because they were porting arcade games. As time went on, though, they seem to have realized they already had the player's money and didn't need to create the next cyber sodomy machine. In fact, they found players might like not playing a game that made them want to melt their controllers.
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yep, arcade games just always reinforce the idea that death was inevitable, even if the computer had to run at hyperspeed just to beat you
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+1 for Rampage and Gauntlet! Played lots of Galaga. Hated it when they went scorpion! Dig dug. Pinball machines.
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- Battlezone (I once got asked to write down my goal in life for a course - since I couldn't take something like that too seriously - I put down scoring 1000000 at this game ... I never really got close before I wrote it -- maybe a couple hundred thousand... I got my mil at the end of the week that I wrote that -- so I guess I accomplished my goal in life already and all the rest of this is just gravy).
- Robotron
- Zaxxon
- Nintendo's coin op boxing game
- vs Baseball - which was a head to head game and for whatever reason when they cued up Centerfield by John Fogerty I turned into Roy Hobbs
- Bosconian
- Time Pilot (I think this had two versions -so both)
- Wizard of Wor
- Some baseball game where you could play home run derby by pulling back on some sort of lever and letting go -- it would keep your stats if you entered initials ... I think it was before the juicing era .... but I passed Hank Aaron on that thing ... and Bonds -- and -well... ok, I guess the more you played it the more liberal it got with how well you had to connect to knock it out of the park...
And anything at pizza parlors ...