Favorite Games at the Arcade

  • Tetragrammaton
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    • 7 years 6 months ago
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    Tetragrammaton wrote:
    I only ever saw the actual console for TMNT once, it was in some small middle-of-nowhere town whose name I can't remember. So my friends and I only ever got to play it two-player together (we could only be Leonardo or Michaelangelo), but it was cool because it was only 20c for two credits.


    One of the arcades in town here just got the four player TMNT console!
    Now all I need to do is rustle up three friends who won't mind standing there 'til we finish it. :twisted:
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    		 My favorite arcade game was "Carnival". I dumped so many quraters that it was the reason I went out and bought a Colecovision so that I could play Carnival at home! I recently picked up a Colecovision on Ebay so I can waste more countless hours playing Carnival once again!!!
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  • Seth Koopa
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    		 I would frequently visit the arcade, but my parents warned me that it was like throwing money in the rubbish bin. That advice mostly kept me away from arcade games. But as I said, I would make frequent visits there, and watch the others play. "Virtua fighter 2" was my favourite stop. After seeing the intro movie in a downtown arcade, it stuck to me. I even spent a few quarters occasionally on playing the game in an arcade at my local shopping mall. But I sucked; I would get to level 4 tops.

    In another arcade in the same shopping centre, "Virtua fighter 3" was then announced, and I was astonished at its graphics. I never tried it there, however; number one, that game was always the busiest one, and number two, I still could hear 'don't waste money' in my head. But I really enjoyed watching that as well. And the controls were set apart from the screen. Also... I know this may sound stupid, but I found the characters so believable that 'controlling' them would have been too much for me to take.

    Unfortunately (or, perhaps, fortunately), both arcades went bankrupt just when I'd reached 14, which was the mininum age to be allowed alone in the arcade. Oh well. I now have "Virtua fighter 2" on PC, though it's made off the Sega saturn game, so the backgrounds aren't alive. But there's a nice portrait mode. I've occasionally rented a Dreamcast just to play "Virtua fighter 3tb". While I find it a bit slower-moving and not as responsive-friendly as VF2 (unlike its arcade incarnation, to my best memory), I still enjoy it a lot.
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  • Juke Skywalker
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    		 Too many! I'll limit to 10.

    1. Star Wars (Cockpit version)
    2. Galaga
    3. Tron
    4. Spy hunter
    5. Satan's hollow
    6. Pole position
    7. Bad Dudes
    8. Space invaders
    9. Zaxxon
    10. Asteroids
    [color=blue]"Use the Force, Juke!"[/color]
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    		 Don't know if you know the game, but when I was little I played a game called Mad Dog McCree (or something like that) in the arcade. It was a 'real-life' western game and you played it with a gun, pretty neat at that time.

    I also played Pacman (figures) and later on House of the dead when I was older.
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  • Toonhead83
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    		 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    X-men
    Metal Slug
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    		 TMNT at the arcade.. Hell yeah! And NO PROPS to the first TMNT game for the NES (the one that combined side scrolling action with overhead mindlessly driving the Turtle Van around). MAJOR PROPS when Nintendo ported TMNT arcade over to NES!

    Everyone seems to agree that the multi-player games were tons of fun. My question is why doesn't Dave and Busters have these types of games?
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  • agentkev
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    		 X-Men the arcade game all the way. and no I don't mean the fighting one.
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  • gijoefan1985
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    		 WWF Wrestlefest
    WWF Superstars
    Final Fight
    TMNT The acrcade game
    Sengoku
    PitFighter
    RoboCop
    GI Joe
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  • ataristic
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    • 7 years 5 months ago
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    		 i was always into anything resembling a 3d simulation so i played a lot of Star wars, also dumped many a quarter on Hard driving and Steel Talons. side scrollers my favorite was new zealand story.
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    		 Here's goes nothing...

    Rampage '87, Galaga, Smash TV, Cyber Sled, Rampage World Tour, Soul Calibur, Soul Edge, Final Fight, Police Trainer, Area 51 and more. :)
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  • mr3urious
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    		 Ms. Pac Man, of course!
    "I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I'm not." -Kurt Cobain
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  • Mystie
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    		 Pinball.
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  • Snppls
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    		 the first metal slug, it stays fun no matter how much you play
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    agentkev wrote:
    X-Men the arcade game all the way. and no I don't mean the fighting one.


    That was probably the most fun 4 player arcade game ever. I loved playing Colossus.
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  • Tetragrammaton
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    wapazoid wrote:
    agentkev wrote:
    X-Men the arcade game all the way. and no I don't mean the fighting one.


    That was probably the most fun 4 player arcade game ever. I loved playing Colossus.


    It was even better 6-player. :D
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    Tetragrammaton wrote:
    wapazoid wrote:
    agentkev wrote:
    X-Men the arcade game all the way. and no I don't mean the fighting one.


    That was probably the most fun 4 player arcade game ever. I loved playing Colossus.


    It was even better 6-player. :D


    Was there a 6-player cab? So much for my memory. :roll: I miss those days. Settling for MAME isn't too bad at all. :wink:
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    		 My absolute favorite was Spider-man.. i remember a long field trip where we had to stop at a rest stop and i didnt want to leave cause i had just gotten to venom at the end of the first stage.. hel lthat game gave major love to the sub mariner, no game does that now ..lol

    my big second is defenetly TMNT, that game really never got old to me.
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  • eep!
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    		 apb, street fighters, mortal kombats and crusin usa. i spent hundreds of dollars on each one.
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  • NeonNightrider
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    		 The TMNT arcade game, later ported to the NES. On the boardwalk in Ocean City, NJ they used to have an arcade filled with nothing but this game.
    The Simpsons, where Smithers kidnaps Maggie.
    WWF Wrestlefest.
    Pinball.
    Lately I've gotten into driving games like Cruisin' USA and San Francisco Rush.
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