coldwetn0se wrote...
Submarine , Tempest, Night Driver , Frogger, Centipede, and of course Pacman and DonkeyKong. These were the gateway drugs for me.
Your user name suggests you own a dog.
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Posté 26 septembre 2013 - 07:20
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Your user name suggests you own a dog.
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Posté 26 septembre 2013 - 10:40
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Beerfish wrote...
coldwetn0se wrote...
Submarine , Tempest, Night Driver , Frogger, Centipede, and of course Pacman and DonkeyKong. These were the gateway drugs for me.
Your user name suggests you own a dog.
Why yes....yes I do.
Say 'Hello', Oscar....
"My nose ain't cold, but the rest of me is...."
EDIT
On topic, I most certainly DID play Defender.
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Posté 27 septembre 2013 - 06:23
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I played many games in many arcades when I was growing up. A lot of my money went into those machines, but I think I grew up at about the right time.
I loved the Capcom side-scrollers like Captain Commando and Final Fihgt, kicked ass at Elevator Action and 1942, loved the store system in shooters like Forgotten Worlds and Black Tiger, and tried most any game involving dragons, ninjas, or bad dudes. I also played Bad Dudes vs. Dragonninjas.
When the gun games became popular, I gravitated towards them. Virtua Cop 2 and Time Crisis 3 were my favourites, I think, but I tried every one I found at least once, even the fixed mount games like Chiller, Operation Wolf, Revolution X, and Sniper Scope.
I was never good at fighting games, since learning all those moves required more patience than I had at the time, but I loved pinball. The more complex the game, the better, and if it was a licensed property game, that was all I needed. Racing games didn't really appeal to me either.
I was sad when the age of video arcades came to an end. Even the larger entertainment centres, which usually had some of the larger and more complex machines, eventually closed. It was in one of these where I first played Guitar Freaks and its drumming equivalent. Who could have guessed that they would spawn console versions that I would spend hundreds of dollars on years later?
Ah, nostalgia.
I loved the Capcom side-scrollers like Captain Commando and Final Fihgt, kicked ass at Elevator Action and 1942, loved the store system in shooters like Forgotten Worlds and Black Tiger, and tried most any game involving dragons, ninjas, or bad dudes. I also played Bad Dudes vs. Dragonninjas.
When the gun games became popular, I gravitated towards them. Virtua Cop 2 and Time Crisis 3 were my favourites, I think, but I tried every one I found at least once, even the fixed mount games like Chiller, Operation Wolf, Revolution X, and Sniper Scope.
I was never good at fighting games, since learning all those moves required more patience than I had at the time, but I loved pinball. The more complex the game, the better, and if it was a licensed property game, that was all I needed. Racing games didn't really appeal to me either.
I was sad when the age of video arcades came to an end. Even the larger entertainment centres, which usually had some of the larger and more complex machines, eventually closed. It was in one of these where I first played Guitar Freaks and its drumming equivalent. Who could have guessed that they would spawn console versions that I would spend hundreds of dollars on years later?
Ah, nostalgia.
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Posté 27 septembre 2013 - 07:28
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^ thanks for the post (and letting us wax nostalgic)
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Posté 27 septembre 2013 - 04:58
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Anyone mention Q*bert yet? I was terrible at the game, but I thought it was funny.
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Posté 27 septembre 2013 - 05:44
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QBert was a great game, a puzzle game that also made you rely on your dexterity to some extent.
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Posté 27 septembre 2013 - 06:27
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My boss has an original Galaga machine in his office and wont let anybody play it.
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Posté 05 octobre 2013 - 08:40
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The King of Kong is an epic video game documentary from the early arcade days to the competition that still lives on today. I could only imagine the forums back then with guys like this, my hero:
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Posté 05 octobre 2013 - 09:01
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Has anyone actually beaten an arcade game? I'd be lucky just to get through the first couple of levels.
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Posté 05 octobre 2013 - 09:08
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It took an awful lot of Quarters, but I did get to the end of the Simpsons Arcade Game where you beat up Mr. Burns in a robotic-suit-thing.Has anyone actually beaten an arcade game? I'd be lucky just to get through the first couple of levels.
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Posté 05 octobre 2013 - 09:11
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I used to play Area 51 a bit as a kid, but being born in 1991, Arcade Gaming is an activity that I largely missed out on.
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Posté 05 octobre 2013 - 04:58
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LOL, I used to play that down the pub when I was at uni!bobobo878 wrote...
I used to play Area 51 a bit as a kid, but being born in 1991, Arcade Gaming is an activity that I largely missed out on.
I prefered the time crisis machine at the snooker hall though, that and the street fighter alpha machine caused me to waste a lot of time that could have been spent doing what I went there to do...
Girls and drinking.
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Posté 05 octobre 2013 - 09:00
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BouncyFrag wrote...
Has anyone actually beaten an arcade game? I'd be lucky just to get through the first couple of levels.
I beat Street Fighter 2. Not sure how many 20p's it cost though, probably a small fortune.
It saddens me when I go to the bowling alley now, it used to have two rooms full of arcade machines. Not it's all those instant cash games that are a complete fix.
Back in the day it had some great games, Art of Fighting complete with seats, Street Fighter 2, Alien Versus Predator, Super Sidekicks, that sniper game with the gun I can't recall its name but I think it made it to the Dreamcast.
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Posté 09 octobre 2013 - 06:40
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SF II is symbolic of my adolescence in many ways
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Posté 09 octobre 2013 - 06:49
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Posté 09 octobre 2013 - 08:47
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I think my friends and I were fortunate (?) to be into arcades right when Super Mario Bros. came out -- there was often a huge line to play it. The arcade version was also much harder than the NES version. Other favorites of ours were Elevator Action and Paperboy. (Who knew that the Grim Reaper took an interest in paper routes?)
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Posté 09 octobre 2013 - 09:22
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Mortal Kombat and Metal Slug for me. I could never get into Street Fighter when I was younger...
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Posté 10 octobre 2013 - 04:13
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Wonder why I only saw Paperboy once in the arcades?
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Posté 10 octobre 2013 - 05:56
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Ah, remember when those were the new thing, and the news showing a guy who played Space Invaders for a record setting score. I played that, Missile Command, and others back in the day. Also remember HBO's mini-horror short story "The Bishop of Battle", the movie "The Last Starfighter", and "Tron" which reflected the widespread popularity of these machines at the time.
Update: there was also a game show called "Starcade" which pit players against each other in achieving high scores on these coin-op games.
Update: there was also a game show called "Starcade" which pit players against each other in achieving high scores on these coin-op games.
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Posté 14 octobre 2013 - 08:55
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I grew up in the wrong age.
Only arcade game I played was a racing game where if you did well enough, in the backround you'd see Superman whiz by.. T'was a great thrill!!
South Africa really didn't have much in the line of video games in public, not long after we played some games in the local store, they removed them and I spent the reminder of my kidlington years, in front of a tv with a console.
Only arcade game I played was a racing game where if you did well enough, in the backround you'd see Superman whiz by.. T'was a great thrill!!
South Africa really didn't have much in the line of video games in public, not long after we played some games in the local store, they removed them and I spent the reminder of my kidlington years, in front of a tv with a console.
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Posté 15 octobre 2013 - 08:42
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I only played as Guile since I could actually pull of his sonic attacks but nothing else.mybudgee wrote...
SF II is symbolic of my adolescence in many ways
On a side note, would lazer tag be considered an arcade experience? I wasn't very good and blamed it on other people trolling me since I was a tiny kid. This activity certainly laid the ground work for the future upstanding, respectul COD multiplayer community. I'm also horribad at that as well. I'm not bitter, not one bit.
