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What is/are your favourite ARCADE game(s), but...?
« on: May 12, 2004, 01:32:16 PM »
Hoya!

The topic says it all, EXCEPT that I am not talking about new 3D stuff but rather 70's, 80's and early 90's bitmap champs!

Here I go:

Carnival/Sega (the VERY first video game I played, I was 5! :-D )
R-Type/Irem
Out Run/Sega
Double Dragon/Jaleco (err, I have a doubt?)
DragonNinja/Data East Japan
Hammerin' Harry/Irem
UFO Robo Dangar/Nishibutsu
Terra Force/Nishibutsu
Commando/Capcom
1941-1942-1943/Capcom
Raiden/Nishibutsu (I think)
Shinobi/Sega
Chelnov Atomic Runner/Data East?
Rygar/Namco?
PacMan/Namco
RoboCop/Data East...
Street Fighter/Capcom
Final Fight/Capcom

OK, I have others in mind but I will let you have a go first! ;-)

Be funky

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Re: What is/are your favourite ARCADE game(s), but...?
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2004, 01:52:46 PM »
Off the top of my head...

Operation Wolf
Space Gun
Puzzle Bobble / Bust-a-Move
Columns
Guerilla War
Chase HQ

[I reckon if I played some of them now I'd find them naff..]

My fave at the moment is Time Crisis 3, but that's not a 'classic' coin-op
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Re: What is/are your favourite ARCADE game(s), but...?
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2004, 01:59:59 PM »
All time favourite: 1942

Shinobi was also cool, but i think i recall it being an awfully short playtime on that one...

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Re: What is/are your favourite ARCADE game(s), but...?
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2004, 02:26:26 PM »
My all time favorites, which I still play today, as a matter of fact are:

R-Type/R-Type II
Katakis
Xenon II
The Chaos Engine
Datastorm
Battle Squadron
Menace
Blood Money
Onslaught
Persian Gulf Inferno
Gods
Speedball II

There you go!

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Re: What is/are your favourite ARCADE game(s), but...?
« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2004, 03:08:52 PM »
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UFO Robo Dangar/Nishibutsu



Bless you.

Seriously though I've always preferred playing games on computers / consoles to arcades.  There's more of a need for depth of gameplay, as you don't run out of 50 pence coins to keep feeding an Amiga... ;-D

Fave arcades are as follows:

Outrun - Sega

Unbeatable for a sense of occasion.  The soundtrack, the novelty of the hydraulic cabinet and the adolescent desire to drive fast to impress a female passenger.  Shame the game featured a butt-ugly Testarossa though, had it been the prettier 328 or maybe a Berlinetta Boxer it would have been nigh on perfect!

GTI Club - unknown

Driving either a Golf GTi or Mini Cooper (among others) around Monaco flat out, in the style of the Italian Job was a serious buzz, particularly as I owned my own Golf GTi at the time!  

Virtua Racing - Sega

Actually put you in the driving seat of an F1 car.  Playing against mates was the big attraction.

Operation Wolf - Taito

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Re: What is/are your favourite ARCADE game(s), but...?
« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2004, 04:21:55 PM »
Marble Madness!

There are others that I enjoy, but that's THE favourite game for me.

I like Atari System 1 games a lot, for some reason..
 

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Re: What is/are your favourite ARCADE game(s), but...?
« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2004, 04:33:19 PM »
My 2 all time favs:

Gauntlet (Atari)
APB (Atari)

I think these are system 2 games, but yes Atari was the king of games back then.

Other games that I REALLY dug:

Tempest (Atari)
Street Fighter 2 (Capcom) - before it became hyper turbo mega street fighter ex
NFL Blitz & NBA Jam
All the laser disc games - Dragon's Lair 1 & 2, Space Ace, etc.  Yes, I LIKED those :)

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Re: What is/are your favourite ARCADE game(s), but...?
« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2004, 05:05:04 PM »
Hi,

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Re: What is/are your favourite ARCADE game(s), but...?
« Reply #8 on: May 12, 2004, 05:27:40 PM »
I think I haven't touched arcade machines more often than twice in my life.....

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Re: What is/are your favourite ARCADE game(s), but...?
« Reply #9 on: May 12, 2004, 05:39:01 PM »
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thorrin wrote:
All the laser disc games - Dragon's Lair 1 & 2, Space Ace, etc.  Yes, I LIKED those :)


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Re: What is/are your favourite ARCADE game(s), but...?
« Reply #10 on: May 12, 2004, 05:45:05 PM »
Frontier Elite II. It has to be.

I have wads of star system info for the first galaxy, and I classify myself as pretty much having beaten the game due to eventually getting hold of a galaxy drive that let me change Galaxy as though I was merely changing star system! :-)

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Re: What is/are your favourite ARCADE game(s), but...?
« Reply #11 on: May 12, 2004, 05:56:50 PM »
My two all-time favourites

Double Dragon
Wonderboy in Monsterland

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Re: What is/are your favourite ARCADE game(s), but...?
« Reply #12 on: May 12, 2004, 05:58:30 PM »

Heres a few of mine

Final Fight
Wonder Boy In Monsterland
Rainbow Islands
Pac man or land
Arkanoid
Robocop

and lots more



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Re: What is/are your favourite ARCADE game(s), but...?
« Reply #13 on: May 12, 2004, 09:31:16 PM »
Hmm, i liked:

Street Fighter II & SSF2 & SSF2 Turbo - Capcom
Art Of Fighting 1 & 2 - SNK
World Heroes 2 & World Heroes Perfect - ADK
King Of Fighters from 94 till 2001 - SNK
Cadash - Taito
Truxton 2 - Toaplan?
Captain Commando - Capcom
Cadillacs & Dinosaurs - Capcom
Street Hoop - SNK
R-Type II & R-Type Leo - Irem
Punisher - Capcom

The list is long, i just need to remember em all. :-)
But i can say i liked most Neo-Geo games. :-D
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Re: What is/are your favourite ARCADE game(s), but...?
« Reply #14 on: May 13, 2004, 12:16:13 AM »
Mortal Kombat II

and still is the best fighting game ever!