Your top 3 old arcade games ?

[Jamie 10]

When I was young and at college studying computer studies (zzzzz) at college ... I used to skip class and go play games at the arcade (stories on matilda street) ... incidently I failed my college course !!!

 

Anyway.

 

What are your top 3 favorite arcade games ?

 

Mine are:

 

Starforce.

Krull.

Gauntlet.

 

(I also used to love flicky and mad-planets).

[alchresearch 209]

Gauntlet

Elite

Driller

 

... all on the Spectrum.

[Moon Maiden 10]

I never got this?? Must have been my grandad's fault. I have never ever played arcade games.

 

I just don't get it!

 

Moon Maiden

[Phanerothyme 12]

Arcade games

 

Asteroids - Atari

Defender - Williams

1942 - Can't remember who, Bally? (edit - it was actually called 19xx by capcom)

 

Arcade style

defender - bbc micro

monsters (space panic) - bbc micro

xenon II - amiga

 

Best ever games

Elite - BBC Micro (wow!)

Carrier Command - Amiga (wow)

Starglider II - Amiga (double wow)

[Jamie 10]

Some really cool games there Phan ...

 

Such a buzz playing anything like defender / starforce ... no over the top power-ups complicating the issue ... just pure skill and WOW at the adrenlyn of it all ...

 

Mind you ... I love some new arcade games ... esp the ones where you can get in to the cabinet and it vibrates (kinky!) ... u know the ones ... big racing games in sit down cabinets !?

[debs66 10]

I so still love pac man LMAO

[RPG 10]

Originally posted by Phanerothyme

xenon II - amiga

 

:D :D

 

I loved that game!!

 

my phone ringtone is Xenon II

[mr craig 10]

Yeah Xenon II was a great game,cool music,and super nashwan power ruled.As for old arcade games goes,some of these aint really that old,but i played them as a kid,so i think there old,and yes i know theres more than 3 here!

 

Outrun

Chase HQ

Operation Wolf

Bubble Bobble

Rainbow Islands

Final Fight

Street Frighter II (one game i am truely unbeatable on)

 

If i think of anymore i'll let you know.

[purplepippa 11]

pacman - of course

 

then two that were on the computer dad would bring home from work in the holidays - no idea what they were called

 

one was a basic shooting game

 

the other was a precurser to the nokia snake game now

 

they were all fab!

[mikey 10]

It has to be the original

 

Space Invaders - maybe showing my age here, but used to play it all the time around 78-80 ish - just simple skill needed - you didnt need a degree to understand the functions.

 

Remember the Glass table ones in pubs and stuff - they were ok until someone spilt beer or flicked fag ash all over. You couldnt see anything after that.

[DaBouncer 13]

Double Dragon

Street Fighter II

Mortal Combat

[Phanerothyme 12]

Originally posted by JamieW

Some really cool games there Phan ...

 

Such a buzz playing anything like defender / starforce ... no over the top power-ups complicating the issue ... just pure skill and WOW at the adrenlyn of it all ...

 

Mind you ... I love some new arcade games ... esp the ones where you can get in to the cabinet and it vibrates (kinky!) ... u know the ones ... big racing games in sit down cabinets !?

 

Remember Space Harrier? Great cabinet, but if you ever played the game on a standard arcade (no flying seat) then it was pretty dull, same with Firefox and some others - as often happens, gimmickry to cloak less good games.

 

Last time I spent any serious money on an arcade game it was called virtua racing, and very good it was too, that was back in 94 - two racing car cabinets with FF steeringwheels racing against one another, and a choice of tracks, very competitive, and expensive at 50p a pop.

 

Did I mention:

Spychaser? That was also top.

 

I remember playing Defender on the BBC micro, an almost perfect clone of it at least, called something else, planetoid maybe?

 

That was a game that demanded lightning quick reflexes and good hand/eye coordination. Still remember that very unfamiliar feeling of playing a game for something like 30 minutes and then having to stop because my pulse was racing and my hands shaking from the adrenalin (aged 12) - a whole new vista of discovery of different states of mind opened up there...