What's your favourite arcade game?

[Tony Erikson 10]

If there's one thing I remember about holidays to Skeg-Vegas as a kid it's the arcades. I could hear the sounds of all my favourite games rolled into one superb noise as I walked to my arcade of choice for the night. It was an amazing place to be as far as I was concerned. Armed with a pocket of 10p's and aware that I had to meet my mum in the Bingo at 9pm, it was time I settled a few scores.

 

One game I settled a few scores on was Knockout King. That game alone would often be fed a few 10p's.

 

That's one of mine so far. I'm sure there will be many others. One rule though. For me it was a time when the arcades started to die and could be matched graphically by consoles. For this thread no 3d games allowed. Not even Virtua fighter. Sorry. Only 2d games qualify.

[ka2010 10]

I was more for rolling the pennies down the machine with the black/white lines! lol

[Amaranthus 10]

Time Crisis 2, I used to kick ass on that game.

[giancoopa 10]

The now long gone Golden Ball in town had a fantastic game called Soldiers of Light. Made by Taito i believe. One of the best i ever played

[Tony Erikson 10]

Time Crisis 2, I used to kick ass on that game.

 

Whilst I did like Time Crisis and have spent many a quid on it, unfortunately, it's barred from this thread. It's a 3d game. Sorry to be a pedant.

[Amaranthus 10]

Whilst I did like Time Crisis and have spent many a quid on it, unfortunately, it's barred from this thread. It's a 3d game. Sorry to be a pedant.

 

You class those cruddy graphics as 3D?? Wow.

[neeeeeeeeeek 10]

Original marble madness with the 2 roller balls. That and Gauntlet when it came out, "Valkrie is about to die.."

 

Them were the days.

[Tony Erikson 10]

You class those cruddy graphics as 3D?? Wow.

 

Yeah they were made of polygons. It's the sprite based games that were "true" arcade games. Well only as far as this thread goes.

 

I did love loads of 3d arcade games but for me they signify the start of the death of the arcade. I loved Tekken when that came out but I also remember arcade prices seemed to go up with it. A quid to a child for 15 minutes max play is pretty poor. It was when games became time based too. Finishing a game seemed more likely down to how much cash you had rather than how much skill. I had mates who could clock a game on 10p. Some even let you carry on afterwards. It soon worked out cheaper to buy a Playstation and the key thing was the graphics were matched by the consoles. Long gone is the term "Arcade Perfect".

[Rich 12]

I have a few faves, including the old wireframe Star Wars games, remember the Cabinet for the first one? Released in the early 80s iirc, completed it as well, on about 2 quid's worth of credit.

 

More recently, my 50ps were spent on the 4 player Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game, got quite far on that as I recall, then I downloaded it for MAME and completed it, same with the similar Simpsons game.

Edited August 10, 2011 by Rich

[slh73 32]

 

 

 

[Funky_Gibbon 42]

I always loved playing things like Golden Axe, those Dungeon & Dragons beat-em-ups or Captain Commando.

 

But the king of the arcade was always Bubble Bobble. Shame I could never beat the last level.

[Rich 12]

I remember way back in the 80s I actually got my Mother playing Pac Man in the Arcades! Lol.