Favorite Arcade Games (Back in the Day)

[BOTZWANA]

Shouldn't this go in the arcade forum?

[Bill]

Xevious
BattleZone
720
SpyHunter
Cabal
Dig Dug
Rolling Thunder
Elevator Action

And that's just off the top of my head.

[bizzaro megomauler]

Fast Freddy (the hang gliding game)
any street fighter
Ms pac-man
Hyper Sports and Track and Field
KRULL
TMNT
MR DO! (far superrior to dig dug)
Dig-Dug
Pengo
Mappy
Popeye
but the grandaddy of them all:
PUNCH OUT!!!

[wilbs518]

Ms Pac-Man
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Rygar
Dig Dug
Star Wars
Ikari Warriors
Rolling Thunder
Elevator Action
720*
Mr Do

Man I miss arcades.

[Hector]

Nuff said...









I also love Defender, Donkey Kong (Jr), Tempest, Tron, and Centipede.


Galaga is the only game I play now...I don't own Playstations, Xbox's, Wii's, etc...I'm just not into modern stuff...it's all old school for me.

[toys2cool]

Fast Freddy (the hang gliding game)
any street fighter
Ms pac-man
Hyper Sports and Track and Field
KRULL
TMNT
MR DO! (far superrior to dig dug)
Dig-Dug
Pengo
Mappy
Popeye
but the grandaddy of them all:
PUNCH OUT!!!

the 4 player tmnt game was trip

[Mikey]

Question for you older guys .....

What was the name of the 70's one where you sit inside the racing car and the primative screen rolls by ?

It was shown quickly in Dawn of the Dead.

[kingdom warrior]

Centipede
Robotron
Defender
Tempest
Popeye
Joust
Asteroids
Dragon's Lair
Spy Hunter
Pacman
Galaga
Ninja Gaiden
Mortal Kombat
Street Fighter
Tekken
Marvel vs Capcom
The Simpsons

[Cmonster]

It's not Marble Madness, it's Marble. It's not Crystal Castle, it's Crystal... I abbreviate. Do you abbreviate?
--Mark Alpiger

SC

[HardyGirl]

Nuff said...

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I also love Defender, Donkey Kong (Jr), Tempest, Tron, and Centipede.


Galaga is the only game I play now...I don't own Playstations, Xbox's, Wii's, etc...I'm just not into modern stuff...it's all old school for me.

Wow, Hec, that's pretty cool! It that outside of your cottage?

[GaryPlaysWithDolls]

Spy Hunter---I remember as a kid going through this whole plan in my head how I would steal one from the arcade.

[Random Axe]

I was really drawn to vector graphic games for some reason.

I was a bad-a.s.s at Battlezone. I played a sit-down game called Tail Gunner, a WWI biplane game called Red Baron and a sword fighting game where you are looking straight down on the combatants. All vector graphic games. DOubt there are many of these still operational.

Other favs are DIg Dug, Crazy CLimber and Frenzy, the one with the dual joysticks, one for movement direction and the other for firing direction.

Scott

[Nostalgiabuff]

wow, depended on the year I guess
Spy Hunter
Donkey Kong
Star Wars
Return of the Jedi
Rolling Thunder
Gauntlet
Drains Lair
just to name a few....also loved Satans Hollow when it came out.

[EMCE Hammer]

I thought I was the only guy in the world whose favorite was Centipede. I loved Galaxian and Space Invaders too.

All this 30th anniversary talk of Pac-Man got me thinking about the "glory days"....

I was pretty good at Pac-Man but I think my all-time favorite was Centipede.

Other favs:

Dig Dug
Donkey Kong
Space Invaders
Defender
Tempest
Pirahna
Super Pac-Man
Ms. Pac-Man
Spy Hunter
Dragon's Lair
Firetruck (I think that's what it was called)
Balloon Man (again I think that's what it was called)
Asteroids
Donkey Kong Jr.


Oh, and I can't forget Rygar....I pumped more quarters into that game than probably any other...eventually got to the end.

[Hulk]

Space Invaders was the first to capture my eye, along with Asteroids, so basic now, but crazy when they first came out.

I remember seeing Pacman for the first time in the Menlo Park Mall in Edison, NJ. I went through my $1 quickly, and my mom watched me play the last game, and she was so fascinated by it she pumped about $5 more in quarters into the machine so i would keep playing. Pac-Man Fever was truly an appropriate name for it.