Your Favorite Arcade Games

[DJR210]

Growing up I don't think there was a better place to pass time than at the local arcade. We have a chain here in SA (not sure if it's nation wide) called Diversions, and I use to love when my Dad needed a piece of ass because that meant I was getting dropped off there with 20 bucks for at least a few hours.

To me the golden age of the arcade was from about 1994-2000. I could remember the feeling of walking into an arcade, the shit was loud as hell, and you instantly picking up the sounds from Mortal Kombat; Shao Kahn announcing and the screams of someone getting an uppercut, or to finish someone, Killer Instinct's announcer yelling out 'Ultraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Combooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo", and NBA Jam letting you know someone is heating up or on fire.

You go to an arcade these days, and they are fucking Android/iOS games built into an arcade cabinet :td

Anyways, what are your favorites? Here are a few of mine:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEpPWUyj46Y


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7KyC3NfNxY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wymIQ1FywrA

[baseline bum]

If I had to pick my 5 favorites:

1. Zaxxon
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2. Double Dragon
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3. Galaga
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4. Mortal Kombat II
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5. Ms Pacman
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[resistanze]

X-Men - 6 players

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewkdhu9Zj-w

OF course - SFII Road Warrior/Hyper Fighting/Turbo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojau7BM_fkg

[resistanze]

Killer Instinct

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMbDBoniIHc

Daytona USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAcMqFTkAs8

[resistanze]

Soul Calibur, House of the Dead 2 and NFL Blitz were the shit too.

[DJR210]

Lot's of good shit up there, I could have named all of them as well but then I would have killed my own thread :lol

Double Dragon - Used to love being a douchebag and coming in, getting the other player all pumped up that he was gonna have some help, and then proceed in throwing his ass into a pit :lol

Street Fighter II - This is one I would have to disagree with just because every god damn arcade in the US pumped the difficulty so fucking high I couldn't beat more than 2 fighters.

X-Men - This was the shit also, especially when the arcade of choice wasn't poor and purchase the multi-screened 6 player version :tu

This reminds we of a couple more that took a shit load of my parents hard earned quarters:

Pit Fighter - Getting stabbed by spectating drunks in shady bars? :tu Great times, Ty was the shit


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnFU-BXda2A

Simpsons Arcade - Multiplayer fun, and the stupid in between level contests (inflating balloons) were the shit


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDwjHReA3NM

WWF Wrestlefest - Fucking Hogan you cocksucker, stop asking me to insert more coins to regain power..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2ak_BjxKZo

[DJR210]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV - Turtles in Time - Expanded upon the original with better levels, bosses, etc..Included the bosses from the Secret of the Ooze movie also :tu


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvr8T-sutfA

Also - Anyone else used to enter your initials as "creatively" as possible? :lol

[DJR210]

"Daytonaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaa" - that's another one you'd hear as soon as you walked into an arcade..

[leemajors]

Rampage somehow never got old.

[Strange Love]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbmi5YCNDY4

My shit.

[lefty]

Double Dragon
Operation Wolf
Super Hang On

[leemajors]

The John Elway's Quarterback with the dinky second joystick was hilarious:

http://www.arcade-museum.com/images/119/1191425123.jpg

[DJR210]

I can remember internet being this thing of legend, and 0.001% of people having it. You'd get that one douchebag at the arcade with a movelist for MK2, and these fools would act like they had the cure for AIDS in their hands when it came to asking to see it.

[TDMVPDPOY]

wwe wrestlefest, never manage how to fkn tag or fkn pin....

[NASpurs]

Street Fighter II - loved being a 9, 10 year old kid when that game came out and beating the shit of people way older than me
Mortal Kombat - I remember buying game magazines at Drug Emporium (anyone from SA remember this store) and writing down the fatalities down on paper and taking it to the bowing alley and wasting money trying to perform them when the place was empty and the machine was mine.
Samurai Showdown - quirky as shit but still liked it
Marvel vs Capcom - 100 hit combos? Sure, why not.
NBA Jam - fun as shit but must had been the loudest machine in the arcades
Simpsons Arcade - nuff said

[NASpurs]

Oh I also really liked King of the Monsters and all those SNK machines with the five games that had a selector.

[DJR210]

Oh I also really liked King of the Monsters and all those SNK machines with the five games that had a selector.

:lol forgot about those. Metal Slugs 1, 2, and 3 were almost always in those.

[TDMVPDPOY]

knights of valor 4player arcade game, was in fkn chinese didnt understand a shit

[Silver&Black]

This guy here could not be fucked with on Street Fighter (it doesn't matter which one). Give me Ryu.....game over.
Mortal Kombat....give me sub-zero or scorpion....game over.

Shout out to the guy with the "Simpsons" mention.....definitely lost a few quarters in that game.

[resistanze]

Street Fighter II - This is one I would have to disagree with just because every god damn arcade in the US pumped the difficulty so fucking high I couldn't beat more than 2 fighters.


You could always cheat with Blanka if shit got too real. But Bison was my shit.

[cantthinkofanything]

http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/80s_games/gunsmoke.gif

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/xevious/xevious-flyerj.jpg

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[leemajors]

damn forgot about Gunsmoke

[leemajors]

No love for Smash TV? Possibly the greatest.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRHSi4hBHSM

[cantthinkofanything]

No love for Smash TV? Possibly the greatest.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRHSi4hBHSM

I bought Smash TV for Super NES and didn't know it was even an arcade game. Saw it sometime later. Awesome game. Love the twin joystick stuff (no homo). Robotron was awesome but Smash TV took it to the next level.

[NASpurs]

I hated the motherfuckers who used Guile in Street Fighter II. They would crouch, charge and repeatedly Sonic Boom you. You would jump to get them, and they would Flash Kick you out of the air. His throw moves always seem to take priority over others outside of Zangief. I liked beating people with Chun-Li.

[lefty]

Old school games and the unbeatable tricks/cheats :lol

Good times :lol

[DJR210]

I hated the motherfuckers who used Guile in Street Fighter II. They would crouch, charge and repeatedly Sonic Boom you. You would jump to get them, and they would Flash Kick you out of the air. His throw moves always seem to take priority over others outside of Zangief. I liked beating people with Chun-Li.

:lol I used to do that with Ken and Ryu too.. hadoken, hadoken, hadoken, hadoken, hadoken, shoryuken. That shit was super annoying.

[cantthinkofanything]

Old school games and the unbeatable tricks/cheats :lol

Good times :lol

I remember Track and Field and using a pencil leveraged in between the fingers to hit the buttons super fast. Eventually they put little guards over the buttons to prevent that.

yeah...like this dude...

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[spurraider21]

Marvel v Capcom... the first one though. i hated the newer installments. too much shit going on.

NBA on NBC Showtime - where everybody had idea muscle definition :lol.

NFL Blitz

RAMPAGE! - giant monsters destroying a city. why not?

Simpsons Arcade Game

Hydro Thunder - best h2h multiplayer game. i used to play the shit out of this at Gameworks in vegas when i was younger. me and my dad would get the 1 hour unlimited pass and spend at least 30 minutes playing this game :lol

Ms Pac Man

Tekken - well, tekken 3 and tekken tag mainly. never played the newer ones. i preferred them on console, but the arcade was good enough

[baseline bum]

Favorite MK II character? I like Kitana. There was this one ridiculous combo: I think it was jump kick into fan throw, then lift with the fan, uppercut, and flying punch before they hit the ground. I think it took like 60% of your opponent's life bar if you could execute it, and there was no way out of it once they got hit with that first jump kick.:lol

[DJR210]

Favorite MK II character? I like Kitana. There was this one ridiculous combo: I think it was jump kick into fan throw, then lift with the fan, uppercut, and flying punch before they hit the ground. I think it took like 60% of your opponent's life bar if you could execute it, and there was no way out of it once they got hit with that first jump kick.:lol

Remember how the MK's (really arcade games in general but more so w/ the MK's) would have revisions? You would go to one arcade and they would be running revision 2.3, and then another would be running 3.1?


I remember nearly shitting myself when some asshole wizard morphed Shang Tsung into Kintaro and punched a dude in half with revision 3.1..This is when they introduced The Dead Pool fatality as well IIRC...

[DJR210]

Some more classics:

San Francisco Rush

Elevator Action

Run and Gun 1 and 2

Die Hard Arcade

[DJR210]

Also, the good old days of EVERY single EGM or Gamepro with either Street Fighter II or MK2 on the cover..I read something from one of the editors talking about a huge decrease in sales for any magazine without one of the two on the cover..

If any of you were big on the video game magazines back in the day, this is for you:

http://www.retromags.com/

[DisAsTerBot]

Ikari Warriors and Michael Jackson's Moonwalker

[leemajors]

Not the best:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqsvys8VH3k

:lol

[DJR210]

Not the best:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqsvys8VH3k

:lol

Revolution X I played the shit out of on PS1, but this reminds me of the Terminator 2 video game.. used to love that one

[ElNono]

Super Punchout
Tehkan World Cup
Karate Champ
Ms Pacman
Galaga
Gyruss
Donkey Kong Jr
Elevator Action
Bubble Bobble
Time Pilot
Xevious
Arkanoid
Exciting Soccer
Gaplus
Commando
Moon Patrol
Wonderboy
Ghost 'n Goblins
Track n' Field
Pole Position II
Outrun
Double Dragon
1943 Battle of Midway
NBA Jam
Virtua Racing
MK II

Probably missing some... I actually ended up writing the MAME driver for some of those. While working on MAME I also got to know a bunch of other games that I either didn't know or thought were too hard to spend any money on, like Parodius, Bionic Commando or R-Type...

[baseline bum]

Super Punchout
Tehkan World Cup
Karate Champ
Ms Pacman
Galaga
Gyruss
Donkey Kong Jr
Elevator Action
Bubble Bobble
Time Pilot
Xevious
Arkanoid
Exciting Soccer
Gaplus
Commando
Moon Patrol
Wonderboy
Ghost 'n Goblins
Track n' Field
Pole Position II
Outrun
Double Dragon
1943 Battle of Midway
NBA Jam
Virtua Racing
MK II

Probably missing some... I actually ended up writing the MAME driver for some of those. While working on MAME I also got to know a bunch of other games that I either didn't know or thought were too hard to spend any money on, like Parodius, Bionic Commando or R-Type...

Can you port Minecraft to VT100 for me son? Miss the days of watching porn through aaxine tbh.

http://dosnlinux.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/the_office.png

[ElNono]

Can you port Minecraft to VT100 for me son? Miss the days of watching porn through aaxine tbh.

http://dosnlinux.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/the_office.png

crofl, I had to look up aaxine... thats pretty wild

[jeebus]

You nigs remember this shit?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lyTasMAYic

[DJR210]

You nigs remember this shit?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lyTasMAYic

What the fuck is that shit?

[jeebus]

What the fuck is that shit?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Traveler_(video_game)


An arcade game back in the 90s that was a buck to play, which was wayyyyy too expensive back then. With a dollar of quarters, I could at least get to and beat Bebop on TMNT 2 The Arcade Game. IMO.

[NASpurs]

What the fuck is that shit?

It was a crappy laser disc game a la Dragon's Lair. I remember seeing it but never playing it because it looked dumb as fuck. :lol

Holy shit, I don't know why that game reminded me of the Time-Out arcade in downtown next to the Alamo in the early to mid 90s. Maybe that's where I saw it.

Also reminds me of Aladdin's Castle or whatever that place was called at Windsor Park Mall where they mostly had mechanical games iirc.. Well they had two arcades, one upstairs (Aladdin) and one downstairs close to the movies. The one close to the movies was the main one.

[NASpurs]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Traveler_(video_game)


An arcade game back in the 90s that was a buck to play, which was wayyyyy too expensive back then. With a dollar of quarters, I could at least get to and beat Bebop on TMNT 2 The Arcade Game. IMO.

There you go, it was expensive as fuck! That's the main reason why I never played it among other things.

[DJR210]

It was a crappy laser disc game a la Dragon's Lair. I remember seeing it but never playing it because it looked dumb as fuck. :lol

Holy shit, I don't know why that game reminded me of the Time-Out arcade in downtown next to the Alamo in the early to mid 90s. Maybe that's where I saw it.

Did that become the arcade next to Ripley's? I remember going on a field trip there, and whooping every opponent that stepped up on Killer Instinct 2..my "protege" who learned to play coming to my house to play Killer Instinct Gold on 64 steps up and beats me in front of everyone..fucking little piece of shit

[jeebus]

It was a crappy laser disc game a la Dragon's Lair. I remember seeing it but never playing it because it looked dumb as fuck. :lol

Holy shit, I don't know why that game reminded me of the Time-Out arcade in downtown next to the Alamo in the early to mid 90s. Maybe that's where I saw it.

Also reminds me of Aladdin's Castle or whatever that place was called at Windsor Park Mall where they mostly had mechanical games iirc.. Well they had two arcades, one upstairs (Aladdin) and one downstairs close to the movies. The one close to the movies was the main one.


There you go, it was expensive as fuck! That's the main reason why I never played it among other things.
:lol yeah, I remember seeing it in the early 90s and thinking it was pretty good....then I saw how much it cost and that was that. later on when I actually saw someone playing it and saw just how awful it was...nope.

[NASpurs]

Did that become the arcade next to Ripley's? I remember going on a field trip there, and whooping every opponent that stepped up on Killer Instinct 2..my "protege" who learned to play coming to my house to play Killer Instinct Gold on 64 steps up and beats me in front of everyone..fucking little piece of shit

Yeah I think it became Ripleys. In the late 90s, that corner store became Foot Locker (forgot what it was before that), then the store next to it was a Burger King with two floor levels and I remember always going upstairs and eating there as a kid. I've always loved Burger King all of my life because of that specific place. :lol There was something else between the Burger King and the Footlocker, I forget, I think it was a Walgreens that moved down Houston Street or something.

But yeah Time-Out was great and kind of a rip off. They knew tourists went there and all the machine prices were jacked up.

[NASpurs]

The "original" Street Fighter for me :lol

http://cdn4.spong.com/screen-shot/y/i/yiearkungf6119/_-Yie-Ar-KUNG-FU-C64-_.gif

[NASpurs]

:lol yeah, I remember seeing it in the early 90s and thinking it was pretty good....then I saw how much it cost and that was that. later on when I actually saw someone playing it and saw just how awful it was...nope.

All those laser discs games were pure shit. I never understood their appeal besides the live action or animation gimmick. Basically they were quick time events one after another.

[lefty]

Holy shit Dragons Lair

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

Final Fight -the beat 'em up GOAT
http://www.lyonsarcade.com/games/FinalFight/1.jpg

Paperboy- those fucking handlebars
http://www.gurl.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/paperboy.jpg

Captain America and the Avengers - America is right there in the title and the dialogue is straight up engrish
http://0.tqn.com/d/classicgames/1/S/S/L/-/-/CapAndTheAvengersArcade_02.png

[leemajors]

the first game with a grappling hook I played, would later become an obsession in quakeworld ctf and q2 ctf:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T8ZZW2PUV0

Always loved this one, played it in high school during golf tournaments in Corpus Christi at Embassy Suites in the lobby, was still really fun:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHUToeQykp0

[TDMVPDPOY]

u remember them claw machines to win prizes? lol friends would lift up the machine upside down

[cantthinkofanything]

loved Contra..
http://www.arcade-museum.com/images/118/1181242070207.png

[baseline bum]

crofl, I had to look up aaxine... thats pretty wild

Even better with the Color AsCii Art library tbh


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[UZER]

Run n gun 2 was the shit.

Dragons lair was mind blowing when 8.

[Venti Quattro]

Does Time Crisis count

[DJR210]

Does Time Crisis count

Si mon vato

[POPownsJackson]

Tekken Tag
Cruisin USA
Xmen vs Street Fighter
Ninja Turtles
House of the Dead
Simpsons

[TDMVPDPOY]

raiden 1+2+fx

[Infinite_limit]

Not the best:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqsvys8VH3k

:lol
Bad-ass game to play in the Arcade as a 12 year old. Clubs & strippers.

[HI-FI]

You nigs remember this shit?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lyTasMAYic
:lol
i was about to post that game, had to google it to remember the title, but looks like you beat me to the punch.

that's on my top games, I can't even remember if it's any good, but was definitely one of the trippiest, most memorable games from my youth.