Your Favorite Arcade Games

[lefty]

Old school games and the unbeatable tricks/cheats

Good times

[DJR210]

I hated the mother ers 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.

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

[cantthinkofanything]

Old school games and the unbeatable tricks/cheats

Good times

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...

[spurraider21]

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

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

NFL Blitz

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

Simpsons Arcade Game

Hydro Thunder - best h2h multiplayer game. i used to play the 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

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.

[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.

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 ting 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:

[DJR210]

Not the best:

Revolution X I played the 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.

[ElNono]

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

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

[jeebus]

You nigs remember this ?

[DJR210]

You nigs remember this ?

What the is that ?

[jeebus]

What the is that ?

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 is that ?

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 .

Holy , 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 ! 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 .

Holy , 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.. ing little piece of

[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 .

Holy , 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 ! That's the main reason why I never played it among other things.

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.. ing little piece of

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. 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

[NASpurs]

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 . I never understood their appeal besides the live action or animation gimmick. Basically they were quick time events one after another.

[lefty]

Holy Dragons Lair