[Galenmarek]

We probably have all been to an arcade of some form. You might remember Pac-man, centipede and many others. Or the newer Arcade games, like Ghost Squad or Guitar Hero. I know this topic has probably been here before, but still I ask the question: What's your favorite arcade game(s)? Let's get some discussion on this, it's probably not hard.

[boyward]

Ah yes. I used to take my lunch money across the street from the school to the bowling alley so I could play some arcade games. And every birthday I begged my dad to take me to Galaxy World or Enchanted Castle and he'd bring a roll of quarters to turn into game tokens. Thanks for the memories, Dad! My favorites cabinets:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time
The Simpsons
Aliens Vs. Predator (Capcom)
Golden Axe
Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder

Yes, those are all side-scrolling beat-em-ups. Other favorites not belonging to that genre include:

Terminator 2: The Arcade Game
Street Fighter II (I beat it with Chun-Li)
Afterburner (the one you get to sit down in and the whole cabinet moves with you inside it)
Daytona USA (Loved it on Saturn)
Primal Rage (Claymation dinosaurs! And who can forget Chaos' "green cloud of death" move?!)
Alien 3: The Gun (Sega. At one time I was actually saving up the $6000 or whatever I needed to buy it for my home. At one point I had as much as $30 in my Alien 3 fund!)

And pinball machines stole a lot my quarters too. Some favorite machines:

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Indiana Jones (Williams)
Twilight Zone
Medieval Madness

[Galenmarek]

Don't you love those old 2d fighting games? Like street Fighter? I personally like Ryo, the American guy (I blanked on his name) and Ken. Though Chun-li was good too. Remember Clayfighter? The Blob for the win! No, seriously, I actually beat that game.

[Galenmarek]

Don't you love those old 2d fighting games? Like street Fighter? I personally like Ryo, the American guy (I blanked on his name) and Ken. Though Chun-li was good too. Remember Clayfighter? The Blob for the win! No, seriously, I actually beat that game.

My favorite Arcade game is probably still the classic Star Wars: trilogy. If it's in an arcade, I will no doubt lose tons of tokens on it. I played T2 once, that was...okay. Pretty fun though. Oh, and you'll usually find a couple of these in arcades: Skeeball! Don't you just love it? I have thrown the little tan balls down many small alleys. Of course, I know and 11-year old who is amazing at it, and can easily beat me. Never been a pinball fan, or Pinball Wizard, myself(pun intended).

[boyward]

Galenmarek, on 17 January 2010 - 04:16 PM, said:

Don't you love those old 2d fighting games? Like street Fighter? I personally like Ryo, the American guy (I blanked on his name) and Ken. Though Chun-li was good too. Remember Clayfighter? The Blob for the win! No, seriously, I actually beat that game.

Yep, I remember Clayfighter. My favorite was Bad Mr. Frosty.

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My favorite Arcade game is probably still the classic Star Wars: trilogy. If it's in an arcade, I will no doubt lose tons of tokens on it.

That was fun. I played it a couple of times in the arcade, but mostly on Sega's 32X.

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I played T2 once, that was...okay. Pretty fun though.

Just out of curiosity, how old are you? Games have come a long way since T2 came out, but when I was a kid that game was the AWESOME.

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Oh, and you'll usually find a couple of these in arcades: Skeeball! Don't you just love it? I have thrown the little tan balls down many small alleys.

I always liked playing Skeeball because they were pretty generous with the tickets you could take up to the prize counter. I got lots of tickets even though I'm not very good. In my entire life I probably got the 100 point chute only 2 or 3 times.

[Forte V4]

Oh, arcades. Those things with needlessly, ridiculously and hilariously bloody light gun games, spaceship-shooting-at-some-kind-of-alien games and fighting games where you mash every button at once with reckless abandon in the futile attempt to beat your friends. Whatever happened to those?

I think my favorite arcade game was 1942, if only because the daycare I used to go to as a kid had it. You didn't have to pay to use it, it had explosions and it was fun to play when I was sick of Pokemon.

[bertuzzifan]

I'm an incredibly avid arcade game fan. Chalk most of it up to being a kid raised on Vancouver Island... the only way off the island was a two hour ferry trip. And about the only thing to do as a young lad was hit up the rather impressive arcade. Pinball, racing, shooting, 2.5D fighters... there were all, and then some. Here are some of my favs:

X-Men Arcade
Sunset Riders
Galaga
Star Wars Arcade
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time
Rampage
Virtua Fighter
Virtual On
Tokyo Wars
Joust
Discs of Tron

I also have an arcade machine built. It's a computer hooked up to my TV loaded up with MAME* and hooked up with one of these. I'll post some pics later. But it lets me play classic arcade games with a real arcade controller on a nice big TV in my own home. Well worth the investment.

*Of course, I only use ROMs that I legally own via sources like GameTap and Star Roms.

[Galenmarek]

Frosty's nice, how about Taffy? He's pretty fun. That was a really random game. Part of its charm.

I didn't play T2 when it came out, I never happened upon it until fairly recently. How old am I? In human years? Gee, that'll take some math.

Galaga! That game is so simple and yet...so entertaining. Isn't it interesting? Video games have grown so much over time, and yet we still love the old stuff.

[Luinnar]

Not surprisingly I love the D&D Capcom arcade games. I also fondly remember the TMNT games. My newest favorite is the Star Wars one which had mini games where you fight Darth Vader and Boba Feet with your lightsaber. (forgot the name). I don't go to arcades though, unless I am on vacation and they don't have 10,000 screaming little kids in them.

[boyward]

Luinnar, on 26 January 2010 - 02:45 PM, said:

Not surprisingly I love the D&D Capcom arcade games.

Really? D&D? I remember Capcom's medieval fantasy games like "Knights of the Round", and I remember reading in EGM or Gamepro or Diehard Gamefan about the D&D games but my local arcades never had them out on the floor.

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I don't go to arcades though, unless I am on vacation and they don't have 10,000 screaming little kids in them.

I would be the dad who lets his excited children try out all the (non-violent) arcade game demos without telling them aren't actually playing the game. We can get 20 minutes of entertainment without spending a single quarter. Their favorites are Sega's arcade racers where you get to sit down together and have a race. Or a demo of a race, anyway.

[Luinnar]

boyward, on 26 January 2010 - 03:56 PM, said:

Really? D&D? I remember Capcom's medieval fantasy games like "Knights of the Round", but I didn't know they made D&D too.

Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom and the sequel Shadow Over Mystara. They are great, my favorite beat-em-up games. Tower of Doom had four characters, fighter, dwarf (different fighter) elf (warrior/mage) and cleric. You could gain levels and it even had a small inventory system. Shadow Over Mystara is even better. It came out to the Sega Saturn in Japan, pity it never made it over here.

(the game itself has good framerate unlike the video)

[Galenmarek]

Never played D&D.

But the other game you described sounds like the Star Wars Trilogy Arcade game. Awesome game right there.

Hey Boyward: I don't think any of us have not pretended to be playing or thought we were playing when it was a demo