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What was your favorite arcade game?

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alkemyst said:
Taking the Level 1 short cut to Level 8 hangs the game 🙁


My favorite two games were Black Tiger and Primal Rage (SabreWulf).
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Primal Rage was that terrible stop-motion animated prehistoric fighting game. SabreWulf is from Killer Instinct, a CGI fighting game that featured one dinosaur. Now: don't ever confuse them again. KI (along with SabreWulf) was awesome!
 
GagHalfrunt said:
If you were born in the 80's you missed the golden age of arcade games entirely. They had dawned and the sun was setting before you ever went near an arcade. 1978 to around 1984 or so was when arcades ruled. After that home systems had started getting better and arcades started to die off.

I liked Asteroids and Tempest most of all. Spent some quarters on Missile Command, Zaxxon, Qix and Tron. Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, Pac-Man and Defender were really big back then too, but I never got into those.

When Tempest came out it had a bug or Easter egg, if you knew the trick you could get 40 free credits for a quarter. Used to play for a couple of hours and sell the leftover credits for a few bucks to buy a pizza.
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Yep. I mostly played Space Invaders and Asteroids. If you were worth a dang you could play a pretty long while on just a quarter.

Fern
 
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CZroe said:
Primal Rage was that terrible stop-motion animated prehistoric fighting game. SabreWulf is from Killer Instinct, a CGI fighting game that featured one dinosaur. Now: don't ever confuse them again. KI (along with SabreWulf) was awesome!
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Man, I was thinking Killer Instinct but typed Primal Rage for some reason lol.

I used to go over to the mall to have lunch and play it on my break. I just to troll kids/teens that thought some 'old guy' (I was about 25) wasn't any good.

I'd always play like a tard the first round and let the kid start talking smack 🙂

Back then you'd put up your quarters and that was how many times you'd get to play...usually after the second loss they'd take all their quarters down and let the next guy try.

What sucked is so many times I had to leave the game and I still had credit.

I loved that game. People used to say you really can't win with Wolfie, but I didn't meet many that could beat me.
 
GagHalfrunt said:
I liked Asteroids and Tempest most of all. Spent some quarters on Missile Command, Zaxxon, Qix and Tron. Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, Pac-Man and Defender were really big back then too, but I never got into those.

When Tempest came out it had a bug or Easter egg, if you knew the trick you could get 40 free credits
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+1

Loved missile command myself.

I finally agree with Alky on one thing.
 
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CZroe said:
Primal Rage was that terrible stop-motion animated prehistoric fighting game. SabreWulf is from Killer Instinct, a CGI fighting game that featured one dinosaur. Now: don't ever confuse them again. KI (along with SabreWulf) was awesome!
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Too many games with similar titles, I was thinking Sabrewulf was from TimeKillers.
 
When I was a kid, this is the one we all crowded around to play. (or to watch 🙁 )

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^^

Definitely dropped a lot of money on the TMNT machine which was inevitably located at the Chuck E Cheese; I'm sure many of you can relate, along with this machine:

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master_shake_ said:
Hey op the name of the game you played is called narc.

I like matmania I was undefeated when I was younger also final fight.
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HAHAHAHA! That's what it was!

Narc is a 1988 arcade game designed by Eugene Jarvis for Williams Electronics and programmed by George Petro.[1] It was one of the first ultra-violent video games and a frequent target of parental criticism of the arcade game industry. The object is to arrest and kill drug offenders, confiscate their money and drugs, and defeat "Mr. Big".
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narc_(video_game)

I can't believe I remember the game coming under scrutiny.
 
^^^The 4 player X-men or Ninja Turtles they had at Showbiz was my favorite. I pumped so many quarters(tokens)into both those games that I'm surprised my parents didn't go broke.
 
Robotron is my #1. Nothing else comes close.

That game is still as fun and fiendishly difficult today as it was back then. I like it so much I put one in my basement about 10 years ago and I still play it regularly.

I also built a M.A.M.E. machine to play the rest of the games, and it's a fun and simple project.

Other favorites would be:

Gyruss
Karate Champ
Joust
Defender
Rolling Thunder
Phoenix
Tron (but that game is damn near impossible to play emulated)
 
There was also this Beat 'em Up where you played as a cop. You started off with just a pistol and you ended up with power armor as you went along. Loved it to bits but for the life of me I can't remember the name.
 
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