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Tell me your favorite arcade games from back in the day

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Save your Donkey Kong and Pac-Man takes, I'm not reading them.

I got MAME back on my new computer and I'm reliving those golry days when my scaly knuckles were pumping quarter after quarter into arcade games. I've been spending a lot of time playing NBA Jam TE, which drives me nuts because it's hard to consistently beat the computer. I also have 2 on 2 Open Ice Challenge, which is fun, but I'm obsessed with NBA Jam right now. If anyone can find me a working rom for NFL Blitz, that would be fantastic.

I also have:

Double Dragon
DD II
Street Fighter (the original)
SF II
SF II CE
SF II Turbo
Mortal Kombat
MK II
WWF WrestleFest
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There was a submarine battle sims game back in the 90's called "Red Storm Rising." Meager graphics but it was nice strategy. One could spend the entire evening with it.
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Screw_Michigan wrote:Save your Donkey Kong and Pac-Man takes, I'm not reading them.
Why not? You fucking asked for "favorite arcade games back in the day" but you don't want to read about some of them? Oh, only if it was back in your day, huh?

Dipshit, go unfuck yourself.

Just stick with your blood and gore soaked, mind-numbing, egregiously violent fare while you imagine yourself as a Teen-age Mutant Ninja Turtle.
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Never cared much at all for the electronic games. About the only one I played was this one:
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Now pinball is my game ! The one I loved was this one:

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Road Rash on the Genesis.
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http://www.1980-games.com/us/

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Martyred wrote:Road Rash on the Genesis.
I was actually playing Road Rash 3 the other day. Good hit.
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This game used to drive me freaking nutz, back in the day.

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War Wagon wrote:
Screw_Michigan wrote:Save your Donkey Kong and Pac-Man takes, I'm not reading them.
Why not? You fucking asked for "favorite arcade games back in the day" but you don't want to read about some of them? Oh, only if it was back in your day, huh?

Dipshit, go unfuck yourself.

Just stick with your blood and gore soaked, mind-numbing, egregiously violent fare while you imagine yourself as a Teen-age Mutant Ninja Turtle.
You read my fucking mind. I deliberately excluded those games because I knew it would bunch your panties and since a simple-minded tard like you would find favor in Donkey Kong and Pac Man, it would prevent you from participating.

Here's to the next gleam in your eye being deposited in a tube sock, for the good of the nation.
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Screw_Michigan wrote: You read my fucking mind.
Not hard to do, since it's like the chalkboard at your elementary school after you got done with detention... a clean slate.
I deliberately excluded those games because I knew it would bunch your panties and since a simple-minded tard like you would find favor in Donkey Kong and Pac Man, it would prevent you from participating.
Actually, I never cared for Donkey Kong. Played Pac Man like a mutha, though.

How'd that prevent me from participating thing work out for you, btw?
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I guess my "day" was some time before yours was (I can remember the first Pong machines in Silicon Valley - before it was Silicon Valley, which was where I lived).

That being said...

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Mikey wrote:I guess my "day" was some time before yours was (I can remember the first Pong machines in Silicon Valley - before it was Silicon Valley, which was where I lived).

That being said...

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MuchoBulls wrote:Joust
That one took a shitload of my quarters. So did Space Invaders.
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Commando
Paperboy (loved the hiccup/tilt one could do by going off the map at one of the later hedges)
Battlezone
Track & Field (only losers use pens/pencils)
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Space Invaders & Pinball
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Space Invaders
Pac Man
Asteroids
Missile Command
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Double Dragon (the arcade version) took MANY quarters from me when i was a kid.

the game N.A.R.C. and SWAT, arcade games with Uzis were always the shit.

console games

Tecmo Bowl

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Diego in Seattle wrote:Paperboy (loved the hiccup/tilt one could do by going off the map at one of the later hedges)
RACK!!!

Spy Hunter was another one I lost many quarters on.
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Paperboy rocked.
Commando was awesome.

I think Karate Champ took most of my quarters though.....
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1942 and 1943, go figure.
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Moon Patrol and Kangaroo were pretty good.
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The Sega Fishing game was pretty bad ass, that is a somewhat recent game.

I went to Vegas in 98 with family when I was 16. Of course, can't gamble, but to fill the time, Vegas had THE greatest arcades in the country. All the games I ever wanted to play.
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ha ha ha...rack JayDuck!

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Neely8 wrote: I think Karate Champ took most of my quarters though.....

. . . . . . . . . . . same here - GREAT game.

Also: Rush'n Attack. Simple game that was HARD to play as the levels got higher.

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My favorite arcade games? Just to name a few...

Double Dragon
Virtua Fighter
Galaga
Mike Tyson Punch Out
NFL Blitz
Missile Command
Tekken
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The USA vs. USSR version of this, the one with the "boo" button:

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Defender.

We used to have the arcade sized one in our family room.

I think my mom bought it off some meth-head for like, $40 or something.
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RACK Degenerate! Can't believe I forgot Marble Madness.

Chexx hockey was a staple.

Looping was an addictive game as well.
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GORF

MR DO

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DRAGON'S LAIR

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JayDuck wrote:Image

Dude, I never would have remembered that game if you hadan't posted that pic. Hoe lame was that thing!
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