TMNT(in a crappy, run down theatre with me probably being the only kid ever going into that arcade, but I loved playing that game)
Simpsons Arcade
Street Fighter II(Can't really describe how fascinated I was by this game when I first played it)
Marvel Super Heroes,X-Men vs Streetfighter, Marvel vs Street Fighter, and Marvel vs Capcom(These were the most exciting games in my area at the time. EVERYONE was playing them)
Time Crisis II(I don't think I ever even liked light gun games until I finally got to play this one that actually let me duck bullets. The PS 2 version with the gun was just as much fun)
Games that caught my interest but I didn't get to play that many times were:
Final Fight
Magic Sword
Mortal Kombat 1 and II
I didn't spend nearly as much time in arcades as I should have, which is probably why I fell in love with MAME and also the arcade game heavy Dreamcast. I've played way more arcade games AFTER the arcade scene pretty much died. Still have some great memories from the hey day of arcades though, even with my relatively little exposure to them. When I think of arcades, I mostly remember all the great beat'em ups and 2-d fighting games.
Speaking of which, I am REALLY disappointed with the Xbox Live Arcade service thus far
What Arcade Games Did You Grow Up With?
I'm in my early thirties, so, arcades really came to be when I was just a small kid. With me, I got hooked on the classics -- Pac Man, Asteroids, Marble Madness, Frogger... The list gets exponentially long -- but I feel fortunate that was my initiation. Due to poverty and various other issues (such as the arcades closing) it was really around the era of the 16 bit games that I stopped playing at arcades. Whenever I found an aracde game after that, I was fairly disappointed... but these were just a few random machines at bowling alleys, pizza joints, etc. TMNT, for instance, did nothing for me -- but then, I was usually alone at those times, and probably didn't get the best experience out of it for that reason.Gamerforlife wrote:TMNT(in a crappy, run down theatre with me probably being the only kid ever going into that arcade, but I loved playing that game)
Simpsons Arcade
Street Fighter II(Can't really describe how fascinated I was by this game when I first played it)
Marvel Super Heroes,X-Men vs Streetfighter, Marvel vs Street Fighter, and Marvel vs Capcom(These were the most exciting games in my area at the time. EVERYONE was playing them)
Time Crisis II(I don't think I ever even liked light gun games until I finally got to play this one that actually let me duck bullets. The PS 2 version with the gun was just as much fun)
Games that caught my interest but I didn't get to play that many times were:
Final Fight
Magic Sword
Mortal Kombat 1 and II
I didn't spend nearly as much time in arcades as I should have, which is probably why I fell in love with MAME and also the arcade game heavy Dreamcast. I've played way more arcade games AFTER the arcade scene pretty much died. Still have some great memories from the hey day of arcades though, even with my relatively little exposure to them. When I think of arcades, I mostly remember all the great beat'em ups and 2-d fighting games.
Speaking of which, I am REALLY disappointed with the Xbox Live Arcade service thus far
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For me it would be:
Gorilla Wars
Double Dragon 1 & 2
Street Smart
Snow Brothers
Street Fighter 1 & 2
Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja
Rastan
Shinobi
APB
Robocop
Ninja Spirit
Those are the main ones I remember. Choice and playtime was limited since this was in a video shop which only had 2 arcades and was practially next door to my school. So the waiting lines were always massively long!
Gorilla Wars
Double Dragon 1 & 2
Street Smart
Snow Brothers
Street Fighter 1 & 2
Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja
Rastan
Shinobi
APB
Robocop
Ninja Spirit
Those are the main ones I remember. Choice and playtime was limited since this was in a video shop which only had 2 arcades and was practially next door to my school. So the waiting lines were always massively long!
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ah the memories...
hands down i spent the most money on street fighter 2. i even wiped out my drummer boy quarter collection i'd had since i was a rugrat on that game. they had the arcade at a 7-11 (convenience store) about 4 miles from my house and i rode my bike down there countless times.
also, i will never forget the day i first saw a hacked version of street fighter 2 at a golf-n-stuff here. they had it on a big screen and it dominated their arcade. you'd have to wait at least 15 minutes just to get a turn, only to be crushed in 10 seconds by the older high school punks.
it took me forever to figure out the dip switches needed to get it working in mame just as i remembered it as a kid. fortunately i did, and now i can relive those days. yay mame!
other notable mentions include:
hands down i spent the most money on street fighter 2. i even wiped out my drummer boy quarter collection i'd had since i was a rugrat on that game. they had the arcade at a 7-11 (convenience store) about 4 miles from my house and i rode my bike down there countless times.
also, i will never forget the day i first saw a hacked version of street fighter 2 at a golf-n-stuff here. they had it on a big screen and it dominated their arcade. you'd have to wait at least 15 minutes just to get a turn, only to be crushed in 10 seconds by the older high school punks.
it took me forever to figure out the dip switches needed to get it working in mame just as i remembered it as a kid. fortunately i did, and now i can relive those days. yay mame!
other notable mentions include:
- mortal kombat
mortal kombat 2
mortal kombat 3
ms. pac man
steel talons
ivan 'ironman' stewart's super off road
spy hunter
paperboy
stryder
rastan
bad dudes
operation wolf
legendary wings
tron
teenage mutant ninja turtles
tetris
Geez I'm gonna date myself a little since I actually remember playing Space Race, it was a really cool looking console too.
The earliest games I played a lot were Space Invaders and Asteroids. I liked Phoenix a lot but the sound effects just about drove me nuts. I also enjoyed Tank Battle, the good one with the scope site. There was a great top-down view racing game with multiple tracks that was a whole lot of fun but I don't recall the name. I played Zaxxon every chance I got but the local hang out for me never had one, we only saw it when we went to the big arcade in the big city nearby.
I loved to watch my brother play Dragon's Lair because he was the only person I ever saw that could finish the game and get the end story. My friends played a whole lot of Defender and I'll admit it looked cool but I never could get the hang of it.
Other that were fun were Joust, Dig Dug and Night Driver. One rather obscure game I liked was called Ripoff. It looked a lot like Asteroids but you flew a ship that protected cargo in the middle of the screen from ships that would fly in from the edges and try to steal your cargo. What was the game that coined the phrase "Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert!" and had the deadly bouncing happy face balls that would come out randomly and kill you on the spot if you didn't move quickly? I liked that one too but didn't get to play it a lot. There are probably others but I can't recall them at the time.
The earliest games I played a lot were Space Invaders and Asteroids. I liked Phoenix a lot but the sound effects just about drove me nuts. I also enjoyed Tank Battle, the good one with the scope site. There was a great top-down view racing game with multiple tracks that was a whole lot of fun but I don't recall the name. I played Zaxxon every chance I got but the local hang out for me never had one, we only saw it when we went to the big arcade in the big city nearby.
I loved to watch my brother play Dragon's Lair because he was the only person I ever saw that could finish the game and get the end story. My friends played a whole lot of Defender and I'll admit it looked cool but I never could get the hang of it.
Other that were fun were Joust, Dig Dug and Night Driver. One rather obscure game I liked was called Ripoff. It looked a lot like Asteroids but you flew a ship that protected cargo in the middle of the screen from ships that would fly in from the edges and try to steal your cargo. What was the game that coined the phrase "Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert!" and had the deadly bouncing happy face balls that would come out randomly and kill you on the spot if you didn't move quickly? I liked that one too but didn't get to play it a lot. There are probably others but I can't recall them at the time.
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