Your top 10 Arcade games

[DemonEyeX]

Re: Your top 10 Arcade games

Some awesome choices there Jedi.

[Jedi Knight]

Re: Your top 10 Arcade games

And a few more honourable mentions:

Bad dudes vs dragon-ninja
Ghosts n Goblins
Sly Spy Secret Agent
Afterburner
Combat tribes
Spy Hunter
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Operation Wolf
POW
Kung-fu Master
Super Wonderboy in Monster Land
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Dynamite Dux
Bubble Bobble
New Zealand Story
Shaolin's Road
Ikari Warriors
Super Hang-on
Robocop
Shinobi

[Jedi Knight]

Re: Your top 10 Arcade games

Double Dragon (Favourite arcade game ever!)
Outrun
Golden Axe
WWF Wrestling (The early one)
Street Fighter 2 (and all it's incarnations)
Splatterhouse
Karate Champ
Star Wars (The one which is basically coloured lines, but what sound!!!)
APB (Great fun)
King of Boxer

[Genie]

Re: Your top 10 Arcade games

I used to live on the south east coast and so there were loads of towns with arcades nearby to haunt, I really miss the atmosphere you used to get in them, its nothing like that now. =( The cranes were more fun then too, and less twitchy, our local one was filled with drumstick lollies, fruit pastilles, loose wrapped chews and toffees and (yuk) parma violets!

Some of the faves then -

Moon Cresta, Scramble, Moon Buggy, Galaxians, Dig Dug, Phoenix, Crazy Balloon, Frogger, and (not sure what it was called) the one where you bet your pennies on the little plastic horses that went around a track under a big perspex dome, I think the biggest win was 25p but it felt like a lot!

No. 1 of all time though has to be Dragon's Lair, I fell in love with it the moment I saw it, but we had to travel to the next town to play it and it cost 30p for 4 lives in one arcade and 20p for 3 in another (ouch). I was completely obsessed and it just about consumed by every waking moment trying to figure out which way I should have gone after poor Dirk met his grisly demise yet again. I did manage to complete it in the end and then several more times (including once in an arcade with overhead monitors which made me feel ridiculously happy) ... somehow though I could never get into its sister game Space Ace.

I used to love the old vintage arcade machines at Walt Disney World (guess they were along the same linesas the Disneyland ones) and they've gone bye-bye too I believe. If you have a multi-day-multi-park ticket at WDW however, its worth knowing that you can go get a quick Frogger, Galaxians, etc fix at Disney Quest @ Downtown Disney, they have a whole bunch of old machines there . =)

[DemonEyeX]

Re: Your top 10 Arcade games

Hmmmmm, hard to say 10.
Off my head I would go for -

Galaga
Track & Field
Asteroids
OutRun
Bubble Bobble
Star Wars
G-Loc Air Battle 360
Galaxian 3 a.k.a. Galaxian³ : Project Dragoon
Dragon's Lair
SFIII - Third Strike

Saying that, i'd also have to pick a gun game.
Could the Silent Scope series be considered retro yet ?

[vanhelsing]

Re: Your top 10 Arcade games

Some od mine're bit obscure but..
AFTER BURNER
DRAGON GUN
MUTANT FIGHTER
STAR WARS
STEEL GUNNER 2
S.T.U.N RUNNER
OPERATION WOLF
GORF
SCRAMBLE
CYBER SLED

[Sly]

Re: Your top 10 Arcade games

Watching those was great, I love all the mechanical stuff underneath the fascia.

[victorbrunswick]

Re: Your top 10 Arcade games

I wish! Those machines are at Tokyo Disneyland (though I wouldn't be surprised if they're the same ones that used to be at California Disneyland!). According to my cousin's son who works at Disneyland they were taken out a few years ago because they were getting too expensive to maintain. The following shows the inner workings of the Rockola 1937 World Series machine. Talk about engineering!

[darren]

Re: Your top 10 Arcade games

When I was a kid I used to love the Penny Arcade in Disneyland's Main Street USA area. It had all kinds of vintage mechanical arcade games from the '50s and '60s and older. On a recent visit I was surprised to find the arcade gone and a candy shop in its place.

great pics mate.

are these all yours.

[Sly]

Re: Your top 10 Arcade games

Ah, Gauntlet.

"Don't shoot the FOOOOD!!!!! Aaawwww!"

lol

[ncpcov]

Re: Your top 10 Arcade games

Gauntlet 2 - literally had ALL of my pocket money.
I also used to love Italia 90 as well, where there were just 8 teams each with different strengths.
As I got a bit older - there was only one game to play - Street Figher 2.

[Mr Claypole]

Re: Your top 10 Arcade games

My favourite arcade game was Cosmic Avenger

A deinite classic !




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWq61DqXaew

[victorbrunswick]

Re: Your top 10 Arcade games

Galaga -- With enough quarters I could have played it for hours!

[sixtyten]

Re: Your top 10 Arcade games

So many...

Whittled down to faves..

Defender
Battlezone
Major Havoc
Robotron
Galaxian
Mappy
Popeye
Sinistar
Frogger
Phoenix

loads more...

[spuggybridge]

Re: Your top 10 Arcade games

Loved the pics of the old 1950's / 60's arcade machines, quality

On the arcade front my top ten

Defender
Star Wars (sit down cabinet)
Wardener
Zippy Race (also called Traverse USA), could spend hours with 1 10p coin
Mr Do
Donkey Kong
Pac Land
Monaco GT (think its called that, top down racer used to have a steering wheel with it)
Pleids
Vanguard

All 80's classix