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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: USAFCAPcTSgt on June 20, 2013, 09:11:40 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWevidSFyjY
Thoese were the days. Happily spending hundreds of dollars of your parents money playing coin operated 8 bit video games. :x
Until, you hit 16 and your parents say it's time to get a job. :bhead
When you did get a job, then you had more money to waste. :banana:
Sure do miss the 80's.
Every game shown, I know I played. A few have taken hundreds of dollars from me over the past 4 decades playing.
Pac Man Family
Donkey Kong Family
Mario Brothers Family
Galaga
Star Wars Family
Dig Dug
Mr Do Family
Tempest
Defender
Joust
Karate Champ
Commando
Ikari Warriors
Bad Dudes
Double Dragon
1942
1943
Two Tigers
Time Pilot
Asteroids
Afterburner
Missile Command
Tron Family
Popeye
Operation Wolf
Crossbow
Gauntlet
Space Ace
Dragon's Lair
Xevious
Q-Bert
Goonies
Pole Position
Spy Hunter
Moon Patrol
Galaxian
Kung Fu
Ye Air Kung Fu
Sub Hunter
Many more that have been forgotten. :salute
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Asteroids, Joust, and Galaxian were my favorites. To this day I'd like to find and old sit down asteroids game for the basement. That would be cool :aok
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Contra and Ghosts and Goblins were my two favorites.
Even though it missed the 80s by just a hair did anyone else ever play the Time Traveler machine by Sega? It was a dollar when everything else was still a quarter. It was tough and the game play wasn't all that great, but man was it cool.
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I would play rolling thunder, dig-dug, 1942, and mappy for hours. Even tho the year was 2005, they were just plain fun. Wish they had more arcades :furious
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The greatest arcade game I ever played was a helicopter sim with great graphics like Dragon's Lair had. You had a collective, cyclic and pedals. It was hard as heck to fly and you had a guy screaming commands at you as you flew NOE thru New York City, desert canyons, jungles, ect. I think it was called Cobra Command. It was expensive to play, too. $2 per credit, but it was worth it.
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I had an ex-girlfriend from 20 years ago sneak up behind me in the grocery store, put her hand over her mouth and say "prepare to qualify" in a perfect imitation of the muffled female voice in "pole position".
In hindsight, I should have married that one.
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Ahhhh High School, worked in a pizza parlor at night. Closed it up and we all cracked open the beer and unlocked the coin boxes in the arcade. Played all night.
Joust, paperboy, q-bert, frogger, man those were fun times.
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When I was a kid we had a couple of flying arcade games and that was it outside of foosball and pinball. I was already in college by the time Pacman came out.
It was INSANE before that. We went outside and played civil war, robin hood, hide & go seek, kick the can, tag, and a quarter was A LOT of money back then. Getting them from our parents? GOOD LUCK on that.
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We went outside and played civil war, robin hood, hide & go seek, kick the can, tag, and a quarter was A LOT of money back then. Getting them from our parents? GOOD LUCK on that.
:old: I'm under 30 and I still played half those "outdoor" games! :old: Kick the can, man I can remember many a afternoon blazing through backyards to boot that can as hard as possible. :rock
Also, my older brother and I, being farmer kids, drilled out a quarter and tied fishing line to it and played for a few weeks before getting busted by the store owner... :furious we weren't allowed back to purchase swedish berries for a few months.. :x
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I still will pop on the PC versions of Pacman and Asteroids. :aok
(http://i624.photobucket.com/albums/tt324/thefollowingpreview/asteroids.png) (http://media.photobucket.com/user/thefollowingpreview/media/asteroids.png.html)
http://www.play.vg/games/4-Asteroids.html (http://www.play.vg/games/4-Asteroids.html)
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Wow, great memorys :aok
Loved Tony Stewarts Offroad
Paperboy
Tapper
Star Wars (the sit down in the booth version)
Dig Dug
Joust
Galaga
And when you were out of quarters, there was always Coleco Head to Head Football :D
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How I hated Dragon's Lair.....
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Space invaders :aok
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I still will pop on the PC versions of Pacman and Asteroids. :aok
(http://i624.photobucket.com/albums/tt324/thefollowingpreview/asteroids.png) (http://media.photobucket.com/user/thefollowingpreview/media/asteroids.png.html)
http://www.play.vg/games/4-Asteroids.html (http://www.play.vg/games/4-Asteroids.html)
I used to play Asteroids, Dig-Dug, Super Galaga, Centipede, Gravitar, Bubble Bobble etc. on Mame32 after the coin ops disappeared. Gravitar and Asteroids were my all time favourites, my wife is crazy about BubbleBobble etc and we used to play them on 2 player mode.
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I largely missed the 80s arcade games except for the ones that were still in the arcades in the 90s. I mainly played:
The Simpsons
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Dungeons and Dragons: Tower of Doom (the Elf chick was pretty hot when you're 13)
Primal Rage
Mortal Kombat 1 and 2
Afterburner
And like I said, some of the 80s-era cabinets were still around in the 90s, so I did play some of those as well (Star Wars stands out most prominently).
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Was only able to play that games for a short time in my youth. Then they changed the law and limited arcade games to the actual arcades, which are off limits to minors over here. :old:
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I still remember the first time I played asteroids. it was so much fun. at .25 cents it was expensive but I spend as much money as I could on it. galaga was another great game along with centipede.
semp
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I think I still have 8 games here. NBA JAM, Rampart, Xmen, Super Mario World, Super Tennis, Fzero, Thunder Shark, Centipede, and a crappy baseball game. Use to work for a vending company and when they "upgraded" a game they would buy a kit that came with a board, graphics and controls. We'd clean and reuse the cabinets and they would throw the boards away. We would take turns being the trash can :P
Have an 8 foot single piece slate pool table, juke box, and HAD a pinball (Amazon Hunt). Kids birthday parties were ALWAYS a hit at our house as we had our own arcade! LOL!
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I remember when arcades switched to tokens. Many arcades used to have 8 tokens for a dollar. Most games were one token to play with the newest games at 2 tokens a single play.
Some arcades used to give out 50 tokens for a 5 dollar bill in the token machine. If you had a 10 dollar bill, then you gave it to the game attendant and he or she would give you 120 tokens.
Have you ever seen a 10 year old kid trying to stuff 120 tokens in his little pockets? He usually winded up making quick friends at the arcade.
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Asteroids, Joust, and Galaxian were my favorites. To this day I'd like to find and old sit down asteroids game for the basement. That would be cool :aok
Here
http://www.thepinballcompany.com/search.aspx?find=asteroids
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Here
http://www.thepinballcompany.com/search.aspx?find=asteroids
The one and only model (for me) is the table model. That's the one I used to play as a kid... Cool site though.
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This.
The year. About 1981. A female friend and I used to hang out at this bar (were really just friends) get drunk drinking beer shots of JD, flaming shots of Sambuka on top of whatever else we ate or smoked on a given night.
One night we were both tripping on some double barrel white mesc and between drinking and commenting on how the walls were breathing we played this game. As a goof we tried something different. She took on flipper, and I the other. The experience was wild and amazing. Its as if each of us and the machine were all joined as one with the flippers being extensions of our fingers. We turned the score over on the first ball! Something I've never done before or since.
(http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/flyers_pinball/bally/291014004.jpg)
We lost contact with one another a few months after that as she, and another one of our friends decided to delve further into the more addictive drugs of heroine and started shooting up everything else. Something I was against. Not wanting to go there. I walked away.
We'd lost touch and only met up a couple more times after that after she got clean. Unfortunately her life was cut short by an impatient truck driver who decided to cross the solid line and pass just as she was making a left turn to pull into a parking lot and proceeded to smash into her crushing her in her car against a telephone pole.
Anyway. That night on that machine is one of the fondest memories I'll ever have
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Tron :aok
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HHRCA6CS8k
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Tron... Joust... TMNT... Asteroids... Choplifter... Operation Wolf...
I am also ashamed to admit that I was a Street Fighter 2 junkie...
Wiley.
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Let's see...
I still have my NES and SNES. NES is temperamental, but I can still get it to work. SNES still fires up right off.
NES:
Mega Man 2-6
Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt
Mario 2
Mario 3
Guerilla War
Marble Madness
Legend of Zelda
The Adventure of Link
1942
1943
Commando
Ikari Warrior's (I am unsure if I still have these or not. I believe I have 1 and 2, but REALLY unsure bout 3)
R.C. Pro-am (I am unsure if I still have it or not)
Tecmo Bowl
Tecmo Super Bowl
Top Gun
Played but don't own:
Back to the Future
Caveman Games
Contra
Rampart
Tiger Heli
Twin Cobra
Sky Shark
Spy Hunter
Super Sprint
SNES:
U.N. Squadron
Super Mario All Stars
Super Mario World
Super Mario Kart
Super Scope 6
F-Zero (I honestly do not remember if I still have this one or not. I'd have to dig, but ballz to that. At the very least, I've played it quite a bit)
Star Fox
P.T.O. II: Pacific Theater of Operations
Played but don't own:
Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf
A.S.P. Air Strike Patrol
Doom (I played Doom on the SNES to see what the difference was, and that I didn't have the full thing on PC. Was disappointed with music)
Earthworm Jim 1/2
The Hunt for Red October
Mario is Missing
MechWarrior
MechWarrior 3050 (I can't remember WHICH of these two I played, but I know I played one of them if not both)
Micro Machines
Operation Europe: Path to Victory (This game got me started on strategy games, big time)
Pilot Wings (Wish I could of played this one more often, even own it. I found it quite fun)
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Future's Past
Super Battletank: War in the Gulf
Super Star Wars (all 3 of them)
Tom and Jerry
Wing Commander
Wing Commander: The Secret Missions (both I really wish I had purchased :bhead)
Wings 2: Aces High (when I first saw the commercial for Aces High, it instantly made me thing back to this game :))
Rampart
Everything still works. :) Well, aside from my NES giving me the 8bit middle finger now and again. :bhead
Arcade wise, oh boy, Galaxian, Galaga and Asteroids, definitely. Afterburner, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Rampart, and so many other's I can no longer remember the names too. :(
Damn you all!!! Now I wanna pull all that stuff out and set it up. And damn well would, if I had the bloody space to do it. :bhead
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I have a Ms. Pacman (mostly for the Mrs.), a Donkey Kong Jr. (with the DK and DK3 boards to swap out), and the 1992 Data East Star Wars pinball.
(http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee344/mickeyphoto_bucket/arcade.jpg) (http://s534.photobucket.com/user/mickeyphoto_bucket/media/arcade.jpg.html)
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Can't believe so few of you know Gravitar which is IMO a huge classic.
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Can't believe so few of you know Gravitar which is IMO a huge classic.
Forgot about that one. Loved it too.
(http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb368/kalantharvest/Past%20Games/gravitar.jpg) (http://media.photobucket.com/user/kalantharvest/media/Past%20Games/gravitar.jpg.html)
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Must have been around 1978 or so, stationed at Ft. Campbell Ky. There was a bar just south of the base on 41A where me and a buddy use to drink a bit and play Space Wars. I can't even image how much money we feed that machine. :old:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/32/SPACEWAR.png)
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I had a paper route from age 12 to 16 and used to ride my skateboard up to the arcade to blow about 30 bucks a week. Defender and Stargate took the mother load, followed by Galaga, Tempest, and pinball.