Favorite Old School Arcade game

[Slacky McSlackAss]

NBA Jam and the X-Men arcade game.

[BigMike619]

Bigmike is that Starcastle on top?? I won an old Q-107 contest playing that. I beat "Uncle Johnny" way back when.

I used to dram of Starcastle..nice job!!

Q-107!! hahahahahaa!! THE MOST HITS!!

[Stew]

A thread like this begs for pictures. I was born in 1979, so my prime arcade days were in the 1987-1992 timeframes. Here's what I remember most from my arcade trips.

Double Dragon - Taito Arcade version. Best Double Dragon graphics of any of the series, this was the one where the guys were named "Hammer" and "Spike" instead of Billy and Jimmy Lee. Hammer wore blue and had yellow hair, Spike was Red with Red. Awesome, awesome game.

Next, we have a more obscure game called Crime Fighters, which was four player. You could be the Blue guy, Red guy, Yellow Guy, or Green guy. This game sucked down so many quarters. Because I'm at work, a lot of images are blocked, so the only one I can use right now is the marquee.

One of the best wrestling graphic games ever, and already mentioned, was WWF Wrestlefest.

And of course, TMNT The arcade game, which was adapted poorly on the NES.

Those were my big 4 that I played so much in my youth. But I'm also going to throw a shout out to two older favorites, they were phasing out a little by the time I started getting into arcade games, but I purchased both on the Sega Genesis and enjoyed them for hours.

First Up: Altered Beast

And of course, the incomparable Golden Ax.

Thanks for this thread, it's making me smile.

I loved Altered Beast and Golden Ax, two of my favorates. Before that though was Q-bert. i loved that game in the "Pegesus Arcade" in Dale City. I would also play that and the one "Cop" game where you had a gun (player one had a blue gun and player two had a pink gun) and you had to shoot everyone. I forget the name but i spent lots of money on that as well. Also, when the first Mortal Kombat came out for the arcade, the mold was broken.

[Forehead]

hahaha..hell ya!!

I loved the gagging sounds they made when they died. and it was the first game where I remember being able to grab someone by the hair and knee them in the face to death!!

You know what else I loved, now that I'm remembering this. Do you ever remember watching the computer demonstration when no one was playing the game? Spike (The red guy) got his ass handed to him while Hammer (The blue guy) was wrecking **** up and throwing down. Because of that, I would always refuse to play as Spike when I was doing two player games, I had to be Hammer. Funny how a 9 year old mind works.

[BigMike619]

oh man, I KNEW my Atari had a personality and just loved to cheat so that I would lose. I still think my 360 hates me. It just corrupted my Force Unleashed profile so I have to start all over.

[BigMike619]

star castle

crazy climber

afterburner

double dragon

phoenix.

those were the games. and i played every one of them until i had NO money.

[zoony]

I pwn3d Golden Axe with the dwarf. I was the master of the running jump attack :point2sky

[BigMike619]

I pwn3d Golden Axe with the dwarf. I was the master of the running jump attack :point2sky

ever play 4 player on that game?

if you didnt get to the game quick enough you were left being the girl. and to a 13 year old boy that was torture!!

[Forehead]

I pwn3d Golden Axe with the dwarf. I was the master of the running jump attack :point2sky

Do you mean the one where he lowered his head and speared people with his horn helmet, or the one where he jumped really high and then drove his ax into someone's head, using his foot for extra leverage? Both were awesome.

I almost always played as the dwarf because the ax ruled, and there wasn't enough magic to make playing the chick worthwhile. But man, when she got her magic bar full, it was time to unleash some hell!

I never played as the human guy, he sucked. "Well rounded" is just another term for "This character blows."

And might I add, the red, fireball spitting dragon was far superior to the blue flame dragon.

Amazing...I can't even remember the birthdays of my inlaws, but I can remember all of this.

[Britskin]

I used to play this every lunch break from school back in 1986-1988 and you know what, it's still there! Costs a bit more per game now though!

[zoony]

the one where he jumped really high and then drove his ax into someone's head, using his foot for extra leverage?

This one. You could seriously eff up some dudes this way. Guys that it normally took 4 shots to kill went down instantly.

And when you had to square off against the steroid-freak knights at the end of each level, I just would bounce back and forth between them in perfect rhythm, as one went down from one of my crushing blows :cool:, the other would be just getting up, where I would run and jump and split his skull, then run back as the other knight was getting up, etc.

It got to the point where I could beat the entire game and maybe lose like one bar of life or something, if that. Those game programers became my ***** :cool:

[BRAVEONAWARPATH]

Contra, Centipede, Ms Pacman And Spy Hunter.

[LApunkrocker72]

Back in the early 80s, I was a frequent arcade visitor. My favorite games were PacMan, Space Invaders, Berserk, Defender and Donkey Kong.

[China]

In the '70's my friends and I used to frequent a dive in Falls Church called "Franks Place" roughly across the street from Coleman power sports on Lee Hyw. It was a crusty old bar with a few moose and deer heads mounted on the wall and crusty old WW2 vets mostly. Both the older and younger generation enjoyed talking trash and they were too old to fight us so it was all good.[/img]

I live just down the street from Frank's Place. Or what used to be Frank's Place. It's been gone for a couple of years now.

As for video games, I was fond of Galaxian, the predecessor to Galaga.

My friends were good at Defender, although I always sucked at it.

As a kid I lived in DC near Wisconsin Ave (near Guy Mason) and we'd go down to Nicky's to play video games and pinball. Here's one of the games they had:

I also enjoyed The Black Knight (one of the first multiple level/multi-ball pinball games):

[ECU-ALUM]

This was my all-time fav...disappointed that it never came out for the Atari 2600. It was supposed to but never happened.

[rdsknbill]

http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/80s_games/

My kids love this site

[BigMike619]

ECU, I LOVED Tempest!!

and China, there were too many buttons on Defender for me.

[ECU-ALUM]

ECU, I LOVED Tempest!!

and China, there were too many buttons on Defender for me.

I could play that game for...minutes...hey I loved the game but there were times I sucked at it.

I also agree Defender had too many buttons for me to deal with.

[Mongo2365]

Some of my favorites were 720, Cyberball, Paperboy, and Contra. I used to sneak out of my parent's house and head down the street to the Arcade and go play. Good times, good times.

[Predicto]

Plieads

Wizards of Wor

Satan's Hollow

and the best ever...

Sinistar!

I HUNGER!!!

[The 12th Commandment]

Galaga was my favorite. Now I have a version just as good (though smaller) as the original on my phone. I loved the Atari stuff in the 80's, countless hours with my friends on all kinds of different games. Tank Commander is one that comes to mind.

[mbws]

When I was young (in the George Allen era)

PINBALL was King. Then came PONG, and PINBALL was still King.

My Favorite 80's arcade game was GALAXIAN.

[Buford T. Justice]

Afterburner...the one where the seat moves as you play.

[BigRay]

Hmm tough question good thread though. Let me see I guess I have to go with Galaga .

[artmonkforHOF]

I have a few in mind:

old arcade games- spyhunter, punchout, I would play today. Ones that where popular when I was young would be double dragon and gauntlet-remember that one? see below. But the best pinball game of all time is Black Knight 2000.