I know there's a game thread already...but I've made this for the old timers like myself who used to head to Timezone / local milk bar and put in shrapnel to get a cheap thril.

Anyone nominate your fav arcade machine games of the 80s and 90s

I used to love challenging people on Streetfighter 2

i miss those days.

I think gaming used to be a lot more social back then compared to now where people's head are buried in their phone



Edited by Socawho: 30/5/2016 02:03:16 PM

Why just the 80s and 90s? There's plenty of good arcade machines today.

I love Midnight Maximum Tune. At Galactic Circus there's always people waiting to use it.
Mario Kart is fun too when there's 4 players in the race.

Is that similar to Dance Dance Revolution

I got pretty far at Double Dragon. It was during one of those power play sessions where you pay in advance and you get the man to keep giving you credits everytime you die. Also used to play Snow Bros a lot and the clown guy in WWE.

Killer Instinct was my jam.

Also loved the side scroller X-Men games back in the dizzay.

Marvel V Capcom was also a stable.

Also know top scored several of the local Time Crisis 2 machines (every other TC was shit bar that one).

-PB

Was into all those older games (sorry gab :) ). Also loved NBA Jam and NBA Jam TE, still up there with greats in terms of soundtracks IMO
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It's a racing game with mostly tuner cars and a story line as well.

You get a card to save your cars and progress in the story and you also a free game if you are the winner in multiplayer.

Edited by "9GABmeme420": 30/5/2016 03:27:29 PM

Galaga. A true classic (and I'm showing my age...)

Is that x men one the one with 6 players at once..if it's the same one I'm thinking of...that one was hard as fuck and was designed to milk the piggy bank big time.
It's so easy to die in that game...even when you use the special power you lose energy...such a rort


Edited by Socawho: 30/5/2016 04:07:39 PM

Double Dragon..that baseball bat saved plenty of money:lol:

Interesting rumor, there was a thing where The makers were so shitty with Michael Jordan for withholding his name rights that they coded the game so that the Chicago Bulls had little chance of winning the game if you used them

Mortal Kombat 2 was the shit for competitive play. I remember sitting on that thing for hours destroying all these other kids than this dude steps up and wipes me out in no time. Good times.
Ridge Racer was up there to.

Before that my local take away when I was in primary school was rocking double dragon, then ghost and goblins and later goblins and ghouls.
These 3 games define my childhood of arcade games.

Did you ever play Double dragon 2...that was good too..much harder that the first

You must be old:lol:

You could get pretty far in the original double dragon using the elbow :lol:

This game is god. That and intial d is what i used to play constantly at highpoint.

Couldn't get my head around the MK dynamics...I was just plain hopeless at it.

:lol: da hell .. only in Japan

Yeah once I found out about emulators for arcades my life was complete :lol:

-PB

Does timezone still exist? those 10 dollar super sessions were ace.

I'm surprised it's not hen tai:lol:

Yeah I prefer going to Galactic Circus than the casino. I'm losing money either way, may as well enjoy it.

Less likely to develop an addiction at Galactic Circus:lol:

Quiet, you little whipper snapper!

My God I loved this game on mega drive (played it at the arcade too)

Question to all who played this :

Did you play with the computer assisted teammate or control both?

I always controlled both and never understood people who played it differently!!!!

Always wanted one of those refurbished table top games that you can now put 100 games in or whatever you want
Those table top games just bring back sooo many (early) childhood memories

Ridge Racer was awesome
God, what was that soccer game?? I used to play that all the time

Virtua Fighter
Mortal Kombat
Time Crisis 2
I seem to recall a ninja turtle game when I was pretty young

Not arcade but i remember one the hindley street arcades had a NHL game like a soccer table (never called it foosball), had a lid on it i reckon... that was freaking awesome!

Oh man, what was the soccer game called!!!!!

Edited by davide82: 31/5/2016 03:15:08 PM

Haha I got my megadrive with that game pretty much explicitly to play it!

Computer assisted was how the arcade was so I usually played it that way. They AI did dumb stuff but I hardly ever passed anyway :lol:

Virtua Striker?
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GOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLL


Was that the one where they'd say "oh shell shocked" when they died?

Anyone played the beatem up games vendetta and Captain Commando?

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This is the TMNT arcade game I remember playing.