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I might be preaching to the wrong crowd or so, since going to the arcade and playing arcade games seems to be a dead art soon...
So Dakka, when you were young and/or go to the arcade when you can this day and age when you get the chance, what is the Arcade cabinet you start to rush to and is your favorite to play?
It used to be Marvel vs. Capcom 2 for me, then this came along and grabbed my attention a lot. I enjoy the hell out of this game and I wish it could get a console port possibly....
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I used to love the 4 player co-op games like X-Men and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Then I mostly started playing fighting games after Street Fighter 2 came out. Before any of that though the original Double Dragon ate up many many quarters after Tae Kwan Do class on Friday nights.
Hit up an awesome bar in Denver a few months back called 1up, full of classic arcade games, pinball machines, and what have you. I recommend it thoroughly. I think the newest game they had was the Simpsons sidescroller.
Plus it was super fun listening to 21 year old girls gush about how much they love frogger. Equal parts Lol and Ugh.
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gossipmeng wrote: Gauntlet was always amusing, but not built for a quick 5 minute play
Got that right. I remember at some point in my life I was in an arcade overnight (was a special party when they rented the place out or something) and one person there just sat in front of the Gauntlet machine the entire time and beat the game in one sitting.
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The only one I distinctly remember enjoying over the others was the X-Men one.
You know the one.
"WELCOME TO DIE."
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Time Crisis! 3 in particular. Any form of DDR machine is also great for a laugh when you and your buddies have had a few.
Going further back, to *actual childhood* (shudder), I didn't get TOO much arcade time but side-scrolling TMNT was always great.
"Hard pressed on my right. My centre is yielding. Impossible to manoeuvre. Situation excellent. I am attacking." - General Ferdinand Foch
Ye Gods yes. The Mac's on the way to my school had one and I was late a few times because of this game.
Other classic quarter-munchers were SpyHunter, Raiden, Mortal Kombat, Elevator Action and GALS PANIC.
Soooo many quarters...
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I stopped playing arcade games when I realised I could buy most of them for my playstation. I clocked tekken 3 on the arcade on one go for 20p...
I still love my side scrolling beat 'em ups though.
I have the X-Men side scroller one from psn...
WENDIGO!*
*Yeti type monster with a high placement on brand awareness and self promotion who only shouted his own name...
I also liked Streets of Rage, Street Fighter 2, Afterburner. Nowadays, I just play the arcade games that I can't easily replicate at home - so time crisis, that aeroplane game where you sit in a cradle that can rotate 360 degrees etc.
The funniest thing I've seen was a friend going on Ridge Racer and the arcade had a full size Mx5 to sit in and the screen was the entire wall. A friend paid the price of £4 for a go. He sat in the car, put his seatbelt on, adjusted his seat, messed about with the mirrors...
Spoiler:
Then chose manual for the gears and didn't make the first checkpoint...£4 for roughly 20 seconds, it took him longer to get in the car
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Its because ordinance is still a word.
However, firing ordinance at someone isn't nearly as threatening as firing ordnance at someone.
Ordinance is a local law, or bill, or other form of legislation.
Ordnance is high caliber explosives.
No 'I' in ordnance.
Don't drown the enemy in legislation, drown them in explosives.
RoadBlasters, Space Harrier, Virtua Fighter, Street Fighter 2, Daytona, House of the Dead 2, Cyber Sled and Star Wars/Star Wars Trilogy are some of my favourites as well.
I would still go to the arcade if I could find one, I love arcades.
Sinistar is probably my all time favorite. Then there's Zevious, Zaxxon, Wizard of Wor, Gauntlet, Spy Hunter and that old star wars vector graphics one with the snow flake laser beams .. they were were some of my favorites.
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Melissia wrote: The only one I distinctly remember enjoying over the others was the X-Men one.
You know the one.
"WELCOME TO DIE."
This. 100%. I played it over and over again, beat it 100+ times in the arcade, worked on learning tricks to beat it without using mutant powers, and played every time I went to the mall. There was always somebody playing it-the game was never unattended. Glad it's available on IOS and my Xbox now. I previously only had an illegal MAME copy. I also miss the classic Spider-Man arcade game, Battletoads and TMNT. Xmen children of the atom was another big one. Tekken 3 gave some amusing games as well.
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I preferred the freeform sidescroller Aliens game.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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Wales: Where the Men are Men and the sheep are Scared.
Soul Calibur,
Lucky and Wild
Any time crisis
Any house of the dead
Simpsons side scrolling beat em up
FInal fight
Virtua Cop 3
OutRun
Ghost Squad
Silent scope
Actually, anyone remember that four-player western sidescrolling shooter game? The one where you played four cowboys going around shooting everythinghtat moved and quite a few things that didn't?
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
My blog
Melissia wrote: Actually, anyone remember that four-player western sidescrolling shooter game? The one where you played four cowboys going around shooting everythinghtat moved and quite a few things that didn't?
Oh man! I can remember my favorite Arcade game was at my local tenpin bowling alley when I was very young! I used to waste lots of dollars on it TIME KILLERS!
Melissia wrote: Actually, anyone remember that four-player western sidescrolling shooter game? The one where you played four cowboys going around shooting everythinghtat moved and quite a few things that didn't?
Sunset Riders?
Yes! That was the one. I eventually got that on a console actually, I think SNES.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
My blog
Melissia wrote: Actually, anyone remember that four-player western sidescrolling shooter game? The one where you played four cowboys going around shooting everythinghtat moved and quite a few things that didn't?
Sunset Riders?
Yes! That was the one. I eventually got that on a console actually, I think SNES.
I had it on Genesis. And there was one lesson that game taught.
You do not mess with anyone in a pink sombrero, ESPECIALLY if they are Cormando and he can dual-wield rapid-firing shotguns from the hip.
They basically cut the game in half for hte genesis port. The SNES port just got some minor censorship going on.
You lost four of eight levels, and two of four characters :/
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The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
My blog
"Hard pressed on my right. My centre is yielding. Impossible to manoeuvre. Situation excellent. I am attacking." - General Ferdinand Foch 
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