What are your Arcade Memories

repete · May 2013

Blasts from the past

Operation Wolf:
[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBEBi2mjoLQ"]Operation Wolf (Arcade) - YouTube[/ame]

Ghosts´n´Goblins:
[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIhyjrXVhzg"]Arcade Longplay [115] Ghosts´n´Goblins - YouTube[/ame]

DEFENDER:
[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdUlS_cSMoE"]DEFENDER - 1980 CLASSIC ARCADE GAME - YouTube[/ame]

Hard Drivin:
[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6JC-HCNcio"]Hard Drivin' - Arcade - YouTube[/ame]

Makes me feel old :poly121:

blankslatejoe · May 2013

Heh...I remember playing a decent amount of this at the local bowling alley:

[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHORFz6ZCC0"]zaxxon 80s - YouTube[/ame]

poly_bob · May 2013

I loved wrestling when I was a kid

WWF Superstars:

[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgaxE7ALfLA"]WWF Superstars Arcade Intro #1 - YouTube[/ame]

WWF Wrestlefest:

[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO529MYnous"]WWF Wrestlefest Arcade Intro - YouTube[/ame]

leilei · May 2013

I really liked Growl. Here's a longplay
[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKyk45O4LCw"]Arcade Longplay [149] Growl - YouTube[/ame]

Memory · May 2013

Gauntlet Legends Arcade! More quarters = more health! (It helps to know the mallrats who work at the arcade.)
[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZDeWGQzxkA"]Gauntlet Legends: Arcade (1998) Volcanic Cavern - YouTube[/ame]

xvampire · May 2013

[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lflPOIXzYw0"]Model 2 Emulator Gunblade NY Gameplay (Easy Course) - YouTube[/ame] this game was brutal when i was kid and
dat wind effect, haunt me for years, so I implement it on modern combat 2, 3, and 4

joeriv · May 2013

[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XSdqtC1EyQ"]Time Crisis 2 Arcade Playthrough (FIXED) - YouTube[/ame]

The Mad Artist · May 2013

My earliest arcade memories were going to a dairy queen with my parents, and they had a few arcades. I used to sit in my dads lap while he worked the pedals on Pole Position and I drove.
[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUU_F9TvXco"]Pole Position (Arcade) Gameplay - YouTube[/ame]

Later it was this game, and beat em ups in general, like the Xmen arcade and the Simpsons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enxiRxcu7xc

And then there was this, which changed everything. I loved fighting games, and used to go to the corner store by my house and spend my allowance on SF2, and then they eventually got a Neo Geo cabinet that had World Heroes 2, Art of Fighting, and Fatal Fury 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQL0RMtyees

I miss those days. It's so hard to find REAL arcades. Places like Dave and Busters and Jillians all just have tons of shooting games and driving games.

Justin Meisse · May 2013

I used to spend stupid amounts of money at the arcade at Bowcraft in Scotch Plains, NJ. Black Knight 2000 was always the dominant theme song in most of my arcade memories:
[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCKDvjVzpNQ"]PINBALL MUSIC: Black Knight 2000 - Main Theme (1989) - YouTube[/ame]

can't forget BIG GUNS either
[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfLZF2qf8G4"]Big Guns Pinball Flyer - Used for shameless promotional purposes to sell this machine - YouTube[/ame]

EtotheRic · May 2013

Played Rastan at 7-11

https://www.youtube.com/tv?vq=medium#/watch?v=RfdOIMkXotw

pior · May 2013

Beating Tekken 2 at the arcade thanks to practicing and mastering the lengthiest Hwoarang combo at home on the PS1

ErichWK · May 2013

Alien vs Predator.. .the capcom beatemup. ..I'm actually looking to buy the cabinet.. .if any one knows where I can locate one!!

Sean VanGorder · May 2013

I would go to my local skating rink just to play some good ol' Raiden

[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F89-b6iQ2U"]Raiden (arcade) - 2 Loops Clear - Part 1 - YouTube[/ame]

Renaud Galand · May 2013

Killer Instinct! Ultimate favorite

[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=85C7bF0osAc[/ame]

oXYnary · May 2013

Played these so much at Circle K across from Dorm. Always got my ass kicked by little kids.

Original Mortal Combat.
[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zRUeinTj2w"]Mortal Kombat (Arcade) Playthrough - YouTube[/ame]

World Heroes
[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnJmCJMTpzk"]World Heroes Arcade (? - one credit) - YouTube[/ame]

EmAr · May 2013

Cadillacs & Dinosaurs:

[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uif1ONYv660"]Arcade Longplay [048] Cadillacs & Dinosaurs - YouTube[/ame]

Mutant Fighter

[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTcj1J4UeRA"]Mutant Fighter arcade gameplay video - YouTube[/ame]

Street Hoop:

[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrwLAkviF5w"]Street Hoop/Dunk Dream - Kawaks - NeoGeo - YouTube[/ame]

Also, I spent a good amount of time playing Tekken series at arcades.

MartinKDahl · May 2013

I used to play Metal Slug a lot at the arcades growing up, spent my whole allowance to Metal Slug, Samurai Shodown and Dodonpachi.

Metal Slug
[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnL0tqeWlhY[/ame]

Samurai Shodown
[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_A7p-dVCK0[/ame]

Dodonpachi
[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQshLOXWiGM[/ame]

SnowInChina · May 2013

metal slug was such a nice game
still is

Kurt Russell Fan Club · May 2013

I loved arcade games for ages but Turtles arcade was the first game that blew me away

[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enxiRxcu7xc"]Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade - 4 players Playthrough - YouTube[/ame]

Played lots of Midnight Resistance, I loved the spinning stick to control where you aim

[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beoHC4KCq4I"]Midnight Resistance - Arcade - Speed Run no Deaths part 1/2 - YouTube[/ame]

JR · May 2013

Those are the games that took the most amount of money of me:

The Combatribes:
[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG0tVG9SltA"]Arcade Longplay [136] The Combatribes - YouTube[/ame]

Alien Storm:
[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5w707nUsnU"]Arcade Longplay [141] Alien Storm - YouTube[/ame]

Legendary Wings:
[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f4jWQyf-fs"]Arcade Longplay [280] Legendary Wings - YouTube[/ame]

Metal Slug 3:
[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPCHeaqZZBQ"]Arcade Longplay [058] Metal Slug 3 - YouTube[/ame]

Dan! · May 2013

the MK series, killer instinct, the O.G tekken, samurai showdown, the street fighter series and of course!
PRIMAL RAGE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81UIg2A7a7U

Ruz · May 2013

used to play table top galaxian back in 1981 at the local cafe at scool lunchtime.
I was only about 11 and had a blast
[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzitZv8Enmc"]Galaxian - 80's flashback! - YouTube[/ame]
This is not the table top one, couldn't find a good pic of that
I think I played 'gorf' as well
[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0l97gmZ1pU"]Gorf Arcade Game (1981 Midway Mfg.) - Overview & Gameplay - YouTube[/ame]

katana · May 2013

I played a lot of SpaceWar...with pizza of course.

[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL4dnMBqfKo"]Space War (1977 Cinematronic) - YouTube[/ame]

Racer445 · May 2013

i have an outrun 2 cabinet in my basement and have a nice big stack of fairly modern arcade hardware. sega naomi, naomi 2 with net dimm and gdrom drive, sega lindbergh, konami bemanipc, various misc boards. i just bought a sega chihiro and the shifter, card reader, and IO boards required to play wangan midnight maximum tune 2.

me and a group of friends keep and maintain machines at a local place so the public can play them, since they're mostly really obscure, import music games. example of one such machine (beatmania IIDX) that we own, which is probably one of the best music games out there right now:

[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnrUZdGcJnk"]TEHSIG - ILIAS ANOTHER - YouTube[/ame]

so my arcade memories are every day. proper social gaming, too bad nobody goes outside anymore.

EmAr · May 2013

Those TMNT images bring back so many memories. We never had the 4 player version/cabinet here and that was one of my largest childhood disappointments about games. I also need to add these games:

I also clearly remember putting my head on the desk during classes in primary school, closing my eyes and imagining that I was playing through the first two levels of Cadillac and Dinosaurs. When the teacher asked what the problem was, I'd say I didn't feel well :icon15:

Lamont · May 2013

ErichWK wrote: »

Alien vs Predator.. .the capcom beatemup. ..I'm actually looking to buy the cabinet.. .if any one knows where I can locate one!!

Are you in SD? There is a company in Rose Canyon (like one exit past Clairmont BLVD on the 5 side) that repairs and refurbishes machines. They were a good place to source cabinets.

My first addiction was that vector Star Wars game. It was at the Greyhound station in Stockton. I played it waiting to take the bus to see my dad or go to Texas...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3Q-0U_5_Jo

After that it was Hard Driving.

Later on it was TMNT (quarter eater)

Alien Vs Predator (beat em up).

Street Fighter

Ninja Gaiden.

blankslatejoe · May 2013

Ah man, I always wanted to try that AvP beat em up. Never knew a place that had a cabinet.

Schultzie · May 2013

I could list so many so I'll keep the list smallish:

Missile Command
Marble Madness
Double Dragon
Galaga
The original Star Wars vector game
Pac-Man
Tempest

Richard Kain · May 2013

My favorite arcade memories are from when I built my own arcade. I recently reassembled that old cabinet in my garage. Good times.

glottis8 · May 2013

Daytona USA ftw! playing with my friends was a blast! so many arcades tho.

glynnsmith · May 2013

Me and a friend drove out to check this out last weekend - http://www.revivalretroevents.com

It had a bunch of the games I used to play when growing up - TMNT, the Simpsons 4 player beat-em-up, Dodonpachi, Street Fighter 2, R-Type, Soccer Brawl.

Was also the first time I'd seen real vector games on their original hardware, which look fantastic. Surprisingly bright.

The experience was ace and has concreted my need for an Egret 2 cabinet. Those things are unbelievable.

Paradan · May 2013

lol OMG Gauntlet, truly the first MMO.

so weird, just remebered a dream I had night before last: for some reason I had a pre-release copy of a new Defender game that was gonna come out with the new consoles and I was sneakin peple over to my house to play it.

ScudzAlmighty · May 2013

awwwww man, all of these!!!

Once spent almost $20 in quarters with a friend just to finish TMNT

Some favorites,

NARC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gl9iy3hgvU

Smash TV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFRZcWAdawE

goddammit YouTube :poly118:

Playdo · May 2013

Good thread! For me, it was spending my summer playing this down in the arcade. I'd love to see some modern scrolling beat 'em ups like this.

[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRBXMi4JXY8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRBXMi4JXY8[/ame]

Torch · May 2013

Justin Meisse · May 2013

I plan on building a Polybius cabinet with appropriate government inspection stickers, a subsonic terror inducer and other mysterious non-standard hardware.

leilei · May 2013

Um...... Vampire Savior?

peanut · May 2013

Dragon's lair, if i wasn't so young at the time i would probably played my house over this game

[ame="

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3XNQja0H7I"]Dragon's Lair - DVD - Full Playthrough - YouTube[/ame]

What are your Arcade Memories

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