oLd (for me anyway) arcade games

[sniffa]

on a Lark, i picked up a $20 game for the xbox that has about 20 games on it. i saw at Least 5 of the games i used to Love, Love Love as a kid/teen and decided to grab it.

so, i was so excited to get home and pLay, and i spent a few hours pLaying: rampage, marbLe madness, gauntLet, spy hunter, joust, rampart, smash tv, and paperboy to name a few...

but then the nostaLgia wore off and i remembered how sucky these games were compared to today.

thank god i didn't buy pong.

[datasuspect]

1. "defender of the faith"

"use your green dot to smash the red square"

[7th_Sephiroth]

9. ah yes the degenetron, the good old days

the home console took quarters, too

[Hobarticus]

2. I have that too...

Kinda loses the glitz and glamour when it's free and you can give yourself a hundred lives to start.

But damn, they sure were cool back in the day!

[sniffa]

4. i know, i know

guantLet aLLows you unLimited heaLth (you Lose heaLth via time, and getting hit) so i was hitting LeveLs unheard of to me - when i wouLd pour $5 in quarters into the game to reach LeveL 16. :P

[Hobarticus]

19. "Warrior, your life force is running out...."

Never again! NEVER AGAIN!!!

HAHAHAHA!!!!

[redqueen]

3. hahahah pong...

I didn't like any of those... my faves from back in the day were Tron and Tempest. I still love pinball with all my heart. :)

[hfojvt]

5. do you have pinball on your computer?

it is not bad, but it loses a little thrill when you cannot win free games.

[redqueen]

6. No...

On the computer I love spider solitaire and minesweeper. :)

Pinball on the computer, eh... what about ramps and such? Do the layered visuals look decent?

[hfojvt]

11. if you have spider

I am surprised you do not have pinball. Have you searched? I found it in Program files/windows NT.
There is only one ramp. The visuals seem okay to me and the action is realistic, you can even bump and tilt.

[Hobarticus]

20. There's an Atari version out oo, with Tempest...

Operators are standing by.

[Hobarticus]

21. Where the hell is Berzerk?

Scrambler?

I wish Sega would do a classics collection....

[no name no slogan]

7. Spy Hunter was mine

I bet I wasted $500 on that as a teenager.

I finally got my fix back in the mid-90s when MAME (the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) came out. I was running that poor old 233Mhz MMX into the ground playing those old games.

Nowdays, give me FreeCell any day. Leave the shoot-em-ups to the kids.

[4_Legs_Good]

8. Those games do NOT suck!

They rocked. PERIOD! They were from an age that only one generation of us got to see, where game creators were interesting and creative.

The days before Double Dragon destroyed everything, and every single arcade game became its clone, or some 1st person shoot 'em up.

Those were the days. *sigh* How the mighty have fallen.

david

[hfojvt]

10. you must be young

or you would have been playing Asteroids, Missile Command, Galaga, and Pac-man. I still like those games, and also wish I had "Road Warrior" on my PC.

[Worst Username Ever]

12. What is the name of the disk you bought that has those games?

I have an xbox, and I want my spy hunter.

[sniffa]

14. something generic

Like, "games" - not at home, so i can't teLL you. :shrug:

[Worst Username Ever]

16. "arcade treasures?"

[sniffa]

17. that's it

i saw 2 of them - the one i got, and one that had games i wasn't too famiLiar with.

[DS1]

13. Marble Madness AND Smash TV on the same disc!

Now THIS I have to get ! :D

[sniffa]

15. circuit city

there were a few games Like it - the comp. game next to it, was "the next generation" of games... basicaLLy games that came out after my arcade years.

[CanuckAmok]

18. merble madness and Smash TV...

...great stuff.

My favourite old-school games were Scramble, and Burger Time... the later for it's sheer weirdness.

[trogdor]

23. Merble Madness?

Ha! I found you, Coach Z. Great jeorb.

[Kire]

22. rampage was fun

anybody remember *360?