Compiling a complete list of arcades and arcade games that ever existed in Portlaoise

robbie02

I am trying to remember all the arcades and games that ever existed in the town in the 80s. i am compiling it for my mame 32 emulator on my laptop. when i was a kid i grew up in arcades and was a bit of a wizard thinking i was so hard smoking fags at 10 playing ghost n goblins :cool:!!! anyway i ll get the ball rolling and hopefully some of ye can fill in the blanks.
starting with Stapos, i ll leave the other arcardes' to one of ye or a later post
ok memory is sketchy so here it goes:
Stapos (Browns)

starforce
kung fu master
1942
bubble bubble
ghost n goblins
jailbreak
xevious
gorf
flashgal
commando
choplifter
airwolf
gunsmoke
pacland
track n field
ninja kid 1 or 2
super hang on
yie her kung fu
rygar
green beret
scramble??
wonderboy
wonderboy in monsterland
xeina sheeva (not right spelling, close though)
tiger road
sky kid
operation wolf (i think?)
akari
bionic commando ( this could be wrong but it rings a bell)
shoot em up cant remeber name, it had ship flying left to right and everytime you get a power up you had options at botton of screen
speed / laser / missiles / etc...

later in stapos when it became a snooker hall

tetris
bombjack
pang
street figher
street fighter 2
88 seoul games
black tiger (again)
bubbles bubble

as you can see mis spent childhood i had but it kept me from robbin HWilliams, well some of the time

sydthebeat

robbie02 wrote: »

shoot em up cant remeber name, it had ship flying left to right and everytime you get a power up you had options at botton of screen
speed / laser / missiles / etc...

any chance it was R-Type?

robbie02

no but yer on the right track it was a bit older than r type but fairly similar not much to go on i admit, there is a million games like it! there was lads that were wizards on it so maybe someone can remember

Augmerson

Wow, some great games there.

x_jaw

Hey Guys, that sounds very like R-type alright, i have nearly all those roms and loads more from the early 80's such as mat mania right up to late 90s ...

Great for the rainy days and for bringing back those fond memories....

robbie02

R Type Leo was class alright. I love having Mame and a load of roms on my laptop, these games were great, even better than modern video games in some respects, obviously the graphics were limited (but still cool) and it made the developers put the maximum effort in creating great playability. some of the games were fiendishly hard though to make sure they got your 10ps' i am trying to master ghost n goblins, what a hard game!!

I also found that if you have 1000s of roms, you end up with too much choice and switching between games too much so i just deleted all my roms! and downloaded the ones i want. the neo geo n gage emulator is very good too, cant get it to play on full screen on my laptop, as some older pc games like oddworld, just wont play full screen, so frustating i think its to do with drivers but i am not that much of a techie, if anyone knows how to fix that problem please let me know

robbie02

yeah! i got the pc games playing full screen after hours of figuring out bout drivers etc it was such a simple problem i could have kicked myself, all i needed to do was right click on the desktop and select panel / fit to full screen now i just need to get a better joypad:)

Danno

The shoot-em-up was Nemesis... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MsS73XdOVs&feature=related

robbie02

thats the one good man!