What was your favourite arcade machine?

Reebrock

I loved Daytona USA. It was a golden age for arcades in the mid 90's with Sega and Namco knocking out some modern classics like Sega Rally, Time Cop, Virtua Fighter and towards the end of the decade Virtua Tennis, Crazy Taxi, Soul Calibur etc. Great times.

But for me, nothing rivals Daytona USA. Seeing 8 of those machines linked together with a few friends and a bit of coinage in our pockets was a great Saturday afternoon for a bunch of young lads. Great memories!

What's your favourite?

Johnny K

I loved golden Axe, amazing game! Always remember getting dragon to come down and flame the bad guys awesome. Ahh memories.

o1s1n

If were talking dedicated, then Time Crisis.

The pedal added so much to the gameplay. Standard on rail light gun games where you reloaded by shooting off screen felt a bit bland in comparison.

Tigger

Streetfighter II

Kimbot

I really liked Point Blank/Ridger Racer & Virtua Striker cabs

Optimus Prime

The click noise of the recoil on the Time Crisis gun too.. cant beat it!

o1s1n

keithgeo wrote: »

The click noise of the recoil on the Time Crisis gun too.. cant beat it!

ACTION!

Clack clack clack!

I will have one some day...

Optimus Prime

Maybe down the road ill have a night in the house when i get the kitchen done up and some of you might be interested in coming down, its a bit of a trek down to athy though!

Ron DMC

Prop Cycle.

/end thread.

CathalDublin

I lived in Australia in 2002~2003 and Daytona was everywhere, there was a shop/arcade beside an apartment I was staying at in St Kilda that had 4 of them with turbo mod linked, then I moved up to sydney and the the big arcade in the city had lines and lines of 8 player links, love that game, one day I'll have 2 of them!
I never seen an Egret2 in an arcade but that's on my list too

Reebrock

Tigger wrote: »

Streetfighter II

I rarely ever saw Street Fighter 2 in the arcades. I saw more of the rubbish original. I'll always associate that with very fond console memories.

the groutch

Gaelco World Rally Championship

Myrddin

Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition, or a twin sit down Ridge Racer 2 probably.

minion35

For me it has to be Metal Slug X, spent far too many of my childhood holidays spent in front of it.

DinoRex

The sit down Hard Drivin' cab always felt like a big experience:

CiDeRmAn

The deluxe Outrun cab up at Dublin airport.
And the three screen version of Virtua Racing, I think Mosney had it when it was still a holiday camp.
Battlezone is another fave.

o1s1n

Actually another favourite of mine was Tokyo Wars. They had a 4 player set up in Star Amusements Bray years and years ago.

Was interesting to see they have TANK! TANK! TANK! in there now. Which looks to pretty much be Tokyo Wars with custom avatars.

Inbox

The Sega rally wss great but the Sega F355 arcade machine was my favourite. It was so realistic.

Tomo.Murphy

I loved playing Sega Rally and 18 Wheeler (if I remember correctly, they had the big 18 Wheeler truck cab in the arcade in The Square). To be fair, if it had a wheel and some pedals (or any other mode of transport) I enjoyed it.

I've always been a fan of the Time Crisis games, but the only TC arcade game I can recall playing is the Time Crisis 4 cab in the small arcade at the back of Cineworld on Parnell Street.

I may or may not have played House of the Dead too (it was either in an arcade or on my cousin's Dreamcast. Enjoyable all the same).

Andrew76

Never really spent that much time with dedicated machines but I remember Pitstop and Spy Hunter were a bit of fun. Favourite cab/game was easily Aliens though - down the back of Amusement City on D'Olier St. in town or The Pierro Club in Dun Laoghaire is where you would find me playing it.

the groutch

Ron DMC wrote: »

Prop Cycle.

/end thread.

Trying to remember where they used to have that.
I want to say Stillorgan Bowl, but probably wrong.

mrcheez

Star Wars *sigh* good times good times

BGOllie

has to be OutRun for me. I was terrible at it but I just loved watching other play.
I played double dragon to the ground though.

Atavan-Halen

My local leisureplex used to have the simpsons arcade which I absolutely loved. Had the one of the high scores on it for a little while too. My favourite would be sega rally or Daytona though. Nothing like hearing DAYTOOONAAA being screamed at you as you walked past to entice you over.

columf

Afterburner loved that game.
Sega wing war on the r360 I only ever played this in London it was epic dont know if there was any over here.
Virtua Fighter 2

o1s1n

columf wrote: »

Afterburner loved that game.
Sega wing war on the r360 I only ever played this in London it was epic dont know if there was any over here.
Virtua Fighter 2

I saw one R360 over here before but was too afraid to go on it as a kid in case I died stupid!!!

Optimus Prime

columf wrote: »

Afterburner loved that game.
Sega wing war on the r360 I only ever played this in London it was epic dont know if there was any over here.
Virtua Fighter 2

There is an Afterburner in the arcade in Skerries at the beach, I was only playing it two weeks ago, along with Outrun, Operation Thunderbolt and few other cabs

CathalDublin

I remember playing The Simpsons arcade game with my bro when he brought me into town back in 91/92, I believe it was in the hideout at the time, upstairs!

the groutch

the groutch wrote: »

Trying to remember where they used to have that.
I want to say Stillorgan Bowl, but probably wrong.

They had one in Atari Expo in the square for sure,
They also had a lost world pinball which might be the one I bought last week!
Cant be too many of them in the country could there?

Mr.Saturn

o1s1n wrote: »

Was interesting to see they have TANK! TANK! TANK! in there now. Which looks to pretty much be Tokyo Wars with custom avatars.

I'm glued to that yolk anytime I'm over that way. The Wii-U port was such a disappointment with the lack of online multiplayer; it kinda dies as experience in solo-mode.

o1s1n

There's no online multiplayer with it? :eek:

Talk about missing the point

Ron DMC

the groutch wrote: »

Trying to remember where they used to have that.
I want to say Stillorgan Bowl, but probably wrong.

Yep, that's where I played it anyway. Any time we went bowling I'd have to be dragged away from it to the lanes. Fantastic machine.

Mr.Saturn

It is incredible in an age where fundamentally single-player games get the most atrocious online tacked-on from developers fearing irrelevance, yet something that could've not necessarily shifted Wii-Us, but been instrumental in the purchase decision, gets a bare-bones launch.

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

There's no online multiplayer with it? :eek:

Talk about missing the point

Utter madness isn't it. I'm not really into online gaming at all, but if ever there was a good use for it, it's this. I haven't played it since learning it was local multiplayer only :rolleyes:

krudler

6 player X-men anyone?


The Lost World was a cool machine, sound was amazing sitting inside it



4 player Wrestlefest, one arcade at the seaside in Clare had it the others all had standard 2 player generic cabs with the game in



Turtles the Arcade Game, first played this in America as a kid, blew my mind being a giant TMNT fan at the time



Killer Instinct, many fond memories of playing that, booming sound, at the time amazing graphics, and coming to our homes in 1995 only on Nintendo Ultra 64!!!





Man I miss proper arcades, are there any even in Ireland that don't purely have dancemat games and driving cabs? Any arcade I've been in during the last few years is all coin shovel machines, crane games and the odd shooting game. Years ago I spotted a working Double Dragon cab in some chip shop and asked if I could buy it but they said no

Thargor

No mention of Silent Scope? By far my fav of all time and will be the first cab I buy when I have the space.

Optimus Prime

I seen that XMen cab for sale in the liquidators shop up in Tallaght beside smyths last year.

Ive gone to a few arcades in the last while and the best one ive seen for any sort of old school games is that one in Skerries.

H3llR4iser

I think the first coin-op game I ever played was Double Dragon, back in 1987 or 1988.

My favourite would however be, out of sheer nostalgia, Tail To Nose (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_to_Nose)
It was a simple stand up cabinet with the classic "round" joystick, but it was also the first time I saw a F1 game that vaguely resembled the real thing (as in cars colours, drivers etc.).

A couple of years later I was completely captured by this: http://www.mamedb.com/image/cabinet/f1en
I may be wrong, but I think it was the very first "paddle shifter" cabinet.

And of course Street Fighter II CE.

Mr.Saturn

Speaking of Star Amusements, I'd recommend anyone going through with company to give 'Let's Go Jungle' a bash. It's absolutely mad and doesn't really have that 'ease-in' like a lot of arcade lightguns; straight-in and mental. It also gives a compatibility rating at the end for anyone that's played with a partner. The Mrs. and I got 69% which, yanno, wasn't remotely remarked upon at all, whatsoever.

CiDeRmAn

Thargor wrote: »

No mention of Silent Scope? By far my fav of all time and will be the first cab I buy when I have the space.

An amazing game alright, some excellent ports to the Xbox and PS2 as well.
And a great version is on the GBA surprisingly.

timmy880

Time Crisis 2 and Silent Scope were my favourites growing up.... Been looking at buying some arcade machines for my new home but they are all so bloody expensive!

Mitchomagic

timmy880 wrote: »

Time Crisis 2 and Silent Scope were my favourites growing up.... Been looking at buying some arcade machines for my new home but they are all so bloody expensive!

Mouse trap played in the local chipper.also outrun deluxe, have to finish restoring it...

Watch adverts in a couple of weeks I will be getting ride of some of my cabs, have 2 silent scopes ss2 and the EX version

timmy880

Mitchomagic wrote: »

Mouse trap played in the local chipper.also outrun deluxe, have to finish restoring it...

Watch adverts in a couple of weeks I will be getting ride of some of my cabs, have 2 silent scopes ss2 and the EX version

Cheers I'll keep an eye out... Saw somebody trying to sell one for €1800 there this week that he had up for €700 before apparently?? It was a bit fishy

Reebrock

krudler wrote: »

4 player Wrestlefest, one arcade at the seaside in Clare had it the others all had standard 2 player generic cabs with the game in

I remember being 10 years old on holiday in Cyprus and playing this A LOT. I would always pick Earthquake as I assumed because he was bigger he'd be harder to eliminate. Sounds logical right?

InTheTrees

San Fransisco Rush.

The last great arcade driving game.

(I worked on it at atari back in the 90's)

The Domonator

Sega Rally Championship, the entire seat was inside a mock car.

ripperman

Great thread.


To name but a few...

After Burner cockpit (Bloody loved that thing. The blue felt on the seats made it feel like a real luxury machine!! Remember playing it in a few places, leisureland Galway had it I think. Come to think of it they had a pretty serious arcade at one stage right? Wasn't the main hall full of games!?)

Spyhunter Upright (In the local chippie...That cool steering wheel, felt like I was driving Kitt!)

Chase HQ Porsche 911 Sit in (The one that looks like a kids toy. Its looks ridiculous when you see pictures of it now but at the time I thought it was the greatest thing ever when I played it on holidays. Never saw it again after that.)

So many more but I'll leave it at that for now

Lemming

Some of my favourites have already been mentioned like StarWars, Time Crisis, Silent Scope, Metal Slug, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. To add to that for myself:

New Zealand Story, Bubble Bobble 2 (aka Bust-a-move), ESWAT, Aliens, and Hammerin' Harry.

timmy880

The Domonator wrote: »

Sega Rally Championship, the entire seat was inside a mock car.

Superb shout... Completely forgot about that one. The drift on the tracks in that game was an unreal gaming experience!!

bennyc

Kick and Run / Mexico 86, the 4 player with the foot pedal

sporter1

Bombjack