Greatest arcade games

Retr0gamer

nanook wrote:

lads does no one remember stryker

Strider is tha game and it was indeed excellent.

abccormac

Jesus, I forgot all about asteroids. Best game ever, and it cost me a fortune in pocket money when I was a kid.

dearg_doom

Wolf wrote:

Your a Nintendo Fanboy aren't you? Tekken best fighting game.

Dunno if the guy is a Fanboy or not, but, the game he mentioned is a 2-dFighter, you mentioned a 3-dFighter. Huge Difference!!

And you didn't even mention the nest of the 3-dFighters (ATM anyway) VF4!!; Tekken was a woeful game, T2/3 were a lot better, though I just couldn't accept ANY 3-dFighters until recently, I was just too into the 2-d ones at their time!


Other great Arcade games:

SmashTV
House of the Dead
Killer Instinct
G-LOC

byte

Chase HQ "Let's go, Mr Driver"
Pacman
Space Invaders

ranDom_tAsk

Final Fight was another one I enjoyed...

Fysh

Yeah, Final Fight was class - only thing was my favourite by far is Final Fight 3, which I don't think ever made it to the arcade (SNES exclusive, iirc- oh yeah baby ). Night slashers was ever so slightly better though, more for the visuals and story than playability - I think they're about even there.

(Just realised I also forgot Sunset Riders, a game I shovelled a fair amount of cash into in my younger days)

The Bollox

Retr0gamer wrote:

9. Metal slug

Excellent run and gun game and probably the best example of the genre on an arcade system. The quirky cartoon comedy really added to the insane on screen violence.

I remember playing that game YEARS ago and I loved the cartoon violence, I mean it was brilliant, the mackine gun bullets were as big as the enemies heads and the fire balls took up half the screen, then while vacating in portugal last year I came across it again, what a classic, took up most of my holiday... but well worth it!

BloodBath

Good list so far.

Anyone remember badlands? Top down racing game where you picked up wrenches to buy powerups like missiles and nito. I pumped money into that as well.

Don't forget Mortal kombat.


BloodBath

ranDom_tAsk

OH OH !!!!

Remember Aliens ?

robbie1876

BloodBath wrote:

Anyone remember badlands? Top down racing game where you picked up wrenches to buy powerups like missiles and nito. I pumped money into that as well.

Ah yes, I was da man at Badlands. 50p used to get me about an hours worth of entertainment in Bray on Badlands.

My other fave was Outrun, I could finish it on one credit. I am da man.

Robbie

super_furry

Sega's brilliant Derby Owner's Club is the only arcade game to get me hooked in the last decade or so. Such a shame that they got rid of it from the Atari Expo. Does anyone know of any other places that have it in Ireland?

Retr0gamer

The Simpsons arcade game. A final fight clone that was really enjoyable. The best feature was that it could be played in 4 player.

KdjaCL

Retr0gamer wrote:

The Simpsons arcade game. A final fight clone that was really enjoyable. The best feature was that it could be played in 4 player.

Ninja turtles was also 4 player and very playable.

Never played many car games Chase HQ was the only one really .....

Line up in our arcade was Bubble Bobble Chase HQ Tetris Sf2 CE haxored edition,Sunset Riders (bruy me with my money hur hur hur), snow bros,Aliens Op Wolf for about 7 years same games



kdjac

i_am_dogboy

Retr0gamer wrote:

The Simpsons arcade game. A final fight clone that was really enjoyable. The best feature was that it could be played in 4 player.

That was fantastic, can you remember the co operative moves they could do? As bart you could jump onto homers shoulders, and I remember the 4 getting together to pick up a car......It's a shame the rest of the simpsons games didn't quite live up.

bush

SF2 CE. The ultimate arcade game
Others

Wonderboy 2
Snow bros
Midnight resistance
Rygar
Robocop
New zealand story
Super pang
Chelnov
Hammerin harry
Aliens
Air buster
Oscar
Strider
Un squadron
Final fight
Heavy barrell
Ghosts and goblins
Sunset riders

I used to live in arcades when I was younger, robbing money anywhere I could to play games

bush

KdjaC wrote:

Sunset Riders (bruy me with my money hur hur hur)
kdjac

HA HA. "Me in big big trouble"

Boro

Oh the memories!
Clonmel had 2 arcades when i was in school there and i used to spend some amount of money in them. In no particular order, my favourites.

Street Fighter 2
Tekken 1/2
Samurai Showdown 3/4
King of the Fighters (95 or 96)
WWF WretleFest (i think)
Golden Axe
Final Fight
Cadillacs & Dinosaurs
Badlands
R-Type
Prehistoric Isle

entropi

1 . SF2 , Absolute Classic

2. Salamander , loved this game for many years, and still do

3. Rastan Saga , side scrolling slash-em up , reminds me of HE-MAN still

4. Puzzle Bobble , addictive little beggar

5. Golden Axe , Just so good to play

and others to mention are :

Wonderboy

game with captain america and some marvel heroes.. can't remember what it's called..

The Punisher
Simpsons Arcade game
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
Pang, and Super Pang
Rallisport Challenge ... i liked it
Aliens
Final Fight
Street Fighter.. original Ryu kicks ass
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Soul Blade
Time Crisis
another i cant remember, but involved like cowboy western shootouts, side scrolling shooting and running over cattle occationally.. thats all i can think of atm.

TCamen

Originally Posted by Retr0gamer
The Simpsons arcade game. A final fight clone that was really enjoyable. The best feature was that it could be played in 4 player.

Ninja turtles was also 4 player and very playable.

I remember finishing the turtles one with my younger brother years ago -- that was satisfying! So many cool games mentioned above, Snow Bros, New Zealand Story, Street Fighter,... great choices!
I loved the side-scrolling X-Men beat 'em up, think it was around in the early-mid 90s.

Anyone remember the Superman arcade game they had in Dublin airport years and years ago? It had ground-based levels where you could throw cars & stuff, and then flying levels where you blasted missles with your heat vision. It was brilliant

In more modern times, I have a huge weakness for 'House of the Dead' 1/2 and the Star Wars Trilogy SEGA arcade game. They're the ones I'll gravitate towards in any arcade these days

Wolf

Retr0gamer wrote:

The Simpsons arcade game. A final fight clone that was really enjoyable. The best feature was that it could be played in 4 player.

It wasn't a final fight clone it was a Turtles clone which was another great arcade game. I have the lot on mame32 anyways.

Wolf

Retr0gamer wrote:

And Tekken is a disgrace of a fighting game that is about as balanced as the leaning tower of pisa. I'd have respect for you if you mentioned soul calibur or virtua fighter. tsk, tsk.

Virtua Fighter isn't bad, but, its a poor mans tekken no depth whats so ever. Also, soul calibur is utter pish total button bashin fest no challange in that game at all. Now doing your own version of Kings throw combo where you combine two of them in to a six throw combo that was great!

BloodBath

Virtua Fighter isn't bad, but, its a poor mans tekken no depth whats so ever. Also, soul calibur is utter pish total button bashin fest no challange in that game at all. Now doing your own version of Kings throw combo where you combine two of them in to a six throw combo that was great!

Or even better, pull off his 10 throw combo.


BloodBath

Placebo

Samurai Shodown 4

Cadillacs And Dinasours

Snow Bros 1 and 2

Street fighter 2 : rainbow eidition

MetalSlug

Outrun 2 !!!

ionapaul

My favs:
Golden Axe
Badlands
Some type of street basketball game, no idea of the name, way more fun than the NBA games

Top game: Sunset Riders. That ruled. Fighting the guy on the train throwing barrels at you

ttc028

Anyone remember Stargate Defender?
Now that was class!
I remember one guy playing for 2 hours on one 10p coin!

Retr0gamer

Virtua Fighter isn't bad, but, its a poor mans tekken no depth whats so ever

Blah, Ha, Ha!

dearg_doom

I forgot:

BOMBERMAN!

Steven

Wolf wrote:

Virtua Fighter isn't bad, but, its a poor mans tekken no depth whats so ever. Also, soul calibur is utter pish total button bashin fest no challange in that game at all.

:eek: :rolleyes:

I would like my objection noted in the minutes please.

CiDeRmAn

The Last Blade 1 & 2; the only beat em ups I ever played, you can keep your polygons, this is how fighting games should look!

abccormac

Super Sprint, pure class, they keep coming back to me after reading this thread.