What's your favorite old school arcade game?

[sniffa]

If you were to walk into an arcade/tavern/whatever and saw that game you'd have your next few hours scheduled, and you'd be out of parking meter food.

I have several, but the one that gets me every time is Karate Champ.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate_Champ

What's your's?

[taterguy]

1. Paper Boy

[guitar man]

2. Spy Hunter

I blew a ton of change on this one

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_Hunter

[Dr. Strange]

3. This one:

I'll leave it to you to recall the name.

[TZ]

14. WTF?

Here I thought you were a pong fan....:crazy:

[Dr. Strange]

22. Oooh!

Them's fightin' words! You done messed up my keyboard with your verbal shenanigans! Lookit what you did:

[Greyskye]

54. Time elapse Tempest?

:shrug:

[mainegreen]

4. 1943 in two player mode.

Must be preceded by pepperoni pizza and soda.

[MrCoffee]

5. Star Wars

[JackBeck]

6. I have many, but these are the first two that immediately come to mind:

Kangeroo



And, BurgerTime

[fishwax]

38. Kangaraoo rocks!

Burger Time is also good, but I haven't thought of Kangaroo in a long time :)

[DS1]

7. Battlezone

[montanto]

18. Loved it!!

[DS1]

21. The wiki page says there's a version on Xboxlive arcade

[Orsino]

68. Then you need to visit bzflag.org RFN!!!1!

Free, multi-platform, and open-source. Get on it.

[Midlodemocrat]

8. Centipede.

[sniffa]

23. Good choice

:thumbsup:

[yellowdogintexas]

63. loved Centipede, Pac-Man and Ms PacMan, Burger Time the best

also played Frogger, DigDug and Donkey Kong on occasion.

[dmallind]

9. Is Wonder Boy old school enough?

If not then Battle Zone

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. Super Off Road

You still see a lot of them around.

[sniffa]

24. Great f'n game

My favorite though was the spin-off they had, Demolition Derby.

[ceile]

11. Galaga

or Pole Position

[Fuzz]

48. I'm with you on Galaga

Downloaded it to my cell phone.

Put a lot of quarters into those damn machines.

[KitchenWitch]

12. Moon Patrol

Tempest
Centipede

[carlyhippy]

40. I kicked at moon patrol

won a tshirt at our local arcade because I had the highest score for over a month.

[DarkTirade]

13. When I was a kid I loved the quarter-eating beat 'em ups like the Ninja Turtles ones

and the various similar ones like those.

Looking back I realize they're actually not very good. :P

[montanto]

15. I'll second Battlezone

If I could buy one (stupid as it is) I would.

[Kat45]

16. Any pinball machine. They're so rare today, I can't be picky.

Though if I had my 'druthers, I'd be playing one of those old Gottleib mechanical pinball machines, the ones with 3 plays for a quarter, 5 balls per play, and a reasonable number of points needed to win. It's been so long that I can't even remember the names of my favorite games. But as far as what I *might* be able to find, I'll take the Addams Family pinball machine anytime. Even though it's one of those fancy-schmancy electronic machines with one 3-ball play for I forget how much money--it's a good ride! :hi:

[bicentennial_baby]

29. I found you some more pinball yesterday:

http://www.salemwillowspark.com/fun.html

Vintage pinball, at that. :hi:

[Kat45]

60. Thanks! Looks pretty cool--though a long drive.

Canobie Lake Park would be too expensive to go to just to play pinball. I don't do rides. :hi:

[Rhythm]

49. My favorite pinball machine EVER...

The corner convenience store near my jr. high school, as well as the roller rink where i killed most weekends, had this one, and i blew my allowance in it way too often...

[Kat45]

61. Nice!

We had two pinball machines in our house in college and they were going 24/7. We finally had to make a rule that you couldn't play pinball after a certain time so the the folks in the room above the pinball room could get some sleep. :-)

[TZ]

17. Either pac man..

Or an old school atari game--Adventure...

[Kali]

19. how "old school?"

[Rambis]

20. Space invaders (nm)

x

[Midlodemocrat]

30. Oh, I LOVED that game.

So many good memories of that game.

[Critters2]

50. I have it on my phone. I have to discipline myself not to spend all my time playing.

Need to squeeze in time for DU. And maybe work.

[flvegan]

25. Phoenix, Galaga or Centipede.

[PeaceNikki]

26. Tempest!!

:bounce:

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

27. My faves

Original Punch-Out



Although Rolling Thunder was cool too.

[sniffa]

32. Great games, especially Rolling Thunder

I could feed that machine quarters for hours.

I'm still waiting for someone to mention Rock N' Rope. An underrated game if there ever was one.

[SacredCow]

28. Gosh, SO many that I loved...

I was a junkie for those things. Some of my all time faves (in no particular order):

Ms. Pac Man (never cared for Pac Man, though)
Phoenix
Tempest (LOVED those vector graphics)
Bezerk ("intruder alert! intruder alert!)
Zaxxon
720 (perhaps not old school by some standards, but loved it)
Double Dragon
Donkey Kong
Centipede
Defender (and the related Stargate)

And many, many others...

I also remember getting all psyched every time a popular game was being released for my Atari 2600... They'd always advertise them as "near-arcade quality" then I'd get it home and be all :wtf: is this crap???

[SurfingAtWork]

31. Great Swordsman

[Rhiannon12866]

33. My favorites were Galaga and Wizard of Wor.

I was pretty good at Galaga, but best at Wizard of Wor...:D

[gatorboy]

34. Mrs. Pac Man on speed.

Ke-Chow!

[leeroysphitz]

35. Qix rocked. n/t

[PeaceNikki]

36. Not AS "old school" as some... but TOTAL CARNAGE!!

I have this for the PS2 (on Midway Arcade Treasures 2) and I love love love it!!

[pokerfan]

37. Joust

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joust_(arcade_game)">

South Park even gave it a nod in the Major Boobage episode:

[derby378]

39. Too many to list

As an FYI, I once racked up a high score of 36,000,000 on Kickman. True story.

Not quite on the same plane as scoring a million on Donkey Kong, but still pretty cool.

[carlyhippy]

41. galaga

my kid has a wii and he bought it just for me to play on the wii.

oh yeah, and one of my faves was Qbert

[sniffa]

45. I was a big Qbert player

Also a big fan of the Qbert cartoon that was out around then. Also, a big fan of DJ Qbert.

Invisible Skratch Picklz represent!

[ghostsofgiants]

42. I used to play a lot of Double Dragon at the arcade as a kid.

[sniffa]

44. Me too!

In fact, that was one of the games that used to break me. I'd keep feeding quarters until I finished the game... and start over. It took me watching other, older kids beating the game to learn how to do it. Great game, and one of the first (if not the first?) to allow a user to pick up dropped weapons to use in that fighting fashion.

[ghostsofgiants]

51. I just ended up getting my parents to get it for my NES.

Good times.

[BulletproofLandshark]

43. Yie Ar Kung Fu!!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yie_Ar_Kung_Fu

[lost-in-nj]

46. Frogger

lost

[Rhythm]

47. Could anyone else get the hang of the timing for Dragon's Lair?

I loved this... but died spectacularly too many times...

[sniffa]

55. I couldn't even get past the first scene

:(

And I was said to go to Canobie Lake this weekend and not see this game, Karate Champ, Kung Fu, Popeye, Spy Hunter, et al, which have been there since I was a child and were still there last I went a few years ago. There's way too many Dance Dance Revolution, and shooting games now. :(
They do have a crapload of pinball machines still, though. :D

[yellowdogintexas]

62. oh hell no nt

[ChoralScholar]

52. Super Sprint

Our local movie theater had it when we were growing up, and we played the hell out of it.

[Connonym]

53. Tetris

I used to play so much my wrists ached

[Phentex]

56. Asteroids

and Tron

[sniffa]

57. Asteroids was fun but too damned hard

x(

[Zavulon]

58. Centipede.

That was the only one I was really, really good at.

[LostInAnomie]

59. Final Fight

Golden Axe was pretty bad ass too.

[sniffa]

64. Final Fight was teh awesomest

They used to have that arcade game at my teen center growing up. Never got tired of playing it. :bounce:

[RadiationTherapy]

65. I love karate champ! Wishbone the sticks to do a back flip!

Ron Jeremy officiates!

[my2sense]

66. centipide

[Guava Jelly]

67. phoenix

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(arcade_game)

it was sort of a cross between galaga and space invaders

[Orsino]

69. Little thing called Warrior.

An overhead view of two knights duking it out around a central pit. It was cool.

edit:
http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/warrior

[av8rdave]

70. Xevious