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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 06:06 PM
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Galaga is the greatest video game of all time.
If you disagree, you're simply wrong.





Discuss.
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crimsonblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 06:08 PM
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1. your mother's a whore.
:P
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 06:08 PM
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2. Careful, she posts here
and will kick your entire ass. :)
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leeroysphitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 06:11 PM
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5. Your mother is Skittles?
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 06:12 PM
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7. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmaybe.
;)

No, my mom is Raven.
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AwakeAtLast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 06:09 PM
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3. OMG! Another Galaga lover!
I thought I was the only one!

:pals:
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 06:10 PM
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4. dude, there is one still working within 15 miles of where I'm sitting right now
I swear!

I was blown away and spent $3 immediately and I haven't played a arcade game in YEARS

we're taking a roll of quarters next time we head that way

:rofl:
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 06:11 PM
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6. I found one in Holyoke last weekend.
Lost my mind.
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 06:15 PM
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9. you know that we're showing all the signs
of getting old right?

:cry:
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 06:17 PM
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10. One knob, one button. Period.
When Defender came out with the knob, the button and another button, video games died forever.

Or am I being too intense about this?

:P
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 06:19 PM
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13. nope, I'm with ya
but then I'm OLD

:rofl:
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 06:21 PM
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16. I fart on old from great height
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Fart.

;)

Old has nothing to do with it. Galaga will rule for ten thousand generations. So there.
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 10:40 PM
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30. You're kiddin' me, right?
I appreciate videogames with simple controls, but Defender took videogame interaction to the next level. It requires a greater degree of hand-eye coordination than simply pushing a spaceship back and forth across the bottom of the screen.

Not knocking Galaga, mind you, just throwing in my two cents.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 06:15 PM
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8. Crazytalk. Elite is the best.
Edited on Sun Feb-15-09 06:15 PM by BlooInBloo
EDIT: And for coin-op, either Smash TV or Bubble Bobble is the best.
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 06:18 PM
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12. I fart on Elite from great height.
Edited on Sun Feb-15-09 06:20 PM by WilliamPitt
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Fart.

;)
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 06:21 PM
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15. Smash TV
:headbang:
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 10:44 PM
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32. I could get lost in an ELITE session for hours
Then again, I found myself smuggling a lot of contraband to planets where it just wasn't safe to do so. Had to take out a few nosy government craft, too, but it came with a price.

:evilgrin:
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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 06:18 PM
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11. Nope. Ocarina of Time, no competition.
:hi:
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 06:19 PM
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14. I fart on Ocarina of Time from great height
Edited on Sun Feb-15-09 06:20 PM by WilliamPitt
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Fart.

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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 06:25 PM
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17. Sure, if you're a motard
Edited on Sun Feb-15-09 06:26 PM by Bucky
The best old time arcade game was Paperboy. You peddled down the street delivering papers and you got extra points if you threw the paper through a window or coldcocked a random breakdancer with the Daily News. Every intersection was like Frogger. It was dead brill.

Ah, the 80s...

 
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 06:26 PM
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18. Did it have more than one knob and one button?
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 06:27 PM
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19. Dude, I don't even have more than one knob and one button
Depending on how you define "button" that is.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 06:31 PM
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21. You want knobless? X-and-O football ftw!
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 06:30 PM
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20. That WAS a good game.
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Sky Masterson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 06:33 PM
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22. I disagree

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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 10:46 PM
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33. Centuri, eh? I was the VANGUARD king
My high score of all time was 625,000 on Vanguard.
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Nickster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 06:44 PM
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23. Duh!
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TX Screwball Donating Member (246 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 07:12 PM
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24. One knob.
...and not even in color.


Played the heck out of the machine at the local washateria when I was a youngster.
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Redneck Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 08:15 PM
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25. Your post is made of fail.
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buzzycrumbhunger Donating Member (793 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 08:26 PM
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26. I have to admit
. . . that was the game I always played. Never occurred to me that I excelled because it worked with my limited hand-eye coordination with that one button, one knob thing, but that may be the key. These days, I'm more of a Tetris dweeb.

I was surfing for a downloadable version a while back and all I could find was Asteroids. Holy fuck, did they complicate that! It's way cool, but I don't think I ever got out of training mode.
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Career Prole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 08:47 PM
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27. Don't hate me. I'm just linkin' to a list.
I didn't write it. I don't agree with it. I've never even liked Pacman...although I did blow maybe fifty bucks on Tron one week in Cleveland.
:blush:

The Top Coin-Operated Videogames of all Times

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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 10:31 PM
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28. Stargate was my favorite.
You could play for hours on one quarter if you were good.




Galaga was fun as well. Intentionally getting tractor beamed to double up your firepower was a cool concept.
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 10:38 PM
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29. Fed a fortune into one of those...that and Joust.
You can play 'em on a pc, but *it is not the same*.
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Symarip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 10:43 PM
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31. Re-live the glory days
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 10:49 PM
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34. There's a Galaga machine at the laundromat I go to...
unfortunately most of the time its out of order. :(
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 10:50 PM
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35. The game I was best at? KICKMAN
In my heyday, I could score 32,000,000 on this game. I could play it for hours on a single quarter. It was fun when crowds gathered to watch.

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