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Subject: Who Misses 80's Video Arcades & Games?
There will never be IMO any video arcades, nor games as satisfying to play, as those of the awesome 80's. The music playing ever so synchronized... I can still hear it blasting through my memories.
A list of some of my personal favorite games:
Mrs. Pacman
Super Pacman
Donkey-Kong
Galaga
Space Invaders
Centipede
Rygar
Ghost & Gobblins
Geez! Can anyone think of others?
And I miss them pinball machines too!
Subject: Re: Who Misses 80's Video Arcades & Games?
: There will never be IMO any video arcades, nor
: games as satisfying to play, as those of the
: awesome 80's. The music playing ever so
: synchronized... I can still hear it blasting
: through my memories.
: A list of some of my personal favorite games:
: Mrs. Pacman
: Super Pacman
: Donkey-Kong
: Galaga
: Space Invaders
: Centipede
: Rygar
: Ghost & Gobblins
: Geez! Can anyone think of others?
: And I miss them pinball machines too!
Actually, there's a "nickel" arcade near where I live that's open until midnight or 1 a.m. and they have some REALLY old arcades. Pinball is good - no particular name, just plain ol' pinball.
As far as video games go, I have yet to meet anyone who has passed Level 99 in Galaga (I have gotten there, but then some butterfly or fly totally does a kamikaze job on me...). Here are some favourites:
1. Commando
2. Cabal (no joystick. It's controlled by a roll-on thingy).
3. Strider (a 90s video game)
4. Pengo
5. Exerion
6. Galaga
7. Shinobi
8. Altered Beast
9. Splatterhouse (another 90s video game)
10. Super Pac-Man
11. Bubble Bobble
...and so on...
Tarzan Boy
Subject: Tell me more...
Does one actually play a regular game in those wonderful machines really for just a nickel?
That's fantastic!!! You - lucky - dude - you!!!
Subject: Re: Tell me more...
: Does one actually play a regular game in those
: wonderful machines really for just a nickel?
: That's fantastic!!! You - lucky - dude - you!!!
Yeah, most arcades are a nickel (the new ones - you know, the ones with like 20 punch buttons and 15 kick buttons?), but the really old arcades are FREE (yes, ladies and gentlemen, FREEEE!). You must pay $1.95 to get in, but you can stay there the whole day and see if you can pass NARC (probably THE toughest arcade game ever made - I have yet to beat it...). Shinobi, Commando, Galaga, Bubble Bobble, Final Fight, Buster Brothers, Mario Bros., Raiden, Arkanov, Tetris, and more - FREE.
Tarzan Boy
Subject: So, TB...
WHERE are they??????? These arcades. General Area, of course.
Every arcade I have been to in the last 10 years charges up the wazoo for games.
Subject: Re: So, TB...
: WHERE are they??????? These arcades. General
: Area, of course.
: Every arcade I have been to in the last 10
: years charges up the wazoo for games.
In Orange County. Huntington Beach, Westminster, and Lake Forest. They're called "Nickel Nickel."
Tarzan Boy