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^ Cool. I just played some two-player games on my old 2600 yestrday, together with my daughter. We played Mario Bros, Joust, Air Sea Battle, Sky Diver, Dodge em and Maze Craze. I also still player my favourite Atari 2600 game: Pitfall II. ;-) Yar`s Revenge is cool. I only have the cartridge...IŽd love to have the comic that came with the original game in the 1980s.
quote: 26 - Bosconian ALIVE ALIVE!!!! (I think that's what the voice is saying)
It was "Alert! Alert!" but since the game is so old it sounded really weird. I just played it yesterday on the Namco Museum collection for the Gamecube.
-Hal-
Thanks for the correction Hal There are also alot of songs I thought I knew lyrics to aswell but when you see the actual lyrics whether online or karaoke, it becomes a moment of clarity in sayin'... aaaaaaah
There`s a really funny book over here in Germany where a guy collected mis-heard lyrics of songs --- the way people used to understand the song on the radio when they where children, and then only recognized the actual lyrics when they were grown ups.
I totally forgot about Wonder Boy and Moon Patrol. I loved those two games as well.
quote:Originally posted by Toetapper: I've been mostly a pinball guy in the arcades dating back to the early 70's (yikes!).
Nevertheless, this thread does bring back some memories. While managing a restaurant in the 80's, I made arrangements with our local Amusement Park to keep some of their machines busy during the Winter.
Of course, Space Invaders took a lot of my Q's but I was better than ANYBODY at it; I could get to the screen where you blew up the moment it opened without losing a life (it was past the 10th screen, 11? 12?, I forget).
Other games were Pacman (naturally) and Ms. Pacman; Frogger was popular among the older folks so I had to become proficient at that. I think the one that took most of my money was Defender.
In the regular arcades, Missile Command vacuumed my pockets pretty well. There was also a boxing game - I forget the name - that I enjoyed. One that I found to be a real challenge was "Tank" in which the player maneuvered a tank across a battlefield - vision was limited and accuracy in firing was crucial.
That is really interesting to read. I also started playing my first arcade games in the late 70s/80s. Frogger was great fun and I also remember the tank game you mentioned (it is probably "Battlezone" from Atari). But I was still really young, so I sucked at the tank game...the steering was kind of weird.
If you have a Playstation you can get the "Atari Anniversary Edition" -- it is a collection of 12 old Atari Arcade games. The conversions are very good...exactly like in the arcades.
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Ones that didn't make my 30 list but I think is worth a mention....
Altered Beast - "POWER UP"
1943 Battle Of Midway - Cool coz of the various amo you can fire and you can get helpers/wingmen that increase your guns.
Gals Panic - Puzzle/strategy game to complete a picture by looping with a trail you leave to create your own pieces. Pictures vary
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quote:Originally posted by oneagain: Talking about classic games...at one of the local dentists...they have a single stand up arcade game that has joystick, roller ball and various buttons and has a huge amount of actual arcade games on it to play.
Was pretty cool...would love to buy that if I had the cash for it...
Wow, your dentist has an arcade machine? Sounds great!
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