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  • JasonTeck
    JasonTeck St. Louis, MO Posts: 179
    I used to spend a crazy amount of quarters back in the day. Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Virtua Fighter, 720, Q-Bert, Golden Axe, Rampage....man those were the days!!!!

    Cool site to look through http://www.arcade-museum.com/
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  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    SENROCK! wrote:
    I used to spend SO much time playing Street Fighter while my chick frenz got their nails done nexxxt door and shopped. I LOVE playing Centepede!!!! Thats my game right there. Its rare to find these games anymore.

    Dude!! The Gameworks by MGM in Vegas has a bunch of old school games in a backroom--including Centipede!!

    I liked Frogger too!
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  • SENROCK
    SENROCK Posts: 10,736
    Lizard wrote:
    Dude!! The Gameworks by MGM in Vegas has a bunch of old school games in a backroom--including Centipede!!

    I liked Frogger too!

    REALLY?????? :eek: Theres a gameworks not too far from me. :eek: oh no......
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    oh i was such a fiend for galaga. sometimes id lose track of time and forget to go back to work. god i loved that game. still do, though its been a while. my brother used to get so pissed he could never beat me. actually now that i think of it, i was damn unbeatable. :D:D
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  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    LUCKY AND WILD...............no other game is worth mentioning compared to this one

    http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8462
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  • Drowned Out
    Drowned Out Posts: 6,056
    JasonTeck wrote:
    I used to spend a crazy amount of quarters back in the day. Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Virtua Fighter, 720, Q-Bert, Golden Axe, Rampage....man those were the days!!!!

    Cool site to look through http://www.arcade-museum.com/
    SKATE OR DIE!!!!
    That site is cool...

    Maybe someone here can help me remember the name of a game that is eluding me...drivin me nuts.
    ...probably mid-late 80's...it was a horizontal scrolling game, you played a kinda cyclops robot...you couldn't stop running, only slow down or speed up...jump over things, collect stuff. It was addictive as hell, and I haven't been able to remember the name for years.

    restlesssoul - I was trying to remember the name of that game too...was looking on that site above. think it was a spin-off for the game I put the most quarters in, hands down - Super Sprint. After that, probably Gauntlet.

    Adam's Family pinball in high school.

    I could geek out on this topic forever....Karate Champ!
    Anyone remember the Journey videogame? http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8242


    I've gotta get more familiar with the simulators. I managed to get one for Space Harrier working on my old PC a while back :cool:
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    azwyldcats wrote:
    Alladin's Castle, Iowa City, IA 1980. Ahhh memories of playing Journey's Escape, Food Fight, Tempest, Galaga and Tron.
    LOL...I almost forgot about the Journey video game...what a hoot!!!
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  • PatrickBateman
    PatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    hell yeah
    Zaxxon, Pitfall, Jungle Hunt, Centipede, Tempest, Tron, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Time Pilot....
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  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    so many memories with clutch hitter, simpsons, TMNT.
  • KosmicJelli
    KosmicJelli Posts: 1,855
    LMAO our Arcade was called Galaxy World! I bet I can beat all your arse's at Tempest still!!!! Anyone for Atari or PONG? lol I remember having pong when I was like 5 playing for hours... doh!
  • KosmicJelli
    KosmicJelli Posts: 1,855
    TrixieCat wrote:
    Oh jeez yes.
    Developed many crushes in arcades. :o

    What was the name of that game with the Knights or something???
    Prince Valiant????
    I loved! this guy one summer who played that game.
    le sigh.....

    Oh yes they were! We used to call it the meat market our old hangout!!!
  • Riot_Mac
    Riot_Mac Posts: 473
    I used to love the arcade! It was called Frosty Putter. It was a mini golf and ice cream place also. I lived to play Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam!!!

    We also had one in this shitty mall that was just an arcade. I remember playing X-Men and Ninja Turtles there. They used to have free play on Saturday mornings. You payed $10 and all games had unlimited play for 4 hours or something like that. Good times.
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  • harrymanback
    harrymanback Posts: 435
    i was more partial to the games in the back of the pizza parlor. speaking of which, remember the days when they (pizza parlors) used to close on mondays?
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  • KosmicJelli
    KosmicJelli Posts: 1,855
    harrymanback wrote:
    i was more partial to the games in the back of the pizza parlor. speaking of which, remember the days when they (pizza parlors) used to close on mondays?

    Yup! I used to do phones for a 'pizza parlor' 1-2 nights on the weekend as a kid... lol chef would always say... "I cant wait til Monday!" Okay Im really going to date myself... our local pizza parlour used to have individual jukeboxes at each table....
  • SoonForgotten2
    SoonForgotten2 Posts: 2,245
    My local mall used to have an arcade named Tilt. They had all kinds of good shizz there, including WrestleFest, NBA Jam, MortalKombat (I can still remember being shocked the first time I saw a Fatality) and SFII amongst many others. Even prior to that I would get taken to Major Magic's which was this kid's place/party place where they served copious amounts of pizza and fountain drinks. That's where I honed my TMNT and Simpsons skills. Along with Ninja Gaiden.

    Once it was time for Uni, well, there was Pinball Pete's. Hope that place is still around.
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  • Oz Jammer
    Oz Jammer Posts: 9,858
    Pissed away heaps of money as a kid playing games like Pole Position, Popeye, Star Wars, Double Dragon, Gunsmoke, Rolling Thunder, Green Beret etc
  • nick1977
    nick1977 Posts: 327
    TrixieCat wrote:
    Speak for yourself.
    While you guys were busy playing, we were checking you out.

    haha. Lots of teenage guys in an arcade, girls checking them out, and they have no idea because they have been sucked into the game. The arcade was the one place that something other than girls win over a guy's mind.
  • Danimal
    Danimal Posts: 2,000
    Oz Jammer wrote:
    Pissed away heaps of money as a kid playing games like Pole Position, Popeye, Star Wars, Double Dragon, Gunsmoke, Rolling Thunder, Green Beret etc


    ROLLING THUNDER WAS THE SHIT! That and Shinobi!
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  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    Another staple of my childhood that is basically dead now. I miss Chuck E Cheese/Showbiz Pizza from when I was a kid, its just not the same anymore.
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  • KosmicJelli
    KosmicJelli Posts: 1,855
    SoonForgotten2 wrote:
    MortalKombat (I can still remember being shocked the first time I saw a Fatality) .

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    Oh true, I think I was scarred for life and it really disturbed me!!!! Still does, I was so against the kids getting MK for the xbox when it came out...

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