Favorite Video Game

[phillyidol]

Another good one quiet life! I loved all these games. I remember buying my first atari and thinking it was so cool. Then I bought coleco vision. I loved q*bert. Galaga is still great. But I used to play joust. Remember that? You were a night riding on an ostridge jumping all over and jousting. They had a machine in a bar in queens called Jimmy Byrns and many drunk nights we played.

[Quite Life]

I totally loved Crazy Climber I would always fail at the last building though. [V]


Star Castle and Bezerk was also very cool.

[WoodlandParkPunk]

Pac Man and Donkey Kong.

[Ollie Stench]

Defender. I spent ALOT of money on Defender one summer. I used to suck, getting maybe 5 minutes play out of one quarter. Then one game everything just clicked and from then on I would routinely get 20+ minutes from a single credit, racking up more credits along the way. I have no idea what or how it happenend.

I also really liked Omega Race and Red Baron. Red Baron was a re-tooled Battlezone game with a different ROM and new graphics on the machine.

Now if I could only find a USB controller that replicated the old arcade controls I could set up my own MAME museum...

[2Nu]

[quote][i]Originally posted by phillyidol[/i]
<br> They had a machine in a bar in queens called Jimmy Byrns and many drunk nights we played.

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Back in '79-80 when I was still under the (then) NYS drinking age of 18, I dropped many quarters (Screwdrivers & Melonballs) on <a href="http://images.webmagic.com/klov.com/images/10/1091835486.jpg" target="blank">Mole Hunter</a>. at the 'Tommy Tucker Lounge' bar of HoJo's on Rte 25A in Centerport. I remember getting my then 14 y/o friend in that place as well [:D]

[Quite Life]

As far as modern PC games my all time favorite was StarCraft. That game was the absolute best I wish they would finally make a sequal to it. I also made great maps that people used on the starcraft site. I had 2 maps that were in the top 10 downloadable maps, but they were pulled off the StarCraft sight because of the names of those maps were a little contraversal. If anyone played StarCraft and pulled maps off the user site you might remember two maps called "Jungle Bunny" and it's sequal "Jungle Bunny Jr." I was'nt trying to be racist I just thought those two names would sound cool and sell the map.


cheers,
ql

[KYYX4ever]

Very cliche: PAC-Man. I was awesome at it, too. I always broke the high score. I wasn't the best in town (Lacey, WA), but close! Also, Ms. Pac Man, Frogger, and Centipede. I can't even imagine how much allowance money I spent on those....omg, video games changed so quickly after a while. I stopped somewhere around when they started coming out with all those silly Pac Man family/sequel-type clones. The next time I looked, it was all 3-D type driving and shoot-em-up and crazy noise and it didn't look fun. I haven't seen a video Game since....Except: My students discuss Halo often, and it sounds hyper-stimulated, the kind of game that could bring on ADD, seizures, and schizophrenia just by looking at it.I finally saw one in action earlier this year and it took my eyes all weekend to recover.[xx(]

[human clone]

I would take my allowance and spend it at the arcade in the mall every Saturday. My favorite games were:

Donkey Kong
Wizard of War
Joust
Popeye
Tron
Carnival

@ buffalochipz I really liked Kickman as well!!!

I never owned an Atari... I asked for one every Christmas, after opening all the presents I would say "What no Atari???". My father would then yell at me for being ungrateful. Lousy traumatic childhood...
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[devildog]

Then: Asteroids
Now: SimCity 4000

[iposse]

I liked those text-adventure games (i.e. Adventure, Zork, etc.) where you'd read descriptions of scenes and events and type your own commands in. My juvenile mind always enjoyed typing curse words and seeing what the parser would spit back out at me.

[fritzb]

Anyone feeling nostalgic about those really old-school text adventure games: http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/info/advent.html

They've got dos executable versions of the old classics, including the original ADVENT. I had almost forgotten how exasperating they were...

<I>"You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all different." [/i] [}:)]

[Quite Life]

Does anyone remember GORF? It was Space Invaders, Galaxian, and a couple of other chalenges along the way including these kamakazi Tie Fighters that came after you.

[human clone]

I forgot Vanguard, also one of my all-time favorites...

[whistledog]

Double Dragon (and Double Dragon II) was, is, and always will be my all-time favourite Arcade game ever!

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I didn't much care for Double Dragon 3 though. The fact that you had to insert quarters to purchase weapons was ridiculous [V]

[Bitter Almonds]

Three syllables: GA LA GA

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Who can take me here? I've gotten to stage 99[}:)]

When I was a kid I also wasted a lotta quarters into the Gal's Panic series[:D]

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Splatterhouse for the TurboGraFX-16 was one of the best:

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