Best Arcade Game

[Yossarian]

http://i25.tinypic.com/xpbzt4.jpg

[Golfnut]

^^^My all time favourite arcade game :)

[henno]

Street Fighter is all over Mortal Kombat. But it is definitely up in my top 5.

[Minor_Threat]

Street Fighter is all over Mortal Kombat. But it is definitely up in my top 5.
+1

[Johnny Canuck]

Street Fighter is all over Mortal Kombat. But it is definitely up in my top 5.
I picked up Capcom Classics for my XBox of ebay not too long ago. Nothing like some Street Fighter 2 action. One of the best games ever.

[Yossarian]

I never played a lot of street fighter, but always enjoyed mortal kombat.

[Golfnut]

I never played a lot of street fighter, but always enjoyed mortal kombat.

Is this available for the PS3?

BTW great thread jack :)

[Yossarian]

No idea, i do most of my gaming on PC. :)

[Pieface]

Street fighter vs X-Men. Favourite Arcader ever for me.

I typically hit the ball equal distances forward and sideways

[adlo]

Back to the real issues people, Mortal Kombat flogs Street Fighter 2. Both excellent games, but you cannot beat MK.

[henno]

Back to the real issues people, Mortal Kombat flogs Street Fighter 2. Both excellent games, but you cannot beat MK.

Blasphemy.

[adlo]

Purple is a fruit.

[Pieface]

Back to the real issues people, Mortal Kombat flogs Street Fighter 2. Both excellent games, but you cannot beat MK.

SFvsXmen>Killer Instinct>Streetfighter II>MK :razz:

[henno]

I'd agree with that. I remember finishing SFvsXmen and feeling like a hero.

[adlo]

Everything lasts forever

[Russ]

Blasphemy.


Indeed.

Whilst the Special, Tournament, Championship editions etc of SF II that followed sucked the big one, the stock standard original Street Fighter II was the awesome!

[just]

Space Invaders trumps all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-9CkkoISYw

[Yossarian]

I am so proud of myself right now.

[Pieface]

I'd agree with that. I remember finishing SFvsXmen and feeling like a hero.


I AM APOCALYPSE!

I loved that game. It goes down as the only machine I was ever good enough on to challenge in and take the machine away from someone with confidence, lol!

[Tex]

UMM I hit hit it at least BF 2 :-s

sometimes Galaxian :roll:

but usually Scrambler :shock:

[Jarro]

Space Invaders trumps all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-9CkkoISYw

Now you're talking :smt023 :smt038

[PeteyD]

Galaga was the best. Closely followed by Gyruss or whatever it was.

Talk to SMS about hitting in the poop.

[jaybam]

Galaga +1

[Dazza]

Back to the real issues people, Mortal Kombat flogs Street Fighter 2. Both excellent games, but you cannot beat MK.

+ 1 Million.
http://sciencejunkies.com/media//2008/02/dr_evil_one_million1.jpg

[PeteyD]

Fatality

[Golfnut]

Hang on fellas, we're crossing too many generations of gaming here...

Early stuff...yeah Galaga and Gyruss (loved that game)
Next Gen.....MK for me, didn't mind Killer Instinct...didn't get into SF much
After that I did too much drinking to remember what games.....just remember beating the sh!t out of that Punching machine in Time Zone
Now.....still love Tiger Woods 09....wish I had the time to play all the latest roll playing stuff.

[3oneday]

What was the question ?

[zigwah]

Galaga +2

[PeteyD]

http://www.smartphonemag.com/newsl_NPR/images_05_05/5776-Galaga.jpg

[PeteyD]

Ooo here we go:

[/URL][URL]http://www.hkfilm.net/vidgame/top100/70/default.htm (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.hkfilm.net/vidgame/top100/70/gyruss.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.hkfilm.net/vidgame/top100/70/default.htm&usg=__oYh4n83MFmjeTtBH1_PI2QQ31pQ=&h=267&w=200&sz=8&hl=en&start=31&tbnid=cEx6-_5rgO91MM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=85&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgyruss%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3De n%26sa%3DN%26start%3D18)

[Johnny Canuck]

Double Dragon
Shinobi
Galaga
Street Fighter 2
Wonder Boy

[AlexMc]

Way back in the day I wasted a heap of money on Golden Axe (I grew up in a town of 2,000 people - there wasn't much choice about...it was that or Paperboy). I loved that game!

And then I found this (http://www.blazeeurope.com/sega/sega-megadrive-handheld/prod_3.html) - comes with Golden Axe! I'm so hitting that...

But yeah...MK > SF...

[Matt 3 Jab]

I have a full MAME setup. 2 player

I love MK1 and MK3, MK3 seems to be the end of the original ones, and seems to be the one most people still play.

SF2 CE is the all time fighter.

SF4 is insane, love it

Best game ever though, would be a toss up between japans "Birdie Try" or sketchin for mega drive.

[adlo]

NBA Live 98

[henno]

NBA Live 98

Reeeeeee-jected!

[adlo]

The game was not the best, but man did we have some great nights playing that game.

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf from the Denver Nuggets must have known the creators of the game, because he never missed.

Three!

[henno]

A challenger appears.

http://imgur.com/M86Nh.jpg

[Matt 3 Jab]

NBA JAM is the alltime best basketball game

http://www.videogamecritic.net/images/snes/nba_jam.gif

[adlo]

Pic not working Henno.

NBA Jam was awesome.

[henno]

Pic not working Henno.

NBA Jam was awesome.

Fixed. Imageshack is having issues today.

[jaybam]

sketchin lol i was wondering if anyone else had played that. Used to sit there with the maccas and the bourbon or beers and get into that game. Was great

[Matt 3 Jab]

I still have it on MD, trying to find an online version.

Back when rollerblading was king

[adlo]

Henno, 1942 was amazing. I remember playing that at TimeZone Super Sessions. $5 for 3 hours of free games. Those were the days.

Honestly though, my all time fave is Sega Rally.

My mate worked at TimeZone and I would play it for free for days on end. Gold.

[s12raider]

Defender - now that was a class above all else.

Apple's Load Runner - way back in the early 80's

But my go to game was Galaga, oh and Pac Man but that's because I liked to torment my sister who went spastic at yellow dots!

[Iain]

Oh yeah, Load Runner was awesome!!

[Courty]

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf from the Denver Nuggets must have known the creators of the game, because he never missed.

You mean Chris Jackson. ;)

"He's on fire!"

[AndyP]

I seem to recall putting $12 worth of 20 cent coins into Moon Patrol once. I must have been 10 or less. I think I returned home late too, and got into a decent amount of trouble.

http://www.arcademachine.com/core/gamedata/java/A0062.gif

Play here: http://www.arcademachine.com/go/java/preview/A0062.tam

[Eag's]

I spent many an hour playing classics like Galaga, Frogger & Moon Patrol :D Ah those were the days ;)

[PeteyD]

Moon patrol . ahh the memories!

[s12raider]

Dig Dug anyone?

[Grunt]

Yeah I remember Did Dug. Also Frogger and Moon Patrol were at the local shop on the way home from School

[adlo]

You mean Chris Jackson. ;)

"He's on fire!"
Yeah, followed in the footsteps of Lew Alcindor etc. :roll:

I spent many an hour playing classics like Galaga, Frogger & Moon Patrol :D Ah those were the days ;)
Highway Crossing Frog?

[Johnny Canuck]

A challenger appears.

http://imgur.com/M86Nh.jpg


Yes!

[henno]

Highway Crossing Frog?

Ha!

[PeteyD]

I have 1942 on the playstation. Love it still. But it is no galaga

[gazgolf1]

Asteroids.

[goughy]

Pong

[PeteyD]

You sure do.

[Yossarian]

More modern but time crisis. This thread will not die ozgolf mod! :)

[jaybam]

you want modern i am hooked on this bloody guitar hero.

[Dotty]

Pong
Or the car racing game, where you had the aerial view of two blobs going around an hourglass shaped track.

Preferred the new pinnies, with LEDs and synthetised sound.


ps. Congratulations Goughy, that is post number: 350,000 on Ozgolf. I think you get an extra ball for that.

[Courty]

Chips Challenge.

[Golfnut]

Also remember spending many hours during wet wintery school holidays playing International Karate on the C64 against my brother when we were kids.......does not feel like 20 odd years ago though :neutral:

[Johnny Canuck]

I played one called Epyx Karate, which was awesome. The C64 was a great gaming device back in the day.

[Toolish]

Honestly though, my all time fave is Sega Rally.


I can't watch a WRC stage without hearing that navigator voice in my head...

[mike]

http://www.arcademachine.com/core/gamedata/java/A0062.gif



That's a big pot hole. How the hell did you get the moon mobile over that?

[Golfnut]

I played one called Epyx Karate, which was awesome. The C64 was a great gaming device back in the day.

It sure was JC....although that's not how we sold it to my parents so they'd buy us one :)

We actually had a C128 with a 1571 5.25in floppy drive.....funny thing was we almost never used it in C128 mode.....remember loading up the games with the Commodore Tape player.....those were the days, copying games was as easy as dubbing the game cassette in your mums dual cassette Hi-Fi system :)

[Yossarian]

I can't watch a WRC stage without hearing that navigator voice in my head...


Easy left...... Hard Right....

[Grunt]

Commodore 64, I still remember the tapes loading too. How many times did you almost complete the load and something went wrong. It was painful.

[Russ]

My games of choice through the years:

Shinobi
Street Fighter II
Daytona USA

I put more money through those 3 games than I care to remember.


When I started playing consoles:

Super Mario (Nintendo)
Donkey Kong (SNES)
NBA Jam (SNES)
Tomb Raider (PS)

After Tomb Raider, I never could play another game, it was too awesome.

[henno]

Best arcade game that never was?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHHGoSDUy5w

[adlo]

Easy left...... Hard Right....

I always loved "Hard right.... maybe"

[Golfnut]

Commodore 64, I still remember the tapes loading too. How many times did you almost complete the load and something went wrong. It was painful.

Excruciating at times, especially when playing games like Summer Games and Winter Games and the blastard tape player would crap itself three quarters of the way through the Olympic games :smt093

Not to mention the amount of broken joysticks from the 100m sprint and marathons :mrgreen:

[Bruce]

http://dilletante.tenpm.com.au/?p=48

[Grunt]

Ahh Summer and Winters games they were great too.

[adlo]

Funny.

Having no idea of this thread, or reliving classic arcade game memories, my wife came home from Tafe with some "games" off the local hard drive at Tafe.

Turns out there is a SNES, Master Drive, Genesis and N64 emulator for Mac, with thousands of games.

Sweet. Have just given 1942, Bubble Bobble, Wonderboy, Pitfall a crack. So many games.

[Yossarian]

Serendipity.

[henno]

Serendipity.

http://imgur.com/KFKLd.jpg

[PeteyD]

I don't remember a video game that looked like that! There was that Custer thing on the Atari though.

[Johnny Canuck]

Funny.

Having no idea of this thread, or reliving classic arcade game memories, my wife came home from Tafe with some "games" off the local hard drive at Tafe.

Turns out there is a SNES, Master Drive, Genesis and N64 emulator for Mac, with thousands of games.

Sweet. Have just given 1942, Bubble Bobble, Wonderboy, Pitfall a crack. So many games.

Three of my favs. I have Bubble Bobble on my XBox and the wife's DS. It was in heavy rotation not too long ago.

[henno]

I don't remember a video game that looked like that!

That's Serendipity, according to Kevin Smith in the movie Dogma.

[PeteyD]

Ahh, ignorance is bliss, but knowledge seems better in this case!

[virge666]

International Karate was my fave on the C64.
Galaga.
Golden Tee golf on my old PC laptop.
Gyrus . . . Can't believe no love for this.
Double Dragon was sensational.

1942 was good but there was a chopper game like this a bit later on... cannot remember name though... and also there was a tank game called battlezone or battle tank or something like that. Love that one to death. I may have been 8 years old when this came out.

Operation Wolf, Sega Rally and Afterburner probably cost me the most amount of coin as a teenager. I even saw a newer version of Afterburner at Warriewood a few weeks back.

Sega Rally was way better than Daytona.

Does anyone remember "Defender of the Crown" and "Skyfox" ??

[henno]

1942 was good but there was a chopper game like this a bit later on... cannot remember name though

Twin Cobra?

[Yossarian]

Yeah I remember a game called twin cobra...

[Johnny Canuck]

International Karate was my fave on the C64.
Galaga.
Golden Tee golf on my old PC laptop.
Gyrus . . . Can't believe no love for this.
Double Dragon was sensational.

1942 was good but there was a chopper game like this a bit later on... cannot remember name though... and also there was a tank game called battlezone or battle tank or something like that. Love that one to death. I may have been 8 years old when this came out.

Operation Wolf, Sega Rally and Afterburner probably cost me the most amount of coin as a teenager. I even saw a newer version of Afterburner at Warriewood a few weeks back.

Sega Rally was way better than Daytona.

Does anyone remember "Defender of the Crown" and "Skyfox" ??

Golden tee in the pubs is one of the finest games ever made.


Twin Cobra?

Henno is correct. Twin Choppers with 4 different coloured power ups. Red, green, blue and yellow. That's the one, correct?

[virge666]

Twin Cobra?


:smt038:smt038:smt038

Put some serious cash into that game.

[Golfnut]

Plenty of love here for Gyruss Virge.....:smt038

A mate and I poured every last $1 into Double Dragon to finish it only to find you had to beat the crap out of each other at the end......and that's were i'll end this story :(

[Webster]

Frogger
Donkey Kong
Leisure Suit Larry

[GC]

Daytona at the arcade, still love it

[Johnny Canuck]

daytona, at sega city, 8 cars, a group of pissed mates. hours of endless fun. one of the best games ever! nothing like full contact car racing.

suzuka 8 hour was a great bike game as well.

[adlo]

Sega Rally trumps Daytona.

[Chris32]

I used to love playing Operation Wolf at Timezone when I was a kid.

Dogs of War on Amiga was pretty cool to, Afterburner the arcade game was allot of fun!

[Russell]

spent hours playing asteroids,then bought sega rally complete with two steering wheels.used to play it all night between trawl shots with my crew.never got sick of it

[AndyP]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was always a good multiplayer arcade game.

[Tones]

Does anyone remember "Grundy's" at Surfer's Paradise, spent plenty playing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game there as a kid

[henno]

Does anyone remember "Grundy's" at Surfer's Paradise, spent plenty playing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game there as a kid

Sure do. That slide and ball pool thing were great fun!

[PeteyD]

Grundy's was great.

[zigwah]

GORF on the VIC 20!!

[Johnny Canuck]

i used to hate that game zig, it was frickin hard!

[Fishman Dan]

Wolfenstein Enemy Territory. It was 100% free and was meant to be a new product or an add-on for Wolfenstein, but was ditched by the developers and then released to the market as a freebie. It was the first great game to really utilise ADSL.

2 teams, 6 maps playing as any of 5 classes in maps filled with anything from 12 to 32 players - blowing away multiple kiddies with a single rocket launcher was always great fun. Being Covert Ops and running around stabbing the opposition with your knife dressed as the enemy was great fun - real adrenalin rush. To this day it remains unrivaled for being readily available and relatively free from hackers. It's probably still around.

I still have nightmares of Mortal Kombat. I used to run a video games store (Megadrive days) and the owners son (8 year old) beat me time and time again - including fatality. It was devastating, but I always came back for more despite his taunts.

[Fishman Dan]

Does anyone remember "Grundy's" at Surfer's Paradise, spent plenty playing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game there as a kid

My grandfather had a unit on the canal a couple of hundred metres away from Cavil Ave... gone are the days when you could walk through to the beach barefoot as an 8 year old kid.

I remember the water slide, and there used to be a wild-west rifle range game. I also played Defender for the first time at Grundy's.

[Yossarian]

What games are people playing these days?

Just clocked fear 2, wasn't too bad, few plot holes.

I play games like rome total war, morrowind ect. And the odd shoot em up.

GTA 4 was amazing.

[virge666]

Prototype was good fun and open enough,

Crysis and Call of Duty 4 are the last couple of decent games I have played.

I got bored with GTA

[Yossarian]

Actually i just downloaded the first monkey island game that lucasarts have redone. So good. So many memories.

[Fishman Dan]

CoD 4 was great fun but the single player was too short. Online was a lot of fun, I made it to level 50'ish before moving on to other things, but I was still getting smashed by kids from all over the world.

I started playing Burnout Paradise on the PS3, great fun racing. Offline is good, online is fantastic, with 490 multiplayer challenges (I've done about 80 so far!).

The next game for me will be Gran Turismo 5. I just picked up LEGO Batman on the Mac, it's fun for a bit of bash'n'giggle.

Otherwise I spend my time playing Drawrace or Peggle on the iPhone ;)

[jaybam]

Gran Turismo 5.

Is this bastard ever going to come out??? Thats a week off work for me when it does. Cant wait. Keeps getting pushed further and further back though with no release date still not available :(

[BrisWesty]

Donkey Kong - got 277,000 once.

[gazgolf1]

Grundy's was great.

I used to stumble thru Grundy's drunk after exiting the Surfers Beergarden.