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Everyone always mentions the big names when they're on about the best coin-op games; Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Galaga and so on.  However it's always nice when you remember playing an Arcade that was somewhat an undiscovered gem, or just something you don't hear everyone going on about every 5 minutes.  This thread is for those gems, let's hear them!

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Black Tiger
Bosconian
Burnin' Rubber
Butasan (Japanese original Arcade version of 'Psycho Pigs UXB')
Cadillacs & Dinosaurs (I remember pumping many 10ps into one of these in Ireland one holiday).
Die Hard Arcade
Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters (think isometric Gauntlet in the future)
Penguin-Kun Wars
Super Dodge Ball
Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo
Timber
Time Pilot

The Point Blank series
The Mortal Kombat Series
Jurrasic Park: The Lost World
Power Stone
Simpsons Bowling
Silent Scope
And almost all the classics

Hm.. big toughy.
For obvious reasons: Every Street Fighter Game, especially 3
Aliens vs Predator
Alien 3:The Gun
Blazing Star
Sengoku 1 & 2
X-Men (Konami)
Tokyo Wars
Raiden
OutRun & OutRunners
Samurai Showdown 4 and all KOF Games
hmm... im going to stop before I fill the forum

I'll add Major Havoc to my list.

Silent Scope
Silent Scope2
Time Crises
Time Crises2
Time Crises3
CarnEvil

I used to love Burnin Rubber.

I was too young to be in the arcades, but the bigger kids were alright with me, and used to help me by hitting the jump button as the game got tougher :)

Carnevil for crying out loud?
I remember older kids being assholes until you kicked the crap out of them using Chun Li..
Man, I miss that musky smelling arcade enviroment, full of people from all walks of like. Nerds and non nerds coexisting in a way.

Ah, I'll add Golden Axe: Return or Revenge of Death Adder to that list, the name escapes me and I'm too tired to look it up. (It had an elf with a pitch fork if that rings any bells, and a giant with a dwarf on his back.)

great topic!

okay lets see...

daytona usa
polce trainer
house of the dead 1&2
street fighter 2 turbo & street fighter 3
mortal kombat 1&2
metal slug
outrun (isnt a new one coming out?)
and a helicopter game that i cant remember

most hated: DDR

damn that helicopter game... i think it was sega and on the fancier models there was a chair and a flight stick and the chair would move when you moved the stick (i think).

thunderblade?

I was quite good at that

was it Carnavel or Carousel, where you just shot targets which did not shoo t back, a little bit like a fairgfround side-show?

I used to like that. :)

Yeah. Carnival by Sega.I've got that on Atari 2600. The one freak_Boy was talking about was a Midway Light Gun game I believe.
ThunderBlade was great. Anyone ever play ThunderBlade NY? You were flown around in the helicopter instead of actually flying, and it had a light gun which of course was this great big machine gun that recoiled. I would give up a testicle for that arcade game.

hell yeah!!!!!  that game was fun too... i didnt even know that they were in the same series!
nice!

uuhh.... Time Crisis, and Area 51 are the only games I ever played at the Arcade, since they are half of all the interesting arcade machines within 100 miles.

sadness.

Didnt have many good arcades around when you growing up 2D?
I had one in the town I lived in that was pretty good until a few years ago, they got shut down because the owner was selling drugs out of his office. Then on rare occasions, there was a cool one in Bloomington which isnt far, and one in Kentucky I got to go to at least once a year inside the River Falls Mall. This arcade was an entire floor of the mall, literally thousands of games.

I loved any beat 'em up that was in the arcade such as The Simpsons, X-men, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but I also really liked
Space Harrier
Punch-out
Moon Patrol

I've never had arcade games around, so I can't say I really have any favorites. But I'll get on any sega game made between 1992 and 1996. From Virtua Racing to Scud Racer and everything inbetween.

Moon Patrol
Time Killers

There's really only one game that sticks out in my mind for being very awesome yet practically ignored by everyone else when it could be found: Time Killers. I swear I never saw anyone else play it ever. Made me quite happy cause I never had to wait around to play :girl:

I am fortunate in that I grew up in a sea-side town, with a pier (boardwalk) that had a decent arcade, and there were two more to compete. I was there in the British hey-day of arcades, which (video game wise) was probably between 1980-84.

Very, very happy days. Happy memories. A lot of the arcades were still going strong around '88, and made for a good evening out as I got older, and better at the machines.

Circa '96 I some of the arcades, still had some old skool machines, and  a few decent modern ones.

Last visit 2003 - they were all  gambling machines,  with just one pinball, and one old time, ancient elcetro mechanical machine ( a shooting game) left. :(

For old time s sake, I played the shooting game and won, (20 shots, 20 hits - coin retruned) cos I knew it of old, I knew that it was fixed, and how  the "kick" worked/


Across the border, in Brighton, Feb 2004 this was,  the pier there has lots of machines, eh Sureshot? But, I was hard pressed to find anything remotely playable, or worth my time & money, I think  wasted a couple of quid on a Star Wars game, and then moved down to the gambling machines, fuck all worh playing really.

Played a few penny shover things, couldnt find a pinabll,  gave up in frustration. It was out of season, and pretty late, I might have found some old skool machines in Duke St, or Queens St, or someplace, but Mrs.THX and I, only holiday out of season, and only on  a strict budget ;)


This long assed post was brought to you in assoication with some free beer, from my mate, who  gave me  beer to do some odd jobs for him.

:)