Best Old-School Arcade Video Games

[Beware the Beast Man]

Here's some of my favorites from back in the day. I'd have to say Galaga is my all-time favorite.

EDIT- Tweaked the subject a bit. I'm referring to arcade games only on this poll.

[mac56]

1. Asteroids!

All time favorite, along with Tank.

[Salmo Trutta]

2. Zelda

Used to spend hours playing that game.

[samwisefoxburr]

3. These choices are a tad before my time (I'm 20)...

...but I would say Super Mario Bros.

[LiberalVoice]

5. I'm 21 and I played all those games.

SMB's is an awesome game...I'm gonna have to split it down the middle thought with Asteroids and Pac-Man.

[Bombtrack]

14. Did Mario Bro's ever come out as an arcade game?

I certainly don't remember that. Everyone had it on Nintendo I don't know what the point would've been

[samwisefoxburr]

16. Yes, they were called PlayChoice...

...they were a collection of NES games. But you reminded me of X-Men, so that's my favorite.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

4. Dig Dug fuckin rocks!

[samwisefoxburr]

6. I don't know why but...

I just cracked up with the way you worded you respose. LOL!

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

9. LOL, glad I could brighten your day!

:hi: :toast:

[Beware the Beast Man]

7. I didn't have enough room to include:

Frogger, Crazy Climber, Vanguard, Space Invaders, Missile Command, Asteroids, Gauntlet (awesome game!), and Galaxian, to name a few more.

[frylock]

8. voted galaga cuz that was my fav..

but hold a special place in my heart for Moon Cresta!

[Bombtrack]

10. The 6 player wide-screen Konami X-men game. Anyone remember it?

You could be Cyclops, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Storm, or Dazzler. I must have spent 60 dollars in quarters on that game over the years.

Anyone know where you can find an emulation of that game? It was the best, by far.

[samwisefoxburr]

12. OH MY GOD!!!

That is BY FAR my favorite arcade game! Try searching eMule for the game. But if you can't find the game by itself search for MAME (you can find 5-6 CDs worth of arcade games) they are sorted alphabetically.

[Bombtrack]

20. Do you have any advice for a place to download that stuff

I've attempted to look for that stuff before, and it always seemed like the websites were really dirty, as in foriegn and/or lots of popups and probably viruses and spyware and stuff.

[samwisefoxburr]

27. www.emule-project.org

eMule is a file-sharing program, it's open source and does not have adware, spyware, etc. Just install that and, like I said above, search for X-Men, or MAME. Hope that helps!

[Bombtrack]

29. Do you have it? Because I'd appreciate if you did a search to see

if they have it. I don't want to download a whole new file sharing program when I already have and use Kazaa, which I'm pretty sure has a much bigger selection, particularly when I don't know if it will have that game.

I don't know that much about computer jargon and what not. So I don't know what "open-source" means. If I downlaod another P2P it'll probably be Sharezaa as someone said you can use it to download Torrent files, which I'm still trying to understand.

[Loonman]

11. From the second era of coin-op

Golden Axe
Superman
Robocop
Tron

[Lars39]

13. Joust was cool, too.

:)

[Beware the Beast Man]

15. Forgot about joust!

What genius thought of a jousting game where you ride ostriches? Bizarre!

[Angelus]

17. Donkey Kong!

W00t!

[Az]

18. Ok, not an arcade game, but dang M.U.L.E.

Possibly the most original game of its day.

[tnlefty]

19. Galaga followed by Galaxian eom

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[Th1onein]

21. Lemmings!

eom

[Speck Tater]

22. Other - Joust (nt)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

23. Other: New Rally X (nt)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

24. Also...

Tetris (Atari version)
Crossbow
ZAXXON!!!
Qix
Pinball Action
Polaris
Scramble
Arkanoid
Phoenix
Son of Phoenix
Pengo
Amidar

GAAAAAAA there's too many!!!

[Marnieworld]

25. Hello? Frogger?!!! n/t

[Solon]

26. Too many!!!!

Oh well, I settle for M.A.M.E. (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, it kicks ASS!!!) nowadays, relive the old days again!!!

Check out this link:

http://www.zophar.net/

[Ivan Zero]

34. M.A.M.E. is just too cool

although my inner adolescent is outraged by it, after having blown his allowance a quarter at a time back in the early '80s.

[No2W2004]

28. Old, Old school: Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Asteroids, Battle Zone

Old school:
Ms. Pac Man
Donkey Kong Jr.
Joust

[VelmaD]

30. GALAGA RULES ALL!!!

I totally kicked ASS at that game. I rolled the high score counter over 3 times on one quarter once at the arcade in my home town. GO ME!!!

Gorf was WAY COOL too. "Bad move Space Cadet". *snort*

[fudge stripe cookays]

31. Crystal Castles!

The cool 3-D elevators were lots of fun. As was outrunning those funky hopping coiled up snake things.



I got really good at this one from all the free tokens we got from my friend's boyfriend who worked at Chuck E. Cheese in high school.

[noonwitch]

32. Space Invaders is my favorite

I have the newer version on my Gameboy. I don't have any other video system. Plus, Rush immortalized it in song.

The game brings out my worst compulsive tendancies, however.

[fudge stripe cookays]

33. So did the Pretenders.

First album. =)