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Subject: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: oldmusicfan on 02/28/20 at 6:09 pm

What arcade games from the 70s and 80s would be in your arcade if you built one?

For me:

- BurgerTime
- Donkey Kong
- Street Fighter
- TMNT arcade game
- Bad Dudes
- NARC
- Pac-Man
- Space Invaders
- Asteroids
- Frogger
- WWF Superstars
- Mrs. PAC-Man
- Pac-Man Jr.
- Nintendo Playchoice 10 - Super Mario Brothers 3
- Double Dragon
- Centipede

I’ll add more later on.

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: wixness on 02/28/20 at 6:31 pm

The original Polybius, but with less of a danger to the player's health. :P

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: oldmusicfan on 02/28/20 at 7:01 pm

-Bubble Bobble
- Mario Bros.
- Galaga
- Scramble
- Mouse Trap (for the people who can’t get to the PAC-Man machine)
- Dragon’s Lair

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: wagonman76 on 02/28/20 at 9:35 pm

Gotta have Pole Position

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: oldmusicfan on 02/28/20 at 10:22 pm

Gotta have Pole Position

Along with Zaxxon.

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: Howard on 02/29/20 at 4:44 am

Pac Man
Donkey Kong
Pole Position

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: oldmusicfan on 02/29/20 at 9:39 am

1942
VS Duck Hunt
Kung-Fu Master
Golf
Wild Gunman
Tetris

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: yelimsexa on 02/29/20 at 12:49 pm

*Pinball machines that feature vane scoring displays, along with more traditional sound effects and more neon.
*Vs. Mario Bros.
*Tempest
*Battlezone
*Paperboy
*Mr. Do!
*Galaxian
*Disc bowling
*Poker bowling (roll a ball into one of 25 holes and try to get the best poker hand)

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: oldmusicfan on 02/29/20 at 3:30 pm

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: annimal on 02/29/20 at 5:52 pm

decisions decisions

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: oldmusicfan on 02/29/20 at 6:16 pm

Punch Out
Contra
Rampage
Ghost ‘n Goblins
Gauntlet

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: annimal on 02/29/20 at 7:28 pm

one game not mentioned yet that I played a lot of is Qbert

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: oldmusicfan on 02/29/20 at 9:39 pm

one game not mentioned yet that I played a lot of is Qbert

Qbert reminded me too much of the more successful Pac-Man.

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: Howard on 03/01/20 at 7:04 am

Qbert reminded me too much of the more successful Pac-Man.

Q-bert was so difficult, it was hard jumping from square to square without bumping into the snake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=karPYs22ACc

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: oldmusicfan on 03/01/20 at 7:25 am

Q-bert was so difficult, it was hard jumping from square to square without bumping into the snake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=karPYs22ACc

I miss that era of arcade games. So simple in design, but challenging nonetheless.

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: annimal on 03/01/20 at 1:28 pm

Q-bert was so difficult, it was hard jumping from square to square without bumping into the snake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=karPYs22ACc

I think it was easy to avoid Coily as long as you remember he can only move one step at a time like you. I hated the green guys that Could go down real fast and change the blocks back to not stepped on.

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: oldmusicfan on 03/01/20 at 7:12 pm

Wrestlefest
Wrestling Challenge
Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game

I used to be a big wrestling fan back then.

You didn’t like the WWF Wrestling Superstars arcade game? None of the games you listed were from the 1980s.

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: Howard on 03/02/20 at 4:03 pm

You didn’t like the WWF Wrestling Superstars arcade game? None of the games you listed were from the 1980s.

The Wrestling Superstars game I enjoyed 30 years ago.

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: oldmusicfan on 03/02/20 at 4:17 pm

The Wrestling Superstars game I enjoyed 30 years ago.

Why didn’t you list it as a wrestling game in your fictional arcade? Did you find the 90s wrestling arcade games to be better than the WWF Wrestling Superstars?

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: Howard on 03/02/20 at 4:38 pm

Why didn’t you list it as a wrestling game in your fictional arcade? Did you find the 90s wrestling arcade games to be better than the WWF Wrestling Superstars?

I think so, it added more variety and more excitement.

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: oldmusicfan on 03/02/20 at 5:03 pm

I think so, it added more variety and more excitement.

I like the 90s games, especially WWF Wrestlefest, also. The colors. The gameplay. Everything was exciting about it.

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: Howard on 03/03/20 at 7:13 am

I like the 90s games, especially WWF Wrestlefest, also. The colors. The gameplay. Everything was exciting about it.

You had a lot of good matches and you got to go for the tag team championship held by The Legion Of Doom.

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: oldmusicfan on 03/03/20 at 1:01 pm

You had a lot of good matches and you got to go for the tag team championship held by The Legion Of Doom.

It was the ultimate wrestling game at the time. Far better than WWF Wrestling Superstars.

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: Howard on 03/03/20 at 1:31 pm

I would probably add Duck Hunt And Hogan's Alley in my ideal arcade.

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: oldmusicfan on 03/03/20 at 3:35 pm

I would probably add Duck Hunt And Hogan's Alley in my ideal arcade.

Duck Hunt?! I haven’t played that one in ages. I can see the brown dog laughing at me now after missing so many ducks in the first try.

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: wagonman76 on 03/03/20 at 4:27 pm

Spy Hunter was another one I played quite a bit in our short lived arcade.

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: MSP10julia on 03/03/20 at 6:21 pm

In the mid-80s, Sega AM2 release some awesome arcade games with powerful graphics

After Burner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT9a0bxj40k

Outrun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF4Q_4wdyQU

Space Harrier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLOf2StF_zY

Hang On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDnj3r9Xdv0

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: oldmusicfan on 03/03/20 at 6:53 pm

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: Howard on 03/04/20 at 4:46 am

Duck Hunt?! I haven’t played that one in ages. I can see the brown dog laughing at me now after missing so many ducks in the first try.

Did you also like Hogan's Alley too?

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: oldmusicfan on 03/04/20 at 12:27 pm

Did you also like Hogan's Alley too?

I haven’t played it.

Subject: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: Dude111 on 03/04/20 at 4:55 pm

My Ideal arcade would have nothing newer then 1984

All my favourites :)

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: Howard on 03/05/20 at 7:31 am

I would also add a couple of pinball games.

Subject: Re: What’s In Your Ideal Arcade?

Written By: oldmusicfan on 03/05/20 at 4:02 pm

I would also add a couple of pinball games.

The best pinball games were released in the 90s, but that’s not a bad idea to have some pinball machines mixed in with arcade cabinets.

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