Best 80s arcade game

[Maddy McCall]

Poll question: Best 80s arcade game

In the 80s, I prefered hanging out in the gameroom to all other activities. I won't reveal my favorite so as not to skew the poll :-)

So, of the choices below, which was your favorite?

[umcwb]

1. Frogger!?

Oh, well. Of the choices, Galaga all the way.

[Maddy McCall]

2. Dammit--I forgot frogger!

We can add it as a write-in, because it was much more popular than QBert, ey?

[Midwife]

14. One more for the frog!

I miss that game!

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. You know I stil play Space Invaders

in the Gameboy of course, a classic...

[Maddy McCall]

4. The sound effects are burned into my memory.

n/t

[AntiCoup2K4]

21. Frogger inspired a song that was much better than the awful....

"Pac Man Fever" :puke:

And that would be this Bad Religion classic.....

(Nice going, spazz)
I'm tired of this city, all this toil and strife.
Trying to cross the boulevard, playing Frogger with my life.
Frogger with my life (x2)
I'm tired of this city, all this toil and strife.
Trying to cross the boulevard, playing Frogger with my life.
Frogger with my life (with my life), (x3)
Frogger with my life.

[Cheswick2.0]

25. I hate to admit it but...........

even into my thirties I would spend time in the game room playing that game. I was pretty darn good at it.

[Khephra]

5. You left out four big ones

Robotron, Defender, Battlezone, and Tempest

[Maddy McCall]

6. There were only 10 boxes...

sorry, khephra :-(

These were the ones I remembered.

[rbnyc]

8. I would have voted for Tempest! (nt)

[BulletproofLandshark]

7. Galaga!!

Me and a friend of mine still play the hell out of Galaga whenever we see it at a bar or movie theater. I love that game to the point I've made inquiries about acquiring the actual arcade cabinet to put in my home. I definitely could've bought one with all the coins I've pumped into it over the last 20 years.

[Maddy McCall]

9. Welcome to DU Tinman

I love it too...the only thing I hate is that after you get to 999,999 it rolls back over to 0.

I wish I had one in the house...I put lots of quarters in the game too.

Welcome to DU :toast:

[Rhiannon12866]

16. Me , too, Tinman!

And I echo the welcome to DU!:hi:

[SmileyBoy]

10. You forgot Tetris.

Now I don't want to talk to you anymore.:-)

northwest
2001 Twin Cities all-metro Tetris champion (Windows division)

[Vernunft]

11. Where´s DEFENDER ?

That would be my coice.... I still play it, hehehe.

You also forgot MISSILE COMMAND.

[Maddy McCall]

12. POLL EDITED to add Defender and Tempest...

Hey, this was my first poll...be gentle with me!

Now the results will be skewed because I changed the selection in the middle of the poll, but no one had voted for the two selections I deleted, so it won't be too bad, maybe.

Like I said, I had put games up that I remembered, including the ones I thought sucked the most...wanted to see if anyone liked them.

Man, you gamers get violent, don't you! :-) :-)

[Rhiannon12866]

13. I CANNOT tell you how much I loved Galaga

But my favorite of all time was The Wizard of War. I was the best at that.:D

[Jeebo]

15. You forgot MS Pac-Man!

Pac-Man was a great game, but Ms. Pac-Man was an improvement on it. I haven't seen a Pac-Man machine anywhere in years and years, but I still see Ms. Pac-Man machines around here and there. I am the best Ms. Pac-Man player I've ever seen. I can get to the end of the game. I've only ever seen one other guy who could do that, but he didn't have as many points as I did when he got there. Anyway, I voted for Pac-Man but I would have voted for Ms. Pac-Man if it had been one of the choices. Galaga is a great game too and it is my third choice. I was a pretty good Galaga player too, one of the better ones I've seen, but I did see people who were better at it than I was.

Ron

[MissMillie]

34. She would have gotten my vote! (n/t)

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[BigMcLargehuge]

17. Zaxxon anyone?

the first "3D" game to use isometric perspective. I crashed alot.

[Township75]

18. I would like to add 2 more...

Dragon's lair and Street Fighter

[Maddy McCall]

19. LOL! I loved Dragon's Lair n/t

[DEM FAN]

20. Pac-Man And Frogger Were My To Favorites.

:-)

[Jen72]

22. I got an hand held Donkey Kong II for my

eleventh birthday, I loved it. I also played Astroids and that tennis game with two lines and a dot.

[dragonquest8]

23. newyorknewyork

[MojoKrunch]

24. The only video game I ever beat, Robotron!

Played for 3 1/2 hours on one quarter but got tired of it after I'd demolished the high score and flipped the screens(started back at level one) and so I killed off my little men just to see how many lives I had left.
35.
That rocked.
:D

Mojo

[Moosenose]

26. You also forgot Battlezone...

I liked it so much I had to buy the standup. :)

[talkinghand]

27. Defender, then Joust, then Ms Pac

The sit-down Ms Pac was the funnest drinking game at the pizza place!

I must have spent at least $500 each in Defender and Joust... I still love those...

I have all my favorites loaded in my home computer... using MacMame... I will never, ever get rid of this computer til I know how to transfer those over!! I should save everything onto CD...

Hope no one from Midway or Bally reads this!

[ZenLefty]

28. I play Joust online

They have it on shockwave. Life's cool sometimes. :)

http://www.shockwave.com/sw/content/joust

[talkinghand]

32. I'm gonna try that!

Thanks ZenLefty

I'm really glad I got all those ROMs in my computer back in 1999 before you had to pay on GameSpy.

[talkinghand]

38. It works at work!

But not at home on my Mac... too bad.

But I have it at home anyway using MacMame.

At work it's fun, except I'm not used to flapping with my left hand!

I'll be ambi-jousterous before you know it... if I'm not fired first!

[jus_the_facts]

29. GORF was my favorite video game.....

......muahahahahaha Space Cadet! :D



on edit....but I'll always be a Pinball Wizard at heart though!:)

[ibegurpard]

30. GAUNTLET!

The only Arcade game I developed an obsession with.

[lazarus]

31. Amen!

That's my dream game to own!

I also loved the original Star Wars game. Remember that one? All line drawings, you wanted to "use the Force" when going through the trench, etc? I could play that for hours on one quarter.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

39. Good god!

Gauntlet could have been called "Quarter Vacuum"
That's all it was. I went to the arcade with ten bucks, and that one machine sucked it all up.
It wasn't pretty, but man, did I get good at that game!

[WhataBildeberger]

33. Pole Position!

Am I the only who could spend days on end, and countless quarters, in the Pole Position machine???

[Spirochete]

40. Nope

I wasted my share of coin on that game too. It was great. It set my equilibrium just a tad bit askew. Had the illusion of actual movement.

[talkinghand]

52. We had 'em lined up!

in the bowling alley... me and my friends could drop quarters at the same time and "race"...

[trogdor]

35. What? No Frogger?

BTW, Space Invaders was released in 1978.

[dad]

36. d

MAME - one word for all you 80s video junkies.

My favorite was Moon Patrol

[indigo32]

47. I've got it

play frogger, Phoenix, Burger time, Ms Pacman... all my old favorites... it rocks.

[ForrestGump]

37. I was always best at Galaga and a karate one

but the karate one's not listed.

In many ways, I think, a lot more fun than the high-tech games around now. The '80s wasn't all bad.....

[SiouxJ]

41. Ms. Pacman

I also liked Joust, Star Wars, Burgertime, Jungle Hunt, and Moon Patrol. I worked as a gameroom attendant at a Chuck E Cheese in 1982 so I played them all daily. I used to skip the more popular ones like Donkey Kong, Frogger and Centipede and try to figure out the more obscure ones. There was this one called Crystal Castles that was pretty cool.

[Coffee Coyote]

42. BattleZone!!

A 1980 classic. I'd walk the mile to Safeway to play it after school in 7th grade.

[Rhiannon12866]

43. Did that involve tanks?

Which one am I thinking of?:shrug:

[Coffee Coyote]

46. yep!!

Tanks, with cheesy line-based green graphics!! :D

[VolcanoJen]

44. What... no TAPPER?

:-) I picked Q*Bert by default...

I was addicted to this game, which was neatly placed in the corner of my favorite pizza joint in college. I miss it so, but luckily, you can still play it on Shockwave.

http://www.shockwave.com/sw/content/tapper

Anyone else remember this one? The one at the pizza joint was a Budweiser Tapper game; most of them were refitted as Root Beer Tappers when parents started complaining. ;-)

[JCMach1]

45. What about TRON the game

Way cool.....

[LuCifer]

48. Dig Dug STILL kicks ass!

And for more current games, I'd have to go with Doom I & II, Quake and Wolfenstien. Ya know, come to think of it, the lay out of Wolfenstien (it's set in Nazi Germany for those who don't know...the plot of the game, well, KILL THE NAZIS!!!!!!) kind of reminds me of what the White House must look like now, ya know, with pix of HITLER and SWASTICAS EVERYWHERE!

Dr. Lu Cifer

[burr]

49. Zaxxon above all others!

The first game I played which had more than one complex level to it. Another one...not easy to find, Dungeons of Daggorath. If you're just learning how to type quickly, that's the computer game to play!

[solinvictus]

50. Sinistar

What about Sinistar and the one with robots and the bouncing head named Evil Otto? There were others too, Space Duel, Tailgunner, Bomber Command, and other obscure ones. Death Race was cool, but I think it was late 70's.

[talkinghand]

51. I LOVED Death Race

wasn't that the one where you ran people over and they turned into little tombstones? I remember playing that... across town in the arcade... driving back home I'd still be in "kill" mode! I must have only been 17 so it was still the '70s. The other game we liked in that arcade was biplane.

I used to play Sinistar in a 7-11 on the north side of town... another favorite there was Bosconian... I played that one for hours.

The first game I remember playing anywhere was in Thrifty Drugs... it was a game where you shot flying saucers and rockets... must have been around 1973-4? I remember it was by the machine my dad used to test TV tubes...