Favorite mid 80s Video Game?

[KitchenWitch]

Poll question: Favorite mid 80s Video Game?

[hfojvt]

1. Missile command, asteroids, galaga

did anyone really play Donkeykong?
What about defender?

[KitchenWitch]

3. Damn, I knew I was forgetting some good ones

Dain Bramage!

[hfojvt]

15. you probably never bought, or listened to

the Pac-man fever album.
"I got a pocket full of quarters
and I'm headed to the arcade.
I don't have alot of money
but I'm bringing every thing I made
I got a callus on my finger and my shoulder's hurtin' too
I'm gonna eat 'em all up, just as soon as they turn blue."
Yes, there was a whole album with a song for various games. My baby sister owned a copy that I listened to several times.

[crimson333]

2. zaxxon

loved that game

[Ladyhawk]

11. I completely sucked at that one. :) n/t

[xmas74]

4. Burger Time.

It was on Intelvision. I used to play that all the time. I played Pac Man on my Atari.

[mark414]

13. Burger Time!!!!!

greatest game ever! i had intellivision as well...god i loved that system

i nearly had a heart attack a couple months when i spotted an ARCADE version of burger time at a local watering hole

i spent a lot of quarters that night...

[KitchenWitch]

14. Man, if I could have the money back that I spent at the arcades

Well I wouldn't be rich, but I might be able to pay for a nice vacation!

[xmas74]

17. I was really good w/ the pepper shaker.

Thank goodness I haven't found an arcade game of it-I would never want to leave!

[mark414]

18. well as long as you don't visit milwaukee

you'll be safe

[xmas74]

19. I'm slated to visit family in Kenosha this summer.

I might have to roadtrip while I'm there.

[Systematic Chaos]

5. Thief and NATO Defense from Pacific Novelty Company

Also:

Robotron
Zoo Keeper
Jungle Hunt
Super Pac Man
Gaplus (Galaga 3)
Tapper
Solar Fox
Tron
Taz Mania
Spiders
Anteater

[BulletproofLandshark]

6. Yie Ar Kung Fu

This game (which I believe Konami released in 1985) was an early predecessor to Street Fighter II and their ilk. You had to fight against characters who uses throwing stars, tonfas, nun-chucks, you name it using only your hands and feet. I can't even remember how many quarters I pumped into this thing,but it must have been many hundreds. A true classic.

[Huckebein the Raven]

7. Outrun

oh man I loved that game

[Ladyhawk]

8. Want Some Links to 80's Games? :D

http://games.myway.com/player/midway/id/bubbles.html
http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/games.shtml#null
http://games.myway.com/player/midway/id/defender2.html
http://games.myway.com/player/midway/id/defender.html
http://games.myway.com/player/midway/id/joust.html
http://games.myway.com/player/midway/id/rampage.html
http://games.myway.com/player/midway/id/robotron.html
http://games.myway.com/player/midway/id/sinistar.html
http://games.myway.com/player/midway/id/spyhunter.html
http://games.myway.com/player/midway/id/tapper.html



Others: http://www.liberatedgames.com/gamelisting.php

[KitchenWitch]

10. That list is great

Thanks.

I am the Moon Patrol geek...wonder if that one is anywhere...

[Ladyhawk]

12. There is a version, but it isn't like the one I remember at the arcade. :(

The "My Way" versions are exactly like the arcade versions.

[Ladyhawk]

34. I've wasted a lot of time at those links.

:freak:

[Solon]

77. Check out Mame for complete arcade experience...

It emulates the hardware of old fashioned and modern arcade machines. The thing about it is this, it needs the software to run, called ROMS, some are public domain now, some are not, use your own discretion and search(Google) if you want to.

[Ladyhawk]

9. Dig-Dug, Galaxian, Joust, Rampage, Defender...etc. n/t

[MrSlayer]

16. Stargate

Back when you could play for hours on a single quarter, if you were good enough.

[ronzo]

90. That was my favorite...

First Defender then Stargate.
I used to be able to get my quarter's worth. ;)

[merwin]

20. Super Mario Brothers (the original) of course!!

By far the best game ever created :-)

[Swamp Rat]

21. Lunar Lander

"You have just created a 1 mile crater."

[KitchenWitch]

27. LOL

I remember that one, and "Hunt the Wumpus" Text based computer games....YUK

[Solon]

41. Love those messages...

[Swamp Rat]

45. Hey! Where did you find that?

Know of any Apple UNIX versions? :D

[Solon]

53. Print Screen on Mame32, someone else has the link...

That is the original game BTW, with artwork plugins to make it look like the original arcade screen. Pretty nifty, don't you think?

ON EDIT: Its www.mame.net

[ET Awful]

22. Tron!

:)

[WildClarySage]

23. Tron ate up all my quarters at the arcade,

though to tell the truth, I wasn't very good at it.

[ET Awful]

26. I got that way after a while, but more so with a couple of the

sub-games than others. I was great at killing the spider things to get into the communication tower, but for some reason I'd always get croaked by the blocks in the tower itself.

I was moderately okay at tanks, and was pretty damned good at the light cycles.

[tridim]

49. Ahhh Tron.

I loved the stereo music, the cabinet and the light cycles. The other three games I could do without. That game got lots of my money, just like Dragon's Lair.

[Rockholm]

93. Tron! Ate my freshman and sophmore years in college!

[redqueen]

97. Ah, fellow TRON fans!

I so loved that game... :thumbsup:

[GreyPilgrim]

24. Centipede!

Curse that green segmented body! ;-)

[TheCentepedeShoes]

30. Centipede, too

Natch.

[ComerPerro]

25. Contra

[taught_me_patience]

100. contra was the best...

up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-b-a-select-start


taught

[lazarus]

28. Star Wars

and Q-Bert. A friend and I took turns playing Q-Bert once. One quarter, lasted 14 hours. Took us a half hour to kill off the extra men before they closed the rec center.

I could go hours on Star Wars on one quarter.

[Ladyhawk]

33. Star Wars was a favorite of mine, as well.

I could blow up a bunch of Death Stars on one quarter. :)

[Maddy McCall]

29. Galaga. Without a doubt, Galaga.

[VelmaD]

31. Galaga ROCKS!!! I am the Queen...

of all Galaga. I rolled over the score counter on a Galaga machine 3 times on one quarter once. :)

[wideopen]

99. Galaga!

I used to play until my wrist was sore from hitting the fire button.
I have on of thos eplug into th etv ones now but its just not the same.

[psychopomp]

32. Satan's Hollow

Man, I have been looking for an emulator for that game for the longest time but no luck.

Close second has to be Battlezone (the old green/black line-image game).

[Locut0s]

35. Play any 80s game you want...

http://www.mame.net/

Mame currently emulates over 2000 arcade games. If you can find the game roms, off usenet, you can play tons of original arcade games, 100% authentically to. I've been hooked on mame for a while now.

[Solon]

38. Tell me about it, I'm freaking addicted to it right now...

Playing Asteroids as we speak. In a window no less!

[tridim]

47. Here's my old Mame cabinet

My homebrew 'tempest wheel' was really nice.. Almost like the real one. It was made from a modified mouse, a stereo volume knob and big ass steel washers for the flywheel.

I had to break it down because it was a bear to move. I'll build another one when I settle down in a few years.

[Solon]

54. Sweet!!!!

I'm thinking about building one for my computer, trying to think of a modular design so I can break it down easily, and I'm NOT going to pay 500+ dollars on an empty cabinet.

[tridim]

79. Modular is key..

I built that cabinet from scratch with particle board, but if you want an empty cabinet you can get them for $10 or less if you shop around. I've actually bought working uprights for $10.

I've owned:
Mappy - $25 (This game kicks ass, if you've never played it)
Omega Race - $20
Space Duel - Free (but had a bad monitor)
Tempest - $10 (monitor only lasted a few months)
Asteroids - $20
MAME cabinet - About $50 in materials not including the PC.

My next MAME project will probably just be a desktop control box. Real arcade joysticks and buttons are a necessity for playing real arcade games, but the big cabinets are just too big to be practical.

[The Great Escape]

36. Q-Bert

[nytemare]

40. Qbert was cute

I sucked at Qbert, though...lol.

[HamstersFromHell]

52. Q*bert was it!

Loved that game. Hell to learn to recognize the patterns and the moves to counter them, but once you did, you could literally play forever on a quarter.

[steely]

37. it was called Zaxxon I think.

simple space jet fighter game

[Solon]

39. Trivia time!!!

What was the ORIGINAL name for Pac-Man?

[tridim]

50. Puck Man?

I think I read that somewhere.

[Solon]

55. Yep, that's it....

Puckman was first introduced to the Japaneses arcades market at the midle of 1980. The voracious little critter caught the hearts and imaginations of the public like no other game and is the hallmark of the golden age of video games.

Puckman was conceived at lunchtime... literally. So the story goes, the designer Toru Iwatani, who was 26 at the time, was very hungry and ordered a whole pizza for himself. He took one slice and Puckman was born. However, in later years Iwatani has suggested the shape was based on the Japanese character 'kuchi', meaning mouth. He rounded off this shape, and created the classic shape. The game took 1 1/2 years to complete and had five people on its team. Puckman is the greatest selling arcade game of all time and is arguably the most well-known video character. It had its own cartoon, lunch box, board game and hundreds of other products. Puckman was also the first game to have a 'character' and changed the face of video games forever. Puckman was the first video game to be as equally popular to women as it was with men.

The name Puckman (later changed to Pacman) comes from a Japanese slang term - paku paku - which describes the motion of the mouth opening and closing during eating.

After the 255th level, Puckman locks up. This lockup does not occur if, at the end of level 254, the number '255' appears at any point within your score.

The alien spaceship "Galaxian" makes an appearance as a bonus item in the later levels.

Your the WINNER!!!! Here's a cookie!

[phrenzy]

71. More Trivia: Why was the name CHANGED from Puck-Man? (nt)

[phrenzy]

72. Dragon's Lair

Yes Pac Man was an amazing game - it was just magic. Hard to explain. It was destined to become an icon.

But, Ms. Pac really perfected it. Bouncing fruit, changes mazes, etc.

Oddly, Ms. Pac-Man was made in America and not Japan.

But my all time life changing game of that time was Dragon's Lair.

[Solon]

75. Easy...

How hard would it have been for American kids to scratch off the P a little bit and change the word completely?

[nytemare]

42. Space Invaders!!!

Between that, Pac Man, and Centipede and Galaxian/Galaga, I spent a lot of my childhood time.

:)

[tridim]

43. Tempest, by far..

Not only the best 80's game, but the best video game ever IMO. I even owned an upright Tempest at one point. Some day I'll buy another.

The higher levels are INSANE! No other game gets my adrenaline going like Tempest.

My second fave was Joust.

[AngryAmish]

78. agreed

there used to be a game at the Rainbo Club, but its been gone for years

[tridim]

80. The vector monitors in those games sucked.

But can be fixed/upgraded with modern technology. I'm constantly on the lookout for a broken Tempest upright. The monitor goes and the owners give them away for a song. As soon as I see one for under $50, it's mine.

[jmowreader]

44. Galaga!

Galaga is the only game I can actually play.

[derby378]

46. Gotta put in a word for Kickman

The Bally/Midway game where you're a clown on a unicycle popping balloons. I could get a score of 36,000,000+ on that console, which would take at least five hours. I guess I could have gone for a record if I was really that motivated - that was when I was a teen.

[Beware the Beast Man]

48. Mid-80's? Gauntlet!

"Blue elf, don't shoot food!"

[blue neen]

51. Tetris!

I loved it!

[Solon]

56. Best thing to come out of Communist USSR definately! n/t

[blue neen]

70. I wasn't very good at the other games,

but that one I could play for hours!

LOL! I forgot that came out of the USSR! You're right!

[hueyhog92]

57. pacman!

[hueyhog92]

58. pacman!

[hueyhog92]

pacman!

[hueyhog92]

59. pacman!

[hueyhog92]

pacman!

[hueyhog92]

60. pacman!

[hueyhog92]

61. pacman!

[hueyhog92]

pacman!

[hueyhog92]

62. pacman!

[hueyhog92]

63. pacman!

[hueyhog92]

64. pacman!

[hueyhog92]

pacman!

[hueyhog92]

65. pacman!

[hueyhog92]

66. pacman!

[hueyhog92]

pacman!

[hueyhog92]

67. pacman!

[hueyhog92]

68. pacman!

[Solon]

76. I've heard of double posts before...

but that is simply incredible, so I assume that your favorite game of all time is Pacman(maybe)? ;)

[Lautremont]

69. pacman!... um, actually, Marble Madness.

That was the king.

[billyskank]

91. Marble Madness totally ruled. That was probably a late 80s game.

[Lautremont]

92. It came out in 1984, apparently.

Here's a link to a site that will tell you everything you need to know about this remarkable game:

http://www.bodenstaendig.de/marble/

[Discord]

73. What? No Pitfall?!?

That game was awesome.

[Ladyhawk]

82. I don't think it was ever an arcade game.

I think it was limited to home consoles like the Atari 1600 and Intellivision. Intellivision...wow...forever ago.

[Discord]

84. your right. It was solely for the Atari at the time.

But they question was favorite "video" game. =P

[Ladyhawk]

87. Alas, you are correct! I should brush up on my reading comprehension. nt

[CanuckAmok]

74. WTF is "Moon Patrol"?!

I was a "Scramble" geek.

Then Burger Time.

[Left Is Write]

81. Frogger. I have a soft spot in my heart for Frogger.

[Lone_Wolf_Moderate]

83. If you're talking b/t 1983-1986,

it's Super Mario Bros. However you slice it, it's Super Mario Bros., with Ms. Pac Man a close second.

[bugslsu9]

85. Goonies II

Best. Game. Ever.

[BearClaws]

86. Tempest

I can still hear those sound effects.

[Stop_the_War]

88. Pac-Man!!!!!!

:P

[Speck Tater]

89. Crazy Climber -- or -- Joust

[sakabatou]

94. Spy Hunter

[redqueen]

95. I voted for Tempest, but TRON was another favorite.

[DS1]

96. Actually, that old cannons taking turns firing at each other over random

hills with random windages. I got so good at that I could win on my first shot every damn time.

It was on the Apple II and some IBMs.

[4_Legs_Good]

98. Scramble

Scramble ROCKED!!!



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