Your favourite game.....

Have to admit, is a sound guy to do business with. He sold me the Roadblasters for a good price. *end of butt kissing*

How's the new location for Retrokade coming along Rav? i needs me old skool gaming fix!!

Then go buy the project cab and build it up....

Bods wrote: not to keen on the game tho

Not too keen on the game!!!!!

Go stand in the corner for the rest of the night

Only kidding, each to their own

Whenever i get to play on a Tron during times that i don't own one, i always get the urge to go out and buy another, and normally question why i sold the last one...

First I would like to say well done Pinx on that cool website. Yes, I have just sat down and read through that and this entire thread! Well it is the afternoon, who ever does any work if they can get away with it.

Its nice to hear stories from the old times that remind me of myself. Blagging money from helping people on the bandits,fiddling a few ops with dodgy devices, banging the 10p pushers in the right place so as not to set the alarm off. Wow I wish I could go back there now!

With regards to my fave games, having grown up in the seaside town of Withernsea (North East) I was in the muggys as we called em virtually every day between 1983ish-1988 when I moved a bit further in land and could only play them when I went to visit my grandparents.

Most of my faves I would say come from that era then and I remember fondly those that I was particularly good at and could impress the crowds of holiday makers!

Let's see, without doubt a cool game to play with its awesome music was

Spy Hunter

this became my first dedicated cab, although it did take almost 2 years of owning before it actually worked properly! Due in the main to me being technically sh*t. Many thanks to Chris hardy for finally getting me sorted though!

Also the following were awesome to play in multi-player mode. Many an afternoon wasted away playing Super Sprint (another of my dedicated cabs), Hyper Sports, Hyper Olympics, Bubble Bobble, Tehkan world cup. I know Tehkan wasn't everyones cup of tea, but to me its still the best two player footy game ever in an arcade. You know the one with a track ball you had to spin furiously to run like f@@@ after the ball. I built up many a sweat on that one I can tell you.

In fact I pretty much like most games that require some sort of physical stamina, as in the Hyper Olympics bash the buttons like a maniac. Alpine Ski was another good one for this when doing the Ski jump.

Other classics I recall spending hours and hours on in my quest to be 'Best in With' would be Pac Land,Paperboy,Metro Cross,Double Dragon,Flying Shark,GunSmoke,Return of the Jedi.

I did play some of the now regarded classics a bit but not as much as most of these although I can now appreciate how immensely challenging and playable Robotron is, Centipede I have also loved for a long long time and also have a dedicated cab.

As some others have mentioned though I could never get into Defender as it was too damned hard , Tron didn't really interest me at the time although the last time I saw one was about 20, maybe 22 years ago. I would like to have a look at one again and have a go just to see!

Well I think I've mentioned most of my faves there, better go do SOME work before its time to go home.

Danny

 

Sara I never asked you this, but did you ever get any good at Afterburner, it always used to whoop me after the first few stages, I just couldn't get the hang of it, I gave up in the end it just used to eat money way too fast!!!!

Regards

Nick

Cor blimey, too many to choose from. But My all time fav has to be Space Harrier sim. (shock horror) Why?
Phew! When you see someone playing it, and the rear lights are going and the cabinets throwing some poor soul about and the musics kicking out nice n loud and all hells breaking loose on screen you wish only one thing - that they die quickly and dont continue.
When I climb in one and you feel the motor's starting to kick in and the machine rights itself to play mode and it starts. It feels like the game was desingend for the cab. And instead of the usual leaning you do like in any game you do it with the machine movements. The last time I played this was some 10 years ago in a crappy arcade somewhere in cornwall (where king arthurs castle or grave was - yawn). My now ex wife went and explored the ruins and i sat at this MINT (no screen burn not even a fag burn) machine and played it all afternoon. Absolute bliss, and when you get to some nice n high levels 6+ it really is pure gaming nirvana. (crap got myself worked up now... sniff)
I think its that wobbly legs and that insane grin that pretty much says it all.

Also Space Duel by Atari. After playing asteroids in 3D monochromavision this game totaly blew me away. Esp since you could play tactical with a mate and join your ships. The bass kicking in when the shield went on and the insane bonus levels - again a total experience. Only ever saw one of these machines ever in my home town in Lancs in some grotty arcade but it was a custome cab and again just an absolute classic experience.

The list is endless but these are the two where I'd pretty much give up that dream holiday, car etc for without even a thought to where i put the cabs.

I think when Ordy get's his Afterburner running again I'm gonna have to beg him for a go, as I think he's got the only Deluxe machine left in the UK that still has a working movement mech!!! ...

Long way to go for me to play Afterburner, there's one in Hunstanton Norfolk which is playable but it's got busted movement.  I did ask the Arcade owner what was wrong with it, said it needed a new motor but had no intentions to replace it as it was too costly.

Regards

Nick

My fav's are Track & Field,Hypersports & Star Wars.

Have never found a UK Track & Field although I still hope oneday I will be able to find 1 to buy (I have the boards but not a cab to stick it in!)

Ahem, my parents would freak if  i was to tell them i was bringing an afterburner into the house, there really isnt anywhere to put it, and i dont have a garage.

My room is already overflowing with console game stuffs!

Also i dont think the afterburner comes apart very well, ive heard the problem with it is that the carriage part of it, or some other part of it has big axle's sticking out of it, so the thought of getting it through a normal sized door is out of the question. 

One person i talked to who was bringing it into his arcade had to move it through a window in the arcade and it was a major pain cause they had to have the window removed and then put it back after the machine was in the place!

Best place would probably be a garage due to this, and i dont have a garage, also i would need a garage because when you take in an afterburner you have to take in more than one machine cause you will need them for parts.


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