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Which cost you the most 10 pence coins?

Space Invaders
3
16%
Defender
1
5%
Q*Bert
0
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Double Dragon
4
21%
Gauntlet (4 players, baby!)
1
5%
Star Wars (the original and best)
1
5%
Out run
4
21%
Afterburner
1
5%
Asteroids
2
11%
Pac-Man
2
11%
 
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It makes me want to cry when I think about the decline in popularity of arcade machines. Back in the early eighties, there wasn't a chippy in England that didn't have a permanent queue of scruffy youths waiting impatiently to throw away all their loose change.

your go only lasted about twenty seconds cos the games were so f**king hard, but what what the hey...
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Wot no 'Defender' or 'Asteroids' ???
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Double Dragon, I used to be able to finish it without losing a life :cool:
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afterburner....and space harrier.....I both almost finished them...and r-type, just the same....
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"Out Run" had the classiest tunes ;)
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Scardwel wrote:Wot no 'Defender' or 'Asteroids' ???
Just for you, Scardwell, I've altered two of the options.
Since there is a maximun of ten choices, I had to pick the most iconic games; it was uber hard to narrow the list down - I'd have liked to have included R-type, Ghouls n Ghosts etc. I Had to just pick the ALL TIME ARCADE DADDIES.
hallucienate wrote:Double Dragon, I used to be able to finish it without losing a life :cool:
Show-off. I bet you kept cheating by using that 'elbow' attack all the time.
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Black Shuck wrote:
hallucienate wrote:Double Dragon, I used to be able to finish it without losing a life :cool:
Show-off. I bet you kept cheating by using that 'elbow' attack all the time.
elbow, elbow, headlock, knee in the gut, knee in the gut, throw over the shoulder, next! ;D

My altime favourite arcade game was a top-down motorcycle ralley game had you racing through different cities against cars and bikes. I can't remember the name now though :(
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Many hours of my young life spent playing it. many, many hours.
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cool site!!!

my fave was dragon ninja 8)

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?let ... me_id=7643
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Hello all :)

for all you old style gameing nuts out there.........................

www.games.lapoo.com.

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Wot, no "missile command"..................
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Quiff Boy wrote:cool site!!!

my fave was dragon ninja 8)

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?let ... me_id=7643
i remember that one! Never played it too much though.

Now, the obvious question. Anyone know how to get hold of ROMs for MAME?
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Quiff Boy wrote:cool site!!!

my fave was dragon ninja 8)

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?let ... me_id=7643
I used to have it on my atari st :eek:
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randdebiel² wrote:
Quiff Boy wrote:cool site!!!

my fave was dragon ninja 8)

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?let ... me_id=7643
I used to have it on my atari st :eek:
I've still got my atari, in its box with about 30 games :D

Dont ask why, I cant even remember what games I'v got, except the classics of course.

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zaltys7 wrote:
I've still got my atari, in its box with about 30 games :D

Dont ask why, I cant even remember what games I'v got, except the classics of course.

Paul
:notworthy: mine broke down a few years back :cry:
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hallucienate wrote:
Quiff Boy wrote:cool site!!!

my fave was dragon ninja 8)

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?let ... me_id=7643
i remember that one! Never played it too much though.

Now, the obvious question. Anyone know how to get hold of ROMs for MAME?
yep.... leave it with me... ;)
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On another note: the first pinball game I ever played:


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IZZY! YES!!!!!
I spent most of my last 2 years at art school pumping my grant into that beastie!

Thanks for the memory
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elguiri wrote:Wot, no "missile command"..................
aargh!
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Could never get the hang of arcade games but I had a mate who was addicted to Missile Command. I got a degree in Eight Ball Deluxe pinball from Leeds University Student Union though. And spent far too much time playing Digger and Labyrinth when I got my first job in computers.
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That Gorgor looks like a beaut. Creature From The Black Lagoon, Indiana Jones, Star Trek and Judge Dredd were my faves, from memory. All were hammered relentlessly in The Drydock in the early ninties, when I should've been in Kitson College learning about hearts. Ah well.

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Gorgar was the first speaking pinball machine. German speed-metallers Helloween even made a song about it, btw.

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Satr wars without a doubt......

Wire frame galactic magnificence.

The TRON arcade game was brilliant also ....

Gorf.... Galaxians.... R Type

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mugabe wrote:Gorgar was the first speaking pinball machine. German speed-metallers Helloween even made a song about it, btw.

Nice to know that one's brain is filled up with all this useful information.
Ha! Sussed it. All by me lonesome.

Helloween clearly know what's what. Wespect!

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Don't they all seem twee now?
I voted for outrun by the way. Used to like the blonde bird.
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