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Dude111 10-05-2009 07:32 AM

Mine are

1) MS. Pacman
2) Donkey Kong
3) Galaga
4) Galaxian
5) Dig Dug

sanford12 10-05-2009 07:54 PM

Galaga
Mappy
Burger Time
Mickeys Fun House
Myst #1

bandersen 10-08-2009 04:29 PM

Some of these are a little obscure, but an arcade near me had them so I played them a lot :)

Gondomania
Mappy
Mr Viking
Heavy Barrel
Exerion

MarkingTime 04-28-2010 03:52 PM

In no particular order:
Galaga
Ms. Pacman
Asteroids
BattleZone
Joust

Plus various pinball, esp the T2, original Star Wars, and ST Next Gen machines (I own this last one).
Nice thing about some of the electronic games above: I picked up a CD-ROM on the cheap that has "atari's Greatest Hits" for desktop computer. And Joust is playable online somewhere. Everything old is new again.

Electrohome 07-31-2010 09:00 PM

My top 5 favorite games are-
Super Mario Brothers 3
Tetris
Super Mario Brothers 2
Super Mario Bros-the original from 1985:-)
Super Mario: The Lost Levels

j4570 09-27-2010 07:24 PM

Arcade Games:
Spy Hunter (sit down)
Galaga
Joust
Defender
Grand Prix Racing (sit down)

AUdubon5425 09-27-2010 09:27 PM

The ones I remember playing the most were:

Elevator Action
Alpine Ski
Pole Position

Einar72 09-30-2010 09:42 PM

Clowns (Arcade game - similar to Circus Atari)
Galaxian/Galaga
Kaboom
M.U.L.E.
Killed Until Dead

MarioMania 10-27-2010 06:00 PM

Pac-Man
Street Fighter 2
Super Mario Bros.
Sonic
NBA Jam TE

kramden66 01-14-2011 09:42 PM

Paperboy
Q Bert
popeye
dig dug

the last is too tough to pick one , some i can't think of the names of like the periscope you look through and send off torpedos , or the one where you go through mazes and avoid robots - shoot them and the smile face comes to kill you.

mike

JoeNewberry 01-15-2011 03:55 AM

My five favorite arcade games are:

Mr. Do!
Mat Mania
Wonderboy
Jackal
Galaga

Quote:

Originally Posted by kramden66 (Post 2992011)
some i can't think of the names of like the periscope you look through and send off torpedos , or the one where you go through mazes and avoid robots - shoot them and the smile face comes to kill you.

There was a mechanical game called Periscope that Sega made in the late 60s, but you may be thinking of Sea Wolf.

The game with the robots and smiley face is Berserk. The smiley is named Evil Otto for the record.

Tube Radio 01-20-2011 06:52 PM

Galaga

Asteroids

Creature From the Black Lagoon pinball

The Addams Family pinball

doogie812 01-30-2011 06:17 PM

Tempest

Gorgar (pinball)

South Park (pinball)

Missile Command

PacMan

compu_85 01-30-2011 07:58 PM

Sim City 3000
Sim City 2000
Tibia
Haunted House Pinball (only played this in emulation, would love to own a real table someday)
I can't really pick a 5th.

-J

Dude111 02-10-2011 02:12 AM

I guess i forgot to list FROGGER as a fav also of mine!! (Been playing it alot lately)

cchaven 02-14-2011 07:12 PM

Zaxxon - my alltime favorite
Asteroids
Defender
Donkey Kong

Dude111 02-16-2011 08:39 PM

I think i have gotton to the 2nd stage on Zaxxon im not sure,kinda fun isnt it?

USSEnterprise 02-25-2011 11:04 PM

Video:

Ms. PacMan
Missile Command
Centipede
Outrun
Marble Madness

Pinball:
Gottlieb Slick Chick
Williams Space Mission
Gottlieb Haunted House
Bally Fireball
William TriZone

Findm-Keepm 03-17-2011 11:05 PM

Kangaroo (monkeys and apples!)
Ms PacMan
Tempest
Pole Position
Frogger

Yes, I've never played any of the donkey-kong games.


Cheers,

Trance88 06-25-2011 07:59 AM

Top 5 classic arcade games:
Pole Position
Galaga
Mario Bros.
Super Off Road
Pac-Man

Top 5 console games:
Sonic the hedgehog (Genesis)
Sonic 2 (Genesis)
Sonic CD (Sega CD/Gamecube[Sonic Gems Collection])
Gran Turismo 2 (playstation)
Mario Kart (N64)

CoogarXR 06-25-2011 11:55 AM

1) Final Fantasy II (SNES)
2) Mega Man 2 (NES) <any of the NES Mega Man series, but 2 is my favorite>
3) Castlevania 3 (NES)
4) Faxanadu (NES)
5) Legendary Axe 2 (TG-16)

tybrad 07-15-2011 09:31 PM

ARCADES
1. Tempest
2. Battlezone
3. Quantum
4. Red Baron
5. Zaxxon

HOME
1. Poker & Blackjack (Intellivision)
2. Yar's Revenge (2600)
3. Baseball (Intell.)
4. Pole Position (2600)
5. ?

PunkTiger 07-18-2011 08:39 AM

In no particular order:

1. Flash (Williams 1979)
2. Lost World (Bally, 1978) (NOT the "Jurassic Park" one)
3. Paragon (Bally, 1979) (sister board to "Lost World")
4. Fan-Tas-Tic (Williams, 1972) (emulation, would love to try the real board)
5. Doodle Bug (Williams, 1971)

As you can tell, I'm a pinball fan.

Dude111 08-29-2011 07:20 PM

Lately i have played FROGGER more than anything else :)

ChrisW6ATV 09-01-2011 01:56 AM

1. Firepower
2. Playboy
3. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
4. Mata Hari
5. Stars

All are pinball machines from 1977-1980.

Honorable Mention:
Black Knight
Charlie's Angels
Flash
Grand Prix

ChrisW6ATV 09-01-2011 02:12 AM

Video games:

Arcade:
1. Robotron 2084
2. Q-bert
3. Hard Drivin'
4. Joust
5. Pole Position

2600:
1. Frogger
2. Ms. Pac Man
3. Kaboom!
4. Megamania
5. RealSports Baseball

5200:
1. Robotron 2084
2. Joust
3. Defender
4. Baseball
5. Qix (maybe?)

7800:
1. Food Fight
2. Pole Position
3. Galaga
4. Asteroids
5. ?

Colecovision:
1. Donkey Kong
2. Q-bert
3. Popeye
4. Donkey Kong Junior
5. Turbo

Intellivision:
1. Burgertime
2. B-17 Bomber
(Those are the only two games I really played on that machine, but I have at least a couple more.)

Nintendo:
1. Tecmo Bowl
2. Blades Of Steel
3. Q-bert
4. RBI Baseball 2
5. ?

RichD 02-12-2012 11:21 PM

ARCADE:

Crazy Climber
Paperboy
Spy Hunter
Ghosts-n-Goblins
APB

John Marinello 03-26-2012 09:45 AM

[QUOTE=JoeNewberry;2992038]My five favorite arcade games are:

Mr. Do!
Mat Mania
Wonderboy
Jackal
Galaga


I liked Mr. Do!
Is there a version that I could download to my pc?

ChrisW6ATV 03-26-2012 10:40 PM

I played a lot of Mr. Do on my Colecovision. On a PC, look for either a Colecovision emulator or a simple version of MAME perhaps.

Mad-Mike 05-29-2013 11:05 PM

Arcade
1.) Pole Position II
2.) VS. Super Mario Bros.
3.) Moon Patrol
4.) Joust
5.) Ms. Pac-Man

Console
1.) Dragon Warrior IV - NES
2.) Adventure - Atari 2600
3.) Dragon Warrior III - NES
4.) Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES
5.) Pitfall! - Atari 2600

PC
1.) Ultima VI: The False Prophet
2.) The Secret of Monkey Island
3.) Sim City 2000
4.) Leisure Suit Larry
5.) X-Wing

L200B 05-05-2014 12:49 AM

1) Street Fighter 2 Championship Edition
2) Mortal Kombat 2
3) NBA Jam Tournament Edition
4) Xevious
5) Galaga

Dude111 05-05-2014 08:05 PM

Welcome to the site!!!

I love Galaga also :)

Greg Davis 08-05-2014 12:00 PM

I loved Zaxxon so much I bought the machine from a defunct arcade. It worked great, which didn't stop me from upgrading some of the parts (including the processor and memory)... then sold it about 5 years later. I had that game down pat by the time I sold it.

loopstick 03-10-2015 02:49 PM

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I have only one favorite. Everything since this one has been quite frankly a disappointment:

http://www.videokarma.org/attachment...8&d=1426016653

One of these actually showed up at the Whoopee Bowl (MI) in the late 1980's. I should have grabbed it. It was in a heap of traffic lights and other bizarro cast-offs.

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Dude111 03-11-2015 12:19 AM

Space wars huh??

Hmmmmmm Ill have to see if I can find that one!

loopstick 03-11-2015 11:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dude111 (Post 3128454)
Space wars huh??

Hmmmmmm Ill have to see if I can find that one!

It was perfect. There was one in this bar we used to go to. You didn't have to beat the machine, just kill your buddy. So you could get high, drink beer, and blast away like some big time gamer. And then they invented Asteroids which I sucked at.

wa2ise 05-18-2015 08:52 PM

I was part of a user group of the Atari 800 home computer at work 30 years ago. Our favorites were usually 2 player (at the same time) games.

Joust
Mousekattack
MULE
Wizard of Wor
Boulderdash
Shamus

At work a few of us modified an Atari 800 computer so it could be synchronized to an external video source. Someone, who used to work for Atari earlier, said that Atari would have paid big money for that set up (to make it easier to make TV commercials of various video games (the game systems were only 240p, and the old analog broadcast TV system was 480i).

IIRC, we replaced the video timing oscillator (3.58 crystal) with the external synchronizer circuit. At every horizontal interval we paused the 3.58MHz signal fed to the computer for 140nsec (half a cycle of the chroma subcarrier). And as the Atari had "S-video" signals (luma and chroma) available at the 5 pin plug on the side of the machine, we could invert the chroma signal every other line (to compensate for the 140nsec delay), then add it to the luma signal. And during the vertical interval, we added sync timing signals to make the output video be interlaced.

Dude111 07-14-2022 07:20 PM

I guess those 2 player games are good but I always have preferred 1 player myself.....

Hydrolastic 10-05-2023 08:28 PM

1 Solar city
2 Jacks open
3 Strange world
4 Evil Knievel
5 Centigrade

Alex KL-1 10-06-2023 11:47 AM

In no particular order:

1 - Resident Evil (2, Code Veronica, 2 remake)
2 - GTA (Vice City, San Andreas, V)
3 - Gran Turismo (2 & 4)
4 - Metal Gear Solid (PS1)
5 - River Raid (Atari 2600)

And various others...
Based on consoled/games I had/have


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