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Loved Out Run. Hard Driving also good, same era.
Moon Cresta!!!
Spent a lot of 10p's on Missile Command.
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Saw the thread title and immediately thought "Out Run"
Afterburner or Daytona USA
Double dragon.
Golden Axe.
But the daddy of them all was Gauntlet. I still use the phrase "red wizard needs food, badly" when I'm hungry!
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Loved the outrun arcade, never was the same on the mega drive to my teenage dissapintment.
I always loved buggy boy down the arcades though. 3 screens was mind blowing¡
Defender!
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Pinball tables, obviously.
But then there was this;
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I was good at this. Sadly.
Pac Man
Galaxian
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Out Run +1
Defender - table top version.
Star Trek pinball.
Air hockey.
Anyone remember the sit down table versions of pacman,space invaders or my favourite in my local chipshop Kung Fu Master
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Dunno, but just thought I'd recommend the documentary The King of Kong. Brilliant film, watch it!
Big fan of the OP, and the post, but he's wrong 😀
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Welcome to the fantasy zone get ready.
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Probably sunk more cash into these than any others:
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Dunno, but just thought I'd recommend the documentary The King of Kong. Brilliant film, watch it!
On a similar note, while jetlagged in a hotel room in Atlanta recently, I watched a brilliant documentary about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Scott_Warshaw and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_video_game_burial
Not normally a topic I'd have watched, but it was really interesting.
Oh, chase HQ is a good shout actually - Chase HQ 2 was sooo good though as a sequel.
Still, Sega Rally 🙂
Pac Man ...
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I owned this game at the local arcade, no one could get near my TT record
I record matched only by my total domination on this fine machine
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Still the very first game I could complete on a single credit was this:
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Ahh happy days
my vote(s)
1) Star wars (enclosed cabinet) - it was 'ACE' !
2) Scramble - the table top / sit down version they had in the pub
3) Gorf (think this was the 1st game I heard with speech !)
4) Tron - just for looking cool (not sure the game was that good?)
Shinobi.
Chase HQ mmmmmm was good.
Operation Wolf & 1942 got some coinage.
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Sit in star wars, can't beat a vector graphics death star.
Lol was just looking for an image of Operation Wolf. Class game. One of the first proper gun games and the originals has a nice heavy metallic Uzi rather than the plasticky guns they all use these days.
Forgot about Chase HQ
Old School:
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The chippy down the road from school did a line in slightly retro - for the time - arcade games. So while the big amusements in the town did Ridge Racer and other high end cabinets the chippy still had bastard hard 80's games
This also owes me about £30k
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I (well we) built thousands of Sega Rally machines in Wimbledon. Crazy Taxi, F355 Challenge and the football one (forgotten the name) were big lunch hour favourites in the r&d lab. There were more annoying games than great ones though.
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SPACE HARRIER!!!
Or Tron.
Green beret
Sega peaked the coin-op thing with Manx TT, Datona USA and of course Sega Rally IMO - I still can't resist putting a quid in now when I see them - they must be well made, they're 20 years old now!
We had Gauntlet and the vector graphics Star Wars in our Student Union. It begins to explain why I went to so f ew lectures. It'd be ace to buy one for home except a) not sure they'd stand the test of time and b) I bet they are silly money...
I was always partial to sega rally, and a mate has just bought an original single seat version but he's hoping to get a twin seat so we can all compete against each other at the same time, but i'm still shite at it 🙁 , needless to say he's rather better.
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Got 6 very old pinball machines as well and these are great fun to play, they need a bit of care and attention but some of them are almost 60 years old so that's to be expected.
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My fav game is pool though,
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Also got one of those original tabletop video games that you used to see in pubs, it's pretty cool to play as there is a choice of 50+ retro games on it.
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+1 for Star Wars cockpit. Spent most of my 16th year in one of those.
Also this. Every kid had a different stance, or a sign-off joystick slap when they won a level. There used to be a small crowd of kids gathered around watching a roadie called Sparky who usually aced it.
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Gti club, Racing Jam, Final fight.
As others have said, it can only be Defender.
I still remember the first time I saw and played it, in Musselburgh, 1980. A big group of noisy kids were clustered round it, and I could see from the glimpses I got that it was something special.
10p went in the slot when it died down, and like most Defender newbies, I lasted seconds as I had no idea what the controls did. Addicted since then, 35 years later it still grips me.
Now, I've got a half-built machine lurking in the conservatory, needing some more time to complete, and then the house will ring to those sounds again.
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