Favorite Classic '80s Arcade Game?

[barney_rebel]

[sullysue]

QUOTE (dweezil @ Apr 29 2005, 06:42 PM)

QUOTE (physics23 @ Apr 27 2005, 02:50 AM) QUOTE (My_Shrimp_Cot @ Apr 26 2005, 07:57 PM) QUOTE (physics23 @ Apr 25 2005, 04:48 PM) QUOTE (Hypatia @ Apr 25 2005, 02:43 PM) I voted for Tempest, but it's really a toss up between that and Battle Zone.  I probably spent over half my meager disposable income on those games when I was in high school and college.  Also, while not my favorite, my twin sister and I could finish Wizard of Wor playing in two-player mode on just two or three quarters. Well I'll be darned. That has to be one of the most syntactically sophisticated paragraphs I've come across here in heaven knows how long. Where exactly were you in high school and college? Physics - Let me start by saying that I think you are a special person - a great one.     But this statement feels like an insult. You could have complimented her without insulting the rest of us. My_Shrimp_Cot, I appreciate your candidness. I regard any feedbak on my writing as criticism of the most constructive kind, and I am grateful that you shared your opinion. In fact, I'm even happier you did so publicly. This is a rather glum way to start my day, but I will have something to ponder on my drive to Be'er Sheva this morning. I'm afraid barney_rebel's evaluation, on this rare occasion, is imprecise. I did mean here. Maybe it's like one of those capitalist paradoxes: if everyone were rich, there'd be no wealthy class - there'd be no meaning to the word rich because it is a relative term and the criteria for its application change as the world changes. So the only way for there to be a rich person is for there to be a poor person too. But does it work the same way with art? No, it probably doesn't. No one can offer an objective scale along which the musical talents of Britney Spears and Mozart can be gauged. Which leaves us with the question of whether language syntax is an art. Well, most linguists will tell you it isn't. There are rigid guidlines that determine what is correct and what is not. Some linguists, though, especially in recent decades and with the advent of the Internet, claim that it's time we redefined or at least expanded our Crap, I'm not gonna have time to finish this. Maybe the edit button'll still be here when I get back. I'm just trying to say, Imprimis, I ought to have exercised better discretion before and I shall take better care to do so in the future. Secondly, it not my place - or anyone's - to judge another person's syntax. Well one last thing I may end up deleting in the final draft of this disquisition, but here goes: You are in the (perhaps unfortunate) position of being my interlocutors and my audience. As such, just as is the case with my correspondences in the flesh, I try to incorporate what I learn at school into my daily interactions with people in almost every situation. I experiment with words on people, say things differently to see which way is more effective and felicitous. It pains me greatly that no one can deliver a speech like Patrick Henry, Lincoln or Churchill anymore. Rhetoric is an art and the role of syntactic sophistication in rhetoric is often underestimated if not overlooked completely. Anyone can subscribe to Dictionary.com's Word of the Day e-mail and within a year have acquired an impressive store of vocabulary. But what good is it if no one understands what you're saying, or worse, if they misconstrue your intent? This has been an incredible digression. Please bear with me until I've an opportunity to fix up what I've written. Have mercy? "Seeking asylum behind the wall of intellect and rationality is a self retreating into self protectiveness at the expense of another's well being"     If, on the other hand, you actually meant to say you were using us as guinea pigs, that's just rude.     It's a f***ing Rush forum for f**k's sakes, not a mental gym. Jesus, I'm F**in' dyin'.   Right on Dweezil.   RELAX OR GET EATEN!   They're all yours, Dweez.

[CygnusX-1Bk2]

Well somebody spends too much time thinking about thinking. "Check out the big brain on Brad!" One shouldn't be so impressed with one's own vocabulary. Who does he think he is... Dennis Miller?

"Put the thesaurus down and step away!"

 

[CygnusX-1Bk2]

Oh, btw, I voted for Centepede. It was the first game I remeber with the track ball. Revolutionary game controller. There are a few on this list that I played a lot when I was younger. Centepede, Joust, Spy Hunter, Gauntlet, DigDug, Frogger, and so on.

It's a damn good thing I found work in the game industry.

[1-0-0-1-0-0-1]

Wow...so far, zero votes for:

 

Ms. Pac Man

Pole Position

Tetris

 

Frankly, I'm shocked and appalled!

[physics23]

Yeah, fine, delete whatever you want. That seems to be the way things work here, from what I've observed. Someone's unhappy about a topic they started and the next day it's gone without a trace and without the slightest consideration of the feelings of anyone else to whom that topic may have been important.

[barney_rebel]

Zapped like in Beserk - "Stop the Humanoid".

 

Now that was an amazing game!

[Jack Aubrey]

QUOTE (barney_rebel @ Apr 30 2005, 11:20 AM)

Zapped like in Beserk - "Stop the Humanoid". Now that was an amazing game!

I agree, what a blast!

 

[sullysue]

QUOTE (physics23 @ Apr 30 2005, 08:05 AM)

Yeah, fine, delete whatever you want. That seems to be the way things work here, from what I've observed. Someone's unhappy about a topic they started and the next day it's gone without a trace and without the slightest consideration of the feelings of anyone else to whom that topic may have been important.

 

 

I rarely know what the hell your talking about, Physics, but this place wouldn't be the same without you! Maybe some of us are envious. Nevertheless, don't you change one bit. I for one appreciate your intelligence!

[barney_rebel]

Also what about "US vs Them"?

 

That game was ahead of its time for sure. But just like Dragon's Lair it was run off laser disc. It was a lot like Sega's Afterburner burner but it was like a movie sequence.

[barney_rebel]

QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Apr 30 2005, 11:43 AM)

QUOTE (barney_rebel @ Apr 30 2005, 11:20 AM) Zapped like in Beserk - "Stop the Humanoid".  Now that was an amazing game! I agree, what a blast! Evil Otto was a mean one. He looked like this:

[D-13]

i'm too young, NOT that i'm implying anything! .....these games sound great! BUT I have certainly played Pac Man and that kind of stuff...but it's just not the same from years ago and today....why couldn't I've been born in 1977!!

 

I voted for Space Invaders....I had the "modern" version on my computer and thats always a fun game

[Alsgalpal]

QUOTE (physics23 @ Apr 30 2005, 08:05 AM)

Yeah, fine, delete whatever you want. That seems to be the way things work here, from what I've observed. Someone's unhappy about a topic they started and the next day it's gone without a trace and without the slightest consideration of the feelings of anyone else to whom that topic may have been important.

 

 

 

 

[Bastille Night]

 

 

Anybody else play Track and Field or Hyper Sports?? The ones where you smash on the buttons to make the guys run faster, and you could play head to head against someone. I nearly broke my finger a few times playing these ones.

 

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Edited May 4, 2005 by Bastille Night

[rickyrob]

QUOTE (Bastille Night @ May 4 2005, 01:36 PM)

Anybody else play Track and Field or Hyper Sports?? The ones where you smash on the buttons to make the guys run faster, and you could play head to head against someone. I nearly broke my finger a few times playing these ones. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/bastillenight/Arcade/b0a63b90.gif http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/bastillenight/Arcade/93b46515.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/bastillenight/Arcade/54439a16.gif http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/bastillenight/Arcade/e460cad1.gifhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/bastillenight/Arcade/f5718dc2.pnghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/bastillenight/Arcade/7cb813e4.png

I used to get some really top scores on this. The High Jump was the most difficult event. Memories

[progrush2112]

Jeez...all of the games on the list are classics. It's hard to pick just one. I've spent so many hours playing all of them on my computer (NES Emulator ). But if i had to pick one, it's Galaga. The Ms. Pac Man/Galaga machines are pure genius.

[Chasartymac]

QUOTE (physics23 @ Apr 26 2005, 06:06 PM)

QUOTE (Hypatia @ Apr 26 2005, 08:37 AM) QUOTE (physics23 @ Apr 25 2005, 04:48 PM) Well I'll be darned. That has to be one of the most syntactically sophisticated paragraphs I've come across here in heaven knows how long. Where exactly were you in high school and college? I honestly don't know if you are poking fun or not, but I went to a rural high school in Pennsylvania that was better at producing gas station attendents than college grads (given the number of each from my graduating class) and attended college at Penn State University, where I got a degree in Physics/Astronomy/Math.     Am I really the only Battle Zone fan here?!? How 'bout the original Star Wars (another vector graphics game - maybe I'm just a vector graphics fan?)? "Great shot, kid, that was one in a million!" The sequel was fun, too, taking out AT-ATs and AT-STs. Not only is it rare to encounter a person who is meticulously attentive to the accepted conventions of capitalization and punctuation even in such informal channels as these, it is even more uncommon that this person should have had no formal academic education in the English arts, and hence all the more impressive. My wonder, however, does not end there; for there is a quality in your writing that transcends the technical, the systematic, and the grammatical proprieties so often and tragically waived in our day. Indeed, your choice of words and singular manipulation of syntax demonstrates a clear tendency toward the aesthetic, the artistic, the colorful mode of communication, all the while staying clear and concise.   I assure you I am wholly sincere in my praise.   Whereas this is all very aesthetic and some true understanding of linguitics must be achieved to be able to compose such quality lexiconography, it's still awfully flowery and leaves me with an image and a question. The image is for my own private thought, because there is no polite way to share it, however, the question is still apparant and therefore needs to be asked in order to satisy it's own existance....   ....what language are you talking?......cos it sounds like Bo**ox to me. http://games.bg/forums/images/smiles/dgd.gif                                   Only joking.

[Chasartymac]

I couldn't see my 2 fave's on there. Battlezone and Lunar Rescue. So 'Other' got my vote

[physics23]

barney_rebel? Sorry for screwing up your thread, man.

[physics23]

And I remember when they came out with Mike Tyson's Punch Out for the NES.

That game was hilarious.

 

 

[Edited for spelling.]

Edited May 7, 2005 by physics23

[physics23]

Hmm...

 

http://antarion.blowjobz.org/putte/mario.gif

 

 

 

 

 

 

[barney_rebel]

I just played a few rounds of Combatribes, Double Dragon I, II on MAME. Man those kick ass games are still the best, even better than those one on one Mortal Kombat games.

[Alsgalpal]

QUOTE (physics23 @ Jun 4 2005, 11:44 AM)

Hmm... http://antarion.blowjobz.org/putte/mario.gif

 

 

 

 

 

[rushgoober]

I voted for Galaga, but there are two I liked more that I can't remember the names of, maybe someone can help?

 

1. - Had 6 levels I think that each were very different - it would say things when you died like "Bite the dust, space cadet."

 

2. - This one is probably tougher - there was a base in the middle of the screen that shot in all directions - up, down, left and right. Missles would get fired at you from top, bottom, left and right towards the base in the middle and you had to fire the missles before they got to you. The buttons consisted of 4 black buttons, one for each direction to shoot, and one BIG black button that you would use to fire. My brother and I would play the game where he'd fire continuously as fast as he could with the big button, and I'd use the 4 directional buttons to shoot - it was a blast!

 

I also used to LOVE Monaco GP!

[Steel Rat]

Rampart is the greatest video game... ever...