these are great games, but there all beatemups and fighters, i guess ur not into shmups… but something intresting, darius is a horizontal shmup and the first 2 also use 3 screens, and dodonpachi is one of the greatest arcade shmups i’ve ever seen by cave.
1 Streetfighter2
2 Final Fight
3 Shinobi original(sega master system great port!)
4 Teenage mutant ninga turtles(4 Player game forget exact name!)
5 The Simpsons
6 A WWF wrestling game with all the old wrestlers (legion of Doom, Ultimate Warrior, I forget it’s name!
7 Maddog mcree
8 house of the dead 2 and 3 (zombie shooter thing!)
9 Chase hq (you sat inside the cab and drove a porsche while getting shot at or you did the shooting! can’t remember?
10 Robocop ! Busta move nearly made it!
There was this cab that had a game called sidewinder, and a really good karate game! That karate game would have been on my list but again I don’t remember it’s name!
Solid selection. But my favorite will eternally be X-Men. The 6-player version. Nothing like teaming up with 5 strangers to take down Magneto. Was always a quarter-eater for me, though, tough to get through on only a dollar.
Not one game from the “Golden Age” of Arcades?
My top 10 list
1. Defender
2. Donkey Kong
3. Space Duel
4. Robotron
5. Centipede
6. BurgerTime
7. StarWars
8. Pac-man
9. Q*Bert
10. Frogger
And through in Joust for good luck, ha!
Well – the very first fighter was “Karate Champ” – you played a white contestant vs a red opponent (I wouldn’t be surprised if Ryu & Ken weren’t given the same colours as a homage to that game).
Each bout was scheduled for 30 seconds – if either player scored a hit, the ref would award a “half point” or a “full point”. First to 2 won the game.
So if your opponent was already on 1 point and they floored you badly, you waited to see whether the ref would end the game by giving them a full point.
The AMIGA was always a computer – a direct rival to the PC in the early 90s (and for a while, it’s games were better having evolved from the legendary Commodore 64). I still have my AMIGA 1200 – a great machine that I wrote my college dissertation on.
On the same basic hardware, they tried to cash in on the CD-based console boom at the time with the AMIGA CD32 (which is what I think you mean). It was basically an AMIGA 1200 with a CD-rom drive and no keyboard or programmability.
1. Street Fighter 2 – The New Challengers
2. Star Wars
3. Smash TV
4. Arkanoid
5. Missile Command
6. Beatmania
7. Bezerk
8. Discs of Tron
9. Outrun
10. Quiz & Dragons
The one I was thinking of was different! Thanks anyway I had the Amiga 600 I ended up with about 200 games a hundred of which I bought for £20 they were well ahead of their time I got one when they were about to go under! But there’s a new amiga workbench thing out for the pc!
Cool – try MESS – it’s like MAME but emulates old computers instead of old arcade games.
The only other Karate one I can see is “Karate Tournament” from 1992.
Or there’s the classic “Yie Ar Kung Fu” from the 80s – or maybe you mean the scrolling classic “Kung Fu Master” – the world’s first scrolling beat-em-up (and extremely difficult once you got to level 2!)
I looked at those games but I’m sure that you travelled to the edge of the screen then it flicked on to the next screen Kung fu Master seemed the closest to it, it’s been that long I couldn’t be sure.I’ll look out that “MESS” thing thanks!
It’s not them, I mean what are the chances in finding it I’m not that bothered to be honest! Thanks though!
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December 16th, 2009 at 3:19 am
yea i know. you hardly see any arcades anymore since the consoles took over and look even better then the arcade games.
December 17th, 2009 at 2:39 am
if i could find even one arcade, it would be awsome!
December 22nd, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Fantatic top 10 buddy Popeye!!! loved that…
Shinobi beautiful!
Pac man.. you gotta love that…
Donkey kong is very likely number 1!!!
December 22nd, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Thanks.
It’s so damn hard to narrow it down to only 10!!
I might have changed Dragon’s Lair for Space Invaders.. I don’t know… Maybe Asteroids, Track & Field. argh.. I better stop now.
December 24th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
these are great games, but there all beatemups and fighters, i guess ur not into shmups… but something intresting, darius is a horizontal shmup and the first 2 also use 3 screens, and dodonpachi is one of the greatest arcade shmups i’ve ever seen by cave.
also digdug i like, an arcade classic
December 27th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
double dragon
December 28th, 2009 at 4:27 am
metal slug
December 29th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Wasn’t Willow released on the AMIGA?
It’s a Disk Games console which looks and was like a computer as well.
December 31st, 2009 at 11:16 am
1 Streetfighter2
2 Final Fight
3 Shinobi original(sega master system great port!)
4 Teenage mutant ninga turtles(4 Player game forget exact name!)
5 The Simpsons
6 A WWF wrestling game with all the old wrestlers (legion of Doom, Ultimate Warrior, I forget it’s name!
7 Maddog mcree
8 house of the dead 2 and 3 (zombie shooter thing!)
9 Chase hq (you sat inside the cab and drove a porsche while getting shot at or you did the shooting! can’t remember?
10 Robocop ! Busta move nearly made it!
December 31st, 2009 at 11:19 am
There was this cab that had a game called sidewinder, and a really good karate game! That karate game would have been on my list but again I don’t remember it’s name!
December 31st, 2009 at 11:20 am
Track and field was on the cab I’ve written about also your comment reminded me!
December 31st, 2009 at 11:22 am
Also Alien Storm on the sega megadrive/genesis is basically a copy of alien vs pred!
January 2nd, 2010 at 7:22 am
see now my top 10 games are based on the BIG time REAL 1980s arcade games. like donkey kong, pleiades, blaster, asteroids, ect
January 2nd, 2010 at 11:30 pm
Excellent vid
January 4th, 2010 at 7:28 am
Solid selection. But my favorite will eternally be X-Men. The 6-player version. Nothing like teaming up with 5 strangers to take down Magneto. Was always a quarter-eater for me, though, tough to get through on only a dollar.
January 4th, 2010 at 5:50 pm
Not one game from the “Golden Age” of Arcades?
My top 10 list
1. Defender
2. Donkey Kong
3. Space Duel
4. Robotron
5. Centipede
6. BurgerTime
7. StarWars
8. Pac-man
9. Q*Bert
10. Frogger
And through in Joust for good luck, ha!
Good video
January 7th, 2010 at 4:40 am
yep, alot different!
January 10th, 2010 at 12:07 am
Well – the very first fighter was “Karate Champ” – you played a white contestant vs a red opponent (I wouldn’t be surprised if Ryu & Ken weren’t given the same colours as a homage to that game).
Each bout was scheduled for 30 seconds – if either player scored a hit, the ref would award a “half point” or a “full point”. First to 2 won the game.
So if your opponent was already on 1 point and they floored you badly, you waited to see whether the ref would end the game by giving them a full point.
January 10th, 2010 at 12:13 am
The AMIGA was always a computer – a direct rival to the PC in the early 90s (and for a while, it’s games were better having evolved from the legendary Commodore 64). I still have my AMIGA 1200 – a great machine that I wrote my college dissertation on.
On the same basic hardware, they tried to cash in on the CD-based console boom at the time with the AMIGA CD32 (which is what I think you mean). It was basically an AMIGA 1200 with a CD-rom drive and no keyboard or programmability.
January 10th, 2010 at 12:23 am
Subject to change – my top 10:
1. Street Fighter 2 – The New Challengers
2. Star Wars
3. Smash TV
4. Arkanoid
5. Missile Command
6. Beatmania
7. Bezerk
8. Discs of Tron
9. Outrun
10. Quiz & Dragons
BONUS: Final Fight
January 10th, 2010 at 12:26 am
The one I was thinking of was different! Thanks anyway I had the Amiga 600 I ended up with about 200 games a hundred of which I bought for £20 they were well ahead of their time I got one when they were about to go under! But there’s a new amiga workbench thing out for the pc!
January 10th, 2010 at 2:00 am
Cool – try MESS – it’s like MAME but emulates old computers instead of old arcade games.
The only other Karate one I can see is “Karate Tournament” from 1992.
Or there’s the classic “Yie Ar Kung Fu” from the 80s – or maybe you mean the scrolling classic “Kung Fu Master” – the world’s first scrolling beat-em-up (and extremely difficult once you got to level 2!)
January 10th, 2010 at 11:04 am
I looked at those games but I’m sure that you travelled to the edge of the screen then it flicked on to the next screen Kung fu Master seemed the closest to it, it’s been that long I couldn’t be sure.I’ll look out that “MESS” thing thanks!
January 10th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
The other one that sounds close is “Kicker” (or “Shaolin’s Road”) from 1985
January 10th, 2010 at 6:33 pm
It’s not them, I mean what are the chances in finding it I’m not that bothered to be honest! Thanks though!