My most loved Coin-op games,although there are more i cant post pictures to all as i will be here uploading forever,here are some of my favourites that i literally played to death and still have a bash at nowadays.
the first ever scrolling beat em up ever in history Kung Fu Master/SpartenX(Japan) 1984 If you look carefully you can see many similarites in this game to Bruce Lees Game of Death movie
The successor to the ever so popular Sega Game Wonderboy...Super Wonderboy in Monsterland aka Wonderboy 2(1987)( i still cannot complete this on 1 credit)
Probably the most infamoue Athletics game ever made Track and Field(1983),you had to have fingers and wrists of steel to break records in this,in the 1980s there was a tv show that the contestants on it used to play this game and compete against each other.
The legendary Star Wars coin=op(1983) by Atari this was voted recently as one of the most popular video games of all time having fantastic gameplay and speech ported straight from the movie,you really did feel like you was Luke Skywalker...( I actually had my BMX stolen while being so immersed in this game in 1983/84 as i did not even take notice of somebody walking out of the arcade with it while playing)
Taitos Phoenix(1980) not graphically great but had great sound effects and fantastic replayability,its still a joy today shooting those birds and hitting them in the middle,i still love the sound they make when blowing them apart even today!
Karate champ(1984)No this is a special game,it ws the first game ever to have 2 players fight against each other,but its the way you did it...you had 2 joysticks each and depending on which way you moved these depended on what move you pulled off,loads of different moves and all required pixel perfect timing,all with sampled speech.(this is the game that features in Van Dammes Movie Blood sport)
Golden Axe from Sega(1989)the original and best Golden Axe game released when Sega was a very strong player in the games industry,this was a great game especially the conversion to the CBM Amiga 500 which was more or less Arcade perfect,very playable even today.
Ghost and Goblins from Capcom(1985) This game had loads of appeal with it amazing spooky graphics,eerie tune and the attention to detail was amazing for its time,very playable and very tough to finish on 1 credit,one i never did finish on 1 credit)
If one game sums up the word Legendary its this game Dragons Lair(1983)while most games had 16 bit graphics at the very best,Dragons lair went a full 10 mile and had a Laserdisk player inside its machine streaming Full Motion Video footage that was interactive at certain points,lots of people loved this game,but a lot of people didnt like it because it was very very hard and you felt robbed when playing it as your game was over so quickly,but you could not help but be gobsmacked at the graphics,expert players were very few and far between.
Double Dragon from Taito(1987) the original and best,this game needs no introduction.This game took the neighbourhood i was in and the rest of the world by storm when it came out I think this game alone made Taito millions and millions of £££$$$,this game was so big they even made a movie in 1994 which was rubbish,first game i ever played where you could interact with scenery,did you prefer the baseball bat or the whip?
Another Legend...R-Type,this game is another that needs no introduction,possibly the greatest 2D blaster of all time with many Innovative features in the game that we still see and take for granted today..R-Type did it first.One of the hardest games i have ever played and is almost impossible to complete on 1 credit.
1943 from capcom(1987)This was the successor to the ever popular 1942,this is probably my favourite vertical shooter ever that develops fast twitch reaction skills in gaming(an old skool term reffered to as dazzling) just as much as any other modern day title today and its a joy to play and try to destroy the last carrier,which i never ever did.
Outrun(1987) released at a time when Sega dominated the Arcades.
No introduction needed here.
Gauntlet from Atari(1985)First 4 player game ever with sampled speech,no introduction needed here.
Robocop(1988) from Data-east,a great game that followed the fantastic movie very closely and was very playable with speech sampled straight from the movie.
Afterburner(1987)released by Sega again,no introduction needed
there are many more i could post pictures too that i played just as much as these but it would take too long,one thing i do know is that the games of yesteryear were a lot harder than the games that we play today,for me anyhow,maybe its all the old skool gaming....
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