Earliest recollection stood at an arcade game and first game(s) played

Bubo said:
Got to be honest I don't ever remember it saying red five going in. When you clear the towers after the tie fighter stage I only remember the "Use the force luke" sample, and when you blow it up Han Solo comes came up with "Yahoo you're all clear kid". It ocasionally said "Look at the size of that thing" when clearing the tie fighters, so yours may have been an ultra rare sample.
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you don't remember the obi-wan " remember, the force will be with you...always" at the end of your game??

IMHO this is the only downside to PC/console evolution.
the arcade machine is effectively dead as very similar results can be enjoyed by a home machine.
a real shame :(

BTW when you blew up the DS han shouted "great shot kid, that was one in a million"
 
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T2 was my favourite. The force feedback intensified with gun upgrades but I only discovered the rocket button on the side of the gun after a few weeks... :o
 
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Azagoth said:
Anyone here ever get Defenderitis™ of the hands from trying to use all the buttons on that particular game?
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there was a recognised complaint called "defenders elbow" which doctors came to be familiar with due to some gamers spending hours and hours on the machine.
pacman finger was another complaint where gamers spending hours on the machine would have the tendons shrink giving a claw effect.
 
Bubo said:
Got to be honest I don't ever remember it saying red five going in. When you clear the towers after the tie fighter stage I only remember the "Use the force luke" sample, and when you blow it up Han Solo comes came up with "Yahoo you're all clear kid". It ocasionally said "Look at the size of that thing" when clearing the tie fighters, so yours may have been an ultra rare sample.
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My memory is somewhat hazy but i do remember it saying "red five going in"
 
Got to be Space Invaders for me. I think I was about 4 years old and my older brothers were playing it, I got to have a go but was rubbish as you might expect. This would have been in a fish and chip shop in the backwaters of Lincolnshire circa 1981.

The games I actually played a lot of on my own were things like Street Fighter 2, Turtles Arcade, Space Harrier and Afterburner with hydraulic cabinets. :cool:
 
Superb!

Space Invaders
Mooncresta (had forgotten about that until somebody mentioned it!)
Galaxian
Snork? Can't remember if that's the right name - wee chap had to jump up and down a threeD pyramid?
Missle Command
Centipede
Defender (smart bombs:D)
Some other game that you played a screen of all the popular games - used to move you up ranks and it uttered phrases such as "Good move space cadet"
 
Space Invaders at some arcade called Pleasure Time (I think) in Manchester, Oxford Road next to the Odeon Cinema when it had two screens.
First game I mastered was Battlezone, but that was easy. I also mastered Pac-man and Scramble. The last game I mastered and really played was Outrun. I had all the high scores for all the routes when I should have been in University lectures. :D
I remember when playing Robotron I used to shake the whole machine around, but I was still rubbish at it!
 
Alex the kidd on the Sega Master Sytem

Streets of Rage series for the win tho, best games EVER (Mega Drive/Genesis Versions :p)
 
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Probably up in Portrush at Barrys. Anybody from N.I. will know where i'm on about. :D

I remember playing Operation Wolf and TMNT. Also just other random ones as well.

Also remember playing Badlands in the Shankill Leisure Centre.
 
i can remember playing a 3rd person black and white driving game in the late 80's overhead view round a track with steering wheel :confused:

out run.... classic ;)

operation wolf when i was 12 ish in ibiza

afterburner also around age 12, loved that game :)

the original test drive, with a clutch and proper gear stick, and that loop the loop track

then whilst at college, shipleys by the bus station in hanley, aged 18 i remember original ridge racer, proper driving game, powerslides and stuff :D and the original time crisis... "get into the castle and rescue rachel " :cool:
 
Waiting in line at pictures when a small kid and saw Space Invaders in corner; it had just come out. I still remember the intensity and awful sound as the invaders got closer to the bottom
 
My earliest memory of an arcade game was the one and only Pac-man, circa 1984 at some random convenience store in D.C. I also played Gauntlet and Elevator Action at a Subway ( mmm, submarine sandwiches ). Each go was a quarter ( 25 cents ).

magick said:
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Hehe. I loved this game. It was my first game on an Apple IIe clone that I got for Christmas. ( Parents didn't know then that PCs were the future :p ) Those dwarves that you could get stuck on were hilarious.
 
There was an arcade by me which had kung-fu master and shinobi. a while after they got final fight in and we couldnt believe a game could look good! Thinking back to that time, arcades used to have a bit of a bad reputation. I think parents couldn't seperate games machine from fruit machines.
 
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