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tekken 3 arcades, its always fun to beat it in one coin. On a side note i really hate lightgun games here, the guns are always ALWAYS calibrated wrong on purpose and im not talking about a little bit, im talking about half way across the dang room. | |
Galaga. | |
AND NEVER GOT ANY CONSOLE PORT! For shame! Still absolutely LOVED this game and took so much of my money. | |
Mortal Kombat 2 and 3, Carnevil, and Initial D. There's arcades in Japan where Initial D is clearly the greatest racing game of all time, due to the fact it's got an entire car as a controller. | |
Preface: I live in rural America. The only arcades that don't have ticket dispensing schlock around here are run by carnies wandering their battered cabinets from one county fair to the next. Dark Silhouette: Silent Scope 2. How many arcade gun games do you know with competitive multiplayer? If you only find a single cabinet, it's worth a cursory glance if only for the sniper mechanics and the overwrought voice acting. Dual cabinets, give quarters to strangers, it's that good. Warzaid (World Combat for the international crowd). Time Crisis, in WWII, against an army of don't-call-them-Nazis skeletons. What also helped drive me to sink in quarters was the score ticker including a military rank which went up as my points did. Yes, it has fuck all to do with the game itself, but it still massages that same bit of the brain that causes people to go for prestige ranks. CarnEvil. Picture House of the Dead 3, only designed for sadists instead of masochists and with a more varied visual style. Case study, here's the progression curve of "things you're likely to shoot at" in just one level of the game. Hydro Thunder. Two words: boost jump. Done well, this move throws you into shortcuts or on top of boost powerups to help you shave those seconds off the clock. Done wrong, you've just thrown your vehicle into reverse and burnt up your nitro meter for nothing. Not often you see risk/reward gambits like this in an arcade racer, much less done this well. Honorable mentions go out to Crazy Taxi, The Grid, and Top Skater. Gimmicky? Sure. But to ask an arcade title to avoid having a gimmick is to miss the point of an arcade game in the first place. | |
Its a shame really, I grew up in Skegness and the arcades used to be awesome. The Pier in particular used to be brilliant. I got into Aerosmith due to their music being used in railshooter Revolution X and playing the Alien vs Predator side scrolling beat em up. I have a wander around the arcades when I get bored every now and then and the selection of games in the arcades is really bad. | |
After Burner I didn't even know about Top Gear at the time, but it was hella cool to sit at a cockpit. | |
Yeah, i've been told it was one of the best places to go in its day for beach-related stuff :P | |
Beat em ups for me. I loved Simpsons, X-Men, Nick Fury/Punisher, Turtles in Time, Contra, Smash TV. There were a few good puzzlers like Tetris and Tekken 3 was a classic fighter. | |
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At my local bowling alley my Dad & I held the top three positions for Time Crisis 2 for at least 4 years, when they eventually replaced it with TC3.
Used to know where every bonus enemy, surprise cheap-shot and secret was.