I’m sure anyone who checked out the gallery of our favorite coin-op arcade games must’ve gone into a Kong-like rage at the titles we omitted. Read the full post.
Aug 21
2007
12:59 AM ET
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You MUST check out this website – it has many of the Nintendo NES video games to play online – Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros., Paperboy, Burgertime, whatever – and all you need to have to play them is the Java applet.
Found out about this website from Good Day New York.
YES!! Burgertime was awesome!!!
There was alaso this game which I don’t remember the name, but we had to run over chicken who tried to cross the road!!! Hilarious!
I am the worst. Video game palyer. Ever. But Galaga somehow allowed my very severe lack of hand/eye coordination to subside. This was the only game that I could advance above the first level. I also like the other game for which I cannot remeber the name, that was the 3-d version of Galaga. Same concept but your fighter ship spin in circles around the enemies. Games are not my thang.
I loved the mention of Contra, one of my favorites, but how could you not at least give a mention to the Nintendo version? You COULD NOT win that game without “up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, b, a, start” (or “select, start” if you were playing two players). I was never into video games, but that’s the one cheat I will never forget (and it’s probably the most well-known).
I remember the big three Sega arcade games that blew my mind and money those being Space Harrier(first truely awsome sit in machine) Outrun(first really amazing music, I still have the audio cassette of the music that came with the computer versions) and Afterburner(A truly adrenaline rush of a game)… Also anything from Konami… Nemesis(Gradius), Salamander(“Pick it up for multiple”) Jailbreak, Track and Field, Hyper Sports the list goes on… Great memories and thanks to the team who work on MAME(Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) I can still relive those wonderful childhood memories.
Guys, guys… let’s PLEASE stick to coin-op games. *sigh* Okay, this sounds nerdy, but one of my favorites was actually a trackball game (whose name I can’t find) where you played a soap bubble in a sink, “cleaning up” your enemies. That one and Operation: Wolf (a gunner game) were my two early favorites.
I don’t know about anyone else, but when I was six, the voice for “Wizard of Wor” creeped me out. I remember hearing that in the arcades when my parents had to take me to the mall.
Anyway, the EW people forgot “Bubble Bobble”, “Arkynoid”, “Shinobi (one of the first games for the Sega, system)”, Punch Out,and “Smash TV”. One of the worst games was probably ALF where the purpose was to store cats on to his ship before Willie caught him.
There are two games that I have fond memories of. One is a football game that was in black and white, had X’s and O’s for the “players” and was operated using two track balls. The other is the Star Trek game where you are the USS Enterprise and you are shooting at Klingon warships. At the end of each level, you had to shoot this probe that kept moving at blinding speed. The fun part of the game was the voice of Spock naming the “sector” you were in before each level. Really cool game and very hard to find.
Does anyone remember Vectrex?
We only had one TV set at home, and my dad did not want to buy us an Atari or Intelevision, cause he knew we would hog up the TV all the time. So we got a Vectrex. It came with it’s own black and white TV screen. Man was it awful. But there was a spaceship game I use to play all the time, can’t remember the name. That’s how forgettable Vectrex was. Later thought, when we got a Nintendo, I got hooked on Tetris, and still am till today.
The greatest ommission of the list was definitely Discs of Tron, especially the version where you had to step inside the booth in order to play it.
We can’t forget Castlevania. It is supposed to be made into a movie but I hope it is not going to be lame.
Does anyone remember a game from Nintendo where there was a guy on a dirt bike and the object was for him to leap over hilled obsticles?
I’m going to go for Choplifter as my number 1 favorate. Oh and I definately agree with The Simpsons game and TMNT being defining points of my adolecence. I am so glad the bowling alley by me had those and the Return of the Jedi game, where you were on a Leia on a speeder bike, Chewie on an AT-ST, and Lando in the Falcon.
Wasn’t there a game called “Centipede”?? Where you had to shoot the ever-growing bug and more and more things were shooting at you at the same time? I have fond memories although this would’ve been back in ’83 or ’84……
tempest was awesome. and i also really loved to play pengo, it was such a cute little penguin.
I was always more of a console girl myself (Final Fantasy 1, Dragon Warrior, etc.) but the one arcade game I remember always wasting quarters on was Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. I was horrible at it but I couldn’t step away.