Favorite arcade games:

- Bubble Bobble
- Crossbow
- Galaga
- Pac-man
- Donkey Kong
- Beserk

Favorite pinballs:

- Star Trek TNG
- Street Fighter 2
- Addams Family
- Pinbot
- Haunted House
- Twilight Zone

Atreyu

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Favorite arcade games:

Space Invaders (the only one I was remotely good at, unless PONG was an
arcade game at some point! <grin>)




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Arcade: Robotron, Tempest, Thunder Blade, Battle Garegga

Pinball: Medieval Madness, Funhouse, Addams Family

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On 07-13-18 02:23, Static wrote to Atreyu <=-

Arcade: Robotron, Tempest, Thunder Blade, Battle Garegga

I used to play Galaga a lot, got reasonable at it. Having an arcade console with it at uni certainly helped! :D

Pinball: Medieval Madness, Funhouse, Addams Family

I remember Addams Family, it was quite a good pinball. I often preferred pinball over video games. :)


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On 13 Jul 18 02:23:06, Static said the following to Atreyu:

Arcade: Robotron, Tempest, Thunder Blade, Battle Garegga

Tempest was fun...

Pinball: Medieval Madness, Funhouse, Addams Family

I forgot about Funhouse! Is that the one where the "head" follows the ball?

Atreyu

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On 13 Jul 18 19:59:00, Vk3Jed said the following to Static:

Pinball: Medieval Madness, Funhouse, Addams Family

I remember Addams Family, it was quite a good pinball. I often preferred pinball over video games. :)

I'm sortof the same way - with pinball, you tend to be able to "control" things a bit better and there is less element of chance like there is with an arcade machine, where who knows what the code of the game will do.

Atreyu

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On 07/13/18, Atreyu said the following...

Tempest was fun...

I've played emulated versions of it but nothing really does the original
vector display justice.

I forgot about Funhouse! Is that the one where the "head" follows the ball?

Yep. It also heckles you for playing poorly.

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On 07/13/18, Atreyu said the following...

I'm sortof the same way - with pinball, you tend to be able to "control" things a bit better and there is less element of chance like there is
with an arcade machine, where who knows what the code of the game will

Figuring out just how much you could bump the table without triggering a tilt took some finesse.

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On 07-13-18 08:13, Atreyu wrote to Vk3Jed <=-

I'm sortof the same way - with pinball, you tend to be able to
"control" things a bit better and there is less element of chance like there is with an arcade machine, where who knows what the code of the
game will do.

With me it's a matter of feedback and physics. The ball in a pinball is a real physical object, so it behaves in a way my brain can predict, and there's more control for me. With video games, the interface is more limited (purely hand-eye), which doesn't suit me at all.


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On 07-13-18 15:28, Static wrote to Atreyu <=-

On 07/13/18, Atreyu said the following...

I'm sortof the same way - with pinball, you tend to be able to "control" things a bit better and there is less element of chance like there is
with an arcade machine, where who knows what the code of the game will

Figuring out just how much you could bump the table without triggering
a tilt took some finesse.

Yes, that was an art too! :)


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On 13 Jul 18 15:28:36, Static said the following to Atreyu:

I'm sortof the same way - with pinball, you tend to be able to "control things a bit better and there is less element of chance like there is with an arcade machine, where who knows what the code of the game will

Figuring out just how much you could bump the table without triggering a til took some finesse.

I remember that! 8-) I also remember that sometimes, the tables would not be "levelled" correctly. That made for some interesting gaming.

Atreyu

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On 14 Jul 18 11:44:00, Vk3Jed said the following to Atreyu:

I'm sortof the same way - with pinball, you tend to be able to "control" things a bit better and there is less element of chance like there is with an arcade machine, where who knows what the code of the game will do.

With me it's a matter of feedback and physics. The ball in a pinball is a r physical object, so it behaves in a way my brain can predict, and there's mo control for me. With video games, the interface is more limited (purely hand-eye), which doesn't suit me at all.

I think thats the case, and the hand-eye difference I thought was really apparent with "driving games" like Outrun, Grand-prix, etx.

Atreyu

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On 07-14-18 03:27, Atreyu wrote to Vk3Jed <=-

I think thats the case, and the hand-eye difference I thought was
really apparent with "driving games" like Outrun, Grand-prix, etx.

I'm heavily dependent on feeling and movement. I can't play driving games, because they have no feel. Like driving a 1980s Ford with power steering (too light, no feel). :) And those games (like some first person shooters) where you have to navigate a space by "moving" in different directions, I get lost very quickly, while in the real world, my navigation is extremely good and I learn my way around (both indoors and outdoors) very quickly. Again, I suspect that's because the physical act of moving in an environment is a significant part of my spatial data.


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On 07-14-18 03:23, Atreyu wrote to Static <=-

I remember that! 8-) I also remember that sometimes, the tables would
not be "levelled" correctly. That made for some interesting gaming.

Haha, I bet! m:D


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I played a lot of Street Fighter and Spy vs. Spy back when I had my paper
route near the laundry mat that had a bunch of games. Good time then.

At University I played a ton of Area 51. One of the first, first person shooters. I missed the first two days of classes because of that damn game. Good thing I ran out of quarters.

Stephen

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On 07-18-18 16:30, Stephen Atkins wrote to Atreyu <=-

At University I played a ton of Area 51. One of the first, first
person shooters. I missed the first two days of classes because of
that damn game. Good thing I ran out of quarters.

Galaga was the favourite during my university years. There was an arcade console running Galaga in the university, which was pretty popular. I was never into the first person shooters, they came later anyway, but they mess with my coordination and navigation, because I rely so much on actual feel and movement for those functions in the real world (which game consoles can't simulate).


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I played a lot of Street Fighter and Spy vs. Spy back when I had my paper route near the laundry mat that had a bunch of games. Good time then.

Was Spy vs. Spy based off of the MAD magazine characters?

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Loosly. It was a driving game where you had to run the bad guys off the
road. They would come up behind you or in front. Your car had oil slick, machine guns and tire shreaders. I think it was spy vs spy but I could be wrong. That just brought back another game with elevators but the name
escapes me. Probably something with "Elevator" in the name.

Stephen

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Re: Re: Favorite games?
By: Stephen Atkins to Dumas Walker on Thu Jul 19 2018 13:00:36

Loosly. It was a driving game where you had to run the bad guys off the road. They would come up behind you or in front. Your car had oil slick, machine guns and tire shreaders. I think it was spy vs spy but I could be

I think you are describing "Spy Hunter"...

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On 07/19/18, Dumas Walker said the following...

Was Spy vs. Spy based off of the MAD magazine characters?

Posolutely.
I don't recall ever seeing an arcade cab for it though. Unless maybe it was
on the Nintendo Playchoice machines.

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On 07/19/18, Stephen Atkins said the following...

Loosly. It was a driving game where you had to run the bad guys off the road. They would come up behind you or in front. Your car had oil
slick, machine guns and tire shreaders. I think it was spy vs spy but I could be wrong.

That sounds like Spy Hunter. Spy vs Spy was a two-player split-screen game consisting of a bunch of rooms where you had to find several items hidden
in furniture in order to escape on a plane with your top secret intel. All while setting traps to stop the other player, or fighting them if you ever end up in the same room.

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That sounds like Spy Hunter. Spy vs Spy was a two-player split-screen
game consisting of a bunch of rooms where you had to find several items hidden in furniture in order to escape on a plane with your top secret intel. All while setting traps to stop the other player, or fighting
them if you ever end up in the same room.

That's it. It's been awhile since I played any arcade games. They just
don't have them around much any more. At least not in my small town.

Stephen

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Favorite arcade games:

+
track and field
karate champ
robotron
cloak & dagger
double dragon
ghouls and ghosts
outrun
silverball mania

- come to mind right away. oh and hello all...

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Re: Re: Favorite games?
By: Gngrdr3dm4n to Atreyu on Sun Jun 09 2019 02:41 pm

Favorite arcade games:

double dragon

That was my game back in the day!

Jason

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On 6/15/2019 1:12 PM, JASON wrote to GNGRDR3DM4N:

Re: Re: Favorite games?
By: Gngrdr3dm4n to Atreyu on Sun Jun 09 2019 02:41 pm

Favorite arcade games:

double dragon

That was my game back in the day!

Jason

The Sega Master system version was the best version.

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Moon Patrol. I domped a lot of quarters in that game.

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