The Arcade

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I completed Operation Thunderbolt in Talacre at the weekend at the cost of only 80p, it was only 20p a go - and it reminded me how fucking boss they were.

 

There was always a girl who was boss at Wonderboy, and to this day I still remember some of my Double Dragon friends, temporary allies who asked if they could join in and be your buddy for half an hour.

 

Then there was the sounds:

 

"Don't move creep!"

 

"It's in the air!" (that weird 'live action' cowboy game which was revolutionary at the time.)

 

Loved the arcade, me.

[Walton Park]

Track and Field.

 

The best fun I had until I found the joystick between my legs !

[SCOUSE TAPAS]

Galaxians was awesome and I remember when Tron first came out and everybody wanted to play it because the joystick controller was different to every other games. Defender was another top game as well but I was shit at it.

[manwiththestick]

Chase HQ. Wasted so much time and paper round money on that.

[Stouffer]

[Furmedge]

R-Type

[General Dryness]

Gauntlet. Four guys who've never met each other fighting over who isn't going to be Valkyrie.

 

Space Harrier. Queues out the door for that one at my local arcade when it came out.

[Pidge]

[RedKnight]

The Turtles arcade game and it's brother, the Simpsons arcade game.

 

Star Wars Trilogy is the only arcade game me and a mate completed. I did Yavin and the lightsaber levels, he did Hoth and we took turns on Endor. Tremendous game.

 

Silent Scope was brilliant as was two player Virtua Tennis on the big screen. House of the Dead was ace too.

 

Further back Final Lap 3 was always a must every Saturday, I was muck at it though. Operation Wolf was possibly my first arcade love along with Atari's Star Wars and it's kick ass cabinet. I remember once in Florida I spied the Empire Strikes Back cabinet, couldn't get over it.

 

Once got oh so close to completing Sega Rally in the arcade.

 

Willow had a brilliant arcade game too, remember playing it at Cardiff airport with my Dad whilst waiting to pick up my grandparents.

 

Outrun, can't forget that either.

[Red_or_Dead]

R-Type

 

This.

 

And Operation Wolf and Hard Drivin' for me.

[Pidge]

Time Crisis 2 was quality, the first one was a bit shite and the later ones jumped the shark, but #2 was ace.

 

Remember trying to play it drunk on a ferry once. Good times.

[Guest ShoePiss]

Gauntlet was a brilliant arcade game, I loved that you could have a few of your mates playing at the same time. Outrun was fucking boss too, remember being amazed at the graphics.

 

Never played Operation Thunderbolt but played the hell out of Operation Wolf on arcade and the speccy.

[Barzini]

Spent a lot of time and money on yie ar Kung fu I remember. Was still shit at it.

 

There was also a game called time pilot (I think) that I loved, starting off with old planes then advancing in time with every level.

 

The biggest crowd I saw was when a new fighting game came out (name escapes me), this was the first one that looked like real characters rather than cartoony sprites. Fuck knows, would have been in the late 80's I think. Anyway, you couldn't get within 20 feet of it, just catch the odd glimpse of it through the crowd. This bastard was 30p a game! Everything else in the place was 10p. Exciting times.

[Sweeney287]

Outrun and Bubble Bobble used to take up all my spare change.

[The Great Jacko]

My dad took me to Disney World when I was 13 - in the Magic Kingdom I spent the evening playing Gauntlet with 3 random American lads - I thought it was the coolest thing ever - my dad less so.

[The Golden Eel]

Golden Axe

Area 51

[The Golden Eel]

What was the name of the boxing game with the handle?

 

Another one we played was Pocket Gal.

[Paulie Dangerously]

Royal Rumble in the game shop on Walton Vale

[Stouffer]

Afterburner was ace too.

[Red Dawn]

Bubble Bobble and Outrun were class.

 

I also spent a fortune on Rygar...

 

[RedKnight]

Chip shop in my town used to have Street Fighter II, the only place around that had it. Later on they had loads of SNK fighters like King of Fighters.

[Elysian Red]

Shinobi, loved that game. Galaxian was the first game I played. Defender was brilliant but really hard.

[MAC5]

Double Dragon

[Pureblood]

R Type

Salamander

[Karl_b]

Metal Slug. They still have it in a pizza shop near my folks.