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What classic arcade machine have you put the most 10p pieces in?

What classic arcade machine have you played the most?

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hendo said:
Later on as a student living on the seafront in Morecambe the bug was still biting and the opportunities to indulge were many and various. I think it was Williams that released that classic arcade version of Star Wars, in which you took on wire frame tie fighters before finding yourself in the Death Star trench. Magic! I did this rather than my essays. The Force is Strong with This One, Vader would say in your ear... I was finding it tough to get girlfriends around this time, for some reason.
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I played the ESB one - where you had the trench but also the AT-ATs where you could fly through the legs for extra points :cool:

The RotJ one was shite.

Girls?

The reason I played the golf game was cos it was next to Bubble Bobble which the ladies loved :p ;) :D :D
 
hendo said:
We kicked them off the console (age still has its privileges) and started on the 2 player versions of Joust and Spyhunter. The teens who'd thought they'd seen it all were hooked just as badly as we were - on games coded well before their parents had met.
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It's well known that 2 player Dogfight on the BBC model B is in fact the finest two player game ever. Arguably suppassing chess for skill and tactics.
 
I voted for Space Invaders, but my proudest moment was completing Out Run in the arcade i would frequent every lunch during my YTS, safe in the knowledge that by the time i'd got to the point of earning proper money the PS2 would be invented!
 
At my Judo club, when I were a nipper they had two arcade machines which ate up all my pocket money:

Asteroids and Bombjack.


:cool:


Later on in life, I was overjoyed to discover that my favourite drinking hole between the ages of 18 and 21 (Purple Turtle in Reading - the big one) also had a table top Bombjack machine.

Consuming massive amounts of Snake Bite Black before playing and slapping on something good from possibly the best jukebox in the world made me much better at it.
 
Mame

:eek: :eek: :eek:

...and I sold the person the mame DVD's
fair play though, it is a good build ;)


oh, back to the original post:
Astro Blaster
Crazy Climber
Moon Cresta
Pengu
Mr Do
 
Streets of Rage!

Always fun - I never got to go Hagar though cos my mate always used to pay and go on two player.

Fair enough really.
 
Space Invaders when they first came out. A load of us used to go to this club in Cambridge which had a machine, and queue up for our turn. But that was after spending hours and hours and weeks on a table tennis machine, too! :D

Okay, I am very, very old :(
 
Wonderboy and Altered Beast in the foyer at North Devon Leisure Centre. I'd always get changed well before my mum and sister after going swimming and so I'd have a couple of 10ps while I waited.

And I spent a fortnights holiday in Mallorca pestering my mum and dad for Pesetas to put in Bubble Bobble.
 
Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja. Cost me a fortune to clock the fucker.

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Pacman for me - especially now I've finally realised my lifelong ambition to have my own original pacman machine in my living room (hurray for ebay!)
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tie between defender and the starwars one .Defender cos i was really crap at and star wars cos i loved it .How many video games had a greater payoff than taking out the death star?
Wings of apache?also eat a lot of money it was a complicated simulator game of apache gunships which had a gadet in it that when you got shot at made it sound like something was bouncing off the armour.Often wondered
how they did it.
 
Onket said:
Double Dragon.
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Thirded. It was just too easy to complete, and once I'd started I just had to keep feeding the fucker and rescue the girl :mad:
Other culprits were Shinobi and the mighty Kung Fu Master :cool:
 
hendo said:
I grew up wasting my money and time in endless overheated arcades with dodgy carpets and still dodgier characters inhabiting them. As a nerdy eighteen year old with hardly any life I'd get the bus into Manchester on a Saturday morning and buy Private Eye from a city centre newsagent and then head for an arcade on Oxford Road.

I forget its name but it was a serious space invaders hang out - it even had stools next to the machines for the guys who could play for longest. I liked the classic gameplay of Taito's SI, but I really fell in love with Asteroids and its coldly logical physics; in space not only can nobody hear you scream, but there's no other way to stop other than by reversing the ship and firing the rocket in the opposite direction. And even if you don't drift into a rock there were flying saucers who wanted you off the game...yet there were masters who could make a ten pence hit last hours, and unbelievably high scores on the Best Ever Screens....ah yes, fond memories...

Later on as a student living on the seafront in Morecambe the bug was still biting and the opportunities to indulge were many and various. I think it was Williams that released that classic arcade version of Star Wars, in which you took on wire frame tie fighters before finding yourself in the Death Star trench. Magic! I did this rather than my essays. The Force is Strong with This One, Vader would say in your ear... I was finding it tough to get girlfriends around this time, for some reason.

Then I went and worked in Edinburgh for a bit and found an arcade near the Heriot Watt University with the original version of Spyhunter, in which you drove a car armed with oil slicks and ground to air missiles. I think I threw away half my wages just getting to the bit where you turned into a speedboat.

Life was pretty crap for me in those days. There was a weird kind of validation in being good at something, even if it was only flying a silly griffon around in Joust.

Much much later when I got my Playstation 2 I went and bought the new version of Spyhunter; only to find, despite the luxurious 3D graphics and surround stereo sound, it had only an iota of its charm and the Peter Gunn Theme was missing; I encountered the orginal again to my joy while on holiday in France last summer; our host had a Williams arcade compendium for PS2 and there it was in all its annoying and addictive glory.

And here was a marvellous thing. We had some kids with us, around the twelve to fifteen bracket, and they'd been playing Timesplitters on the PS2, not a bad game, but basically a FPS with no frills or subtlety.

We kicked them off the console (age still has its privileges) and started on the 2 player versions of Joust and Spyhunter. The teens who'd thought they'd seen it all were hooked just as badly as we were - on games coded well before their parents had met.

(At this point attendants emerge from the shadows to wheel the babbling old gent away for another injection).
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Scramble for me too. And the caterpiller one - I loved that.

I got mame on my mac about five years ago and spent a year playing far too many games of Scramble and Donkey Kong...!
 
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