Yoghurt Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Â Glorious. The House of the Dead is still the finest arcade game ever released. Closely followed by Gauntlet, MERCS and of course the Turtles game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgmilne Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Other than Wrestlefest, I will give it to either  Return of The Jedi  or  Pac-Land Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Bus Surfer Posted March 31, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted March 31, 2011 Â Everytime I saw this in an Arcade in a Butlins or Pontins as a kid I almost pissed myself with excitement. There weren't any Arcades in my home town, so the chance to play it only came round every so often. A real treat. The artwork on the machine always made it seems so much more special than those other drab black boxes. The sound always seemed to be blasting out too. Â Â Brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted March 31, 2011 Moderators Share Posted March 31, 2011 Yeah, that Turtles game was the fucking nuts. Â Also, Double Dragon. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â anyone got the Midas Simpsons picture..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Ahh, my kind of question:- Cabal:-   Still awesome. I still play it loads on my cab. Finished it a couple of times but it is well worth going back to. Used to spend all my money on it when I was 10 on a Sunday morning in the dodgy arcade in the back of the bargain shop opposite Burnage Community Centre.  I fucking love you Gladstone  My post was going to be me trying to describe this game for the umpteenth time to blank looks because I haven't played it since I was 7 and have never been able to remember what it was called, but that was my shit back in the day.  We lived in a suburb of Madrid, opposite this disused lot of land, on the other side of which was the shopping mall. We used this as a cut through - me and my bro would get a handful of pesetas from my mum, fly out the door, scrabble up this steep hill through a hole in the fence at the top to come out in the parking lot of the shopping mall. Straight to the arcade, where we played this and one other game that I can't remember the name of*.  This mall also had the best sweet shop ever, which was where I discovered candy hamburgers.  This is one of my fondest memories of childhood.  * You played a ninja. All that I remember about it was that the Continue Screen was your man strapped down, with a rotating saw blade slowly lowering on him - if you didn't pump some more coin in, he got sliced as it went to the Game Over screen. Anyone?  Did it look like this?    Cabal was the shit, but I had completely forgotten about it until that screenshot. Nice one Gladders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted March 31, 2011 Moderators Share Posted March 31, 2011 That does look exactly like what I described, though not how my memory remembers it. What game is that? Does it feature a bit where your ninja has to get across the road without getting run the fuck over? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Dead Mike Posted March 31, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted March 31, 2011 There was video shop near me when I was about 10 that had a few arcade cabinets. They must've hired them but myself & a couple of mates used to live in there. Depending on who was working they used to open the door & give us a bunch of free credits for putting out returned video cases or nipping to the shop for them. It got to the point where my mate & I would request games when we heard one was due to be returned. They never got Streetfighter 2 or Mortal Kombat but some I can remember (we completed most of these too) :- Â Turtles (4 player) The Simpsons (4 player) Final Fight (although this was called Final Crash for some reason?) Pit Fighter (I creamed when this was in there one day as I'd only read about it in CVG at that point) Aliens Caveman Ninja A 2 player cowboy game that was essentially a side scrolling shoot-em-up, I think I couple of levels were overhead but there was definitely a stage where you were running on top of a heard of cattle? The WWF game (don't think it was Wrestlefest) that had DiBiase & Andre as the baddies & it spoke (terribly) with the Million Dollar Man saying 'I'll put you to sleep with my million dollar dream' Â The 1st Mortal Kombat was mind blowing when I first saw it. I remember reading how to do the fatalities, mastering Johnny Cage & impressing a crowd at the Quasar by punching someone's head off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted March 31, 2011 Moderators Share Posted March 31, 2011 That cowboy game was great. That was the first game I played with a 'train level', and I've loved any train levels in games since. Â (Again, of course I have no fucking idea what it was called) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted March 31, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted March 31, 2011 It was called Sunset Riders and I've been playing it recently too. It's great fun. Â Â Aliens was also a brilliant game - ridiculous it never got a home conversion, really, it was ideal for consoles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Dead Mike Posted March 31, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted March 31, 2011 Sunset Riders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 That does look exactly like what I described, though not how my memory remembers it. What game is that? Does it feature a bit where your ninja has to get across the road without getting run the fuck over? Â Â Â Did the game look like this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotechnik Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Silent Scope Ex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Dead Mike Posted March 31, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted March 31, 2011 They also had 1942 which was a vertical scrolling shoot-em-up where you were a spitfire & apparently had 'Combatribes' which I don't remember but have been informed it was 'A more cartoony version of Final Fight but was proper wank'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patiirc Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Best Arcade Game  Afterburner II!    Followed by  WWF Wrestlefest Point Blank Sega Rally Sega Touring Cars OutRun Space Invaders Macross Bank Panic SF2 (Happy Birthday 20 today iirc)   As for the Cowboy train stuff that was mentioned about try also Iron Horse and Express Raider both set predominently on trains Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vealster Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 The Data East arcade game of "Robocop" was always my favourite still hooked on it via mame to this day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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