If you could own one arcade machine, what would it be?
Monday, March 12th, 2007 - 12:39pm
So getting hit with a wave of nostalgia lately, decided to post this. For me, it would be the Dungeons & Dragons Arcade game, yah I'm a geek, but hey, so is everyone else posting to the board to some extent:) I remember in High School going to the arcade with friends(when they still existed) and plunking $5-$10 each time I played, trying different paths in the story, finally beating the game. I see it on ebay occasionally, and would happily buy it, but I don't think my wife would appreciate it as much as I did....
Wannabe priest with a sword....
Toobin', probably; maybe Cyberball.
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That's a tough one. Probably Cyberball, Super Sprint, Karate Champ, Punchout, or Track and Field. There are a lot out there. That said, I'd probably prefer a pinball machine. I've toyed with buying one for work, but I don't know if that will actually ever happen.
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Afterburner, with the original gyroscopic cockpit that tilted side to side as you moved the flight stick. I loved that game when I was a kid.
Also, I'd want to have an original Pin-Bot pinball machine.
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oooh, if i get a pinball choice, it's Fireball, the one with the rotating disc. that one is COOL.
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OMG. The environmental unit version of Discs of Tron. Only game I could ever play for 30 minutes plus on one quarter. I remember three play-throughs at least on one credit. I played this every school-day the Summer of...hmmm...1983 or 1984, I guess, at GU where I was taking classes.
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I'd buy Cybersled (the one with 2 seats of course) or pinbot/bride of pinbot for pinball.
Maybe just a set of DDR extreme side by sides (I've never played but it'd be good for burning fat!)
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Maybe Cyberball. Maybe Sinistar (just so I can hear him say "I hunger!"). But definitely the original sit-down Star Wars vector graphics game. ("Red 5 Standing By!")
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The Addams Family pinball machine. By a landslide.
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Probably Twilight Zone pinball, maybe Simpsons pinball. Pinball is more social than most of the arcade games I've loved, so that would be a factor in getting one for the house.
If I'm limited to video games only, I'd go with the Ms. Pac Man/ Galaga machine.
If you call foul on having two games on one machine, well... I give up. I can't choose just one. I chose Ms. Pac Man / Galaga because those two probably accounted for a majority of the quarters I spent before Street Fighter II came out.
I'd need a warehouse for my dream arcade.
Because Punchout already got a vote, I'm gonna say Xenophobe. I always thought that 3 person co-op machine was cool. Plunked a lot of quarters into it lunch at university, though I was never good at it.
My wife would probably say PacMan. Though not a gamer, that is one game she adores.
My sons would like vote for TMNT 4 player co-op machine.
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There are lots of good pinball games out there, but I'd probably have to go with Xenon. The machine-lady's voice telling me to "try for a tube shot" will be lodged in my head for the rest of my life.
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Galaga. No contest.
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good call.. awesome arcade game that never translated well to consoles at the time.
I will also add Stargate... just from the sheer amount of buttons
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Video game? That's easy, Robotron 2084, no contest. Suffice to say, even though my reflexes suck now, I'd play that like there's no tomorrow if I had it.
Pinball's harder for me...Addams Family would be very high on my list, but so would the circus-themed one...Big Top, I think it was called? The one with the talking dummy head that you could shoot a ball into its mouth. That one was cool, too. I could also see the Bride of Pinbot game, but Twilight Zone definitely sucked up a lot of my money, too. Yeah...that'd be a harder one to pick from.
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3. Dragon Breed. Totally innovative side scrolling shooter. Played this nonstop my college Freshman year. http://www.arcade-history.com/index.php?page=detail&id=693
Soul Calibur.
I know it's a good deal different than everything else mentioned here and it's available on consoles...
But the console versions just aren't the same.
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I'd say a working Tournamant Cyberball arcade game cause I already own a nonworking one. I also have no place to put it either. Part of the reason why it still isn't fixed.
Space Lords would also be pretty cool, and I agree Disc of Tron would be cool too. Though I wish it was multiplayer.
Outrun. Because my parents refused to give me the money to play, I just sat behind the wheel and faked the whole ride. I still have "insert coin" burned in my iris.
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Virtual On. Even if you could emulate it, the arcade experience wouldn't be the same, and finding the console game with the twin sticks is going to cost you a bundle as well.
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Anything in a cocktail table format.
There was some steakhouse I used to go to as a kid that had the original Castlevania in a cocktail table. Fantastic.
That or Operation: Wolf.
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Defintely would have to be Galaga tabletop. I love Galaga and the tabletop version would make one hell of an extra table.
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Except a nicely refurbished old 1980s one, with the Soviet players instead of the damn Team Canada crap they put in them now.
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There's tons of old video games I love but can now play somewhere other than their original arcade cabinets. But nothing replaces the Chexx bubble hockey.
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