Retro Arcade Gaming

[ajarnmark]

Just out of curiosity, I just wonder if there is anyone who is fond of playing Retro (old) arcade games like:

1. Donkey Kong

2. Dr. Micro

3. Tiger Road

4. Street Fighter

5. Knuckle Joe

6. Green Beret

and many many other games.

I am a very big fan of these old games and I love to play them, whenever I have some spare time (once in a year maybe)

[eek]

Hmm sometimes...but xbox, pc and playstation has sorta corrupted me long term XD

If im in the mood for retro i gen go for frogger , donkey kong and pac man.

Still on a loose quest to get hold of an old spectrum game: Atic Atac.'

Edit: will bloody ell..whaddaya know. Just did a short search for Atic Atac and found a free dl for the pc: <a href="http://retrospec.sgn.net/game-links.php?link=atic" target="_blank">http://retrospec.sgn.net/game-links.php?link=atic</a> (now to find Manic Miner!)

Edit 2: BAHAHA! : http://www.worldofspectrum.org/remakes.cgi

(Word of caution: No idea yet if these links are virus/Trojan free yet. Plan to try out some tomorrow.)

Edited October 17, 2007 by eek

[Austhaied]

No.

[fennielyn]

Just out of curiosity, I just wonder if there is anyone who is fond of playing Retro (old) arcade games like:

Heck yes, after all these years I'm still not sick of Tetris, but then that's coz I'm a total geek and oh, I happen to rock at it.

[onethailand]

For some reason it just isn't the same playing these games on a PC or a Playstation. If someone would put them into cabinets, I'd probably play them quite often - especially Street Fighter. Donkey Kong is ok on a Playstation though.

[Goshawk]

(now to find Manic Miner!)

[eek]

haha. cool. (the youtube vid)

...and yes Tetris still rocks. I guess that must be the number one classic game?

Edited October 17, 2007 by eek

[dantilley]

Play Chuckie Egg and Repton in Flash here!

Excellent! Got any more like that?

[bangsue]

great shockwave versions of Defender and Defender II on the midway site here midway defender

[0Mix1up]

Had and bought lotsa them over the years till recently

from nes, super, c64/16, atari's, game and watch, amiga etc.

sold most even got $100 for a "instant replay cart" for the c64??? and some "game and watch" go for silly $$$

some games no matter the level of graphics are always playable

"Speedball" (Atari ST) among others all time fav.

have ps2 and gamecube now.

[Edonista]

is Master of Orion 2 considered an arcade game now ?

[steveromagnino]

I am a master at Golden Axe.

Golden axe is da bomb yo.

[xyborg]

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Must be showing my age I thought you were going to say "Space Invaders" or "Asteroids"

[Hawkup2000]

Have you ever tried a emulator like nesticle on you computer? Of course there are emulators for snes, sega genesis and mega drive, c64 nd even playstation1 also but I am more into early nes games like Meteroid, Ice climber Mario bros ect .

[Crash999]

Mame32 + Roms (from Bittorrent) = Retro Gaming Heaven

Only way I know to find obscure classics like Bosconian and Food Fight.

[Veazer]

I was looking around for portable video players recently and came across these two devices: GP2X and JXD 301. Both seem to have their good points and bad points.

The screen on the JXD sounds fantastic, and I've seen it going for about $130 USD for the 4GB onboard version. Add another 4GB SD card and you'd have a decent amount of music, videos & games combined with high quality screen.

[torrenova]

I used to have the real original Williams Defender upright. Cost about £90 I think and for a couple of years you could get them for free nearly. Now a couple of grand at least recon.

I'd like an emulator for that on the PC.

Adams Family pinball ? Find the "GOLD" version and you're in the money. Probably the best pinball ever made. 2nd best, Guns and Roses.

[Goshawk]

Ahh.. the coin ops of the past. fond memories

a few personal favorites that ate up many a 10p of mine back then as a kid in the arcades...

Space Invaders included cos really, it's the one that started it all (for me anyway)

I'd love to own these and other machines now, just need the room and.. err.. the lottery win...

[Veazer]

I'd love to own these and other machines now, just need the room and.. err.. the lottery win...

Just buy one cabinet and make it look classy, then add decent PC guts and emuator software... Might be tricky coming up with a control layout that worked for most games, but it could be very nice. You can also buy all the controls online if you wanted to have someone build a custom cabinet.

[torrenova]

The originals are classic but there is a lot to be said for replicas. I mean, you're dealing with 20+ year old stuff in there and apart from the controls layout, all the software could be contained in even the smallest memory card. If you think what you need, then a trackball, Defender controls and your standard joysticks could be all incorporated on the same plinth and just wired up. You may have to get inside the coding though to reset the controls.

[quiksilva]

Xbox Live arcade has plenty of these old favourites.

Speedball 2, Sensible World of Soccer, Contra etc. Plus you can grab trial versions of the games for free