Best 1980's Arcade Game ?

[SUXBNME 1,457]

1 hour ago, seafoam1 said:

Sue me I said Nintendo instead of Atari. 

Focking idiots want to make everything a problem even if you are wrong.

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is the sequel to the vector graphics Star Wars arcade video game released by Atari, Inc. in 1983. It was made available by Atari Games in 1985 as a conversion kit for the original game. As in Star Wars, the player takes on the role of Luke Skywalker in a set of battle sequences from a first-person perspective. The game features the Battle of Hoth and the subsequent escape of the Millennium Falcon through an asteroid field. It is the third Star Wars arcade title from Atari; the raster game Return of the Jedi came out the previous year.

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
North American arcade flyer
Developer(s)	Atari Games[1]
Publisher(s)	Atari Games[1]
Designer(s)	Mike Hally
Programmer(s)	Greg Rivera Norm Avellar
Artist(s)	Dave Ralston
Composer(s)	Brad Fuller
Platform(s)	Arcade, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro

You said "ON NINTENDO". Even if you said "On Atari" you would be wrong.  

Words matter
 

[Mark Davis 339]

Some obscure favorites of mine, I loved sports games:

Super Basketball by Konami

Champion Baseball

 

 

[HellToupee 1,587]

Atari football with the rollerball 

[Gepetto 1,288]

1 hour ago, Reality said:

Double Dragon, co-op with buddies, y'all suck at this.

I never got into it, but Double Dragon was The game to play on Friday night at Godfather's pizza back when I was 12 - 14.  They also had table Ms. Pac Man and a trap shooting game on a big screen on the wall.

[BeenHereBefore 1,465]

2 hours ago, Gepetto said:

Ms. Pac Man, Frogger, and Centipede were my favorites.  My grandma worked the concessions at a roller skating rink and they had all of these games and more and skee ball.

A friend of mine in the 1990s had the full size arcade game Galaga at his house.  

I had the full size one in the 80's plus Frogger. They weren't that expensive then, around $200 to $300 used.

[supermike80 1,803]

I also liked a game called Krazy Klimber.   Youd scale this building while people tried to drop things on our head from open windows.   That was a fun one

[Nomad99 699]

14 hours ago, Strike said:

Asteroids

Went to a community College, had a game room. There was a group of us that played Asteroids so often we all got to be expert level. Got to the point that someone would put a quarter in in the morning & we would play all day. They eventually took it out because it was only making a couple bucks a week

[supermike80 1,803]

Just now, Nomad99 said:

Went to a community College, had a game room. There was a group of us that played Asteroids so often we all got to be expert level. Got to the point that someone would put a quarter in in the morning & we would play all day. They eventually took it out because it was only making a couple bucks a week

Yup me too.   Got crazy good at asteroids.

[seafoam1 2,802]

9 hours ago, SUXBNME said:

You said "ON NINTENDO". Even if you said "On Atari" you would be wrong.  

Words matter
 

1980s arcade games are wrong? 

[Nomad99 699]

1 minute ago, supermike80 said:

Yup me too.   Got crazy good at asteroids.

We would try to just kill the ufo.

[edjr 6,578]

The ONLY title on this list that you could actually pay 50 cents and finish without adding money is Dragon's Lair.

Why do you people hate money?

[Hawkeye21 2,382]

14 hours ago, Mark Davis said:

For me in the 80's arcade it was Gauntlet, NBA Jam was the one of the 90's for me

Gauntlet was my favorite as well.  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was my favorite in the 90's.

[seafoam1 2,802]

Joust?

[BunnysBastatrds 2,315]

When PAC Man came out it was crazy. We would play it this place Peporonis. A quarter a game. My best friend got high and said “Fawk spending ten dollars a night!!!”So he got a roll of nickels and put them on the rail rod tracks lined up. Put them in and worked every time. Till  

we got busted.. 

[BunnysBastatrds 2,315]

Tank Wars was cool as you had to look through the periscope thingy.

[Mike Hunt 261]

I went to this retro arcade and they had a football game.  I think it was called Quarterback.   We played it for hours it was so much fun.

[supermike80 1,803]

37 minutes ago, Nomad99 said:

We would try to just kill the ufo.

Yep..Keep one rock, one that is moving as vertically as possible.  Take the ship and run it at high speed vertically...Hit the 1000 point ships....Hope he doesn't hit the last single rock or run into it..or kill you.   

[supermike80 1,803]

23 minutes ago, seafoam1 said:

Joust?

Yuck

[seafoam1 2,802]

9 minutes ago, supermike80 said:

Yuck

Should have been posted in the bad 80s arcade games thread.

[Mike Honcho 5,097]

1 hour ago, supermike80 said:

I also liked a game called Krazy Klimber.   Youd scale this building while people tried to drop things on our head from open windows.   That was a fun one

Me and best friend would go spend the night with his parents on their bowling night, just so we could go to the one arcade in the area that had that game. 

Was a good era for video games, not every thing was a shooter, most of it was new and original.  

[supermike80 1,803]

32 minutes ago, seafoam1 said:

Should have been posted in the bad 80s arcade games thread.

I did

[Hawkeye21 2,382]

Double Dragon was the best

[bostonlager 2,664]

1 hour ago, Hawkeye21 said:

Gauntlet was my favorite as well.  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was my favorite in the 90's.

TMNT barely makes the 80s list. Released OCT of 1989

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_(arcade_game)

[Hawkeye21 2,382]

1 minute ago, bostonlager said:

TMNT barely makes the 80s list. Released OCT of 1989

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_(arcade_game)

I have to look them up because most of the games I played were in the 90s.  There were so many good ones.

[bostonlager 2,664]

3 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

I have to look them up because most of the games I played were in the 90s.  There were so many good ones.

Early-mid 90s was loaded with good games. 

[posty 2,612]

Elevator Action

Moon Patrol

World Series

[BunnysBastatrds 2,315]

18 hours ago, Cruzer said:

Def Galaga...........but Defender needs to at least be listed as well. 

You can cheat it. When the first initial round starts Kill all the bottom red guys on the right. Takes about ten minutes. Just avoid them. The  rest of the game, they don’t shoot anymore. 

[BiPolarBear 483]

17 hours ago, BunnysBastatrds said:

 

 

 Frogger

 

 

Several times, I came home from a bar after hours of Frogger. I could see the little frogs hoping around in my field of vision. 

[Herbivore 1,115]

I loved Robotron, Tempest, and Track and Field. Defender and Spyhunter were sweet as well.

[BiPolarBear 483]

I had all the top scores on a particular standup Zaxxon game at a bus station. Played while hanging out, waiting for fares with an upscale cab company. I drove a Lincoln.

[supermike80 1,803]

30 minutes ago, Herbivore said:

I loved Robotron, Tempest, and Track and Field. Defender and Spyhunter were sweet as well.

Track and Field was a good one!

[BeenHereBefore 1,465]

6 hours ago, supermike80 said:

I also liked a game called Krazy Klimber.   Youd scale this building while people tried to drop things on our head from open windows.   That was a fun one

Dang I forgot about this game and haven't played it since the early 80's at the arcade. That was a fun game and now I got to see if they make it for a rom or system.

[RogerDodger 797]

1942

Pole Position

Bump'n Jump

720 - although it might have been a 90s version that I remember.

[RogerDodger 797]

Burger Time

[RaiderHaters Revenge 4,237]

19 hours ago, Voltaire said:

Elf shot the food.

Warrior is about to die.

yep Gauntlet is my hands down game of all-time

looks like Gauntlet has 4 votes at least

Hawkeye, Volty, Mark Davis, and myself

[RogerDodger 797]

Couldn't think of the name for a long time, finally came to me: 

R Type  

[lod001 1,344]

22 hours ago, wiffleball said:

Star Castle. 

 

Swear I still have PTSD from that. 

I have that on the PC. 

[frank 2,276]

Global Thermonuclear War

[DonS 3,292]

I loved Berserk back in the day. 

INTRUDER ALERT!  INTRUDER ALERT! 

 

 

[taco breath 424]

asteroids

defender

joust

got all my quarters, friends played a lot of galaga too.