The 2008 Vintage Game Shodown - Round One (part II)

[Rhindle The Red]

Okay, here's the rest of Round One:

 

BATTLE 5

Trendsetting NES game Super Mario Bros. against the unique gameplay of the arcade Tempest.

 

BATTLE 6

Atari's early arcade success Asteroids fights off the system selling Donkey Kong for the Colecovision.

 

BATTLE 7

Kaboom! for the Atari 2600 takes on arcade shooter Galaga.

 

BATTLE 8

And the genre-defying Yar's Revenge for the 2600 takes on another "different" game, the oddball arcade entry Crazy Climber.

[Atarifever]

Super Mario, Donkey Kong (the later Asteroid games make me never want to play the original), Galaga, and Yars Revenge (which I hear is new from Atari;I feel about as old as those kids every time I play it).

[AtariLeaf]

Ok, for this round I went with Tempest over SMB. Easy one for me. I love the arcade Tempest. SMB is nice but not really a fan.

Also took arcade Asteroids over CV donkey kong. This was a much closer one for me but in the end, arcade asteroids is a classic.

Galaga over Kaboom was an easy choice. Never cared for Kaboom but love Galaga.

The last one is a reverse of the first 3, I'm picking Yars Revenge over Crazy Climber, mostly because I've never really played Crazy Climber but love the Yar.

[darthkur]

Looks like I'm in the minority on each one of these four:

 

Tempest (Arcade) - Because of it's unique game play and appearance.

 

Donkey Kong (ColecoVision) - It made me, like so many others, buy the CV in the first place.

 

Kaboom! (2600) - The best reason to own operable paddle controllers for the VCS.

 

Crazy Climber (Arcade) - One of my all time favorite video games period. And one of the few back then that I was really good at.

[littleman jack]

Tempest (one of the greatest arcade games ever)

Asteroids (ditto)

Kaboom (great fun on the 2600, as said above "a reason to own paddles")

Yars Revenge (great fun on the 2600, crazy sounds and flashes with only 128 bytes)

[Wickeycolumbus]

Super Mario Bros

Donkey Kong

Galga

Yar's Revenge

[iwan-iwanowitsch-goratschin]

Mario

Kong

Kaboom

Yars´

[jboypacman]

SMB,DK,Kaboom! and Crazy Climber.

[Artlover]

Tempest, Asteroids, Galaga, Yars Revenge.

[segasaturn]

Super Mario Bros.,

Asteroids,

Kaboom!,

And Yar's Revenge

[Christophero Sly]

Tempest

Asteroids

Galaga

Yars' Revenge

[DarthCalvin]

SMB because I never tire of it, Asteroids because it was the first game I ever played (6 years old, local general store), the third one was tough but I went with Galaga because it just seems to deserve it and of course I also voted for the best game ever

[Shawn]

SMB, Asteroids, Galaga, Yars' Revenge

[Texasmame]

Tempest - never much into Mario and Tempest IS greatness.

DK - As much as I love all things Atari, I have to give the nod to CV DK. I remember buying the console back in the day JUST for that game.

Kaboom! - neither that great but Galaga has always bored me

Yars' Revenge - likely the best original game ever for any home platform. So there.

Edited August 27, 2008 by Texasmame