Rare arcade games you've seen

[Rare arcade games you've seen]

OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry) used to have a Professor Pac-Man machine!

Now THAT would be worth some serious money. Gotta wonder what happened to it.

 

Tempest

Probably converted to another game or at a dump. Professor Pac-Man was a colossal flop and that's what happened to most of those machines.

[What were the hardest arcade coin-op games?]

Frenzy is a pretty flawed game.. the changes they made weren't very interesting. A Gauntlet-like perspective, IMO, would have made for a nice update. But the lack of technology would have made it impossible at the time. Boss robots, a shop for weapon and item upgrades, bonus stages, etc. would be cool. If any game needs a proper update, I'd like to see Berzerk get one. Oh, and Scramble as well.

[Rare arcade games you've seen]

Played Astro Invader at drive-ins and old theaters. Not really super-rare I guess.

Played Tiger-Heli and Return Of The Invaders at a nickel arcade in Beaverton.

OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry) used to have a Professor Pac-Man machine!

Space Odyssey was a crappy shooter. Played it at Chuck E. Cheese once.

I rather like Halley's Comet but I've only seen it once, at a bowling alley near Seattle.

I only saw the original Crazy Climber cab by Nichibutsu once, at the Rose Festival arcade back in the early '80s.

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Oops, contest is over, never mind. Damn!

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I got 163,300 but I don't know how to post pix if they don't have a URL (just saved on my hard drive).

[Hints, tips,tricks needed]

Check out GameFAQs for starters. They have some classic arcade hints.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/coinop/arcade/

[Rare arcade games you've seen]

How about Space Encounter? I have one, odd kind of star wars games, has flashing lights when you get hit,etc. Never saw one back in the day.

 

 

 

http://www.outerworldarcade.com/arcade/space_encounters/space_encounters_video.html

 

We had that at the theatre in Raleigh Hills for many years. It had a color overlay along the side to create a death star-trench effect.

[Rare arcade games you've seen]

Mission X was pretty rare.. one of the games for the DECO cassette system, like Lock N Chase, Burgertime, Astro Fighter, etc. I saw it at my dad's bowling alley in Milwaukie, OR back in about 1982. Not too great from what I remember. It did get an Intellivision port however, and maybe an Atari 2600 port too.

 

You grew up in Milwaukie? Blink and you'll miss it! Haha! That's awesome; my wife grew up in Molalla. We always pass it on the way there! Is it that same one (and only) bowling alley?

 

Our local YMCA had Granny and the Gators on free-play! That game is awesome!

 

Actually I always (save for 3 years in Auburn, WA) lived in Portland, but my dad bowled @ Kellogg Bowl on Mondays in the late '70s/early '80s. Probably the one you're thinking of, it used to be right next to Pietro's Pizza. Haven't been by there in forever, don't know what's there nowadays.

 

Never played Granny & The Gators, but hopefully it's a better pinvid than Baby Pac-Man.. ugh!

[Rare arcade games you've seen]

I remember playing a game at a local mini-mart when I was in College that I haven't seen anywhere else, and a quick browse through MAME didn't find it. Although my memory might be off a bit.

 

I think the game was just a standard "Shoot the airplanes as they fly by" game.

 

I "think" the premise was that you were on a ship, and you controlled a gun that swung around to shoot at the planes as they dove in.

 

What was unique was the control. I swear (meaning I'm pretty sure :-), I remember that the controls and the monitor were connected together and pivoted. So, when I took the controls and moved to the right, the whole monitor moved to the left and the view panned appropriately.

 

All in all, I was pretty impressed, but I can imagine it might be a maintenance issue to keep it working...

 

It didn't last too long there.

 

desiv

Is it Subroc 3-D?

[Old arcade games that would be cool on atari machines]

It would be cool if Punch-Out could work on the 2600. Other good ones would be Super Pac-Man, Alpine Ski, Monster Bash, Ivan Ironman Stewart's Off Road, Rush 'N Attack, Contra, and Moon Cresta.

[Rare arcade games you've seen]

Strange how the drive-in theaters often had obscure arcade games, like Pulsar, Stratovox, etc. and one I remember seeing (but not playing) at one was Zarzon, also known as Satan of Saturn.

Also, I saw DJ Boy and E-Swat at an old cinema about 3/4 miles from my house a handful of years ago. Both games had superior Sega Genesis releases.

[Your greatest game]

Rolling the score counter on asteroids for the first time.

Same here. My sister and I did that numerous times over. We was damn good at that game!

[Toughest games of all time....]

I haven't played all of those games but Sinistar can be a pain.. I always thought Venture was pretty damn tough. And I was never very good at Targ. Bagman deserves to be put on the list.

[Rare arcade games you've seen]

Mission X was pretty rare.. one of the games for the DECO cassette system, like Lock N Chase, Burgertime, Astro Fighter, etc. I saw it at my dad's bowling alley in Milwaukie, OR back in about 1982. Not too great from what I remember. It did get an Intellivision port however, and maybe an Atari 2600 port too.

[What were the hardest arcade coin-op games?]

Good deal, Eric. Good luck!

[What was the first Arcade game you played?]

I played so many throughout my life, I can't be sure about the very first one I played.. but I'll take a stab at it. I think it was Sprint 2.

[Rare arcade games you've seen]

Mouse Trap = Most of my friends never saw a Mouse Trap arcade machine, but I managed to enjoy one at Six Flags Over Texas on the same trip I saw Eliminator.

I think they had the same hardware, along with Fax, Hard Hat, and a few others with the black background seen during the game. Also, the long boot-up time was common amongst these (but REALLY long for Fax). I love Mouse Trap.

[What 's your most favorite system of all time?]

My Sega CDX, no question.

 

GideonsDad

HEAR HEAR!!!

 

I had that one.. Sega Genesis AND Sega CD AND Portable CD player. Hells yes!

[Old arcade games that would be cool on atari machines]

 

Have you seen Telegames' Universal Chaos yet?

 

 

 

Yes, that was the original that was hacked to show Targ graphics. It was good too, but the original arcade game's graphics are more visually appealing.

A bit harder to turn around, though, than it was on the arcade original.

[Old arcade games that would be cool on atari machines]

Targ, a pretty good arcade game from 1980, got a 2600 conversion on the homebrew list here. I tried it out; it's really good!

[Racing Game w/ Minimal Controls?]

Anyone know of a racing game that could use only a four-way joystick? Maybe left/right for steering and up/down for acceleration and braking?

I remember the NES version of Spy Hunter worked that way.. I set it up on Mame to work that way once, I think.

[Video Game Stores near you?]

The Game Crazys that adjoin the Hollywood Video stores have mostly Dreamcast/PSone/GameCube/PS2/XBOX games used but also a few NES games. However, if I want some good old stuff (like Sega CD!) I go to Game Trader in the Beaverton Mall (now known as Cedar Hills Crossing). Hell, I got a "Fatal Fury" hat from them! BURN KNUCKLE!

[Tower of Druaga.. another WTF game.]

I found a walkthrough... and I have no desire to finish this, I'm sorry. It's insane the crap that happens in later levels.

Yeah, I played it a bit more through MAME and found the secrets to making the treasures appear and what-not. It still didn't make the game more interesting to me.. not worth the effort.

[BEST MOMENTS OF VIDEO GAME HUMOR]

Cloak And Dagger.. the animated actions of your character as he waited in the elevator for his floor to arrive. A clawed hand would come out of the wall and steal his hat, his face would drain of color if he just missed getting blown up by the bomb, his hat would be on fire, etc.

[Are you ever afraid to vacuum your gaming area in fear of sucking up screws]

I'm not usually too bad with wayward screws (I usually put them in a dish or a cup when I'm done taking them out) but cords are usually what's in my way. I need to vacuum more often in those areas because I'm pretty bad with food crumbs.