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Double Dragon and Kung Fu Master didn't play worth s*** on the Atari 2600. I also hated Laser Blast. Unbelievably repetitive. Mr. Do could've been better. And Centipede was a slap in the face.

Great idea FS! Actually, that would make a cool novelty package for an "Alien Games" plug and play compilation with Alien games like Aliens from Konami and Alien Vs. Predator by Capcom. The facehugger could pop out of the package when opened, like the "snake in the peanut can" gag.

Well, the starfield scrolls in Galaxian.. but I bet you mean, like, background scrolling or terrain scrolling. This could be either vertical or horizontal, or fixed/non-fixed scrolling (fixed being like Scramble or Gradius, non-fixed like Defender). I'm thinking the first fixed horizontal scroller is Scramble.

When was it released? 1980 According to Mame, Stratovox (the first voice game) was released in August of 1980, and Berzerk (often reputed to be the first) was released in October of 1980.

It wasn't Piranha was it? Black and white.. that's strange. Maybe the monitor wasn't working properly.

It's what is called the "dreaded life syndrome". Bills to worry about, kids to raise, house to clean, laundry to do, work to go to, PTA meetings to attend, etc. We just don't get the time to study the games and conquer them sometimes. You just have to find time somehow and "get in the zone" with a particular game. With some people the knack just comes easier than others, as with anything that requires patience and dedication. If you don't have it you have to give that extra effort. If you don't feel like giving it, just remember, it's just a game. If you feel you worked for the score you have and it's better than most people can achieve, you can be perfectly satisfied with it. Even if you suck you can fall back on the "dreaded life syndrome", because it is a perfectly valid excuse if you're a busy individual.

I rather liked Bank Panic. It got pretty dang hard later on though, with you having almost no time to shoot the baddies when they shoved a customer out of the way and shot at you in the space of about a nanosecond.

Q*bert's Qubes?

I'm perfectly happy with the Saitek dual analong pad. I have it PERFECTLY configured for MAME gaming. 6 action buttons (ideal for fighting games), 2 shoulder buttons (insert credit, start), and I push in the joysticks for either pause or menu. Or I can switch the controls from directional pad to sticks with the button in the middle of the pad.

There was an outdoor arcade under a tent at the Rose Festival (occurs in downtown Portland during June of every year) where all sorts of semi-obscure games were sitting around. Inbetween playing the various carnival games, getting popcorn or candy, or riding the roller coasters, I'd head over and bust out some Make Trax, Crazy Climber (in the Nichibutsu cabinet), Congo Bongo, Arabian, etc. Don't know if the tent is still there; haven't attended in many, many years. I have fond memories of getting in free and going on rides for free, due to a partnership deal (my dad was a manager at the Tigard Fred Meyer store, and they sponsored the Festival).

Food Fight. Scramble or Super Cobra. Kick(man). Galaga.

1. Pitfall II 2. Mario Bros. 3. Keystone Kapers 4. Asteroids 5. Space Invaders 6. Cosmic Ark 7. Ms. Pac-Man 8. Adventure 9. H.E.R.O. 10. Commando Raid

My sister and I played a lot of Eyes back in the day. I used to like Make Trax quite a bit and played it a lot at Chuck E. Cheese, though the opening music is pretty bad. I saw Return Of The Invaders once and it wasn't very good. Joust 2, I think, is awful. There should be an upgrade where you can buy better gear for your ostrich, or breed new ones like Chocobos! I never saw Bega's Battle at the arcade but watched a clip of it on YouTube. Looks like one terrible fricking game. I did see Badlands at an arcade, and that game's hilarious.

Check out this sweet page on Thayer's Quest. The whole website is about laserdisc arcade games. http://www.dragons-lair-project.com/games/pages/tq.asp

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FF7 Castlevania SOTN Tomb Raider series Clock Tower Wild Arms Resident Evil series Soul Blade NBA Shootout series

Maybe try a heat gun or a hair dryer. Wave it over slowly for a while then try taking it off.

I would doubt it works for the 7800 version, Chickybaby. But you can try it.

Yeah, Exerion was pretty easy.. Spectar was the antithesis of Targ. Targ was tough, Spectar was a walk in the park. Super Pac-Man is WAY easy. Kicker was very easy. I felt Bosconian was fairly simple.

Can you detail this cheat? I've never heard of it before. I'll be honest, I'm not a huge fan of Galaga. I never was. I'm not saying it's a bad game, and I have come to like it more in the past few years than I ever did in my youth. I just had more fun with games like: Gorf, Battlezone, Scramble(one of my alltime favs!), Time Pilot, Berzerk, Super Pac-Man, and a bunch of others. Actually, I do the cheat on Level 1. It involves letting all the aliens formate without shooting them. Then destroy them all EXCEPT the bottom 2 bees in the far left column. Then you let them fly around for 15 minutes or so, avoiding their shots. Careful, the shots can warp through one side of the screen to the other, so make note of this. Eventually the bees will no longer shoot at you. When they make a pass 3 times or so without shooting, kill them. From now on no enemies will shoot at you.

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Geese Howard on the first Fatal Fury had b.s. AI. WHATEVER move you used on him he'd counter. He even had the ability to grab you in mid-move and throw you. Pr*ck!!!

How did you is the question. You can't use patterns in Ms. Pac-Man. I did not know that you can't use patterns in Ms. PacMan. I used a couple patterns for a few levels in Ms. Pac-Man. I forgot them though. But you sure can't use patterns in Pac-Man Plus!

Bosconian's pretty easy IMHO. Just don't take too long or the enemies go nutso and bombard you like crazy to the tune of "CONDITION RED!!!" "CONDITION RED!!!", etc. Maketrax is hard to get past more than a handful of rounds. The fish are pretty smart. Though it's tempting to smush the stupid bird, feet, tire, etc. that add more tracks they really help you, since you move faster when wiping trails, as opposed to moving across clean floorspace, where the fish can catch up to you. I own a Phoenix cabinet. It's fairly easy to pass all the levels at least a few times when you implement some basic strategies.. especially on the egg round, where you stay at the edges mostly as the birds/eggs slow down when they reach them. Also, using the infamous 3 diagonal bird trick (shoot 3 diagonal flying birds in 2 seconds to score 200,000 points)and letting the mothership come all the way down before destroying it for 9,000 or so points boosts your score a good deal. I pretty much agree with 3-7 being tough. I was never particularly good at those.

Here's a Twin Galaxies link. http://www.twingalaxies.com/index.aspx?c=22&pi=2&gi=5626&vi=2508