Vintage Video/Computer games

[Duck-Stew]

Just read another thread about Road Rash and it got me thinking of an old Commodore 64 game called 'Racing Destruction Set'.  Loved it.  You got to design your own track with either pavement, dirt, or ice for the surface, there were oil slicks and you got to choose your vehicle too.  Everything from a 4x4 truck to a dirt-bike to a Nascar to an F1 race-car...

Good times...

Oh, and the video game 'RAMPAGE'...  many $$$ worth of quarters spent on that one.  'Joust' too...  That is until the local video game hang-out (Putt-Putt Golf & Games in Farmington, MI) got the 'Hard-Drivin' game...  Got kicked out of there once for 'abusing the game'.  I was powershifting the video-game....   

Ok, enough about me....  NEXT!

[tlloyd66]

My stepfather and I used to play River Raid on the Atari 2600 back in the 80's... I wish I had him and the game back

[Rameses]

Excite-Bike!!!


(And T&C Surf Design gets an honorable mention.)

[il d00d]

I am lucky I live close to this place:
http://www.joystixamusements.com/

... which rules on one level just because it exists as a vintage videogame showroom.  It transcends normal ruling by opening up twice a month for "Pac Man Fever" - you pay $15 to get an armband to play his entire stock of vintage (and some modern) video games to your inner 80s child's content.  If I have failed to mention this up to this point, let me be clear - it rules.

I think I am fulfilling a wish I am pretty sure I made in 1984 ever time I go there - something like "when I'm big, I will rent out an entire arcade, and make the machines so I don't have to put in quarters..." etc. 

[ROBsS4R]

I use to have a bunch of classic arcade games in my house. I sold most of them.

I still have the old X Y Monitor Star Wars 

[Oldfisti]

One word...











TEMPEST

[ZLTFUL]

I use to have a bunch of classic arcade games in my house. I sold most of them.

I still have the old X Y Monitor Star Wars 

OMFG! That was my end all be all for existance in junior high! I played that game more than I went to school!

[Fresh Pants]

One word...











TEMPEST

Absolutely.



Asteroids
Stargate
Millipede
Time Pilot

Later, Xenophobe <-- loved that game for some reason

Man, I loved video games when I was a kid. Oh wait, I'm still a kid.
I used to spend hours (and $$) playing games in one of the sketchiest arcades in Honolulu. 
For some reason if the games didn't smell like cigarette butts, and have burn marks all over, it didn't feel right.

[red baron]

My stepfather and I used to play River Raid on the Atari 2600 back in the 80's... I wish I had him and the game back

+1 to River Raid. 

[ROBsS4R]

I do regret selling them

I had 3 Pinballs, Indiana Jones, Jurrasic Park, Star Trek the Next Generation.

In regards to games I had Tempest, Gauntlet, Pacman, Toobin, Dig Dug, Space Ace, A Neo Geo 4 slot cabinet with like 50 plus games, some cocktail cabinets etc.

That Tempest I had was near perfect.... Sigh why did I ever sell it =(

[Super T.I.B]

1942

& Galaga was one of my faves as well.

[x136]

Just read another thread about Road Rash and it got me thinking of an old Commodore 64 game called 'Racing Destruction Set'.  Loved it.  You got to design your own track with either pavement, dirt, or ice for the surface, there were oil slicks and you got to choose your vehicle too.  Everything from a 4x4 truck to a dirt-bike to a Nascar to an F1 race-car...

There was something similar for DOS. I don't remember the name, but you could build all of these super-epic loop-de-loops and stuff. The graphics were typical awful early-3D, but it was way cool.

My stepfather and I used to play River Raid on the Atari 2600 back in the 80's... I wish I had him and the game back

River Raid is probably my favorite 2600 game. I still have the cartridge, and a few 2600s from which I can probably make one that works...

In any case, Atari 2600 emulation is very mature, and you can download a complete library of 2600 games from BitTorrent pretty easily, if you want to play it without the hardware hassle.

I still have the old X Y Monitor Star Wars 

That's awesome. I love those old vector-based games.

[x136]

In regards to games I had Tempest, Gauntlet, Pacman, Toobin, Dig Dug, Space Ace, A Neo Geo 4 slot cabinet with like 50 plus games, some cocktail cabinets etc.

Damn, that must've been like selling children.  (Maybe harder?)

Did you have any of the Metal Slug games for the Neo Geo?


Someday I'm going to put together the MAME cabinet I've been thinking about for years. Drool.

[ROBsS4R]

Yeah I think selling children would be easier on me 

I had a few of the Metal Slug games.

I have made a few Mame cabinet so if and when you decide to make one you can email me and I can tell you about what I did. You can go the all PC route way which in my opinion the games don't look as good or go with a Jpac and a real arcade monitor with some graphics cards.

[teddy037.2]

is there no love for spyhunter?


boo.