# Arcade Games
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arcade-games/20396
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 24, 2000, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arcade-games/20396 "2000-05-24T13:52:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2000, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arcade-games/20396/1 "2000-05-24T13:52:43Z")
What were your favorite arcade games, before the advent of the insipid Mortal-Kombat-esque games?
My list:
[ul]
[li]Defender[/li][li]Robotron 2084[/li][li]Galaxian[/li][li]Galaga[/li][li]Mappy[/li][li]Spy Hunter[/li][li]Crystal Castles[/li][li]Gauntlet I & II[/li][li]Marble Madness[/li][li]Paperboy[/li][li]Pac Man (the original)[/li][li]Donkey Kong[/li][li]Zaxxon[/li][li]Tron[/li][/ul]
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### Author:  [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2000, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arcade-games/20396/2 "2000-05-24T14:21:20Z")
Galaga is really the only one I still like to play, if I can find it in an arcade.
Of course, my sweetie managed to find it for Nintendo, so now it seems stupid to drop any quarters on it.
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### Author:  [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2000, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arcade-games/20396/3 "2000-05-24T14:30:20Z")
Many hours wasted on:
Mr. Do!
Qix
Tron
Berzerk and Frenzy
Q-bert
Marble Madness
Tempest
Obscure games I’ve only ever seen in one arcade, but really liked playing:
Major Havoc
Zoo Keeper
Zwackery
Bubbles
Games everybody else liked but I didn’t:
Joust
Defender
Tapper
Dragon’s Lair
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### Author:  [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2000, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arcade-games/20396/4 "2000-05-24T14:31:51Z")
Punch Out! was the game that _always_ drew my attention. I eventually got to the point where I could win the title and defend myself against Glass Joe, but the re-match with Piston hurrican usually laid my sorry ass into the ground.
Never really tried Super Punch-Out, but watched a bunch of people play it. Actually saw an _arm-wrestling_ game from the same company, featuring a cameo by Bald Bull. Weird.
Loved Q\*bert as well, especially given the ‘kick’ the game would give you when Q plummeted to his doom. That was _so_ cool.
I’ve since mostly gravitated to pinball games when I find the time to drop by the local Dave & Buster’s.
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### Author:  [@Cynical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cynical1)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2000, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arcade-games/20396/5 "2000-05-24T14:35:09Z")
Defender.
Period.
None ever better.
Way too many buttons for the average Pac-manner.
BTW February 14, 1982, I set the world record with 21,228,700 pts on a machine set to max diffuculty. Took 20 hours. GF of two weeks wondered why I didn’t show for Valentine’s date. Took two dozen red ones to calm her down. Still married to her though.
Not to hijack the thread, but my Brother-in-Law is looking for a Gauntlet machine. He says that’s the best ever. I may have to beat him up…
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2000, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arcade-games/20396/6 "2000-05-24T14:36:45Z")
Arkanoid
Frogger
Root Beer Tapper
Gyruss
Time Pilot
Qix
Xevius
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### Author:  [@concrete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/concrete)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2000, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arcade-games/20396/7 "2000-05-24T14:45:17Z")
**Defender**
**StarGate**
**Make Trax**
**Gauntlet**
**Off-Road**
**Dragons Lair**
**DonkeyKong**
**Asteroids**
**Galaga**
I could go on and on…
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### Author:  [@Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trout_Mask_Replica)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2000, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arcade-games/20396/8 "2000-05-24T14:51:24Z")
[ul]
[li]Major Havoc (Someone else remembers this game!)[/li][li]Xevious[/li][li]Spy Hunter[/li][li]Roadblasters[/li][li]Choplifter[/li][li]Zaxxon[/li][li]Galaga[/li][li]Golden Axe (I and II)[/li][li]Gauntlet[/li][li]Double Dragon[/li][li]Final Fight[/li][li]Paperboy[/li][/ul]
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### Author:  [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2000, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arcade-games/20396/9 "2000-05-24T14:53:11Z")
The one and only **Centipede**!
I was the Philly champion for three years straight (before I joined the Navy) at the old Spaceport Arcade on Chestnut Street.
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2000, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arcade-games/20396/10 "2000-05-24T15:05:05Z")
Ah, Punch Out!..great game. I developed my skills such that I could reach the third Bald Bull (yeah, that’s right, I could beat Mr. Sandman twice. Who wants to touch me?)
Super Punch Out! was great as well, what with the advent of ducking. I could beat the Super Macho Man (the grey-haired champion), but can’t remember getting very far after that; the second Dragon Chan was a royal bitch to beat, but I can remember doing it a few times.
Other greats:
Vanguard
Hippodrome
Double Dragon, when it first came out.
Renegade
Dragon’s Lair
Space Ace
Sinistar
Golden Axe
Gauntlet
Tempest
Strider
Star Wars (remember flying down that vector-drawn trench?)
Battlezone
Spy Hunter
Moon Patrol
and many many more…
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### Author:  [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2000, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arcade-games/20396/11 "2000-05-24T15:21:36Z")
Tempest
Galaga
Defender
Pole Position
Pac-Man
Mr. Do
Dig Dug
Donkey Kong
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### Author:  [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2000, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arcade-games/20396/12 "2000-05-24T15:23:44Z")
Chief – Was that Spaceport the one near the Gallery? I may have played there at same time as you many years ago. We played at the Spaceports in Oxford Valley and Quakerbridge malls.
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### Author:  [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2000, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arcade-games/20396/13 "2000-05-24T15:36:07Z")
Tempest, Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man, Galaga, and Centipede-- Shockwave has a free game player, and Centipede is one of the games you can download for it. Yay! Yeah, I know you can get it for other systems, but I like free stuff a whole lot.
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### Author:  [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2000, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arcade-games/20396/14 "2000-05-24T15:44:10Z")
Burger Time
Super Pac-Man (that one did a lot for the pent-up agression; one of the things you could do was turn Pac into a gigantic freakazoid mutation of himself that took up half the screen)
Dragon’s Lair
Dragon’s Lair II: Time Warp
Rampage
Rampage: World Tour (I live in Illinois, and I can’t tell you how much fun it was to read the datelines that told you what cities you were smashing up-Peoria, Kankakee, O’Hare, Chicago, Gary, Joliet…)
Hey, Maw-“Body blow! Body Blow! Uppercut! Body blow!”
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2000, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arcade-games/20396/15 "2000-05-24T15:45:49Z")
All hail Coldfire, **Master of _Out Run_**.
Undefeated since 1985. They say there’s a Malaysian kid out there that wants to challenge me. Ha!
**[Al Bundy] Let’s rock! [/Al Bundy]**
_(For those of you not in the know: Out Run was the time trial arcade game where you had to race a Testarossa Convertible through various stages)_
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### Author:  [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2000, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arcade-games/20396/16 "2000-05-24T16:31:10Z")
Spy Hunter
Gauntlet
Roadblasters
APB
Moon Patrol
Rampage
Xenophobe
Double Dragon
Toobin’
Ninja Gaiden
Paperboy
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### Author:  [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2000, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arcade-games/20396/17 "2000-05-24T16:44:25Z")
Spy Hunter
Gauntlet
Roadblasters
APB
Moon Patrol
Rampage
Xenophobe
Double Dragon
Toobin’
Ninja Gaiden
Paperboy
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### Author:  [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2000, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arcade-games/20396/18 "2000-05-24T17:21:03Z")
Punch Out (“Great Fighting! Your up(and)coming boxer… Pizza Pasta!”)
Robotron
720
Gauntlet
Yie Ar Kung Fu
Mr. Do
Mappy
If any of you arcade fans live in (or around) the DC area, I’ve found a place that sells older arcade games for cheap. I bought a Neo Geo with Samurai Showdown (in OK condition) and a Punch Out game in good condition for $150 each, delivered. Most games are about that price, tabletops (cocktail style) like Ms. Pac Man run upwards of $800 though.
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### Author:  [@Geenius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geenius)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2000, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arcade-games/20396/19 "2000-05-24T17:23:35Z")
Rastan! Rastan! Rastan! Also Arkanoid, Olympic Decathlon, Xenophobe (long live Dr. Kwack!) and F-14 Tomcat pinball. (I did most of my arcade-game feeding in college.)
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### Author:  [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2000, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arcade-games/20396/20 "2000-05-24T17:37:04Z")
- Sinistar
- Defender
- Satan’s Hollow
- Asteroid
- Robotron 2084
- Tron
- Galaga
- Qix
- Frogger
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