# The SDMB Arcade **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 10, 2007, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-arcade/422211 "2007-10-10T14:48:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-arcade/422211/61 "2007-10-10T22:30:32Z")
The Simpsons game, Yie Ar Kung-Fu (Tonfun and Blues…how I hated you) and Pac-land. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-arcade/422211/62 "2007-10-10T22:51:13Z")
Gyruss, the only game I was ever _really_ good at. Great Bach theme music, too: Diddle-EE! Diddle-iddle-ee-DEE! Diddle-EE! Dee-dee-DEE! DEE-DEE-DEE-DEE-diddle-EE! {Deet-deet-deet-deet-deet-deet-deet-deet…} And Elevator Action, because I still can’t get the music out of my head nearly 25 years later. Yer classic arcade has to have those tinny themes that still set the index fingers of an entire generation twitching in Pavlovian anticipation whenever they hear them. Oh, and a laser disc video jukebox showing Cyndi Lauper and Pat Benatar. ---
**Author:** ![shelbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@shelbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shelbo)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-arcade/422211/63 "2007-10-10T23:16:52Z")
I’m seconding Scramble, Defender and Berzerk (_ah-ha humanoid, ah-ha intruder_). I’m adding that great tabletop x’s and o’s black and white football game, with the track balls (so you’re facing your opponent at opposite sides of the table). Great game, as you each are spinning that track ball for all it’s worth, chasing or running away from your opponent’s x or o. The great grand daddy of all that is Madden today. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-arcade/422211/64 "2007-10-10T23:35:52Z")
•Silent Scope •[Vortek VR](http://www.bmigaming.com/vortekgamingsystem.htm) with [Operation Blockade](http://www.screaminggames.com/OpBlock2.htm) •Aaaaand…either HydroThunder, or [Toobin.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toobin') ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-arcade/422211/65 "2007-10-10T23:42:47Z")
Oh, can I add one more, after all? Monster Rampage. Silly, pointless, and probably offensive. But I loved feeding that game quarters. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-arcade/422211/66 "2007-10-10T23:52:14Z")
Ok, so you walk into this arcade. It smells of ozone and chili cheese fries. In the first group of games you have all these, ‘weird’ games. PacMan Ms Pacman Tempest Centipede Paperboy Marble Madness Crazy Climber Q-Bert Breakout Berger Time Track and Field Qix Donkey Kong Crystal Castle Along one wall are the pinball machines Black Knight 2000 Fireball Blackhole Whirlwind Atlantis Silverball Mania Trail Drive Royal Flush Pioneer Captain Fantastic El Dorado Night Rider Rocky and Bullwinkle Hyperball Fun House The Addams Family Medival Madness The sitdown games are on the other wall Top Gun Red Baron Steel Talons Star Trek Star Wars Hard Drivin Cyber Sled Spy Hunter Sinistar Then you have Elevator Action Jungle King Dig Dug Rush Route 16 Gauntlet and Gauntlet II Joust Rampart Dragon’s Lair Ghosts and Goblins Yie Ar Kung-Fu Berzerk Ikari Warriors Street Fighter 2 Street Fighter 2 Turbo (is that a different game?) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tag Team Wrestling Mortal Kombat II Black Tiger Smash TV X-Men 6 player Rampage Zero Wing Xevious The Simpsons Tron Disks of Tron Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom Hogan’s Alley Cobra Command Chopper Command (was this in arcades or just Atari 2600?) STUN Runner Off Road Out Run Pole Position Gunsmoke Turxton Gyruss Robotron 2084 Asteriods Galaga Defender Stargate Zaxxon Gorf Moon Patrol Space Invaders Scramble Pong Cyberball That other football game with just xs and os. Battlezone 1942 Missle Command Major Havoc Silent Scope II (twin machines) Not to mention the Skee Ball, pool tables, and bumper cars. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-arcade/422211/67 "2007-10-11T00:32:03Z")
[QUOTE=Airman Doors, USAF] Can we stipulate that the well-known games are guaranteed for inclusion so nobody has to waste their picks on obvious ones like Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Frogger, Mr. Do! and the like? [/QUOTE] Well nobody else so far has mentioned Mr Do! Which is a travesty, because it is a stone cold classic (if you don’t know it, it’s like Dig Dug but with bouncing balls, and it’s much better). One of a very few games that I still sometimes fire up MAME in order to play. The others being Galaga (glad to see so many votes for it) and 10-Yard Fight - a surprising choice for an Englishman perhaps, being an American Football game, but it had, for its time, immersive controls. You had to weave through the defence and waggle the joystick about to shake off tackles, and it really did make a difference how hard you waggled the thing. ---
**Author:** ![Ass\_For\_A\_Hat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Ass\_For\_A\_Hat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ass_For_A_Hat)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-arcade/422211/68 "2007-10-11T02:12:14Z")
I hope the arcade has room for the only video game that I ever truly dominated. [Tapper](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapper). I could go for an hour on one quarter. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-arcade/422211/69 "2007-10-11T02:39:57Z")
I always loved the Elvira Mistress of the Dark pinball machine myself. As for the games: Battletoads Golden Axe Sunset Riders (“Bury me with my moneyyyyyyy”) Virtua Cop 720 Narc Definately seconding the Iron Man Ivan Stuart game since spinning that wheel and cranking on the nitrous button was the best. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-arcade/422211/70 "2007-10-11T12:51:26Z")
Would we have Buckner and Garcia playing over the stereo? ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-arcade/422211/71 "2007-10-11T13:13:29Z")
[QUOTE=Hypno-Toad] Would we have Buckner and Garcia playing over the stereo? [/QUOTE] C’mon c’mon, do the Donkey Kong [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-arcade/422211.md?page=3)