What old school games would you like to play?

Yar’s Revenge. For a little while at least.

Arcade version of Tron.

Dig Dug.

Oh man, so many….(all stand up)

Temptest

Tron

Robotron

Joust

Ms Pac-Man

Star Wars (that was a sit-down game if I remember correctly)

Galaga

Missile Command

Dig Dug

Donkey Kong

Zaxxon, that’s a good one.

Street Fighter 2 for sure.

Gauntlet

Twisted Metal

All the ones @FutureMemory said.

Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 games would be fun too.

@cockswain those games go a bit before my time, any suggestions in particular?

Air Hockey <<< old Old School.

Oh man. On Atari there was Yar’s Revenge, Super Breakout, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Asteroids, Combat, Space Invaders, Boxing, Pong, Reactor, some Swordquest games, Adventure, River Raid, and tons more.

On Commodore, there was Questron, Impossible Mission, Karateka, various Olympic games, Wasteland. I’d have to look at a list.

You can download emulators for them with simple searches. I once downloaded like 500 Atari games, and the file was like 3 MB or something. Check it out.

@cockswain haha, I have bigger plans my friend, bigger plans

(see my last post, lol)

I did see your last post. These are some of the very first video games ever that I’m recommending, and plenty of people in the 30s and 40s will know about them. This is about as classic as it can get.

I’m going back to the 80s, here. Centipede and Pole Position. Were those ever even on a gaming system, or only in arcades?

I am now looking online for an Intellivision game system emulator.

@augustlan I’m pretty sure pole position found it’s way to at least one of the consoles, centipede may not have been til modern days when it was included on one of those “best of” games.

Pole Position and Centipede were on Atari, but sort of sucked compared to the arcade version. The arcade versions were awesome.

RC Pro Am and Rad Racer were great NES games.

I freaking rocked on Pole Position at the arcade. Memories!

It went so fast after like 2 quarters…

Dragon’s Lair and Punch-Out were also awesome arcade games. And Marble Madness.

Well @cockswain @augustlan going with my previous question… would you go to a place that had those games and others like them, and probably served drinks and like appetizer food? I haven’t quite worked out how the games would work (free, per play on arcades, etc, etc), but just that basic model. And think “chilled” environment, not full of little kids… the market audience would be early-mid 20s to like early 40’s.

Going to look at your other question. Be right back…

Not regularly, but occasionally, at least for a while. I can play them all for free at home, so unless I’ve got a bunch of buddies that are into it, I’m not likely to go much. I just don’t have time, and my good friends are more into outdoorsy stuff. But it’s not a bad idea at all if you can target the right people. Having food, maybe alcohol (possibly a dispensary next door?) could attract regulars.

I think you really should spend some time checking out the really old consoles.

I’d probably go once or twice, but then, I’m not a big gamer (and am older than your target audience). It does sound like fun, though.

I would consider your establishment a 2nd home ;)

Show me yours and I’ll show you mine?

Zork. Old, old school.

“BOB”

Frogger was the only old school arcade game I was any good at besides pinball, but I liked Galaxian too. I used to hang out at a coffee house that had a bunch of these classic machines and they were always in use. It was popular with a variety of ages.

Operation Wolf
Blade Eagle
Sonic

Prehistoric
Dangerous Dave (one on DOS)
Super Mario

Man, way too many. I’d really love to try out those old ass Atari games. Halloween and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre for example. I saw them on the net, they look so ridiculous, but still. :D

Also, Friday the Thirteenth for the Nintendo. I actually have played it before, and didn’t know what the hell I was doing. But it was still fun.

Adventure Island on NES is also great. I played it in the arcade a lot, and got pretty good. My initials were all over the scores. XD What I wouldn’t give for a port of that today.
I also used to have Zombies Ate My Neighbors. You fight a giant baby in this. XD And collect cheerleaders. Always epic.

There’s some TG16 games I’d love to go back to, mainly Ninja Spirit, Dragon’s Curse and Tiger Road. Prolly one of the hardest damn games I’ve ever played, besides Bloodrayne Betrayal.
I did get some TG16 ports from the PlayStation network lately though. Neutopia isn’t as awesome as I remembered it to be, even though I spent hours and hours playing that, back in the day. Alien Crush still rocks as much as ever though. I also downloaded one called Dungeon Explorer that I couldn’t get anywhere in as a kid. But later, when I didn’t have that game anymore, I thought it was because it was too complex for me at that age.
Well, playing it now…I still can’t get anywhere. But it’s really a several players at once game, like Gauntlet, so maybe that’s why…

I love old school stuff though, even really old school games that are like, two colours and some pixels. There’s just this type of charm in it. All warm and tingly. I can’t pick just a select few, because I’m even willing to play what’s notoriously bad.
I’d also play any Pac Man game that’s available to me. I think that was the first video game I ever played. That or Super Mario Bros. I forget which, but eh. I’ve played that one a million times though, I may skip it in the name of other games.

@woodcutter I denno if you’re joking or not, but there’s a cool snes game called B.O.B. that I used to own. It was great, but got really hard in the later stages. You had to collect parts to build a new car, since you crashed your dad’s car on a date. (and you’re a robot, dude wtf lol)

@ucme Fuck yeah for Operation Wolf. Never got anywhere in there, but it rocked. Good game to spend Sunday afternoons on. :D

@FutureMemory Galaga rocks. My fave version was on the TurboGrafix16, where you could get a ’‘triple ship’’. My dad and I used to play it all the time, since it was one game he actually liked. Also, I managed to beat it. :D

@cockswain SFII is still a very readily available game, (among other older SF titles in the series, including the elusive first which, personally, I think sucks lol) but this may depend what consoles you got…

Not tryna show off or nothing here, but I always love talking about games, so I figured I’d hit up as many people as I could in one post. XD

@Symbeline Don’t apologize :)

@Symbeline Yeah B.O.B. was one of those games I never got far with, never got far with any of them but that is beside the point. Also Earthworm Jim was a hoot by making him scream out “GROOVY” My kid could blow through them so sometimes it was easier just to watch without pissing myself off so much.

@Symbeline It infuriated the shit outta me, but that just made me come back for more, which is kinda the point of these games, gotta love em!

@woodcutter Earthworm Jim rocks my socks. But I like the sequel a lot more. I was pissing myself laughing at certain points in that game, it’s so damn hilarious.

@ucme Indeed. Tough as nails, but addictive somehow. Another game that was really hard but fun was The Adventures of Bayou Billy. Ever play this? Fuckin crocodiles lol.

@Symbeline Good gawd yeah!
I’m ashamed to admit I also spent many a hour on this shit!
Chamone mother fucker!!

@ucme Haha oh yeah. There’s a graveyard level in this where you get zombies to dance around. XD