OT: Old school video games

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Guys bitching about XBOX 360 problems made me wonder, does anyone still play old school arcade video games? My brother has some of the old games on his XBOX but I saw them and they aren't the same, especially with the issue of the controller being so different from an arcade game.

I love the old games, I spend a lot of time playing them still.
 
From time to time, I play SNES and some old PC games, and that's about it.

I have some old Playstation games here, but I mostly liked the really long ones, and I don't have time for that anymore. My Playstation is broken, anyways.
 
No modern game can touch the excitement of Pong.
 
As a hardcore gamer 4 life y0, I can't disagree with that. I bought a new quad core PC with 8 8800 Ultra cards in SLI so that I can play Pong faster than the speed of light with my l337 ski1Lz0rz, at the eye melting resolution of 4000x2400, which is better graphics than real life. You n0Obz wouldn't even be able to comprehend it if you watched. You'd just see it going at normal speed, because you'd be caught in the temporal rift that opens once I exceed the time-space barrier, and you don't even know the code to get out.
 
I still play the old SNES Super Mario Kart. :thumbsup:

I still refer to mario kart 64 as new school. :thumbsdown: (it's an item game that doesn't reward racing skill like the old game :gethim: )
 
Maybe I'm much older than everyone here, but NES isn't "old school" to me. I'm talking about pre-'84 arcade games. I guess that's oldest school. :D
 
Odin":410ab said:
Maybe I'm much older than everyone here, but NES isn't "old school" to me. I'm talking about pre-'84 arcade games. I guess that's oldest school. :D
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I know what you're sayin', but so many of those games have been so poorly maintained, that the controls aren't working very well. :(
 
I love my Neo Geo 4 cart arcade machine. I play it all the time. Shock Troopers 2, Metal Slug 2 and 3, and Samurai Showdown 2 are all in there right now.


Nothing beats a joystick and arcade style buttons, for me. So accurate, swift and elegant.
 
Yeah, it's hard to find the classic still up and running in an arcade. Even the arcades that are around only have Galaga and Ms. Pac Man, everything else is boring new games with cool graphics and crappy game play.

If I had a room big enough I would just build an arcade at my house and buy 20 or so games, restore them and have all my favorites at home. But I can't fit the games up my stairs (there's a corner on the stairs that makes it too hard to get a cabinet up there) and my only empty room is upstairs. Besides, my wife doesn't want a bunch of old arcade games in the house for some strange reason. :confused:

I did build myself an arcade game that I can play all the classics on by using the ROM images of the circuit boards off the original games and a hardware emulator to interface the original ROM files with original arcade controls and running on a modern PC. The games and game play are the originals so it's cool, but I'd still rather have a room full of the old games.

My favorites:

Donkey Kong
Galaga
Ms Pac Man
Tempest
Centipede
Defender
Arkanoid
Asteroids
Frogger
Star Wars
Tron
Dig Dug
Mr. Do!
Joust
Missile Command
Robotron
 
I want to get a hold of an original Mortal Kombat I arcade machine, along with a Super Street Fighter II Turbo cabinet.
 
This is my game when I first finished it and got it running. It now has a lighted marquee sign, coin door, etc... The photo is bad. The control panel I designed to be able to play all of my old school favorites. The lower right portion of the panel is dedicated to a Defender/Stargate control set because Defender is one of my favorites and I needed the 2-way joystick and 6 buttons laid out just right to get the original feel. All of the controls are fully configurable. Since it runs on a PC I can still play GTA and newer games if I want to.

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Odin":e7e38 said:
This is my game when I first finished it and got it running. It now has a lighted marquee sign, coin door, etc... The photo is bad. The control panel I designed to be able to play all of my old school favorites. The lower right portion of the panel is dedicated to a Defender/Stargate control set because Defender is one of my favorites and I needed the 2-way joystick and 6 buttons laid out just right to get the original feel. All of the controls are fully configurable. Since it runs on a PC I can still play GTA and newer games if I want to.

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I like! So I take it you have a MAME setup in there? I wanted to do something like that, but I love tinkering with the innards and learning the ins and outs of all the different system boards and platforms.
 
Odin":eaca3 said:
Donkey Kong
Galaga
Ms Pac Man
Tempest
Centipede
Defender
Arkanoid
Asteroids
Frogger
Star Wars
Tron
Dig Dug
Mr. Do!
Joust
Missile Command
Robotron
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I remember all of those :thumbsup: I don't even want to know much money I blew at arcades when I was a kid.
I knew a guy that could stay alive playing Asteroids all day. I usually had the high score for Donkey Kong...I could play that for hours on one quarter.
 
Yeah, it's running MAME for the emulator. Works great, those old games don't take anything to run. MAME is pretty intense but once you learn it you can set up each game to run in the original format in every way, from sound to video to controls.
 
I liked playing River Raid @ home, but arcade-wise, Spy Hunter FTW :thumbsup:
 
not arcade games, but my sega genesis stays plugged in. i play it more than anything else. i like collecting hard to find games for it.

budokan
sword of sodan
joe montana 93'
mortal combat 1
bulls vs. lakers
might and magic
 
CharFace":2dd5a said:
I liked playing River Raid @ home, but arcade-wise, Spy Hunter FTW :thumbsup:
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River Raid was awesome. My dad and I used to play it on Atari 2600 all the time. Pitfall was pretty rocking too.
 
I've always hated those arcade controllers. Then again I hate console controllers too. I just can't get along with them.

I do like old games though. Every few years I find myself playing through nearly all Lucasarts adventure games and often play Master of Orion one. I also like the old C64 and Amiga games..those have some killer music. Some of the REALLY old games haven't dated that well IMO.
 
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