Arcade video games

[inkyatari]

I own an Intellivision emulator...it doesn't have their version of Burgertime. I didn't even know they had a version of it. I liked playing Burgertime in the arcade.

Are you talking the Intellivision Flashback?  If so, it's probably a rights issue, asto why its not on there.

[bandit957]

George Plimpton's biggest claim to fame was appearing in the commercials for Intellivision.

Also, Will Lee - who played Mr. Hooper on 'Sesame Street' - appeared in a commersh for the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man.

[inkyatari]

George Plimpton's biggest claim to fame was appearing in the commercials for Intellivision.

Also, Will Lee - who played Mr. Hooper on 'Sesame Street' - appeared in a commersh for the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man.

Jack Black was on a commercial for 2600 Pitfall!

[slorydn1]

At the arcade my 80's favorites were Asteroids, Space Invaders, Defender, Pole Position and Hard Drivin' (loved that force feedback steering wheel and manual transmission with a clutch!).

Oh and I almost forgot: Red Baron. I must have wasted hundreds of dollars of tokens in that game back in the early 80's.

At home it was Asteroids, Defender (and a similar game by Activision called Chopper Command) and a boatload of other Atari 2600 games.

[inkyatari]

At the arcade my 80's favorites were Asteroids, Space Invaders, Defender, Pole Position and Hard Drivin' (loved that force feedback steering wheel and manual transmission with a clutch!).

Have you ever found the secret area in Hard Drivin'?

[slorydn1]

At the arcade my 80's favorites were Asteroids, Space Invaders, Defender, Pole Position and Hard Drivin' (loved that force feedback steering wheel and manual transmission with a clutch!).

Have you ever found the secret area in Hard Drivin'?

Secret area? Nope I guess not. I remember there were two "choices" of routes at a split and the one to the right went to an area that had a vertical loop that was crazy, and I want to say the left split had a monster jump where it was real easy to lose control on landing. I could be wrong, but it's been 26 years since I have even seen the game

[inkyatari]

Have you ever found the secret area in Hard Drivin'?

Secret area? Nope I guess not. I remember there were two "choices" of routes at a split and the one to the right went to an area that had a vertical loop that was crazy, and I want to say the left split had a monster jump where it was real easy to lose control on landing. I could be wrong, but it's been 26 years since I have even seen the game

At the very beginning, turn your car right around. You don't have to drive very far, and there's a road off toyour right.  Drive straight down this, and there's a tower in the midle of a parking lot surrounded by signs.  No idea why its there. If you look carefully on the map screen, it's actually on it.

[noelbotevera]

I wonder if the FPS category got on. I haven't had much luck trying to find Duke Nukem arcade machines (1991/1993/1996).

[Max Rockatansky]

I wonder if the FPS category got on. I haven't had much luck trying to find Duke Nukem arcade machines (1991/1993/1996).

The platformers were about as good as you were going to get on the PC.  For whatever really they couldn't really ever replicate the smooth side-scrolling of the console systems.  I remember being actually surprised reading about how Duke Nukem was going to get a Doom Clone style game, more surprised when I found out how the sense of humor in the game was.  Things got so much better when emulators started popping up in the late 1990s.

[formulanone]

At the arcade my 80's favorites were Asteroids, Space Invaders, Defender, Pole Position and Hard Drivin' (loved that force feedback steering wheel and manual transmission with a clutch!).

That last one was a toughie - I think it was also the first arcade game with a gear shifter which was more than just a 2-position HI-LO lever (Pole Position, Turbo, Outrun, et al). I recall it took me all afternoon to finish a lap, compared to Pole Position I/II. I also played the heck out of Final Lap, Super Monaco GP (it was probably the first that had paddle shifting), Outrun, and a few others.

I think Space Invaders was the first coin-op I'd played; I still recall a few times that half the arcade games were pinball machines and vaguely half of the coin-op consoles still had black-and-white screens. Also enjoyed Galaga, Joust, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Bump & Jump, and Tempest; I'll still wander over to those in some of the retro arcades out there, especially the first two.

[jeffandnicole]

If you like pinball and are in the Law Vegas area, they have a Pinball Museum of sorts on Tropicana Ave where you can go and play the very first pinball machine ever made, which didn't include flippers, to the most recent models out there!

[inkyatari]

From another thread...

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=19850.msg2213181#msg2213181

When did pooing become cool?

Next episode of Pie Factory Podcast, we're talking about an extremely rare arcade game called Uncle Poo, where you are trying to grab diamonds in a mine, and your weapon is your flatulence.