re: 80s Arcade Throwback Thread

I owned Spyhunter.

Don't think this is 80's but I could walk into any arcade, pop in my two quarters and play Street Fighter 2 all night on 2 quarters. No one could beat me.

Won a few Tecmo Bowl tournaments back then as well.

And I could play Tetris until it stopped getting faster.

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Anyone who says Dragons Lair is an a-hole

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That was the hardest damn game. Again, i was really young, but i lasted all of about 3 minutes before i died. Thought the animation and graphics were cool though.

First video arcade I ever played, circa 1974:

My faves in the 80s:

Anybody remember this piece of shite:

A couple more of my faves:
Pole Position
Vanguard (kind of like Defender)
Track and Field with those two buttons (all about the rhythm)
720 (skateboard game right at the entrance of space port in Cortana)
Ghosts and Goblins

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Not a lot of Arcades in the New Orleans Uptown area. I did lots of bike riding to get to the machines I wanted to play. I used to hit up a place over in the Riverbend area called The Good Earth. I seem to recall my favorite there being Vanguard. In the strip mall, there was a Blimpe's that usually had one machine. Thayer's Quest is the one I made special trips over there to play. Street Car Sandwich Shop had a machine. I played lots of Centipede. Time Saver at Broadway and Claiborne had Super Pacman and Satan's Hollow. Once I hit high school I hit the Tuxedo Rental Shop / Aracade on Carrollton and Canal. They had a pile of machines and if you got the high score, you got tickets to rent that awesome purple tux.

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Marty Mart! Great place, just too many Jezzies. Funny, knowing which place had which machine!! K & B's always had Asteroids right by the swinging gates.

Schwegmann's had pinball machines.

Lakeside had random games all throughout the mall. Loved the Fire Engine driving game.

MSY had a cool game room, anytime anyone we knew came or went, I made sure we all went, and went early.

The Wolf Pub and Wolf Den at Loyola had good games. Cut a few too many classes... Same for UNO in later years, after finding their game room during Social Studies Fair or Rally. LOL.

Shakey's Pizza on Vets or Peppe-Roni's on West Esplanade, even the Pizza Huts had games, we knew who had what.

Forgot about Centipede, too, played the hell out of that.
We had Lunar Lander at school.

Centipede was my game.


this one too

In the 80s. there was a burger joint in New Roads called Mr. Deb's, and the owner opened a little storage building behind it and FILLED that fricker with arcade games. You'd come out covered with sweat and ear-drums ringing from games tuned up to max volume...Don't know if it ever had an official name, we just called it "the Arcade"

We skipped school one day and went to BR and wasted the morning at Space Port in Cortana...In the middle of some serious "Double Dragon" 2-player arse kickery, a dumbass with us screams, "I'm BAD!!" at the top of his lungs and some mall cop gives us some flack about truancy, his connections at CHS, and something about "One phone call" ruining "our little party."

Too bad he couldn't read, cuz our shirts totally said CHSPC.

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We all said, "frick you, Bitch!" and kept goin'

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Oh, yeah. Said dumbass was playing "Bad Dudes"...was kinda a training version of "Double Dragon"



On 2-player, you could hear 2 voices saying "I'm Bad!" at the end of each boss.

Elevator action
Spy hunter
X-men


Those all got a lot of my allowance when I was young.