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re: Did the original Defender arcade game have 2 player mode?
Posted on 11/13/24 at 10:24 am to CAD703X
Posted on 11/13/24 at 10:24 am to CAD703X
quote:I used to play it at the LaPromenade Mall at Quarter Til. Nothing was more fun than you and your buddy chasing each other around the screen in little stick figure space ships. My favorite was that you could get partial damage by losing a wing or nacelle while still being able to fight.
It's as fun 45 years later as it was when I was 12
I shopped around for arcade games years ago and Space War was nearly impossible to find.
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Posted on 11/13/24 at 10:28 am to blueboy
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I shopped around for arcade games years ago and Space War was nearly impossible to find
probably a nightmare to find a working keyboard so you could play with the black holes and energy and stuff.
yes, its SUPER underrated how much fun it was for a tiny ship that looked like the Enterprise to lose a warp engine and still be able to fight.
fun game. many sunday afternoons at godfathers was spent playing it.
i can give you the template and ROM and instructions on how to get it running on a raspberry pi if interested.
in fact, imma fire it up now and take some pics
This post was edited on 11/13/24 at 10:29 am
Posted on 11/13/24 at 10:29 am to The Mick
We'd ride our BMX bikes to an arcade about 3 miles from our neighborhood. Achieving and maintaining the high scores on this game was serious, serious business back in the day.
Posted on 11/13/24 at 10:36 am to Raoul Stimulato
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Anyone remember obscure 80s arcade game Gladiator? Side scrolling combat, good not great.
I remember it, if only because the control scheme was not intuitive for a small child.
It pretty much disappeared into the ether unless you go looking for old computer game images or a Taito collection.
Posted on 11/13/24 at 10:37 am to Naked Bootleg
The movie theater by my house had a machine of that…
You could get one free credit on it by flipping the machine off and on using the switch on the top.
You could get one free credit on it by flipping the machine off and on using the switch on the top.
Posted on 11/13/24 at 10:38 am to The Mick
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What trackball?
Was for Centipede
Posted on 11/13/24 at 10:41 am to Havoc
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Joust was another good one.
The music absolutely cracked me up, the build up to the screeching. My fav game at the arcade.
Posted on 11/13/24 at 10:43 am to crash1211
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This one for me.
I bought a copy of that on the Switch specifically because it is such a pain in the fricking arse to find a way to play it with twin sticks as God intended it.
Posted on 11/13/24 at 10:48 am to teke184
quote:i wonder what your favorite game was
teke184
Posted on 11/13/24 at 10:48 am to CAD703X
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Anyone ever play the Atari xs and os football game with the bowling ball track ball?
Skate city on Florida blvd in the late 70s. LOVED that game !!
Posted on 11/13/24 at 10:50 am to teke184
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You could get one free credit on it by flipping the machine off and on using the switch on the top.
ORIGINAL space invaders, you could 'thump' a penny into the quarter slot at just the right weight to make it think it was a quarter and get a free game.
it generally took 15-20 tries to get it but....WORTH IT. tempest, you could pull up outside the arcade with a CB in your vehicle and flip frequencies until 33 credits would show up
Poor Gene Cox. He probably had no idea how many free games we played of Tempest back in the day and is how i learned to get to the 'white' level
that game was hard as shite once the pulsars arrived.
Posted on 11/13/24 at 10:51 am to NOSTRODAMUS
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Skate city on Florida blvd in the late 70s. LOVED that game !!
do you have permanent scarring on your hand from getting eaten by the trackball?
Posted on 11/13/24 at 10:56 am to CAD703X
Oh yes then at LSU union 87-91, there was another similar football game with a track ball. It only made it worse.
Posted on 11/13/24 at 10:57 am to CAD703X
Funny part is that the game freaked me the frick out as a kid. I got a greater appreciation for it as I got older, in part because I learned how to play it properly.
Posted on 11/13/24 at 10:58 am to teke184
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Funny part is that the game freaked me the frick out as a kid. I got a greater appreciation for it as I got older, in part because I learned how to play it properly.
nothing like being in a dark arcade 'fumbling' around trying to grab as many crystals as possible and you hear BEWARE I LIVE
my heart would be beating out of my chest when fricking sinistar became sentinet.
Posted on 11/13/24 at 10:58 am to CAD703X
Extended care at my school had a Tempest machine that used to belong to the head’s kid.
Everyone played a lot of it after school and I’m trying to remember if someone managed to get to the invisible stages or if it was just some other other colored stages instead of blue.
Everyone played a lot of it after school and I’m trying to remember if someone managed to get to the invisible stages or if it was just some other other colored stages instead of blue.
Posted on 11/13/24 at 11:00 am to teke184
quote:holy shite there's a memory for you!
managed to get to the invisible stages
forgot all about the invisible level
eta Joe Rogers with some help from those '33 free games' could get that far and then some and i would just sit goggle-eyed.
my son looks at me that way when i'm spinning around on the Infinity level and it looks like i'm about to die every other move i make.
there's definitely an artistic quality to tempest because its fricking chaos theory in real time and i honestly can't tell you how i keep surviving levels.
This post was edited on 11/13/24 at 11:03 am
Posted on 11/13/24 at 11:17 am to The Mick
Because that shite was so hard you couldn’t find two people in the arcade that could compete.
Posted on 11/13/24 at 11:19 am to CAD703X
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tempest, you could pull up outside the arcade with a CB in your vehicle and flip frequencies until 33 credits would show up
OK, that’s a new one on me.
I know there’s a rom version where, if you die with a certain score, you get 40 credits. But I didn’t know a CB could cause a credit dump.
Posted on 11/13/24 at 11:21 am to CAD703X
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I weep for our children.
We had a multi arcade at a rental house and my kids loved it.
I told them the difference between their X-Box games and our old games is that the arcade games were actively trying to kill you as quick as they could so they’d get another quarter.
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