Your favorite 1980s arcade games?

[Broncosballer32]

Not and arcade game, but remember the last good Atari game?

Yar's Revenge

 

[Broncosballer32]

Tempest - no other game like it
Joust
Crystal Castles
Pac Man
Dragon's Lair
Missile Command
Defender

Man, I remember defender.

 

[Broncosballer32]

Has anyone named Asteroids?

 

[Indrid Cold]

Loved an obscure game called Bosconian, 8 directional space fighter game in which you destroyed enemy base stations. Actually bought a Playstation just so I could play it at home a couple of decades later, and I bought a placard from a machine on eBay a while ago. Only saw it at two arcades, played it mostly at Par King mini golf in Morton Grove, IL.

Also liked Berzerk, Tempest, Galaga, Galaxian, and some game in which you were running around in a pyramid shooting things that I can't find online (not Qbert).

 

[Inquisitor95]

Remember this one?

Spoiler

Q*bert

 

[Indrid Cold]

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Also liked Berzerk, Tempest, Galaga, Galaxian, and some game in which you were running around in a pyramid shooting things that I can't find online (not Qbert).

Tutankham...

 

[NorthCoastSteelersFan]

Also not an arcade game, but I liked the Intellivision Dungeons and Dragons.

You worked your way through a maze, which was dark...short sections would light up as you entered them. Based on sounds, you had to anticipate what creatures were ahead, and be ready to shoot them with your bow. You could pick up extra quivers along the way, but there were also bats that could steal your arrows if they came into contact with you.

It was primitive by today's standards, but fun.

 

[PatsFan2003]

Also not an arcade game, but I liked the Intellivision Dungeons and Dragons.

You worked your way through a maze, which was dark...short sections would light up as you entered them. Based on sounds, you had to anticipate what creatures were ahead, and be ready to shoot them with your bow. You could pick up extra quivers along the way, but there were also bats that could steal your arrows if they came into contact with you.

It was primitive by today's standards, but fun.

Intellivision was by far the best of the early game machines but Atari just overwhelmed them with games.

 

[beardown07]

Galaga EOT

 

[RP-29]

I was a master at Bump N Jump back in the day. I'd walk away from the machine with the high score every time and the majority of the time it only took one quarter to get it.

I miss the days of offline local high scores. It provided a boost of self-satisfaction and accomplishment... knowing that you were the best person around at that game. That is impossible to achieve in the online gaming world... no matter how good you are, there are thousands of people who have posted higher scores than you.

Last week my wife and I played a Rock Band 3 session together. One of the songs we played was "Into the Black Light" by Ghost Brigade - a Rock Band Network metal song I had downloaded a while back. I perfected the song: 100% notes hit on Expert with no between-note flubs... and I ranked #127 on the leader board... on a song nobody's ever heard of by a band nobody's ever heard of. I wish I had 126 middle fingers.

 

[sooner78wakeboard]

Maybe Guantlet....lost a lot of quarters on that game.

 

[wildturkey]

Had to look it up to see if it made the 80s criteria and it does!


Loved Rampage. Just pure destruction. It was equally as fun by yourself as it was with 2 other players. It later got remade in the late 90s for the Nintendo 64 and it was still just as fun. Hard to mess up the simple formula of monsters destroying buildings.

My two other favorite arcade games are from the 90s; The Simpsons and X-Men

 

[cezero]

ice climber was fun because it was so fucking hard

never beat it

 

[tabascojet]

Qix, elevator action, vanguard, cliff hanger.....

 

[Bunkamania]

I love a lot of the classic games that are mentioned. One that I played a lot that isn't mentioned is Matmania. I think I got lucky and made it to Coco Savage one time when I was younger.

 

[Cave_Johnson]

Not and arcade game, but remember the last good Atari game?

Yar's Revenge

As far as Atari games go nothing beats Custer's Revenge or Beat 'Em and Eat 'Em.

 

[theSabanator20]

Missile Command, Galaga, PacMan, Centipede, Pong, etc etc I played them all.

And Asteroids is in my opinion the best free range game of all time.

 

[Nasty_Magician]

Buddy of mine and his girlfriend live right by this bar and we hit it up anytime I'm in their neighborhood:

Barcade® | 163 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07302 | 201-332-4555

Each game is $0.25, amazing place to kill a few hours.

 

[Gooch1034]

I remember the game Centipede had the "roller ball thing" instead of a joystick and I would always get my hand pinched when I played.

 

[Gooch1034]

I also used to like this WWF tag team game where I was always Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage. Cant remember the exact name of it but I think it was a 4 player game.