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Top 100 arcade games of all time!

Started by retrorussell, February 26, 2013, 06:47:01 PM

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retrorussell

Kind of self-explanatory really, just post 100 of the greatest arcade games in your opinion, in no particular order, one poster at a time (unless there's like a 12-hour gap from the last post or something).
1. DIG DUG (1982, Namco/Atari)
My all time favorite.  Gotta get my Dig Dug cabinet in my living room fixed.

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2. Marble Madness



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retrorussell

The game originating from a slice of pizza missing..
4. PAC-MAN (1980, Namco/Bally/Midway)
The best-selling arcade hit of all-time!

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indianasmith

GORF!  The first game to verbally taunt the player!

"You will meet a Gorfian doom, Space Cadet!"
"I shall smite you in the nostrils with a rod of iron, and wax your spleen with Efferdent!!"

Trevor

6: POOYAN.

You are a mother pig (swinelet?) who attempts to rescue her piggies from the clutches of gum chewing wolves.  :teddyr:
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retrorussell

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Quote from: indianasmith on February 27, 2013, 12:24:08 AM
GORF!  The first game to verbally taunt the player!

"You will meet a Gorfian doom, Space Cadet!"
Actually, Wizard Of Wor came out before Gorf.  So did Berzerk for that matter.
7. GALAGA (1981, Namco/Midway)
Still a great game, with or without the "no-fire" trick!
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Trevor

8. AMIDAR

You are a crazy looking seahorse (or something like that  :question:) who paints and fills in blocks. Doesn't sound too exciting, but I enjoyed it.  :teddyr:
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Trevor

9. ELEVATOR ACTION

You are a secret agent travelling up and down in a building sliced in two, stealing documents from offices and also shooting and squashing rival agents under lifts as well as braining them with falling light fittings.  :smile:
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Jack

11)  Defender.  The first game I really got into when I started going to video arcades back in '81 or '82.

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Trevor

12. WONDER BOY IN MONSTERLAND

One of my favourites.

You are a young knight (very young, judging by the fact that you run around in a diaper) and you kill snakes and a few indeterminate things. You also get help from cheery bartenders and shop owners who greet you either with a cheery "What?" or "Welcome. What you want?"  :teddyr: :teddyr:
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Trevor

13: GOLDENAXE

Not the Nollywood film of the same name, btw  :buggedout:

You battle the dreaded Death Adder and then, when the game is won, it explodes and all the characters chase the players down the street.  :buggedout: :teddyr: :teddyr:
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Mr. DS

14.) Karate Champ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az308iZZClc
I remember playing this as a kid.   It was one of the first games I ever tried.
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