I was too young when Space Invaders and all them came out to be allowed to hang at the arcades! so i'd say the first Arcade game i really pumped a lot of coins into would be Commando because it was the only machine at the Sport Centre !
Kaiser Soze
05-12-01, 09:20 PM
First game that I spent hours and hours on and lots of money on would have to be Galaga. I still love that game though. :)
Todd B.
05-12-01, 10:12 PM
Hm, I wasn't really allowed to play video games all that much. But when Mortal Kombat II came out, I had my own car and independence, and I must have spent several hundred dollars, at least, on that game.
~~ PAL ~~
05-12-01, 10:17 PM
The first arcade game that made me pump quarters into it was Gauntlet II. After you became good enough on the original Gauntlet, you can play forever. I once played a game of Gauntlet for 14 hours, and finally had to quit because I was tired, thristy, and hungry. But it was much harder on Gauntlet II, which the best I could do was 2 hours on a quarter.
PAL
TheDude
05-13-01, 11:23 AM
The two that I remember spending bunches of money on were the original "Star Wars Death Star Trench Run" game (don't remember the actual title) and Bionic Commando (which I finally beat after spending many many quarters).
FiveO
05-13-01, 11:43 AM
Galaga...
Yes...its an oldie :)
DrJag
05-13-01, 12:05 PM
i used to play street fighter II forever!
Buckaroo Banzai
05-13-01, 01:28 PM
When I was young I spent alot of stolen quarters (my Dads) on Contra. I just couldn't get enough of that machine. It made me giddy like a schoolgirl.
The other game I spent way too much on was that semi-Holographic game Time Traveler. It was so much fun, but almost impossible. Hence the wasted quarters.
Ian
inVectiVe
05-13-01, 02:59 PM
Another vote for Street Fighter 2 - I was literally obsessed with that game.
ellone
05-13-01, 03:49 PM
I really liked the Aliens arcade game.
Goblincat
05-13-01, 10:45 PM
Ikari Warriors and Heavy Barrel were a couple of early quarter eaters. Also Golden Axe and Altered Beast.
My first was Asteroids, back in '79.
[Edited by Goblincat on 05-16-01 at 05:59 AM]
einTier
05-13-01, 11:01 PM
I guess I'm the old daddy around here. The first game I remember stuffing quarters into was a drag racing game. I don't remember much about it other than it was probably green or perhaps the car was green, and it did have a real christmas tree, and there was a model car in the center of the whole shebang. But, I can't remember the name of it, so I guess that doesn't count.
Demolition Derby (http://www.yesterdayland.com/popopedia/shows/arcade/ag1191.php) was the first game I really remember actually playing. I remember to one degree or another most of the games from the 70's that are on yesterdayland.com's site. Pac-Man was probably the first game I got completely mesmerized by.
zero
05-13-01, 11:07 PM
Its a tie between four games. First is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
out of these four Double Dragon sticks in my mind the most because I played it every Friday when my mom and dad used to go bowling. Something about the scent of smoke and beer in the air brings back some fond memories..odd? yes but hey I had fun!:editking:
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Caoimhin
05-15-01, 11:11 AM
Scramble and Super Copter were probably my first obsessions. Am I the only one who remembers these classic side scrollers?
qbert
05-15-01, 11:40 AM
has to be qbert for me :p
or something like pac-man and maybe tron
but the first time i saw quarters lining up the machine was for double dragon
FonMan
05-15-01, 02:04 PM
Wow, If I had a nickel for every quarter...:)
The first to cause problems was the original donkey kong.
I would play this for the entire weekend and every day after school. There was a chain of arcade/hot-dog joints in Omaha called W.C. Franks. Man o Man did I spend some jack!
Other quarter monsters were the following:
Dragon's Lair
Zaxon
Zevious
Star Wars sit down
Space-Ace
TRON (oh my god, the money I spent on this game!)
Spy Hunter
OH YEAH...GREAT GAME I JUST REMEMBERED !
ELEVATOR ACTION !
Kenshin
05-15-01, 11:12 PM
aliens vs predator was mine.
the predator warrior was soo cool at the time i drained a lot of money on it.
Mr. Music
05-16-01, 01:49 AM
Spy Hunter
Main Event
Royal Rumble, some other wrestling ones too :)
DarthMaul420
05-16-01, 01:54 AM
Originally posted by Todd B.
Hm, I wasn't really allowed to play video games all that much. But when Mortal Kombat II came out, I had my own car and independence, and I must have spent several hundred dollars, at least, on that game.
My friend and I played it in the arcade 24/7. We should have just bought the machine for all the quarters pumped into that game. Long live the best MK game!
Electric2k
05-16-01, 09:44 AM
The first one that I got HEAVILY into would have to be Donkey Kong.
JuryDuty
05-16-01, 10:19 AM
FROGGER!!!
junkie
05-16-01, 10:22 AM
I would have to say Tempest or Mario Bros.
Todd B.
05-16-01, 05:11 PM
Originally posted by GJKowal
I really liked the Aliens arcade game.
I really liked this one too. It wasn't too hard though. I got to where I could beat in on $1 or so.
Originally posted by zero
Its a tie between four games. First is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Ah, that's one I had forgotten about. I spent a fair amount of money on that. Got to the point where I could beat that too on $2-3.
Titmouse
05-16-01, 06:42 PM
The original Donkey Kong took alot of my allowance when I was a kid! :D
Draven
05-17-01, 02:06 PM
When Mortal Kombat first came out, my brother and I were with my parents in Las Vegas for a week. I spent at least 20 dollars a day on that game alone. When I came back to my rinky dink hometown I tore it up big time.
MK II and Street Figher II were my others. I remember one Sunday morning I took my moped to the mall and had the SFII machine all to myself. I spent like 10 bucks and beat it with every character. Zangief was the hardest, I sucked at the "circle the controller" moves. :)
drmoze
05-17-01, 03:33 PM
The first game I dumped serious coinage into was Galaxian (at a local bowling alley). I played several others (Space Duel, Space Invaders, etc.) but Galaxian was the first game that I really kept going at.
pter
05-18-01, 10:22 AM
Wow! You guys have all hit my faves :D
What about Qbert, Pole Position, Karate Champ, and Kung Fu?
weapon_x11
05-20-01, 06:33 AM
I just have to hear hadouken and shuryuken, so its Street Fighter II and its infinite incarnations plus see Chun-LI doing her helicopter kick ;). I still have all the SF games in SNES, 3DO, PS, SS, DC, PS2 :)
THX 1138
05-20-01, 07:19 AM
The first was Ms. Pac-Man. Then Star Wars. Then Golden Axe. Then Aliens.
laserdogg
05-20-01, 11:14 AM
My addictions were Pacman, Ms Pacman, Missile Command, 1941, Tailgunner
Some favorite pinballs Black Knight and it's sequel, Elvira, Dirty Harry, Terminator 2, Robocop and most of the Williams tables from the 80's
J-Dubya
11-17-06, 12:08 AM
Missile Command, Addams Family pinball, Terminator 2 pinball
stingermck
11-17-06, 12:10 AM
Opertaion Wolf. As long as dad would lift me up to reach the gun :)
Wick
11-17-06, 12:11 AM
Possibly the "Die Hard Trilogy" game.
Giles
11-17-06, 12:11 AM
it was that outer spacey game that I'm drawing a blank on, that had geometric shapes and you flew around the perimeter shooting at things that came from the center of the screen and up at you..... ??
Also Asteroids and Centipede.
J-Dubya
11-17-06, 12:17 AM
Tempest Giles?
Giles
11-17-06, 12:22 AM
Tempest Giles?
that's it, god at 36 I'm going senile...
Michael Corvin
11-17-06, 12:25 AM
Gotta go with the Ms. Ms. Pac Man followed by Spy Hunter, Popeye, and Super Mario Bros.
I'd love to see Popeye hit the XBLA. I haven't played that in years. I wouldn't think twice about dropping some points on that one.
Nuff
11-17-06, 12:40 AM
Thanks to Mame I still play my favorites. :) And yes I used to collect the game boards so I technically can play my favorites legally. Most have been mentioned but Donkey Kong & Dragon's Lair were probably my favorites. :)
J-Dubya
11-17-06, 12:41 AM
that's it, god at 36 I'm going senile...
is that what I'm in store for? I'm only 35 now.
must add track & field and HyperSports to my list, loved those two.
Giles
11-17-06, 12:43 AM
is that what I'm in store for? I'm only 35 now.
no... I'll actually be 37 on the second day of Dec. you have two more years... :lol:
Tarantino
11-17-06, 01:49 AM
Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat, and Rampage.
I also threw down at Capcom vs. Marvel with Iron Man a lot.
= J
porieux
11-17-06, 05:08 AM
Pong. Yeah I'm old (37). Then Seawolf, then Space Invaders, then Asteroids, Defender, Scramble etc etc.
Maxflier
11-17-06, 09:28 AM
Double Dragon
nemein
11-17-06, 09:37 AM
My favs were always the vector graphic games... Tempest, Battlezone, Omega Race, Star Wars, Star Trek (prefer the sit down version), Red Baron and something w/ a squadron of ships and a tunnel (IIRC) but the name escapes me right now. I was never very good at Asteriods though so I didn't waste a lot of money on that ;)
Galaga and Xevious were my fav "full" graphic games.
Harold Wazzu
11-17-06, 09:39 AM
Probably Asteroids or some old Star Wars game, I forget the title.
matome
11-17-06, 09:45 AM
Probably Donkey Kong, though I remember playing a lot of Defender back then as well.
The Bus
11-17-06, 09:52 AM
My parents only gave me like $1 for arcades maybe every few weeks at most so I never got to play much of them. :lol:
First arcade game I remember playing (or wanting to play at least) was Ghouls n Ghosts.
mtucker
11-17-06, 10:23 AM
Sinistar
sniper308
11-17-06, 10:26 AM
Sinistar
Wasn't the first for me... but Sinistar definitely ate some of my quarters.
Dragon Fly
11-17-06, 10:32 AM
Street Fighter 2 baby!
TheNightFlier
11-17-06, 10:43 AM
Pit Fighter and Golden Axe for me.
DarthMarino
11-17-06, 11:36 AM
Mortal Kombat II and NBA Jam.
Randy Miller III
11-17-06, 11:39 AM
The old vector-based <i>Star Wars</i> game was awesome, the one you could sit down in.
I think I must've blown up the Death Star at least a hundred times, and it never got old. :up:
The games I hit up the most in my first arcade were Spy Hunter, Elevator Action, Bump 'n Run, Galaga... but back then if I had 3 dollars to spend I was overwhelmed! A whole 5 dollars to spend? That was like the holy grail.
By the time I got to the point that I was playing arcade games AND had a substantial amount of cash ($5-10) to spend it went to TMNT or Simpsons. I think I actually did see the end in those. Oh and Bad Dudes because it was at my mom's lunch counter.
And then there was Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat which I didn't even begin playing until I went to a bowling alley arcade with some friends (Rabbit77 being one of them...).
The LAST game I pumped an inordinate amount of quarters into was Raiden II at the bowling where I worked. Man I loved that game.
mrpayroll
11-17-06, 12:00 PM
Wow, a 5 1/2 year thread resurrection. That must be a record!
My first ever arcade game that I played was Space Invaders in 1980. I was working at Sears in Glendale, CA and they had a machine near the cafeteria. I would spend my whole lunch hour there playing.
Ah good times, I was 50 lbs lighter and had a full head of hair!
Chris
hal9000
11-17-06, 12:32 PM
Asteroids, yeah I know... but that's how I roll 'cause I'm old like that (36 to be exact). Sheesh, kinda sounds like a line from a Weird Al song. Anyway, in a "if I had..." moment, if I had pumped all the coins into the stock market instead of pumping them into Asteroids and every subsequent game that followed, I probably wouldn't have to work today. Who the hell am I kidding... the stock market's no fun anyway... I call next game!
sniper308
11-17-06, 01:02 PM
Asteroids, yeah I know... but that's how I roll 'cause I'm old like that (36 to be exact). Sheesh, kinda sounds like a line from a Weird Al song. Anyway, in a "if I had..." moment, if I had pumped all the coins into the stock market instead of pumping them into Asteroids and every subsequent game that followed, I probably wouldn't have to work today. Who the hell am I kidding... the stock market's no fun anyway... I call next game!
36 here as well.... I just remember pumping the quarters in, but into various different games including Asteroids.
Hell I remember pumping quarters into pinball machines, etc.
I also remember being excited about going to Sears to play their Atari 2600 clone before I got one.
I'm just happy that gaming doesn't require us to deal with standing in arcades, pumping money into machines, etc... unless of course your standing in line, outside to pump a bunch of money into a new console :D
PalmerJoss
11-17-06, 01:22 PM
The first arcade game I can remember staying and playing for hours was Street Fighter II. In the early to mid-90's I spent a good part of each day with friends at the local arcade playing either SFII or Mortal Kombat.
dvdguru
11-17-06, 10:57 PM
Track and Field. I could run like the freakin wind using a pen to alternately push the two sprint buttons :) Also, Time Pilot, Dragons Lair, Star Wars, Tempest, Stargate and Defender. Ah, the good old days of 1984...
Giles
11-17-06, 11:15 PM
wow, quite a few peers here (36 year olds) :thumbsup:
deadpool24
11-18-06, 01:19 AM
played mostly beat-em ups like final fight, ninja turtles, and x-men 4p. but the most i spent was probably mk 2. i remember a trip i took in vegas, there were dozens of mk2 machines in every hotel. this was around '93 or whenever it was released.
salamander2
11-18-06, 01:28 AM
Moon Patrol and QBert
KingSmoth
11-18-06, 02:31 AM
I remember dumping a ton of quarters into Pit Fighter, Ninja Gaiden, Double Dragon, and eventually Final Fight at the skating rink back in the day. I loved losing all my lives and running out of quarters in Ninja Gaiden and Final Fight, because the continue screens were so cool.
I remember I was on vacation once years ago and the hotel had Magic Sword by the ice machine, and I spent so much money playing that over the few days we were there.
I probably could have paid my way through college with all the quarters I dumped into Total Carnage.
silentbob007
11-18-06, 10:10 AM
Tops on my list are definitely Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and MKII.
amped
11-18-06, 11:03 AM
Probably Rampage, Smash TV and any Capcom/Konami multi player beat em ups.
dek
11-18-06, 05:47 PM
Tron, Star Wars, Sinistar, Galaga, 720, Major Havoc, Joust, Tempest, Gyruss.
Growing up in the bay area was the goldmine as Atari was headquartered right down the street from me.
I'll post pics of my storage unit sometime this week :)
nodeerforamonth
11-18-06, 05:57 PM
Space Invaders.
There was also this game that had balloons that you would shoot down. Can't remember the name.
I rotated thru games so I didn't pump quarters into one exclusively until Dragon's Lair. I would usually be playing Galaxian, Tempest, Crazy Kong, Phoenix
MrChaos
11-18-06, 11:48 PM
WWF Wrestlefest at a local Wal-Mart. I remember spending $9.00 once with my brother, which was a ton of money for us back then. Such memories!
"WARRIOR. GORILLA PRESS!" :)
lordwow
11-19-06, 01:13 AM
MK II I guess, but I hardly ever went to an arcade, parents always thought it was a better bargain to get me video games than take us to an arcade.
Vespertillio
11-19-06, 01:17 AM
Ohhh, so many. Lets see: Tron, Discs of Tron, Phoenix, Crazy Climber, Carnival, Kickman, Warlords, Pong lol. God I feel old now. :)
Iron_Giant
11-19-06, 12:52 PM
I am going to date myself here:
1. PONG was the first game I played. My friend (Mark Wilson) and I played many PONG games in Bowling Alleys
2. Space Invaders
3. Galaga
4. Packman
My first job out of High School was repairing these guys to chip level.
Buy: