/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7690353
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_video_game#Highest-grossing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_video_game#Franchises

>>7690453
I'm surprised Defender is that high up. It's not a game you hear talked about like Pacman and Asteroids or the others above it. Or even games far below it like Frogger. I love Defender though.

>>7690510
It doesn't have any memorable character. That's why. Still a great game.

>>7690353
HNNNNGGHHHHHHHHHHH

>>7690585
>It doesn't have any memorable character.
True, even the main spaceship design is very plain and traditional and the enemies look like Space Invader clones.

>>7690510
Defender pretty much started the shmup genre. Though some would argue for galaxian/space invaders. The game scrolled which was rare, looked and sounded far better than most, was difficult in a beatable way, multiple methods to score. It was a breakthrough but still understandable for the simple minded boomers and their drugged up X kiddies of the era.

>>7691074
>but still understandable
In the age of most games having one button, Defender was intimidating for newcomers

>>7690353
What was this image from? Did Namco advertise their arcade games this way, or did it serve another sort of advertising purpose? It's unclear.

>>7691221
Note that the cab has some wear and tear, its far from new. That rules out Namco.
Some magazine, possibly an adult orientated one did a piece on arcade games sweeping the nation and paid for a photoshoot of an arcade cabinet and a scantily dressed chick.

I recently got let go, I worked IT help desk, it was awful. I realized yesterday that repairing arcade cabinets would be perfect for me. I don't care for the pay other than making a living, is this a terrible idea?

>>7691221
Those kind of bodysuits didn't exist then and that kind of ass was NOT desirable in the '80s. It's clearly from a "retro" shoot within the last couple of years at most.

>>7691305
Do you live in Japan? If the answer is no, what arcades do you plan to repair machines at considering they're all dead?

>>7691315
Can't tell if satire or not.

>>7691269
fuzzy ass digital camera all out of focus. probably from the 2000s.

>>7691371
I don't know, it was a sudden realization of what a dream job could be. I live in Stockholm, we do have arcades but certainly not as many as Japan. I just want to do something I like doing... ):

>>7691305
> repairing arcade cabinets would be perfect for me.
You sure? 90% of the job is reading schematics.

>>7691682
>>7691657
I don't know, I'd love to repair stuff and it seemed like a comfy job.

>>7691315
These are really silly even retarded reasons but I also assumed it was from a recent photoshoot

>>7690353
*B-B-RR-RRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPP-PP-P-PP-P*

Conceptualize the aroma. Think of the musk. Wonder about the scent.

>>7690353
That girl is probably 70 years old now.

>>7691657
Sweden seems legitimately based. Is this true? Every Swedepost I see on this website is from a devout Christian, making me think that our American leftists' love for the place and the Somali epidemic is just propaganda against a Christian land.

>>7693125
i wanna see her granny ass, spread

>>7690353
I'd bury my schnoz deep between those cheeks
>>7691221
probably from some nudie mag

>>7692520
aye m8 girls stink
just flesh and bacteria

>>7693164
this is a gaming board, what games are you excelling at and mastering? For me it's Zelda Oracle of Seasons and SF2 Turbo

>>7693143
This website have rightwing bias you goddamned idiot.

>>7693267
Even if that's true, you'd expect very few if any of the users from a "left-wing country" to post contrary to that.

>>7693250
Steam Hearts and Resident Evil 2

>>7693250
Ah, right, it's just girls who stink, what you said doesn't apply at all to men

>>7693132
based

>>7690353
Old guy here. These are the games that you expected to see in an arcade in like 1984. Note that I'm sticking strictly to games that actually came out in the first half of the decade (if I included late 70s stuff that was still in arcades during the early 80s then I'd add Galaxian and Super Breakout, both of which were EVERYWHERE). Pong was also still commonly found in bars as of the early 80s. Another thing I'm leaving off is pinball, because I'm assuming that's not what you're asking about, but if you want a full understanding of what early 80s arcades were like then you really do need to understand that pinball was a very common thing at the time.

Defender
Donkey Kong
Centipede
Millipede
Berzerk
Frenzy
Sinistar
Mr. Do!
Dig Dug
Galaga
Frogger
Pole Position
Tempest
Dragon's Lair
Tron
Q*bert
Robotron: 2084
Missile Command
Marble Madness
Star Wars
Paperboy
Xevious (irrelevant outside of Japan, but I'm including it because it was HUGE there and basically redefined vertical shmups)
The Tower of Druaga (even more irrelevant outside of Japan, but one of the most popular and iconic games of that era in Japan, so I figure it's worth including)

>>7693267
4chan literally invented sjws. This website singlehandedly created the modern extreme leftwing.

>>7694684
Oh shit, I forgot BurgerTime, Tapper, and Joust. Golf (the Nintendo game with the trackball) was also pretty common.

>>7690353
Now as far as console games went, the only thing anyone had back then was Atari (ignore anyone who tries to tell you that any other console was commonplace -- it wasn't), so here are the Atari 2600 games that either were the top sellers or are just stuff that I remember people having. Note that I am leaving off arcade ports (to avoid redundancy with the list above), which made up about half of the popular games on the system.

Combat
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (literally the worst game ever made though, and everyone knew it back then)
Basketball
Pitfall!
Demon Attack
Night Driver
Warlords
Adventure
Yars' Revenge
River Raid
Laser Blast
Freeway
Kaboom!
Atlantis
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Cosmic Ark
Megamania
Raiders of the Lost Ark
H.E.R.O.
Grand Prix
Dragster

>>7694684
yep all classics

>>7691657
I'm of a similar mind, and given this, I would recommend you start by learning to repair smaller consumer electronics, especially old game machines, and work your way up. If you want to make money though, that's gonna be in repairing smartphones and laptops, which are a bitch to repair anymore depending on the design (moreso smartphones). Arcade you can do, but it's hard unless you find someone with whom you can mentor/apprentice to learn the skill. Pinball is an even more difficult one to get, as that goes into more complex mechanical work too.

>>7694712
curious what your basis is for that, only thing that comes to mind from my too many years wasted here is the boost that gamergate gave to SJW power and consideration in gaming media/big market.

>>7694684
surprised to see you list so many mid-80s atari games but not list Gauntlet. I feel like that is the one game I've seen persist for years (though I wasn't there in the 80s, so maybe it was just that the later revisions of Gauntlet persisted as massive quarter eaters).

>>7694763
a lot of great games in this list too, aside from dragster imo

>>7695093
>Gauntlet

1985. OP specified the first half of the decade. I left it off specifically for that reason.

>>7695104
I included Dragster because it's a pretty well known game from that time. And yes, this is partly due to its infamy for the famous fake world record, but still.

>>7694684
>no Punch Out

stop larping as a boomer you tide pod eater

>>7695308
Absolutely fucking no one played Punch-Out!! as an arcade game.

>>7695412
Found the zoomer, folx! We got him!

>>7695465
nigga, no one played that shit. no one even knew that was an arcade game before the NES.

>>7695465
>>7696598
Zoomer spotted

>>7696894
you can stop now kiddo

>>7696598
You're a fucking retard

>>7690353

>>7695412
>>7695465
>>7696598
reddit is that way

>>7694712
4chan invented the term; The radfem existed for a while on tumblr and twitter before then. 4chan, being a bastion of free speech but only barely, is a hotbed for right-wing extremism specifically nationalist evangelicalism. There are right-wing dissenters but they're mostly relegated to blue boards

>>7690627
Easy, lad.

>>7698169
4chan was left-libertarian and that's why we have to put up with so many larping theocratic fascists since it's the only place you won't get banned for being a retard
god spits in your eye

>>7694684
Games I would add:
Battlezone
Crazy Climber
Space Panic (not a big hit, but it's relevant as the kickstarter of the "digging/trapping" genre)
Scramble
Zaxxon
Spy Hunter
Astron Belt
Champion Baseball
Elevator Action
Karate Champ
1942
Punch-Out

>>7690353
>>7690585
One of the reasons Mario was such a big hit and revived the gaming industry was because Nintendo realized games need a face, a popular protagonist, not a random nameless spaceship.

>>7695274

This video covers some of the most relevant arcade games from the 1971-1985 period.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDBLokIOLcs

They give a wrong release date for Kung Fu Master though. It was released in Dec 1984 (Japan) and March 1985 (USA/Eur).

This video covers some of the most relevant arcade games from the 1971-1985 period.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDBLokIOLcs

They give a wrong release date for Kung Fu Master though. It was released in Dec 1984 (Japan) and March 1985 (USA/Eur), not 1983.

>>7690353
*BRRAAAAAAAAAAPPP*

>>7694181
what a faggot, get out of here

>>7694712
>>7698242
Love you newfag zoomer leftshit revisionists. You have no idea what this place was like. It's not even """"fascists"""""""""""" who hate you you fucking reddit twitter faggot. Everyone hates you. Even in real life, minorities hate you. You're the pussy ass snitch hall monitor drama queens of the world. You have always been the most despised made fun of people on 4chan. Old leftists on 4chan were not this nu-faggotry pozzed shit you've become. A fucking satire of a satire. And 4chan was always inherently offensive and politically incorrect by principle. Now go the fuck back.

>>7695272
Wasn't marble madness and/or paperboy from 85 or later? I remember Toobin' came out later but I thought it was '88, and was sure atari put out a winner in '86 that wasn't gauntlet 2.

>>7690353
POOPA

>>7698242
What was left then isn't what is left now.

>>7690353
*BRRAAAAAAAAAAAPPP*

BbRRAaAAAaaAaAaAPpp

>>7698421
This is a good point. Also explains Pac-man's success.

People want to be able to insert themselves mentally into the gameplay so as to simulate the experience of being whatever thing they play as. If someone's already experienced being a captain of a spaceship going through space and shooting aliens or asteroids, it isn't really that fresh the third time around.

Kind of explains why Galaxian was such a hit too.

>>7700745
remember when tuxpepe started out as the "he cute" meme and then it was swiftly repurposed into saying fuck [insert """protected group""""]

good times

>>7698169
This is unbelievably delusional. This site is as extreme far left as any website that could ever exist.

>>7698289
>Battlezone
Forgot this one. That should be on there.
>Zaxxon
This might be a stretch to call this "one of the biggest games of that era", but I it was relatively successful, so sure I guess.
>Spy Hunter
This probably could have been on the list as well, but I didn't think of it until you mentioned it.
>Elevator Action
This definitely belongs on there, but I forgot about it until now.
>1942
This was like late 80s.

Rest of the list I don't think were really THAT widespread

>>7700034
>Wasn't marble madness and/or paperboy from 85 or later?

Don't think so.

>>7701037
>Zaxxon
>This might be a stretch to call this "one of the biggest games of that era"
It was successful and also the first game to use isometric perspective, so pretty relevant IMO.

>1942
>This was like late 80s.
1984 according to Wikipedia

>>7691245
>When you realize she's in her 60's now.

>>7693143
How do people type retarded shit like this with absolutely zero self-awareness?

Small glimpse into the glory days of arcades

VIDEO FEVER - Games People Play from ABC news LA about arcade video games recorded in 1982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3sqUrX83Yg

Video Arcade "Addiction": When Pac-Man was King - CBS Evening News - January 29, 1982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6iV1CkCnWk

Leisure Time Electronics Arcade NBC News Report 1981/1982 (Sega-Gremlin Archive Tape #2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCjhHyQgq84

>>7693125
Maybe just late 50s/early 60s now. That Pac-Man cabinet looks pretty beat up. Not like something brand new from 1980.

>>7699882
Sir, this is a Wendy's.

>>7701510
Those kinds of signs used to be everywhere in the early arcade days.