/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5295830]

What were some arcade games you saw everywhere but never played?

[Anonymous No.5295843]

>>5295830
DDR. Didn't want to embarrass myself trying. Bad attitude to have I know, but that's why I never tried it before the arcade closed. Tried a Stepmania machine later though.

[Anonymous No.5295995]

>>5295830
DDR. It's just ridiculous.

[Anonymous No.5296009]

>>5295830
That and "Lucky & Wild" from Namco. Concept for it seemed wicked

[Anonymous No.5296046]

>>5295830
what did the federal reserve bank mean by this?

[Anonymous No.5296167]

>>5295830
Bust a Move.

[Anonymous No.5296172]

>>5296046
George Washington was a fungoid alien

[Anonymous No.5296198]

DDR is a good one.

Is it weird that I love DHA but find Dynamite Cop to be a pale successor?

[Anonymous No.5296235]

I don't think I've ever played that Star Trek Voyager arcade game that every arcade used to have. There's still a local theater that has it, so I should one of these days.

[Anonymous No.5296236]

I always saw the Terminator 2 machine, but it never cost less than a dollar a play so T2 and I had a mutual agreement to leave each other alone.

[Anonymous No.5296317]

>arcade machine with a bicycle paddle hook to it to play as pic related
>you fly through some hoops and shit
>stages are something sun moon and stars
>still can't remember the name for the life of me

[Anonymous No.5296340]

>>5296317
Propcycle, a game that's VERY rare in arcades these days. The only one I know of is in New Hampshire.

[Anonymous No.5296361]

>>5296340
oh shit thanks anon, I've almost given up looking for it

[Anonymous No.5296380]

>>5296317
>>5296340
That looks pretty cool/nutty

[Anonymous No.5296390]

All those derivatives of fishing/hunting games

[Anonymous No.5296392]

>>5296380
>>5296317
Can't remember if I ever actually played it, but I'm fairly sure I saw one in an arcade back in the day (somewhere in the Dallas/Fort Worth area).

[Anonymous No.5296409]

I used to see The Lost World:Jurassic Park arcade machines pretty frequently. But I never bothered to play one. Which is odd, because I like Sega arcade games and light gun games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NCvwyksdSY

This game looks like House of the Dead with the JP license. I love the cheesy voice acting. I would love to see this, the first Jurassic Park light game and Alien 3: The Gun get home releases. Sega could have done a port of Alien 3, since they had the Alien license.

[Anonymous No.5296417]

>>5296198
I kinda get what you mean, but I appreciate Dynamite Cop for going the "Fuck it, let's get weird" route instead of simply copying what they did the first time around.

[Anonymous No.5296419]

>>5296409
I remember one arcade cab of Street Fighter Zero (yes, Zero not Alpha) that looked like one of those get inside arcade cabs,

[Anonymous No.5296446]

>>5296380
It's hard as everloving shit is what it is. When I was a kid, my local Casino had a Kids' Quest my parents would often dump me at. It had that game on freeplay. Nobody was ever able to beat a single level of it.

[world's worst shitposter No.5296476]

>>5295830
Every other game in the arcade, if there's one functioning DDR/ITG/PIU cabinet.

Back in the day though, it was Dragon's Lair. At the time it seemed incredible, controlling a real cartoon instead of blocky computer graphics. But I never saw one that cost less than $.75 a credit, which was way too rich for my blood at the time. Especially when I had no idea how to actually play, seeing richer kids with no idea how to play burning through there 3 lives in less than 30 seconds, when instead I could make 3 quarters last 45 minutes or more on Frogger.

30 years later I bought the Sega CD version, but even now, knowing what I'm supposed to do, I can't get past the first stage because I can never get the timing right. Never had any problems with Road Avenger and Time Gal, though...

[Anonymous No.5296482]

>>5296476
wb