In Asteroids, players control a spaceship drifting through a sea of asteroids—not only do players have to avoid and destroy any incoming asteroids, but they also have to stave off saucers and dodge their counterattacks.
With one of the more fantastical backgrounds, Centipede has you in the role of a garden gnome who must defend their forest with a magic wand from an invasive horde of arachnids and insects—spiders, scorpions, fleas, and of course, a centipede which winds down the screen near the end of every level.
Released in by Atari, Centipede would be one of the few games programmed with no specific gender-demographic target—it would go on to be one of the most played arcade games among women gamers with Pac-Man coming in second.
The first racing game released in the s by Namco, Rally-X was also one of the first arcade games produced in Japan that Namco imported over to the US. Compared to your average racing game, rather than racing against other players or a CPU, Rally-X had players collect flags around a maze-like course. The inaugural game to the Street Fighter franchise, Street Fighter would be the first competitive fighting game released by Capcom in In single-player mode, players take control of a young Japanese martial artist named Ryu against eight different CPU-controlled enemies, but in 2-player mode, players could play as either Ryu or his rival, Ken.
Even now diehard fans and newer players can enjoy the popular fighting series, as Street Fighter V was just released in for PlayStation 4 and Windows. Armed with only a lance and a flying ostrich, players focus on defeating hordes of buzzard-riding knights while avoiding an indestructible pterodactyl in Joust.
One of the few arcade games to tout itself as a co-op, second players can join in on the fun as a knight riding on a stork. However, this arcade game is available on mobile devices for those who want a trip to memory lane or for those who are curious. Not to be confused with Super Mario Bros, which was published in , Mario Bros was published for arcade games in by nintendo. With the remote controlled car racing theme and battle-style racing, R.
Pro-Am blew the lid off what arcade driving games could be. Does life get any better than this?!? Probably not! Chase H. Players had to take down fugitives in 5 levels after Nancy at Chase H.
Then it was up to you to beat the timer and catch up to the fugitive car before time was up! Forks in the road would make your distance shorter or longer and players had to avoid traffic and navigate hairpin turns to reach the criminal getaway car in time. The coolest part was being able to ram the fugitive car off of the road to capture the criminal. Compared in many ways to the arcade racing hit Out Run, Chase H. Even if you never played one, if you spent any time around arcades, skating rinks or movies theatres in the 80s, chances are you at least saw an Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Super Off Road arcade game cabinet.
It was the old school arcade cabinet with a huge marquee and 3 steering wheels protruding from the front, like some kind of arcade race game monster from another dimension where fun came before function. Three players could go head-to head and compete or play the computer in racing off-road, dirt tracks with an aerial view of the racing action.
Players earned money and points by placing in the races and would be able to advance to the next race with the option of upgrading their vehicle or buying more nitro. I always opted for more nitro. I feel the need, the need for speed! The goal was to get to the end of the season with the most money earned. The game was one of the first games that allowed players to upgrade their vehicle by winning points and money.
Now this is a common feature in most arcade racing games like Maximum Tune 5 2 Player Racing Arcade Game but it shows just how influential Super Off Road Arcade was in the video game racing industry.
The problem however is that playing online using your keyboard lacks flavor and you feel that something is not right as that was not how we played arcade games of the 80s. Besides this, the games are usually re-rendered and the texture and graphics are not quite the same as what we played back then.
I personally own an Arcade emulator console. These are usually pre-loaded with a respectable arcade games list or have the option for downloading online and expanding the games library. These arcade emulator consoles or not too expensive and considering that you get unlimited credits, you will soon get your return on investment. The thing that I have to caution you about is not to get too carried away with the unlimited credits.
Part of the fun back then when we played games in the arcade was the pressure of having limited quarters. Spend 2 quarters on Street Fighter and that was 2 quarters lesser to spend on X-men. The game was truly over when we ran out of quarters.
So, in order to maintain this pressure, I always gave myself only 5 credits for each game. If the game was over after 5 credits, I would have to start over instead of continuing with unlimited credits. In , after a six month cleanup process of the original negatives, Dragon's Lair was released on Blu-ray.
It became the first title to fully utilize the Bluray Disc Java technology. More recently, Dragon's Lair has even appeared for the Wii console and also as apps for iPad and Droid. I've got to say that this game is one of a handful that has stood the test of time, a true visionary of the 80s. Looking back, it almost seems as if it was transported from the future. I mean, it took twenty years until DVD was able to gives us that arcade experience at home!
That's a long quest! For me, I'm still hesitant to put two quarters into any machine for my kids to play at the local pizza shop arcade Thanks as always to Arcade-museum. Get new posts by email:. RD80s YouTube Reviews. Popular This Month.
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