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| Mar 30th, 2011 09:29 PM | |||
| angel653922 | This article brought me to tears. So much nostalgia | ||
| Mar 23rd, 2011 04:11 AM | |||
| dsukara |
Awesome list, but there were two cabinets that I was hoping would have made the list: 1. "Beast Busters" - the first zombie FPS that I can remember. What was rad about it was that the controller was an uzi a la "Operation Wolf" - except this baddie had three of them! Plus some really cool zombie apocalypse artwork on the sides. 2. "Lucky and Wild" - a driving/shooting game clearly inspired by the "Lethal Weapon" movies. The controls for player 1 (Lucky) were a steering wheel, gas and brake pedals, and a mounted hand gun so you could drive and shoot(!) while player 2 (Wild) just had a gun. If you wanted though, player 1 could focus on the driving while player 2 could wield both guns John Woo style. Man, I wish I could find these games... |
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| Mar 11th, 2011 04:11 PM | |||
| Deadly Towers Sux |
This article brought me to tears. So much nostalgia...I miss arcades...and I mean real arcades, not the pathetic excuses of ones you see nowadays. I mean ones from the good old days. Ones that were busting at the seams with awesome retro video games like TMNT, Simpsons, Space Invaders, Street Fighter, Final Fight, etc. Too bad most of these games can mostly only be played via emulation nowadays... 
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| Dec 11th, 2010 05:33 PM | |||
| monster_movie_night | Daytona USA they have up to eight players. | ||
| Dec 8th, 2010 05:31 PM | |||
| Danny 4 Eyes | One of the greatest gaming experiences in my life was playing the 4 player version of The Simpsons with the cabinet that had 4 seats and the monitor was in the shape of the Simpsons tv set. We played it from start to finish, I wasn't even bothered that I had to play as Marge. | ||
| May 17th, 2010 05:06 AM | |||
| Vin_Tybul |
You know, after posting that, I suddenly feel very old. Not to mention remembering playing Pac-Man, Galaxian, Moon Patrol, and Space Invaders as a young'un, maybe 6 or 7. We didn't go to an arcade, oh no. My dad took my mom and me to a truck stop. Now, this place wasn't what one would normally picture a truck stop to be. It was actually a nice clean place to grab a good burger and spend the evening playing the arcade games. We all loved it. Ah, what memories. Good times, good times. 
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| May 17th, 2010 04:44 AM | |||
| Vin_Tybul |
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Excellent article, by the way, and also brings back some fond memories for me as well. And 8-track? Let me tell you, son, back in the day, 8-track was the shit. Hell, I can even remember N.W.A.'s 'Straight Outta Compton' being on 8-track. |
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| Dec 6th, 2009 12:26 AM | |||
| singingesser | Hi I have a game that you all have overlooked as one of the best/coolest games ever. It is a game by Global VR call "Vortek V3" the cabinet is absolutely awesome looks like a bee landed on the top of the cabinet and got stuck and it is a great game. When I got it the counterbalance was not right so the person I bought it from said it was too hard to play for extended periods of time and after 10 mins of tinkering it is now weightless effort to play for hours at end. The one I own has 5 different games on it and it is always good for a night with my friends. It is the first full sized arcade I have bought. This game should definately be remembered if the list goes to 100 | ||
| Oct 11th, 2009 03:18 PM | |||
| wyldequinn | BOOO I was hoping to see Galaxy Force II on this list. But instead After burner II took it's spot. Ok yeah after Burner was more popular. But Galaxy force II had superior game play and graphics. As for cabinet design innovation. It had a really cool sit in cockpit, that had a purple flying saucer design. Also it was the first cabinet that not only tilted up and down like after burner but also spined in a full 360 degrees. | ||
| Sep 4th, 2009 06:53 PM | |||
| rabid-penguin |
You know what you forgot "or I may have just not seen" Carn-evil. I may buy the cabinet refurbished for 1400$ |
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| Sep 4th, 2009 06:41 PM | |||
| rabid-penguin | I never knew that they had already created guitar hero based arcade cabinets. Before reading this, I never knew they existed. o_O | ||
| Sep 4th, 2009 05:43 PM | |||
| geniusgene | discs of tron in the arcade in the contemporary hotel at disney world. i can still hear the loud bangs as the discs bounced of the walls during the battle | ||
| Aug 10th, 2009 01:44 AM | |||
| Just Ami | I loved the X-Man game so much when I was little, I bought my very own a few years ago. I love it. It wouldn't even fit through the house entrance until the front door was taken off! Whale of a game, but fun as hell! | ||
| Sep 28th, 2008 07:01 PM | |||
| wastedsage | Funny thing about T-Mek, it was the grand pappy to the Mech Warrior Franchise & later Mech Assult | ||
| Mar 20th, 2008 03:41 AM | |||
| Blaster Atoms |
We have been robbed of our arcades...Now they only languish in disrepair at bus stations and movie theaters... Nice article. |
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| Mar 17th, 2008 05:11 AM | |||
| Roggs |
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| Mar 13th, 2008 06:23 PM | |||
| ZeldaII | Amazing article. The only time I did a lot of jumping up and down and screaming to a video game was when my foot accidentally hit the Power button just as I finally got to the Great Palace in Zelda II and I realized I hadn't saved the game at all!!(Yes, I know. Stupid of me). Lots of memories here. I'll never forget standing on tiptoe at the age of five to play Ms.Pac Man. Keep up the good work, guys. I can't wait for the next 50 greatest Arcade Cabinets. | ||
| Feb 14th, 2008 11:42 AM | |||
| Wyldflame |
Discs Of Tron! My mother's first husband's best friend owned an arcade that, well I used to go to all the time when I was a kid. The had the full version and I remember playing that bad boy religiously. I was barely tall enough to actually PLAY but my god was that an amazing game. It's the loss of games like that, that make me furious to see the loss of the arcade. |
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| Feb 4th, 2008 06:06 PM | |||
| LordMalrog | Amazing article. I hope that cabinets and arcades come back into style. | ||
| Jan 28th, 2008 09:50 PM | |||
| TheDoomThing | Ah, Smash TV, a game i first played on a "Atari History" disk, and i only thing i can say is that its a bitch to play Smash TV on a Ps2 controller. | ||
| Jan 21st, 2008 12:07 AM | |||
| stitchfan626 | although i like most of the cabinets in this one, i'm disappointed that they left out the original Darius which was notorious for being the first shmup that spanned 3 screens wide (which was quite innovative for its time). | ||
| Jan 18th, 2008 09:10 PM | |||
| Mockery | Yeppers, Destructoid has always been really cool about featuring whatever our latest gaming stuff is. Real nice group o' people writing for 'em too. | ||
| Jan 16th, 2008 10:41 PM | |||
| Fathom Zero |
Even Destructoid loves it! http://www.destructoid.com/i-mockery...me-64717.phtml I agree with most of 'em. |
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| Jan 16th, 2008 05:36 PM | |||
| Mockery |
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As for Splatterhouse, the only place online that has a photo of it is klov and sadly, it doesn't look all too impressive, even though the game was awesome. I dig the cheesy marquee though. |
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| Jan 15th, 2008 09:16 PM | |||
| fugmunky | Police 911...i played it for the first time a few days ago. normal shooter with a gun but it detects your bodily movements to hide behind obstacles and what not so you don't get hit by mobster fire...time crisis be damned! | ||
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