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Anonymous
February 16, 2019
Question

What's Your Favourite Arcade Game?

And you can only choose ONE!

For me it would have to be the Star Wars game with wireframe graphics where you had to fight Tie Fighters and blow up the Death Star. The sound and music were amazing at the time and the gameplay was great.

I ALMOST opted for Track & Field, Double Dragon, Defender and Scramble but Star Wars JUST edged it! B)

The BEST thing I've ever enjoyed in an arcade wasn't a game but a Dalek you could sit in where you could move the gun and plunger and get it to scream EXTERMINATE!!! That was so awesome to play with when I was a kid. They had one at the Broadstairs arcade in the 70s.

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    Wildt
    Inspiring
    February 18, 2019

    kojack said:

    AMOS on the Amiga was awesome.

    NO

    kojack
    kojack
    Honored Contributor
    February 18, 2019

    Wildt said:


    kojack said:

    AMOS on the Amiga was awesome.

    NO



    I think your keyboard has a problem.


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    bigmike20vt
    Honored Contributor
    February 18, 2019

    Wildt said:


    kojack said:

    AMOS on the Amiga was awesome.

    NO



    out of curiosity what was wrong with it?  It was a bit beyond me, the furthest i ever got into games making was SEUCK


    but that had little to no coding in it

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    Wildt
    Inspiring
    February 18, 2019

    bigmike20vt said:


    Wildt said:


    kojack said:

    AMOS on the Amiga was awesome.

    NO



    out of curiosity what was wrong with it?  It was a bit beyond me, the furthest i ever got into games making was SEUCK


    but that had little to no coding in it



    I never saw anything but poorly performing crap coming out of it.

    Some people even attempted to compete in demo compos with stuff they made using it, and unless it was some glorified slideshow which relied on humor, it was garbage. Slow garbage.
    kevinw729
    kevinw729
    Inspiring
    February 28, 2019
    Currently:


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf5gnOMTaGU
    https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959
    Anonymous
    February 28, 2019
    I absolutely LOVED the House Of The Dead games, any lightgun game is awesome in my book. CarnEvil is the best of all time though imo. A shame that the game died when Midway did :(
    kevinw729
    kevinw729
    Inspiring
    February 28, 2019

    snowdog said:

    I absolutely LOVED the House Of The Dead games, any lightgun game is awesome in my book. CarnEvil is the best of all time though imo. A shame that the game died when Midway did :(



    Sorry @snowdog - but gun games doing okay in the amusement scene long after Midway went??
    We have the great HoTD with the new launch last year, we have the Big Buck series doing storming across the market (both amusement and barcades), and we have the new school of mounted blasters like Jurassic World and Walking Dead. Sounds like you need to get out more  B)

    https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959
    falken76
    Honored Contributor
    February 28, 2019
    Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting edition.  I loved all the Street Fighter 2 games, but this was my favorite, it might have even been a mod that was at the local Golf n Stuff.  It might have been called Rainbow edition, I can't recall since there were so many of them made.
    Anonymous
    February 28, 2019

    kevinw729 said:


    snowdog said:

    I absolutely LOVED the House Of The Dead games, any lightgun game is awesome in my book. CarnEvil is the best of all time though imo. A shame that the game died when Midway did :(



    Sorry @snowdog - but gun games doing okay in the amusement scene long after Midway went??
    We have the great HoTD with the new launch last year, we have the Big Buck series doing storming across the market (both amusement and barcades), and we have the new school of mounted blasters like Jurassic World and Walking Dead. Sounds like you need to get out more  B)




    I was specifically talking about CarnEvil, not lightgun games in general. CarnEvil died with Midway. It was an amazing game.
    kevinw729
    kevinw729
    Inspiring
    February 28, 2019

    snowdog said:


    I was specifically talking about CarnEvil, not lightgun games in general. CarnEvil died with Midway. It was an amazing game.



    Oh, okay - yeah - a sad day when they bit the big one. The fall out from Pinball2000 was just too much for them and they went. There had been a plan for a buy out, but the consumer management nixed it, even though the amusement division was still viable.

    If you likes CarnEvil, this is a nice shooter in a similar vein [Target Terror - 2005]:




    https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959
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