Favorite 80's Arcade Game

[Jurched]

Simon's Quest kinda bit. Too easy.

I never won Castlevania and I barely got through Castlevania III.

Super Castlevania for the Super Nintendo was Super-stupid easy, obviously a trip for Downs and Retards. I liked the whipping up and down, though.

Castlevania X was something impossible. Leave it to an anime junkie to come up with that one. It hearkened back to the original in terms of inflexibility and difficulty.

Castlevania Symphony of the Night was extremely easy, but I think was the best game for SONY playstation ever. What can I say, I'm a fan of the ol' side-scrollers, not those shitty first-person perspective time-wasting efforts.

If they came out with a Castlevania overhead like Contra for the playstation, I would be disappointed.

Jurched

 

[gaschamber]

personally i look for video games that arent too difficult, for 2 reasons:

1. i have an extremely bad temper, which results in broken media that i bought.
2. i play them to sit and relax to, and not get stressed out by a game.

 

[tamponsqueezer]

Atari 2600 VCS was the best machine. The Joystick was no joy at all. But it worked.

Faves:
PAC MAN
PAC MAN JR.
DEFENDER
CENTIPEDE
PITFALL II
ENDURO
MISSILE COMMAND
ATLANTIS

Still don't have a Playstation, Nintendo (blahblahblah), or anything new

 

[Jurched]

Faves:
PAC MAN
PAC MAN JR.
DEFENDER
CENTIPEDE
PITFALL II
ENDURO
MISSILE COMMAND
ATLANTIS

Pitfall II was GROUNDbreaking. Nothing like it. That is to say, completing the mission was suddenly more important than the score. Scores have suffered ever since!

Activision games in general were a step ahead of everyone else. The boxes and ads even featured the programmer's names. Back in the day when a single guy or gal could author a video game from beginning to end.

These 2600 games were exceptionally playable:

RIVER RAID
MEGAMANIA

The Atari 5200 was pretty good, but was mostly a hyped rehash of the 2600 variety, and didn't give Atari an edge over its Colecovision and Intellevision competitors.

This game was brilliant:
COUNTERMEASURE

This game demanded a joystick 10 times better than the crappy 5200 controller:

SUPERCOBRA

The Atari 7800 was a better rehash of the 2600 and 5200 games, and therefore could not save Atari's ass from losing majour market share to Nintendo and Sega.

The Atari 400 and 800 computers had video game cartridges, the best of which is:

DEFENDER

Far superior to the 2600 and 5200 versions, but much harder.

Atari's Jaguar was super-hype and a pathetic disappointment. I suppose only the Amiga Superconsole crashed and burned faster.

Jurched

 

[MyHatred]

Do any of you guys remember the game River Raid? That's another game that was pretty kickass.

 

[nyhc7163]

yeah river raid was pretty damn cool! I recently picked up the namco museum for playstation.it has dig dug,galaga,pacman,ms.pacman,and pol postion!exactly like the old coin-up games!it rules!

 

[johnnieCzech]

Crystal Caves...Golden Axe...let us not forget the Prince of Persia...

 

[gaschamber]

prince of persia was tits.

ZAXXON nigga!

 

[Arg_Hamster]

The Lotus-games were pretty cool.

And don´t forget Operation Wolf and Operation Thunderbolt.