So this Jaust happened…
 

Sorry, but as a child of the 70s/80s I just couldn’t help myself. This has been stuck in my head since seeing the original thread…
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Nice! I love Among Us!

Shirley you Jaust?

Good luck everyone knows to film you

S10,000 worth of quarters there was major robberies this past week on laundromats. Same night.

I freaking knew it

That was a good game, very creative. I was decent at it, but I wasn't one of the Joust aces of my town.

I never could figure that game out. I was a Defender savant.

I don't even know what this game is

Meat Spin

just google image searched this

looks like fun!

It was very similar to defender, but with flying ostriches and lances. Less shooting, more impaling.

Joust was a very popular game back in the 1980s in central Missouri. Maybe elsewhere too.

It looks like a guy riding an ostrich with his wang sticking out.

That’s pretty much the gist of it except the ostrichs could fly and the wang was a lance.

It's possible that I spent more money in arcades each month in college than I paid for rent. Not joking.

Asteroids!

Konami Super Basketball and Track and Field were two of my favorites. My wife was a Galaga girl.

I just got a arcade simulator. It's a little different than a mame machine but will run pretty much any game in its native resolution and speed. It has a CRT so the games look just like you remember them. I'm not sure how many games are on it but more than 20k I'd guess. All the arcade games plus most everything from Sega Nes and all the other consoles including coleco vision. I'll have to play with it a bit tonight.

Galaxian was my canvas for creating masterpieces. I saw some arcade record book in the store years after arcades died, and it had the highest known scores for various games. My personal high score was something like 6 times higher than the purported record. But the book was flawed because there was some other guy on campus whose high score was something like 6 times higher than mine. I could make one quarter last for 90 minutes or so, and that guy could play all day on quarter. Nonetheless, I was the second-best player I ever saw.

I was decent at a bunch of different games, though not in the elite ranks. Centipede/Millipede, Frogger, Space Duel, and some others. I was okay at Defender and Asteroids, but not really better than an average arcade addict.

What does something like that go for?

Idk I got it from my brother. He got it for something like 500 used but has upgraded a bunch. I think I'm going to add light guns and ports to use original controllers for nes games it currently has ports for Xbox and Sega controllers as well as bluetooth?? Maybe it's wifi. He just wanted to put it in my theater room we will use it more there than at his house. I will try to post a picture when I get home.

The more I think about it, I probably shouldn't own one. I've already frittered away months of my life on those games.

So this is the game that was in the Ready Player One book lol

I hear you, herself would probably kill me if I start spending a bunch of time on it. But we like to entertain and some people don't like pool and darts etc. It will be something for those times and adds another area for people to congregate.

No idea haven't seen the movie or read the book?
:)

Defender, best game ever made. Fact.

Wasn't very good at either one however... Give me Tempest!

Hide the sausage.

Fart, now I’m checking my dads pocket for change.
Curse you Jim!

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There was a game in the late 70s called Kickman that I loved but it never caught on. How could a game featuring a clown on a unicycle catching balloons on his head (and an occasional Pac-Man) not catch on?

Loved this game. What could be better then a simulated bike ride?





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Loved it!

Loved that game. Wasn't the best at it, but I was way better at Joust than Defender.

I couldn't either...but I was like 5 years old and my friend's brother never bothered to explain it to me

Was he hot

I liked Joust but I never was very good at it. Frogger was my jam. I routinely would set high scores on it. I wanted to be good at Centipede and Galaxian but never could. I've played all of these on emulators over the years but they just aren't as fun without the original controls (Centipede without a trackball sucks).

The game that could really eat quarters, though, was Guantlet, since it let you continue on by pumping quarters into it during the game. I could easily go through a roll of quarters in an evening playing it with a friend. "Elf needs food badly"

That’s impressive as that is one of the hardest retro games

LMAOLMAO

Xenophobe. Flushed a ton of quarters (tokens) at Metcalf South on that game.

I remember going to the arcade one summer day with my sister when I was a kid and playing Gauntlet for hours. Went thru $60 in quarters. Well, probably a few other games but mostly gauntlet.

S60 in quarters??? Good luck everyone knows to film you

I have been looking for the Defender arcade machine now. (The original)

Zaxxon would be cool too

Spy Hunter

Spy hunter would be cool.

That game rocked.

Pole Position
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Once you get to level three and the platforms start disintegrating and the buzzard flies in from the side, and the flaming lava hands reach up to grab you, it gets impossibly hard immediately.

I was good at neither, Frontline by Taito I could however play for hours on 1 quarter. :D

DigDug Rocked!

This Jaust lived near you?

Lode Runner was fun

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:clap: My mom got me this for Christmas a few years ago.

Digdug, Pac-Man, and a few others

Great game, I played Joust, Asteroids, and Galaga the most back then.

All your ostriches are belong to us. 😎

Loved dig dug!

One of the first games I ever played. On the Apple II C.

Same.

It was either Lode Runner or MicroLeague Baseball as the first game I ever played on the Apple.

I'll just take a trip down memory lane...

Spy Hunter
Pole Position
Cyberball
Track and Field by Konami
Tapper
Gauntlet "Valkyrie is about to die!!"
Dragon's Lair
Galaga
Galaxian
Tron
Almost forgot 720

Thanks for the memories!

Other than Lode Runner, I played a lot of the original Might and Magic games. Even learned how to edit hex code to cheat. :)

This was my first gaming system. I'm kind of surprised that it's not worth a bunch of money, because it was an early, early game.

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I actually bought an Arcade One standup machine about a year ago that has Joust, Defender, Rampage, Wizard Of War, 3 Mortal Combats (that are impossibly hard for some reason), Paperboy, and a couple of other games. I think it says Midway 40th anniversary 12 games. I mainly got it for Defender, Joust, and Wizard Of War. I always loved playing Defender at the arcade. I wasn't very good at it but I thought it was a cool game. One other game on there is Rootbeer Tapper. I don't remember this game from back in the day but I find it very fun and addictive.

I also ended up buying a machine that a company in Tampa, Fl. built for me that has something like 400+ games. It has all the Donkey Kongs (mainly why I got this particular one), all the Pac Mans, Galaga, Galaxian, Zaxxon, and whole bunch of other stuff. It even has games like Centipede, Millipede, Tron, etc. but without the trackball or the knob, those games don't play very well. Still, a lot of good stuff from my childhood that I couldn't have imagined at the time that I'd have all of those in a standup arcade in my basement someday.

That's a wicked cool machine man. Paperboy is a great game.

This was mine.

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That's another one I dumped a bunch of quarters into.

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Never heard of it. Is the premise that you go around the neighborhood delivering news papers and end up banging a bunch of hot MILFs?

BTW, if anyone is interested, this is the company I used for that second machine I mentioned.

Doc and Pies Arcade Factory
2010 13Ave. North
Saint Petersburg, FL 33713
727-502-9456
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When my oldest was around 10 I took him to the video store (before they became extinct) and rented him a game. He played about about 30 minutes and started bitching that it sucked.

I broke out the original Atari 2600 and hooked it up. It was comical for the first 10 minutes. He needed to pause it to go to the bathroom I explained he couldn't. That pissed him off. When the game was over he asked how to save it...no go, have to start over. He decided he was done with it....I made him play another hour :)

When all was said and done he decided the game I rented for him wasn't so bad.

You should get your son to play Crawl with you.

Here is something me a my buddies couldn't walk by without slamming quarters into.
The terrible audio of the crowd going nuts, the greasy dome...ah yeah...good times.
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I just can't play games anymore.

Since I'm stuck at home now my wife keeps trying to get me to so I have something to pass the time. When I was in my 20s it would have been a wet dream to have someone try and convince me to.

Maybe I'll try again today.

Between what my oldest left here and what my youngest has there is well north of 100 games and I can't find one to interest me.

You should take up watching porn

You're assuming I haven't

Pitfall at a friends house is the first game I remember. Or maybe it was Mario Bros.

Pretty sure pitfall came before Mario bros

Crawl is a asymmetric retro dungeon crawler where one player is the "hero" and the remaining players are monsters trying to kill him. Pretty fun.

Pitfall was Atari, Mario Bros was Nintendo, correct?

I don't think they overlapped. Once Nintendo came out Atari disappeared in a hurry. If I'm remembering right

Atari was already done a couple years before Mario Bros was released for the NES. The video game crash of 1983 killed them.

Ironically, Atari started making games for the NES around 1988 under the brand name "Tengen".

Dude Micro League Baseball II is still my favorite baseball game, I wish I could find a good *cracked* copy because my disks died Long ago.

Anyone remember Aztec on the Apple II?

I was thinking they were closer. I remember the last Atari I game I got was ET for Christmas. Which later was considered the final nail in the Atari coffin

This thread gonna kill me, anyone remember playing Atari football at the arcade?

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10 yard fight? Man those games were the shizzles