Question of the Day – 10/14

October 14th, 2009 at 9:34 am | Views: 1,308 | 67 Comments

I promise today’s question will be easy and one everyone should have an answer to. If you don’t have an answer, well I don’t know how you can call yourself a gamer. Before we go onto today’s question, I will answer yesterday’s question which was, “There are many games that have the power to scare us out of our seats. Whether it be with an enemy popping out of nowhere or some psychological mind game. Have you ever gotten scared from a game? If so, what game was it that scared you?” That game for me was…

Doom 3 on PC. It was actually one of the only times I’ve been scared by a game. Of course, I was playing in the dark with the surround sound on and then out of nowhere came this Imp and scared the living hell out of me.

Now, onto today’s question!

For the most part, games started out as coin-operated arcade machines and due to their success, the home consoles were born. Everyone at some point in their life has been to an arcade and pumped a sh!t load of quarters/tokens into one game, what was/is your favorite arcade game?

If you don’t have a favorite arcade game or haven’t been to an arcade, I don’t know if I can call you a gamer anymore. Just kidding…or am I? Looking forward to your answers!

Kreyg

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67 Comments

WAdeo
October 15, 2009
Reply #1

Simpsons and/or X-men arcade games…nothing better

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BiroZombie
October 15, 2009
Reply #2

“Pac-Man” comes in second place.

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BiroZombie
October 15, 2009
Reply #3

“Street Fighter 2″…I played that a lot when it was first released in the arcades. I still enjoy it today.

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pantera31
October 14, 2009
Reply #4

time crisis and marvel vs capcom 2

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Josalman
October 14, 2009
Reply #5

the ninja turtles arcade games i liked those and pac man also lols

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StrayX
October 14, 2009
Reply #6

Resident Evil on Playstation

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iBeAtalLoFu
October 14, 2009
Reply #7

Pac-man of course

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Inorka
October 14, 2009
Reply #8

I’ve dished out over $500 in the Time Crisis series to this day. Money well spent. ;p

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Ajblue7
October 14, 2009
Reply #9

resident evil arcade games

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Dynamitekyle
October 14, 2009
Reply #10

Tiiime Crisis. And Pac Man too.

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CiviCity
October 14, 2009
Reply #11

the Simpsons arcade game, nuff said

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Freshdim_Chris
October 14, 2009
Reply #12

The ninja turtles and pacman It was my addiction lol

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theGazettEchick
October 14, 2009
Reply #13

the arcade game i played the most was one of the soul calibur games,i think it was SC2. my mom went to this casino and i had to come along, so they had an arcade where the kids get locked up at. so i spent like 12 hours or playing SC2.we were there for like 3 days i think. every time a kid tried to take my game while i was getting quarters i would have to play them for my spot back. i never lost =P

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joeyoe31
October 14, 2009
Reply #14

house of the dead,love the cheesyness of it, man i wish i could play it right now

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Cynicalbrit
October 14, 2009
Reply #15

I was born in ’94, arcades kind of passed by by the time I was seven. However, I played a lot of pacman, and a lot of versions of pacman on my PC. For HOURS AND HOURS AND HOURS. So I guess that will be my game.

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MoeThirteen
October 14, 2009
Reply #16

I got to the arcades at the dawn of the huge machine that cost at least a dollar to operate so the machines that I can call real arcade games that I loved where Revolution X and Time Crisis which my Dad and I played the hell out of.

My local theatre has a Guitar Hero machine. I like playing the demo in the stores but at the theatre I can play it on a flat panel screen at eye level and an awesome sound system built in to the cabinet. I feel like a kid scampering around the “arcade” getting change to plug into the machine so I can play a Mastodon song which of course was not around when I was a kid. Very cool.

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Nero
October 14, 2009
Reply #17

Not really played a whole lot of arcade games but these are ones I have good memory off. First Shadow Dancer. Though it’s really difficult, being a ninja and having a dog/wolf as a helper is just awesome.
Also Chase HQ. While I like the game the reason I remember it is because when you catch up to the bad guy and the siren kicks in, the whole arcade hall can hear the siren. So fucking loud and awesome.

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atomicrocket
October 14, 2009
Reply #18

mortal kombat and marvel vs capcom

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Kiam74
October 14, 2009
Reply #19

i really loved house of the dead and street fighter

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yaboymo93
October 14, 2009
Reply #20

it was Marvel Vs Capcom, the first one, that game was awesome

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LOU8EGA
October 14, 2009
Reply #21

DEFINITELY All the Time Crisis games…… whenever i went to the arcades, i rarely played another game until i ran out of money.

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thatdude101
October 14, 2009
Reply #22

So many great arcade games. Everyone picked some real classics. Im going to say Daytona USA, I loved when some arcades had the version with the 8 cars lined up in a row.

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Greg Arganda
October 14, 2009
Reply #23

Definitely House of the Dead as well, great game even though I was terrible at it.

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Greg Arganda
October 14, 2009
Reply #24

Time Crisis, never have i spent so much on one game, it was just so fun killing people with a fake orange gun.

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ashkon91
October 14, 2009
Reply #25

Jurassic Park arcade machine

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DeltronZero000
October 14, 2009
Reply #26

Even thought i very very rarely went to a arcade, my game of chose was Time Crisis. I always liked the shooters were you got to pick up the gun and blast some people away

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Joe Mama
October 14, 2009
Reply #27

Cruisin USA!

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Kenyi
October 14, 2009
Reply #28

I’d have to go with house of the dead, all of them. Even if the aim was off sometimes, and the reload system never seemed to correctly operate for me, I still greatly enjoying wasting many quarters on that.

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WhatNow
October 14, 2009
Reply #29

TMNT, the one with 4 players, don’t know the exact name, but me and my friends loved that game. Beat it like 3 one day.

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TheFlyingV
October 14, 2009
Reply #30

Cruising World.

Maybe that Star Wars one if it wasn’t like 20 quarters to beat one level

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- John
  October 14, 2009
  Reply #31
  
  The Star Wars Trilogy one?
  I managed to beat up to the last level (attack on the second Death Star) on one credit
  
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Dentro
October 14, 2009
Reply #32

all of the Time Crisis series i couldnt stop playing it

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Johanso
October 14, 2009
Reply #33

Daytona – That game was everywhere, so I ended up being pretty damn good at it.

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Trittg
October 14, 2009
Reply #34

pacman

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KR3W619
October 14, 2009
Reply #35

The Simpsons: The Arcade Game

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ChampIDC
October 14, 2009
Reply #36

The X-men arcade was definitely my favorite.

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Death_Monkey
October 14, 2009
Reply #37

Mortal Kombat 2, oh man. I wish I had an Arcade around my town to still play that.

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MSgtGunny
October 14, 2009
Reply #38

i remember this 4 person like capcom fighter where you fought through levels 4 person coop, it was a side scroller like the simpson’s one, but i like this one

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bluemidnightrayz
October 14, 2009
Reply #39

TMNT was my favourite, it was so fun to play it 4 player co op

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Tovan
October 14, 2009
Reply #40

Dudes, totally loved the Sim

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- Tovan
  October 14, 2009
  Reply #41
  
  Oh god premature comment, I was going to say I loved the Simpson’s arcade game. I had so much fun on that thing with my cousins.
  
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  - John
    October 14, 2009
    Reply #42
    
    Don’t worry, it happens to lots of guys.
    
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  - MasterShakeNBake
    October 14, 2009
    Reply #43
    
    same here Tovan, loved the simpsons arcade game
    
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DeadStretch
October 14, 2009
Reply #44

I’d have to go with either X-Men arcade or the Simpsons one. Sooo many tokens spent at Chuckie Cheese’s…lol

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djw89
October 14, 2009
Reply #45

house of the dead was my favorite arcade back in the day

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- Kiam74
  October 14, 2009
  Reply #46
  
  fuck yea man, me and my dad went to the arcade once every 2 weeks to play that
  
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louie516
October 14, 2009
Reply #47

rampage… the 3 player arcade… effin incredible…. and hells ya xDSJxPyro’s got it right, house of the dead was, is and always will be one of the best… the zombie is dead… long live the zombie!!!

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xDSJxPyro
October 14, 2009
Reply #48

Man I pumped so much money into arcade games but the one that I spent the most time playing would have to be Time Crisis. The House of the Dead is a close 2nd, that game was so much fun as well.

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Sogen
October 14, 2009
Reply #49

MvC2

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xMab94x
October 14, 2009
Reply #50

I loved pac-man, i wasted so much money on it lol

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JaNeMbA666
October 14, 2009
Reply #51

the arcade games i played the most were Daytona, Sega rally, Virtua Striker and Time Crysis

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xsutra
October 14, 2009
Reply #52

Donkey Kong & Frogger.

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turinx
October 14, 2009
Reply #53

I don’t think I had one particular favorite but some of the ones I played the most were anything in the Street Fighter series, Killer Instinct 1/2, Mortal Kombat 1/2/3, Samurai Showdown, Tecmo Bowl, Cruisin’ World.

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SpudFella
October 14, 2009
Reply #54

The Simpsons Arcade Game was awesome.

I remember feeding a lot of coins into all the fighting games back in the day. Super Street Fighter 2, Killer Instinct 2, Mortal Kombat 3, Virtua Fighter 2 and Tekken 2 are the ones that drained my pocket money.

Those were fucking good times and thanks to MAME I can relive those memories but sadly without the adrenaline pumping environment.

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Wayward
October 14, 2009
Reply #55

Aside from the obvious arcade games, that everybody used to play in the 80s, I really enjoyed Pac-Land. That’s ‘Pac-Land’, not Pac-Man. I used to throw coins into it like nothing else.

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Omnislasher
October 14, 2009
Reply #56

Tekken Tag Tournament. It was different than the other arcade fighters with it’s tag feature. Man it was a new and fun Tekken at the time and such a great addition to arcades.

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Techi
October 14, 2009
Reply #57

To this day, I still pump a sh!t load of coins into is Time Crisis. Everytime I go to the arcade, thats were I head. And if they don’t have time crisis, I usual go to the pinball machines xP

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Razorgear
October 14, 2009
Reply #58

I played the shit out of the Metal Slug in the corner store, i would go through handfuls of quarters like a fat guy through french fries. Then the fucking store got robbed and somehow the machine was destroyed in the process. Fucking junkies robbing stores and shit.

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wwefreak45
October 14, 2009
Reply #59

I can’t really remember the name of it. But it was a 4-player game which you were like a wizards or something and had to go through the level. It was really fun though I wasted about 10 $ in one day just on that game. Another one is the Car racing ones too ^-^!

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- Jared Miller
  October 14, 2009
  Reply #60
  
  wwefreak45 you are probably talking about Gauntlet Legends. I have to say one of my favorite was the Simpson’s game from Konami.
  
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Steven
October 14, 2009
Reply #61

There was 3 main games. Metal Slug 3 it was just too fun. The star wars game I just had to kill vader no matter how long it took. And the last was time crisis 1-2, I thought it was so cool that the guns would blowback and they had that pedal for cover.

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Visualsights
October 14, 2009
Reply #62

Timesplitter games i would stand there winning lvls wth my best friends for hours ^_^

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Mortalized
October 14, 2009
Reply #63

Crazy taxi! Oh yess!!!

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hardyfan122
October 14, 2009
Reply #64

I havent played many arcade games but id have 2 say The Simpsons Arcade Game was Good

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Rusty
October 14, 2009
Reply #65

A few games that i played in the arcade that were my fav were, Area 51, Grid (should be on console), Pac-man of course.

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Nolan0wnsyou
October 14, 2009
Reply #66

My first game I wanted to play through ’till the end was Metal Slug 3. It pissed me off, but it was so addictive.

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babyreuth
October 14, 2009
Reply #67

Asteroids was the one i seemed to get addicted to. I still hear the crappy countdown and sound effects in my nightmares.

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