Diamonddave Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 Original 8-bit NES with Mario/Duck Hunt bundled. Never got to be Mario, had to settle for Luigi being the youngest. Namtak, Galen130 and MetalPSI 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor K Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 I had it good growing up in the 70's and 80's on a beach town in New Jersey. 5 minute bike ride to the boardwalk that had dozens of arcades, some open all year even in the Winter when it was darn near a ghost town. Golden Age of video games. We'd have the whole arcade to ourselves. Every week new games. I think I played 99% of every video game ever made from 1978 to 1989, and pinballs too. Some arcades had some really neat old stuff probably from the 1930's to 1950's. Funny story, some person named GOD had crazy high scores on so many games up there. Like impossible high scores. But we never met GOD in any of the arcades, always wondered who this guy was. In the late 90's I met a guy in a bar who used to give change in one of the arcades. He used to work on the games too all over the boardwalk. Like a video game repairman. He was GOD. And he was a fraud. He knew how to put those crazy scores in them without playing them. Roo_Phillip, F For Fake and Makmorn 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoggyNelson Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 Me an my buds hung out at the video arcades a lot in my younger days 👍‼️ It was fun times😋 MetalPSI , Professor K and F For Fake 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F For Fake Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 On 11/6/2022 at 7:38 PM, mrlatko said: Dig Dug is still great. That was the first cartridge I received as a gift for my Atari 800 computer. Great port, very close to the arcade version. I also have an original Dig Dug arcade cabinet in my basement collection. Such a blast. Ooh, I'd love to see that cabinet AND the collection! I love those old cabinets so much. The only one I have is a vintage Pac-Man. My uncle owned it since the 80's, and I played it all the time as a kid. He passed a few years ago, and my aunt asked for help selling it. I listed it with local gaming groups, but we just got one lowball after another. So I told my aunt that I'd match whatever the best offer was, because I'd rather keep it in the family than give it away for practically nothing. So she agreed, and then surprised me by giving it to me for my birthday, refusing to take any money at all. I had to put a lot of work into it. Took it apart and wiped off LAYERS of black gunk, from years of smokers standing over the machine in the arcade it came from. The monitor had to be re-capped and de-gauzed and god knows what else (I know a guy that fixes old machines professionally) and I put a lot of money into fixing up the body myself (new bezel, new trim), but it was all worth it to have it back in good shape again. The wife has put a nix on any more huge cabinets coming into the house ,but man, I love them. A Dig Dug would be sweet. I'd also love a Tron and a Donkey Kong. Maybe one day! MetalPSI 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mrlatko Posted November 23, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted November 23, 2022 On 11/23/2022 at 10:43 AM, F For Fake said: Ooh, I'd love to see that cabinet AND the collection! I love those old cabinets so much. The only one I have is a vintage Pac-Man. My uncle owned it since the 80's, and I played it all the time as a kid. He passed a few years ago, and my aunt asked for help selling it. I listed it with local gaming groups, but we just got one lowball after another. So I told my aunt that I'd match whatever the best offer was, because I'd rather keep it in the family than give it away for practically nothing. So she agreed, and then surprised me by giving it to me for my birthday, refusing to take any money at all. I had to put a lot of work into it. Took it apart and wiped off LAYERS of black gunk, from years of smokers standing over the machine in the arcade it came from. The monitor had to be re-capped and de-gauzed and god knows what else (I know a guy that fixes old machines professionally) and I put a lot of money into fixing up the body myself (new bezel, new trim), but it was all worth it to have it back in good shape again. The wife has put a nix on any more huge cabinets coming into the house ,but man, I love them. A Dig Dug would be sweet. I'd also love a Tron and a Donkey Kong. Maybe one day! Awesome story! I was obsessed with Pac-Man back in the early 80s. I had all the patterns down, up until the 9th key (Like they say in Pac-Man Fever). I was a show off until that stage, then I had no clue and would die quick. Here are some of my basement games. A Donkey Kong mini, Tron, Dig Dug, Pac-Man Cocktail, and one of the holy grails: Dragon's Lair! 1950's war comics, Ken Aldred, factory sealed and 4 others 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F For Fake Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 On 11/23/2022 at 5:14 PM, mrlatko said: Awesome story! I was obsessed with Pac-Man back in the early 80s. I had all the patterns down, up until the 9th key (Like they say in Pac-Man Fever). I was a show off until that stage, then I had no clue and would die quick. Here are some of my basement games. A Donkey Kong mini, Tron, Dig Dug, Pac-Man Cocktail, and one of the holy grails: Dragon's Lair! Oh wooooow, I love it! Man, that’s a great collection. I am very jealous of the Tron, I think it’s still one of the best looking cabinets ever made, maybe my all time favorite. Ha, well, I’ve always loved Pac-Man, but I’m still comically bad at it, especially when you consider the number of hours I’ve put into throughout my life! MetalPSI and mrlatko 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post F For Fake Posted November 25, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted November 25, 2022 Here’s my Pac-Man cab. Black light doesn’t show up well in the pics. mrlatko, factory sealed, Professor K and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetalPSI Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 On 11/25/2022 at 1:43 PM, F For Fake said: Here’s my Pac-Man cab. Black light doesn’t show up well in the pics. Man that brings back memories F For Fake 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrlatko Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 On 11/25/2022 at 12:43 PM, F For Fake said: Here’s my Pac-Man cab. Black light doesn’t show up well in the pics. Looks beautiful! F For Fake 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamonddave Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 Bit of a flex, but a great memory. Original MK, 18 game pvp win streak with Raiden on the P2 stick at Kristoffs in Round Lake Beach IL. Was given $5 to lose on purpose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rucnok Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 i found this lying around...never opened. 1950's war comics, Roo_Phillip and MAY1979 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAY1979 Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 (edited) On 10/11/2022 at 1:25 PM, Qalyar said: TI-99/4A. Played a lot of TI Invaders, Chisolm Trail, Hunt the Wumpus, and a great many of the Scott Adams Adventure cassettes. Nice! My 6 favorites from the platform are: Tunnel's Of Doom Alpiner Tombstone City Zero Zap TI Invaders Munchman Through the Magic of Emulation starting in 1996 and continues to this day I'm able to enjoy them. Back in 2000 I even picked up a set of new/old stock TI Joysticks. You cant get the real experience without those stiff TI Joysticks (keep it clean folks they really are horrid). They are compatible with most 2600 Joystick USB adapters. Edited September 2 by MAY1979 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1950's war comics Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 the last video game i ever played was Madden 96 when it came out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1950's war comics Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 when the Pac-Man arcade game first came out i was hooked !! but i was so lousy that i spent $5 one night in about 2 hours,, then i got better and could play for a long time on just one quarter.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1950's war comics Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 anyone ever play Death Race ? from 1976? they had one at our big arcade in East Lansing - Pinball Pete's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Aldred Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 On 9/2/2024 at 12:47 PM, 1950's war comics said: anyone ever play Death Race ? from 1976? they had one at our big arcade in East Lansing - Pinball Pete's 1976, and looks superior to this monstrosity from 1982, an eternity in games development... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melissayong Posted September 12 Share Posted September 12 (edited) My first console was the NES, and my favorite game was Ice Hockey. Mini Militia App Lock Edited Friday at 09:13 PM by melissayong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...