Best 1980's Arcade Game ?

[BeenHereBefore 1,447]

Tough one but go with Pac Man and Mario Bros a close second with Frogger coming in the rear.

[bostonlager 2,664]

I vote Super Mario Bros, but I was more a 90s arcade player. Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam. 

[seafoam1 2,794]

centipede

[bostonlager 2,664]

80s video games in general? Hard to go wrong with NES original Legend of Zelda and a very underrated game - Maniac Mansion

[Strike 5,178]

Asteroids

[BeenHereBefore 1,447]

3 minutes ago, bostonlager said:

I vote Super Mario Bros, but I was more a 90s arcade player. Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam. 

I was hook on House of The Dead in the 90's. Arcade wise.

[Cruzer 1,995]

Def Galaga...........but Defender needs to at least be listed as well. 

[jerryskids 6,543]

35 minutes ago, seafoam1 said:

centipede

 

33 minutes ago, Strike said:

Asteroids

IMO the Mt Rushmore of OG games is these two, Space Invaders, and Pac Man

[Mark Davis 338]

For me in the 80's arcade it was Gauntlet, NBA Jam was the one of the 90's for me

[supermike80 1,793]

Robotron

[BunnysBastatrds 2,301]

Galaga

Pac Land

Tempest

Excite Bike

[bostonlager 2,664]

Contra

[BunnysBastatrds 2,301]

Track &Field was fun. I could tap my fingers so fast.

 

 Xavier

 

Centiped

 

 Frogger

 

 

[seafoam1 2,794]

2 minutes ago, BunnysBastatrds said:

Track &Field was fun. I could tap my fingers so fast.

 

 Xavier

 

Centiped

 

 Frogger

 

 

Track and Field was awesome! 

[edjr 6,578]

Dragon's Lair.  - What do I win?

[BunnysBastatrds 2,301]

43 minutes ago, Cruzer said:

Def Galaga...........but Defender needs to at least be listed as well. 

 I got pissed off at my ex wife when I was thirty and decided to go to the arcade and play Galaga. Turned it over, a million +.  Should have died at 9999.99 to have the record on the board. But wanted to hit a million points. My right hand was so tired, I didn’t jerk off for a month.

 

Missle Comand was bad ass too. Had tournaments at the bar. Good times.   
 

 

 

 

 

[Mike Honcho 5,076]

I to this day still play a Galaga rom.  Love that game.

No one's mention it, but Tron was a pretty cool game too.

 

[SUXBNME 1,454]

1 hour ago, supermike80 said:

Robotron

Good one

[seafoam1 2,794]

Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back on Nintendo. 

[SUXBNME 1,454]

3 minutes ago, seafoam1 said:

Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back on Nintendo. 

Read the title

Best 1980's Arcade Game 

 

[Mike Honcho 5,076]

Also, Space Invaders came out in '78, if that matters.

Also, if you want you can play it online right now.

 

https://elgoog.im/space-invaders/

[posty 2,608]

Arch Rivals

Two Tigers

[posty 2,608]

2 minutes ago, SUXBNME said:

Read the title

Best 1980's Arcade Game 

 

Reading isn’t a strong point for them…

[seafoam1 2,794]

1 minute ago, SUXBNME said:

Read the title

Best 1980's Arcade Game 

 

OMG!!!   Such a disaster of me not saying the same titles over and over again that everyone has already said and taking the thread in a different direction!!! 

[seafoam1 2,794]

4 minutes ago, posty said:

Reading isn’t a strong point for them…

Only a tranny would say "them".  Phag 

[wiffleball 4,788]

Star Castle. 

 

Swear I still have PTSD from that. 

[Mike Honcho 5,076]

23 minutes ago, posty said:

Arch Rivals

Two Tigers

Arch Rivals was hysterical! Loved that game. 

I liked to play Crystal Castles a lot back then too.

 

 

[Voltaire 5,180]

Elf shot the food.

Warrior is about to die.

[SUXBNME 1,454]

1 hour ago, seafoam1 said:

OMG!!!   Such a disaster of me not saying the same titles over and over again that everyone has already said and taking the thread in a different direction!!! 

What you posted wasn't an Arcade game. hth

[SUXBNME 1,454]

24 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

Elf shot the food.

Warrior is about to die.

Yep.  
Volty wins this thread 

[Mike Honcho 5,076]

1 minute ago, SUXBNME said:

Yep.  
Volty wins this thread 

No way, that game was terrible, just a huge quarter suck!

[seafoam1 2,794]

1 hour ago, posty said:

Reading isn’t a strong point for them…

Sue me I said Nintendo instead of Atari. 

Focking idiots want to make everything a problem even if you are wrong.

1 hour ago, SUXBNME said:

Read the title

Best 1980's Arcade Game 

 

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is the sequel to the vector graphics Star Wars arcade video game released by Atari, Inc. in 1983. It was made available by Atari Games in 1985 as a conversion kit for the original game. As in Star Wars, the player takes on the role of Luke Skywalker in a set of battle sequences from a first-person perspective. The game features the Battle of Hoth and the subsequent escape of the Millennium Falcon through an asteroid field. It is the third Star Wars arcade title from Atari; the raster game Return of the Jedi came out the previous year.

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
North American arcade flyer
Developer(s)	Atari Games[1]
Publisher(s)	Atari Games[1]
Designer(s)	Mike Hally
Programmer(s)	Greg Rivera Norm Avellar
Artist(s)	Dave Ralston
Composer(s)	Brad Fuller
Platform(s)	Arcade, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro

[seafoam1 2,794]

1 hour ago, SUXBNME said:

Yep.  
Volty wins this thread 

You want to claim loser?

[seafoam1 2,794]

1 hour ago, SUXBNME said:

What you posted wasn't an Arcade game. hth

You want to claim loser?

[patweisers44 815]

Stargate

[Gepetto 1,285]

The closest and only restaurant/bar to where we lived as kids had one arcade game https://www.arcade-history.com/?n=gun.smoke&page=detail&id=1045 Gun.Smoke.  It was pretty fun.

 

 

[Super Cubs 153]

Galaga and Ms Pac Man were the best.

For some reason I excelled at Tempest

Track and Field if you had a comb and new how to hold it in your fingers all you had to do was hit one button and let the comb do the rest of the work.

[Gepetto 1,285]

Ms. Pac Man, Frogger, and Centipede were my favorites.  My grandma worked the concessions at a roller skating rink and they had all of these games and more and skee ball.

A friend of mine in the 1990s had the full size arcade game Galaga at his house.  

[JustinCharge 2,397]

hands down Star Wars 1983 cockpit arcade game.  this was waaaaaay ahead of its time.  honestly cockpit style arcade games are the last survivor in modern game rooms like jurassic park (2015), Dark Escape 4D (2012), the Walking Dead (2017), Star Wars Battle Pod (2014), Area 51 (1995), Area 51 sequel (1998), Monster Eye 5D (2014), Mach Storm (2013), After Dark Deluxe (2013), 

 

 

[Reality 3,092]

Double Dragon, co-op with buddies, y'all suck at this.