Ha ha! Arguing about blank cassette tape quality 
Why not argue about something important and relevant to the thread?
âWhat is the difference between Pac-man and Ms pac-man, really?â
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I loved wonder boy, shinobi, dj boy and one other that was basically a walk through fighting game like double dragon etc but I canât think of the name
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Did you bash up cars at the end of levels for bonus points?
Although I played games in the era of the op I was very young. My Dad worked at a place that had a sit down arcade machine and he had a key to get the coins out. So that was how I was baby sat some holidays. I remember galaga and dig dug but my favourite was that elevator game.
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Moon Cresta.
I droped a lot of 20âs into that one at the Emerald âchew and spewâ back in the day.
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Yeah maybe. I think there were very un-pc bad guys dressed like blue oyster bar patrons who tried to bum you�
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Final Fight!
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This was my era of arcade games. Where I was old enough for my mum to let me go to Moorabbin bowl with my mates. Did anyone else use clickers from hot water units to get free credits?
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Actually you are on topic!
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Like I said originally, as cool as the classic arcade games were, this was the only one that could legitimately make you feel tension and fear.
Rage and bloodlust, sure, but not tension and fear.
Did anyone play Dragonâs Lair? It was amazing to watch back in the day as laser disc technology was so different to other games at the time. Strange game play as you had to make the correct move at the right time to survive. You couldnât just go mental with your sword which would have been ace. I could make it to the end to save Princess Daphne. Once had nearly all the people in the Timezone on William St next to Hungry Jacks stop what they were doing to crowd around to watch. âHey! This kidâs gonna make it!â Cost .40c a pop in â83 which was farking heaps (you could get the pinnacle of icecreams, the Giant Sandwich for .60c) so it was a little deflating to kill the dragon, save the princess and all you get is a peck on the cheek followed by âGame Overâ. Looking back it was hardly worth it.
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Did you at least get laid at the end of it?
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No but we worked out that if you spun a .2c piece hard into the coin slot of the sit-down Galaxian at Doms on the cnr of Oxford and Scarborough Bch Rd in Mt Hawthorn, every now and then it would register a credit. Dom went sick when he saw all the .2c coins when the service guy opened it up to collect the money.
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Not even close. You have to remember that arcades were populated by 99% blokes. I did hear a few âthat kidâs amazingâ whispers as youâd leave the game with the onlookers in silent awe.
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And tell me those who Played Hyper Olympics used the ânail brushâ technique to improve sprint times? You could go faster than Carl Lewis.
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I never took the time or money to get good at it but it was great to watch. Space Ace was the other copy style game that had graphics that were miles ahead of other games but no free gameplay. Afterburner was the 1st real motion game I remember but I think it was also the 1st $1 game.
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Galaga
Joust
Preferred pinnies, myself.
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I wanted to be better at Joust.
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I was ace at Qix, Tempest, Battlezone and Q-Bert. Once you had trapped the sparks in Qix, the game was yours.
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Yeh, I was crap at it too. My mates were guns though.
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