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Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Looking back, it's a bit strange to see how some things just didn't click for my little kid brain even though it was able to accomplish things that my old/slow brain barely even believes.
This fucking thing was like magic in the arcade. It's like a cartoon that you can play! only it costs $1 per go and after trying, I wasn't even sure if it had worked or I'd just watched an intro. The price was too steep for me to ever figure it out. It's maybe the first real quicktime event game? Tiny me was fucking bewildered though. For anyone else with the nostalgia, there's a port of it on Steam with a cheat mode that gives the quicktime prompts. It was fucking great to finally beat this even if I did feel like a dirty cheat.
And speaking of things I just didn't get, the fucking games where basically everything was an easter egg broke my little kid brain. There are playthroughs of these up now. I was somehow like one step from beating this but never quite got there.
And this one was just full nope
Real life prizes was definitely the stuff of little kid dreams though!- 6
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Holy crap! I haven't thought about this game in 30 years! I wore the keys out on my TRS-80 playing this by hitting the keys too hard. The Wizard was impossible to destroy.
My first "computer".
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Brahma
Obi-Bro Kenobi-X
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Am looking at getting the Steam version of Dragon's Lair. Again, back in the day it was like some magical machine had appeared from the future where you played an animated film.
Also an option:
1/6th scale version for home use.
I believe it has a HDMI plug option so that you can connect it to your TV and play on the big screen.
But I'd still go for the Steam version
Also an option:
1/6th scale version for home use.
I believe it has a HDMI plug option so that you can connect it to your TV and play on the big screen.
But I'd still go for the Steam version
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Tarisk
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To me, the game that gave that feeling (despite ultimately being an awful game I think. But as a kid I didn't care). was this:
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Hatorade
A nice asshole.
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Ha there was this pay to get in game are free arcade that had that game, even free it was bullshit. Death was so sudden and unavoidable, after 300 times listening to the bad acting I noped out.
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Pumpkin Thief
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Pumpkin Thief
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Pumpkin Thief
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Played it on my dad's Apple. Was a hack for it in some gaming magazine that let you boost your characters levels to some insane power. From there it was nothing but changing hex code in saved games. Got my first computer a couple years later (Commodore Vic 20) and was peeking and poking sprites all day, every day.
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
Let's Play Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord by Chokes McGee
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I recreated so many of my fav arcade games (and even made a pinball emulation of Centaur on it) on this glofifed hunk of shit. Holy Memberies, this was my first PC at 13 and my parents saved hard for it as combined Xmas and BDay gift. I was not upset in the slightest. The bullshit I had to learn to make magic happen on this turd is what made me a decent IT tech today. I wish my parents had not tossed this in the trash because it would be in my trophy case for how hard I worked to milk 16k on it.
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Lets go for some Atari X-Rated Action! Droppin Jizz Kaboom Style!
There were 3 Mystique carts. Custers Revenge, Beat em and eat em, and bachelor party!
Then Playaround bought them all up and did double ender cartridges. Playaround was smart and actually flipped the games so they could be played from a female perspective. Bachelor party was chasing chicks and Bachelorette party was chasing dudes. So many atari unknowns.
If you want to learn something no one knew, look up Arcadia Supercharger. There were actually 12 Atari 2600 games released on cassette tape!
There were 3 Mystique carts. Custers Revenge, Beat em and eat em, and bachelor party!
Then Playaround bought them all up and did double ender cartridges. Playaround was smart and actually flipped the games so they could be played from a female perspective. Bachelor party was chasing chicks and Bachelorette party was chasing dudes. So many atari unknowns.
If you want to learn something no one knew, look up Arcadia Supercharger. There were actually 12 Atari 2600 games released on cassette tape!
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When I see this machine, I hear a witchy female voice saying, "You will die!", after you hit start.
Also, I spent a small fortune in quarters on this at the mall when I was 13 in the 80s.
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Of all arcade games, this was the one I was best at, I just had a knack to it.
Operation Thunderbolt, It was the sequel to operation Wolf.
I could play, on one coin 95% of the way through the game. If you know the game, it's only the final level where you battle down the center walkway of a parked passenger jet. I could get most of the way down there before the massed enemies would finally get me. It might have been that the arcade that I used to go to had the machine set on an easier setting. Not sure as it was the only one I played.
FYI I actually worked in a very large game arcade in the early 90's servicing the machines, pinball, we had a shooting gallery, redemption machines. So I got to play many of the games listed here. But alas, the place never had an Operation Thunderbolt machine, or Dragon's Lair. We did have that Hologram time traveler, oh yeah some low quality acting.
Operation Thunderbolt, It was the sequel to operation Wolf.
I could play, on one coin 95% of the way through the game. If you know the game, it's only the final level where you battle down the center walkway of a parked passenger jet. I could get most of the way down there before the massed enemies would finally get me. It might have been that the arcade that I used to go to had the machine set on an easier setting. Not sure as it was the only one I played.
FYI I actually worked in a very large game arcade in the early 90's servicing the machines, pinball, we had a shooting gallery, redemption machines. So I got to play many of the games listed here. But alas, the place never had an Operation Thunderbolt machine, or Dragon's Lair. We did have that Hologram time traveler, oh yeah some low quality acting.
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