Arcade players...a challenge...
 

Well, kinda...I just want some assistance in finding the titles of a few arcade games I played a while back...

1: Some late 80's, early 90's beat-em-up...all I know is that it was one of those 2-player generic kindve ones, looked a little like final fight. One thing specifically I remember that in the cutscenes between stages, at least a couple of times, they went from one level to another on jet-skis. You didn't control these scenes, they'd just show the player/s leaving and arriving on them.

2: One game, maybe mid 80's...the storyline was that there was a prison breakout, many convicts escape. You're a cop, and you're out on the streets. You start out with a pistol but can upgrade to machine gun or bazooka if you rescued women and children running around. Their was early voice technology on this one (A lot like the type in the old starwars arcade games), at the beggining of each level youd get a message telling you what to do...and the women would run around saying "help, help", and "oh no" if you accidentaly shot them. Graphically pretty basic.

3: I think tere was a beat-em-up sequel to "gang wars", with 4-players...er, one looked kinda like Hulk Hogan? All I remember is some guy on the back of a truck attacking you with a buzz-saw.

4: A game from maybe the mid to late 80's...The characters were something like "g-men", guys in trenchcoats and hats...it was a LITTLE like "cabal" and "blood brothers", but you could move your character around a lot more, like the more traditional scrolling games...eg - into the background or foreground of the scene. You had a gun, a machine gun at points, and you could throw grenades when you had them. I remember you could dive and roll as well with a third button. The first boss stage was inside a cinema. I think the name MAY have had "gang" in it...but really not sure.

There ya go, see if you can figure any of those out.


Another one I just thought of - what the fuck was that cool-ass starwars arcade game that came out just a few years ago? There was FPS stages, air-combat stages, and lightsaber stages....had a large stick and some buttons to control it? I remember the FPS lightsaber stuff was really cool.
No, I'm not talking about the jedi knight series, this one was on arcade, and you got to fight vader in the later stages?

~Voodoo Bump~:rolleyes:

*vodou

ahaha I'm so hilarious.


wish I could help you out, but I have nothing relevant to say. :(

Arcade games that matter:

Pacman
Galaxia
1941
Double Dragon
Narc
Street Fighter
Mortal Kombat
Samurai Showdown
Virtua Fighter

Posts that don't ^^

adventures of bayou billy?

space invaders !!! :o

Wow I thought for sure I'd be able to help ya out since I spent the better part of the first 15 years of my life hanging out in arcades, but not even one of those rings a bell. Is it possible that they never came out in America? Or a better question I guess would be... Does America have all the same arcade games as Europe or Australia? Or could I go to Oz & find a whole arcade of games I've never played before? If so, consider my ticket booked!

hahahahahahahaha

That game is SO stupid...I prefer Jungle hunt...graphically less, gameplay more.

Maybe just not in arcades near you, or yknow...machines you passed by at some point...I mean, most arcade games here (of that era) are still comps like Bandai, capcom, neogeo, usgold, namco and all that...As fas as I know, there aren't a whole lot of videogame companies here, just divisions of others. I read something somewhere that we've got like 5 arcade games to our name...none of which I even recognised, and I think they stopped trying in the 80's.
But yeah, all the standard jap/singapore/china/US games come out here.

^^Anyone got any ideas at all on THAT one? I figured someone'd know. It came out AFTER pod racer, but was based on the "classic" trilogy. There was a scene on endor taking on stormtroopers, there was some x-wing type levels, and lightsaber stuff that you actually controlled properly with what looked like a flight-sim style joystick?

anyone get the feeling phalanx is the starwars kid?

Because I like ONE starwars game?
Fuck off, assjockey.

Check out this one Phalanx, even describes a "unique lightsaber mode".

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?...S&game_id=9777


http://www.klov.com/images/S/nStar_W...ogy_Arcade.jpg

Shit yeah, that's the one...I played the one with the chair attached.
I swear to god, it was out in ONE arcade in the city for maybe 6-7 weeks, and that was it. Loved that game...now I've gotta find me a rom.

Looks like this one is called Vendetta... could be at least. Check out a pic...


http://www.digitpress.com/dpsightz/a...vendetta_4.bmp

that dude in the green shirt is about to get his asskicked.

no way, he's the white mr.t

I love that one too, it's ashame you guys only had it for a couple months. It's in every arcade I go into.

My favorite arcade games back in the day were....

Mortal Kombat & Mortal Kombat 2
Street Fighter 2
P.O.W.
Double Dragon
Vitrua-Fighter


More recently, I've found these games to be pretty damn cool.

Silent Scope
Skateboarding (Not sure what it's called, but it's the one where you stand on a skateboard-like controller and use foot motions similar to actual skating to do tricks.)

I like all the Street Fighters and Mortal Kombats, the Star Wars game mentioned above, Marvel vs. Capcom games and a boxing game which is pretty much how bwind described the skateboarding game.

Oh yeah, that boxing game is pretty cool too. Only problem I had with that one is that after you win three or four fights, your arms are beat. (Well, mine were at least.)

This Mortal Kombat talk got me thinking....


Back in the mid 90s when it came out, Mortal Kombat was THE shit. There had never been a fighting game with as much character detail or bloody violence as it so obviously when it released, it was an instant hit. I went to a private middle-school on the Eastside of St. Paul & the only place in walking distance that had it was a bowling alley down the street. Me & my buddy would walk down there almost every single day after school and play. My school got out a half hour before the public schools in the area so for that half hour, we'd basically have the game all to ourselves. Then the public school kids would show up (almost all Asian) and they would utterly destroy us each and every day. Seeing as the common courtesy of the arcade world is that winner plays on, needless to say we'd quickly lose control of the machine & then be waiting for 15-20 minutes for our next turn (only to get our asses kicked again.) But what I never really understood was this... How the FUCK were they so damn good at it? I mean, we played it a lot & we weren't really slouches, but pretty much all of them could just destroy our asses every time.

Then MK2 came out & me and my buddy thought we would get the edge on them (since we had a half hour jumpstart the very first day it came out) but no. Sure as shit, they showed up that first day the MK2 machine was there and proceeded to completely kick our asses again despite our half hour of warming up. WTF? It was baffling. Is there any logical explanation as to why asians are so damn good at video games? I have never understood it...

Longest I lasted in a row was 7, I was worn totally the hell out afterwards. That was the first time I played it, everytime after that me and my brother alternated. He used to always gloat about how much better than me he was, I always came back to that with..''That's 'cause you're a boxer asshole, how bout we go play Madden.''

I don't get it either. I used to play Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat all the time and was no slouche myself. I'd beat not all but the majority of the guys I played until an asian kid would show up and kick all our asses. I'm not even gonna get into Marvel vs. Capcom and other games of it's style, it's like they Matrix program that shit directly into their brain.

Did the one "like Cabal or Blood Bros." use the sam perspective or was it closer to NARC?

I have a friend who's Puerto Rican not Asian and while he's great at the arcade machines (can lock them up with infinate combos and other BS) I can actually beat him on the home games. I'm sure once he spent forever playing it and memorizing the home versions added moves/glitches he could win but I felt good taking him down in Marvel Vs. Capcom 2.