Favorite arcade games

[Princeton]

Mine are Stacker, Skeeball, and Addams Family pinball (don't know why, AF always just appealed to me). How about you guys?

[baba]

My favorites are:

Skeeball,
Claw-the thing you get old and stale candy from,
Snow Mobile-it blows air on you very fun

[D'Snowth]

Frogga!

[sugarbritchez]

Joust and Donkey Kong are my favorites

*funny me and my husband had this exact conversation last night*

[super muppet]

Pacman And That Claw Thing.

[Princeton]

Pacman

Of course, how could I forget Pac-man? Question: besides the obvious difference in gender, how are Ms. Pac-man and Pac-man different? I know somebody who's a master at both, and he said that there's a big difference. My question is, what is it?

[Xerus]

Arcade games were my most favorite things from the 80's. Here's a list of my top 20 favorite classic arcade games.

1. Pengo
2. Q*bert
3. Super Pac Man
4. Space Ace
5. Dragon's Lair
6. Crazy Climber
7. Donkey Kong
8. Vanguard
9. Venture
10. Kangaroo
11. Mappy
12. Mouse Trap
13. Burgertime
14. Root Beer Tapper
15. Zookeeper
16. Donkey Kong Jr.
17. Zaxxon
18. Dig Dug
19. The Simpsons
20. Araknoid

[tutter_fan]

I love all the classic video games, but I am a HARDCORE pinball player! It's the greatest game ever made, IMHO!!!!

[Vic Romano]

I play skee ball being I'm from the Jersey shore, but it's over-rated IMHO. There was a side scrolling shoot em' up game I used to play at the old Palace Amusements in Asbury Park, but for the life of me I can't remember it. I do love the Smash TV game though. That was like the first incredibly violent video game I ever played.

[Ilikemuppets]

I like Pac Man and all! But I truly love Crazy Taxi in the arcade! That was the definition of interactive to me!

[tutter_fan]

I should mention that I'm also into old school video games as well!

[Son of Enik]

Pac Man is the forever king of video and arcade games for me. I also have fond memories of playing Asteroids, Centipede, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong and a whole lot of Pinball.
Video games just aren't what they used to be in my opinion.

[Ilikemuppets]

I really love the game Burger time and it's squeal!

[ryhoyarbie]

Pacman or Space Invaders. I used to spend hours playing Pacman on the old Atari.

[Vic Romano]

I forgot Rampage. I love that game.

[Ignorance]

Probably Pacman for me. I'm so old-fashioned. :D

[bazooka_beak]

Are we talking arcade as in an arcade, or the NES, or both?

Well, I wasn't too big on arcade games - I mostly watched people play. I did like Pacman, though, and Ninja Turtles :)

[Ilikemuppets]

I love the game "Turtles In Time"! But the SNES version was much better to me!

[Drtooth]

1. Pengo
2. Q*bert
3. Super Pac Man
4. Space Ace
5. Dragon's Lair
6. Crazy Climber
7. Donkey Kong
8. Vanguard
9. Venture
10. Kangaroo
11. Mappy
12. Mouse Trap
13. Burgertime
14. Root Beer Tapper
15. Zookeeper
16. Donkey Kong Jr.
17. Zaxxon
18. Dig Dug
19. The Simpsons
20. Araknoid

You know, I once remember a time when Root beer Tapper was actual Beer Tapper, sponsored buy Budwiser... That's pretty much why the bonus round says "This one's for you!"

[dwayne1115]

We never watched the Simpsons on Tv but we as kids loved there arcade game. I also really loved Turtles in Time and Super Mario.

[Xerus]

You know, I once remember a time when Root beer Tapper was actual Beer Tapper, sponsored buy Budwiser... That's pretty much why the bonus round says "This one's for you!"

At first the game was called Tapper and the bartender served the customers Budweiser Beer. This game first only appeared in bars. But when it was time to bring the game to the family arcades, they decided it wouldn't be best to advertise beer to kids. So they changed the game to Root Beer Tapper and got rid of the Budweiser signs.

[Ilikemuppets]

I also really loved Turtles in Time Yeah I agree that it's a great game, but the arcade version is missing most of the bad guys and some of the levels.

[Baby Gonzo]

Ms. Pac Man. My cousin had one of those arcade games when he was younger. Every time I went to his house, I had to play it.

[Ilikemuppets]

Yeah! I like Ms. Pac Man better then the original!

[Baby Gonzo]

No offense to the original. I just never had a great chance to play it much.

[Xerus]

I really liked Super Pac Man a lot. Where Pac Man ate different things at each level like apples, bananas, donuts, even shoes and clovers. The eating items just went on. And seeing Pac Man turn into a giant was cool too.

[Drtooth]

At first the game was called Tapper and the bartender served the customers Budweiser Beer. This game first only appeared in bars. But when it was time to bring the game to the family arcades, they decided it wouldn't be best to advertise beer to kids. So they changed the game to Root Beer Tapper and got rid of the Budweiser signs.


But then of course, it makes the rowdy drunks with homicidal tendencies towards the bartender make a little less sense. I like Root beer and all, but not enough to kill a guy. :p

Anyone remember a Simpsons arcade game that had Lisa drop Cupcakes into Bart and Homer's mouths? Man, I loved that one... Not as much as the other Simpsons TMNT style arcade game, but it was a fun way to win tickets.

[Oscarfan]

My favorite arcade game is and always will be The SImpsons Bowling.

[Sgt Floyd]

The Simpsons Arcade Game
The Simpsons Pinball (I got high score and won a free game once)
The Simpsons Bowling (man, that game is so insanely hard to find)
The Simpsons Coin Roller Thingy (I dunno, its got bart in a soccer outfit blocking a goal moving, a giant donut and something else with other weird thingg. But to win jackpot which I did several times, you need to get a coin past bart, in the donut and in something else thats on the right side of the game...cant remember what it is)
Claw Machines...gotta love toys :D
Skeeball (or however you spell it)
Rampage, both classic and modern. I like (Ralph)
Jurrasic Park (the one where you are sitting on a moving chair shooting dinos, as found in Chuck E Cheese :p)
Pac Man
Dig Dug
Pole (sp?) Position

But my all time favrotite arcade game is Centipede

[Ilikemuppets]

Oh yeah! Centipede is one of my favorites too!

My Brother just got Space Invaders extreme for DS! Really love that one too! Can't believe It's 30 years old already!

[yetiman]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was awesome. We used to fight over who could be Leonardo.

Pac-Man, of course, is the classic that never ceases to entertain.