Best 80s Arcade Video Game

Funny how games like Galaga and Asteroids live on to be polled in the 21st Century while Dragon's Lair gets mixed reviews.

AND THEN there was this fucking thing:

http://i.imgur.com/okzJOqn.jpg

which was about as stupid as you probably think it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbl_23GwjJ8

oh man i remember that. there was a MASSIVE crowd in front of the arcade. i pushed to the front. it looked bad!

basically dragons lair with shitty holograms

It was like that game on one side and Teenage Mutant Ninja Simpsons on the other. By that point, I was all you know, maybe I'm ready for girls now.

Votes TEMPEST a hundred million times.

still remember as a new student in 87 or 88 going into the main arcade in Hull with a friend and enough 10p pieces to finish Golden Axe and spending the afternoon playing thru the whole thing

3. Rick prides himself on communication, accessibility, current technology and integrity. He is also an inventor; best known for creating a world renown video game Dragon's Lair (TM)

http://www.julianappletree.com/about.html

the best bit about time traveler is that it's not in any sense a hologram, it's just pepper's ghost ..

i remember it being in the tiny arcade at the caravan park i went to with my parents every year, a place which in most respects had nothing about it to differentiate it from the 50s, except, i guess, a member of staff paid to waddle around in the obese bird costume representing the establishment's mascot, 'Sid The Seagull.' -- anyway in such a place it seemed new and exciting, a welcome intrusion of the New, though i certainly forgot about it immediately when we left. i mean, in those circumstances even the x-men brawler seemed a vital and modern presence.

omg that hologram game. forgot all about that. yeah, same experience - everybody gathered around, wanting to play it, but quickly discovering it sucked and was expensive. IIRC when you died the cowboy guy would turn to you and proclaim aloud "Always remember, partner - winners don't use druuugs!"

HOLY FUCK THAT HOLOGRAM GAME WAS REAL? I was sure it was a dream i had when i was young, i must have only ever seen it once and i truly thought i engineered the memory.

this is a really weird feeling

it's real, and it's spectacular......ly lame

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9958AbBMG9w

Footage from the 1991 introduction of Time Traveler by Sega, including comments from then-Sega coin-op president Tom Petit and showing the game installed in one of its test locations.

love the dragon's lair animation, gameplay is total trash of course but it's the sound that sticks in my mind as being especially abysmal.
my best memories there are of the saturday morning cartoon... pure scooby rehash but they would do little choose-your-own-adventure breaks at the lead in to the commercial of the "does dirk take the top path or the bottom path?" See 10.53 here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTyCxKBinLI

Stargate! (Defender's souped-up offspring)

Fuck fuck where is wizard of Wor

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Don't know most of these games but voted Altered Beast. "Wise from your gwave!"

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btw I will most likely be playing all of these games at http://www.caextreme.org/ this year and if you live in CA you should too

kinda surprised at star wars placing that high - rest seems totally legit to me tho.

yeah that game is nothing special imo, basically just an update of Battlezone

it's also pretty much the only one to get more than token votes that has not had a substantial "afterlife" as a classic game - - - not generally featured in retro game packages for later systems, not a mainstay of bars and barcades in the contemporary era, not much discussed in feature lists and documentaries to my knowledge. so i'm kind of assuming the voters are mostly people who played it when it was new, and star wars was the center of the universe; i can imagine that playing that game at that time would have been a kind of awesome, memorable experience that would shape voting in some way.

Star Wars and Tempest remind me of each other, just because of the vectors.

Tempest is definitely better than Star Wars, but I sure did play a lot of Star Wars as a kid

R2, I'VE BEEN HIT!

I liked the ROTJ game

btw I will most likely be playing all of these games at http://www.caextreme.org/ this year and if you live in CA you should too

I already went to http://www.arcadeexpo.com down here in SoCal a couple weekends ago.

I liked the ROTJ game

I was strangely adept at ROTJ despite being a complete failure at diagonal motion games like Zaxxon. Voted Tempest of course but Gravitar should have at least been on the list.

Kind of surprised Donkey Kong didn't get even one vote. It was second only to Pac Man in popularity for a year or two.

I always wanted to like Donkey Kong but I was always terrible at it

1 for pacman, damn y'all are revisionists

who doubts that ms pac-man is the authoritative pac-man?

Very true

adore the ms pac-man cutscenes.

yeah that game is nothing special imo, basically just an update of Battlezone

if replacing slow tanks on a featureless flat plane with SPACE and TIE FIGHTERS and FIREBALLS and THE DEATH STAR and a BLISTERINGLY FAST TRENCH RUN is just an update then sure, it's just an update.

Battlezone's plan was not flat or featureless but whatever

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