Best 80s Arcade Video Game

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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