What was your favourite arcade machine

I have very fond memories of playing on the arcade machines at the Billingham Forum. Two that immediately spring to mind are Spy Hunter and Shinobi.

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there is an amusements in Whitby near the Magpie that has a load of these upstairs. They have the old 4 player simpsons, time crisis, and a load of retro machines. well worth checking out
 
Frozen Horse said:
There was a great one called Gauntlet in the 80s; first one I recall that allowed more than 2 people to play together.

There was also a Japanese-made football game (possibly called Super Sidekicks, but I may be wrong about that). It was clearly made by people who hadn't watched too much football: it was only really possible to score with an overhead kick or a diving header. Anyway, it was ancient by the time I went to uni, but I happened to find it on an old machine there. I did manage to complete it!
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Gauntlet was superb
 
Galaxians or pacman. Best experience was a game based on firefox movie featutomg real landscape background flying through canyons and valleys. Brilliant arcade game but few and gar between.
 
Blf said:
Can't remember the name of it but it involved protecting areas from missile attacks. You had a rollerball and put X's in the path of oncoming missiles. This blew them up.
Loved it.
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JonnyHistory said:
Missile COmmand
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Yeah, that was the one inlaid into the table at the pub I mentioned. The skill was timing, you had a limited number of 'bullets' and could only fire a maximum of 3 at a time I think.
So you had to have the kahonas to let the missiles converge to get as many as you could at once.
 
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But can remember earlier than that going to Redcar arcades and playing:

Gunfight/Boot Hill
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Sea Wolf

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Canyon Bomber
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Chase HQ - a police racing game where you had limited time to catch up with a stolen car and then ram it several times to force it to stop, before going onto the next level and doing it all again. You drove a black Porsche 928 and the target cars were things like a Lamborghini Countach or Lotus Esprit - classic 80s supercars! There were sit down and stand up arcade versions - the sit down version was easily the best.
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