What was your favourite arcade machine

[Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret]

Final Fight! If only some of the mayors in the upcoming elections had mayor haggars no nonsense approach to crime.

 

[afcb_acklam]

gorf

and phoenix

 

[dooderooni]

Loved Defender when I was young. Always played Tempest when I found it too.

 

[Davey_C]

Double Dragon

OutRun and Afterburner were quite good too for sitting in

 

[Johngannonsunderpants]

Operation Wolf and spy hunter

 

[TheBoroBuzzard]

Tekkan World Cup with the roller ball, 1942 and Hyper Sport

 

[goalscrounger]

In Redcar there was a Star Wars wire frame game where you got to sit in a big cabinet and imagine you were flying an X—Wing over the Death Star. I loved that.

There was also a footy game that involved a trackball and that was great fun (if blister—inducing).

The common room at my 6th form had an Elevator Action machine which I also loved (never seen it anywhere else).

My favourite, however, had to be Track & Field (especially before they put the little lips around the buttons to stop people using the bottom shell of a Kinder Egg to slide over the buttons).

They put one in the 6th form common room and all the world records were smashed when one student brought his mum's electric carving knife in and used the thrusting blade end to mash the button to a ridiculous effect.

 

[Scrote]

Shinobi

And the machine that was next to it that I can't remember the name of.

 

[El Guapo]

Outrun

 

[Jonny_Rondos_Disco_pants]

Outrun

Was it Outrun or something else at hollywood bowl where you could sit in the Maxda mx5?

 

[Fat_Dragon]

Pang

 

[El Guapo]

Was it Outrun or something else at hollywood bowl where you could sit in the Maxda mx5?

I don’t know, just remember it being the arcade game I gravitated towards in the mid-late 80s. There was both sit down and standing versions.

 

[Tryasize10]

Kung-fu Master

 

[Andybarca]

WWF wrestlefest and the ice hockey game in the forum. Might have been called slap shot?
And then multi-player scrollers like TMNT and the Simpson’s

 

[Merlin]

The jukebox

 

[swordtrombonefish]

Donkey Kong

 

[Smog On The Medway]

Loved Defender when I was young. Always played Tempest when I found it too.

Loved Tempest. Played a lot of Phoenix too.

 

[wyliefan]

The docking machine
Donkey Kong
Hyper Olympics

Often had my high score on these in Play Inn.

 

[Centralscrutinizer]

Asteroids.
It still remains the only thing in my life that I've been genuinely talented at. Got kicked out of the arcade in Redcar after playing one game all day with a crowd watching

 

[On_a_beach]

Tiger-Heli

Top score.

Never defeated.