Old arcade games?
 

Anyone into collecting old video arcade games?

I may have just started to get into this.

I got this for my upcoming 40th birthday:

http://billtracyphotography.com/posting/HangOn.jpg

I was addicted to this game when I was in my early 20's - lol!!

Bill

Nice.

I've always wanted to buy or build a classic arcade cabinet and put my PS2 or Dreamcast (before I sold it) behind it. I'd hook up an arcade style pad to it of course.
Something like this MAME cabinet:

http://www.triplo.com/ev/arcade/

That's nice!!!

My next quest is a Galaga upright.
That's my wife's favorite game.

That's a sweet game and Galaga still rocks. I found an old Missile Command game in an arcade at the beach when my wife and I took our first vacation. I knew she was a winner when I spent about 2 hours playing the game and she just saw the look in my eyes and left me alone :)

Oddly enough I have a functioning MAME cab. I don't play it as often as I would like.

hmmmm maybe a future addition to the pool house?

:D

the best PC based Galaga is here

http://www.warblade.as/index.asp

done by the same guy that did the great amiga version :D

Man, I would love to have Tempest and a game most people don't know/remember called Space Zap. I used to go into the zone on that thing.


btw tortus... the stool is a nice touch!

I remember in my "20s" when they came out with the first pong standup game - amazing the hours we used to play at it

If I remember correctly ARS used to have (and may still) some of the old arcade game boxes in their rewards store - I seem to remember looking at the MsPacman at one time - but went with something a little more usefull LOL

Pong, missle command, asteroids, and of course PAC :)
Many a night spent on those in a bar, no wonder my ratio of actually getting laid went down when I was in my early 20's...lol

Very cool birthday gift tortus32!! My husband and I played asteroids for hours many nights damn that brought back some memories. |thumb

Sweet gift!

I used to have a couple of the old pinball machines. Had a blast with those things...would always enable the coin slots when friends came over...those quarters piled up :D

I was a whore for Rygar -- a game a lot of people don't remember. When I was like 9 I promised myself when I could afford it, I'd buy the stand-up version for my home.

When I learned about MAME I just did that instead. This thread inspired me to play a bit last night. :)

space invaders was my addiction..that and pong..god I spent hours playing both!!

If you would like all of the old arcade games for your computer to include pacman tron galaga asteroids, basically all of them let me know, I have all for your computer called mame32 (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) it has all of the games and then some.

Do you know a good site you can download the games for Mame? I used to play it all the time, but since the games manufactures started suing anyone who distributed their games, I have not been able to find many good ones.

I used to have a lot, never backed them up because I assumed I could just download them again if I needed them, then when my drive crashed and burned I discovered the copyright problem.

I can put a copy of what I have on a server for ya, let me know when you are able to download and I will put it up.

i built a mame machine , sits in the pc room right next to the juke box that i built ,
the mame cabinet i was lucky enough to find behind a fish & chip shop , it was getting thrown out , it needed a bit of work done to it , but it was in pretty good shape , saved me a few hundred for the shell

mame , well i started off with just amiga/c64 emulations then branched out

very nice :)

Nice!

I would love a Defender / Stargate box. I played it a ton in university. I saw brand new replicas in a catalog for US$3200 but that is too rich for my blood.

---art

Asteriods was my game of addiction back in high school, then they got deluxe asteroids. Centiped was the other hot game. I remember the first game console I got, Intellivion, what a piece of crap.

ronnie

You are a hero. Anytime that is convenient for you.

Lord knows what happened to my old atari 2600, but guess there are so many people into the old school retro games atari has released this
http://www.atari.com/us/games/atari_flashback2/7800

And of course to play all the classics online this site is fun

http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/80s_games/arcade.htm

Wife wants one of those ms pacman joysticks for xmas
they also come with like 4-5 extra games like galaga and digdug and pole position!
Cant wait till she opens it so I can play it. :D