Our chippy had some blinding coin ops - when i wasn't in there i was bagging school and hanging around the arcade for the pinball. Some favourites are.....pac land, lethal weapon 3, star wars (1983) & bubble bobble.

There was pinball that had a fishing rod as the launch handle...anyone knwo what it was called? Was in the trocadero when 'virtual reality' took up the ground floor.

I was into fruit machines before games. Thats another thread perhaps.

And just to make me feel good - in 1981 my handheld (ok its desktop really) of choice was the mighty Astro Wars from Grandstand

My faves as a kid were Spy Hunter, Shinobi (I was the first person to complete it in my local arcade ), Gauntlet (Don't shoot the food, Elf is about to die ), Wonderboy (First to complete it etc), Wardner (First to complete it again), Ghosts n Goblins (First to complete it yadda yadda) - all on 1 credit, it goes without saying. Then a lot later when I was at uni the students union had a games room with a few arcade games - I loved Killer Instinct, could complete it with every character and got the maximum hit combo on the scoreboard with every character. OK, so I'm a sad bastard, but having a crowd of folks round you cheering you on is a buzz, no matter how sad. Was funny on Killer Instinct, I used to stick a credit in if I had half an hour to kill, and in the evenings when the union was full, as soon as I put a credit in there used to be a crowd of spectators gather

You guys should check out MAME (do a Google search). Over 5000 "Old School" games.
Think Phoenix was my favourite, with or without the cheat

I enjoyed Dragon's Lair (ok it was just a matter of hitting the button in time but the animation and death sequences were brilliant), Tron (Discs of Tron not so much) and a couple of others that the names escape me at the minute, one of them was a shoot-em-up that you scrolled round the outside of the screen, firing inwards at enemies from the different planets in our solar system, with a bonus round between each (I clocked it a few times so it must have been easy , Gyrax or something? not sure, sorry) and another one that was a futuristic bike that you sat on and had to race while avoiding various 3D(ish) obstacles (again can't remember the name). That would have been around 1983/84-ish. there were a few others I played like Mr Doh and so on but those would have been the ones I pumped most of my 10ps into, although Dragon's Lair was 20p a go when it came out.

My youth right there

SS

I used to have a mad addiction to arcade games and fruities, much to the detriment of my mums purse and my dads collection of George V 10ps (yes I know, shame on me )

But my shame aside, that sit down starwars cabinet was one of the best things out at that time. Not only could you play sitting down (i was a fat kid) but you could pretend you were luke skywalker. I'd buy one now if I had the money and could find a decent one.

Yie arr kung fu was another and me and my mate ronnie would always play 2 player against each other, ghouls n goblins too. He'd always win, probably cos he weighed a lot less and could stand for longer. Having to leave a game in mid play to get back to school before lunch ended was the worst thing you could do, but when 10p could last you half hour it wasn't much of a problem.

Come to think about it, even Pong was fantastic, but Phoenix was my fave. Or was it Galaxian .

Cool thread

I used to have the little Nintendo Game/Watch - Donkey Kong and Mario

Loved Chase HQ and loved spunking as much as I could in the fruities (Don't hold after nudges) - I used to get rogered quite badly on Bar X

Commodore 64 was top notch - The Way Of The Exploding Fist was good, providing it didn't crash half way through loading

Must admit I did like Rollerball world soccer, and double dragon

Just what i was gunna say fella i had it downloaded to my pc for months

just out of intrest did anyone use the old faithful credit wire on the old slot games or was it just us theifing bastards from up north

I think I spent most of my youth in an arcade, living on the coast they were all around me, bubble bobble, shinobi, wrestlefest, streetfighter, track & field, hypersports, paperboy, new zealand story and just about everything else in there apart from Space Harrier, I hated that noisey bastard so much, half the time that's all you could hear.

10p fruit machines too were awesome & air hockey..

man i grew up on double dragon loved that game with the hulk wanna be
then u get to whip ur m8s ass as well

most arcades round here only have gamblers in them used to love to go in there with a few quid nd be there for hours
the good old days 10p play

Track and Field was also a great drunk laugh, man it was knackering rolling that mahoosive ball control thingy as fast as you could. Had one in the student union i gave that thing at least half my loan.

SS

What ball control thingy? Track & Field is 2 run buttons and a jump.

it must be a northern thing leepy we always use to use a jip wire but had to go further afield to use it as people started to get wise
always worked best on the wood and metal slots

Down south we used to have the keys to the machines

Take the back off the gambler and then pump the pound coins out directly from the pumps inside...
Then if desperate there's lifting the 10p nudge machine and dropping it... RUNNN!

We used the plastic cable ties bent to the size of a 10p coin. Another option was to use the silver foil tape (aluminum?) to cover one side of a 10p plus the edge of the coin. Arcade machines and fag vending machines though they were 50p.

Lesson was not to fleece one place to often otherwise they'd catch on

Paperboy! I remeber playing the hell out of this in some two bit arcade in Largs for a summer, lets have some cabinet pics dudes!

Golden Axe....classic!

Metal slug, i need to find if they ever converted it to xbox

God you`ve got the gears of my memory grinding!! Space Invaders,Pac Man,my mate`s dad was loaded so he had the latest Atari. For me my fav ever was Mario Super Carts on the 64. As far as the arcade style it has to be Scramble,spent a fortune on that beauty!

You can get a Neo-Geo emulator with all the Metal Slug ROMS - try google.

mmm - cabs

Climbing into Chaser H Q used to feel amazing,especially because most cabs i`d played it on were stand up types,i live in the south west.

Scramble.

Defender.

Monk....x

Scramble is a real classic Mono, which defender was it? Upright or tabletop?

Here's Williams White Water - one of my top five pinball of all time - must have shovelled a mint into this over the years, from the pinball renaissance that was the early 90's!

Theres a prize for saddest bastard.

It's tied between my obsession and Boojums ability to complete Ghosts and Goblins one one credit, which is astounding as it's one of the hardest games made imo.

more ww!

But SUCH a rush. The later levels, MAN. Cannabis isn't a gateway to drugs, the adrenaline rush from playing classic arcade games is

I don't mind admitting (if even for the prize of saddest post) when I did it I was shaking so much I had to go sit down

Yeah thats the bastard fella but we used strimmer wire ..................those were the days

I agree and drawing a crowd, even if it is in a chip shop was a great kick too. I still get the boost playing games today but sitting at home on the xbox doesnt compare to being in a massive arcade - i love the stinking sweat holes!

Sent off for a 'how to win at' fruit machines document when we were kids and went to try some of the tips out, SHAT ourselves when they actually worked and spent the next three hours raking in £300, got barred the same day going back for more - that was a brilliant rush!

Off topic but I got into fruitys later on, when I was about 16 and drinking in pubs regularly (cos I drank in certain pubs from about 14, ones I knew didn't ID, but by 16 I was the height I am now, 6 foot 3, and I had real facial hair so I never got ID'd). And until I was about 25 I had a PROPER problem with them. Just the buzz of dropping a jackpot, even though I was doing loadsa drugs, that hit of adrenaline still attracted me. When I was working some weeks I'd put over £100 into fruitys, and win fuck all. Musta spent thousands on them over the years That's why I don't gamble at all now, no lottery, no betting on the footy, not even an annual punt on the National, cos I like that rush too much, I know I can't risk getting back into it. I bet on backgammon, but only pennies and only cos it's a game of skill so the rush isn't there. I won't play poker for the same reason.

They had golden axe in the chippy when I was a kid. I was on that constantly. Loads of us used to hang around outside the shops in the night. We must've put thousands of pounds in that machine. It was there a good couple of years and we hammered it most days. So golden axe is mine too.

My friend got one of those arcade game boxes, like the golden axe one. He put a pc in it with mame on and has shit loads of games on the old classic joystick and stuff. Love it.

I'm a reformed fruity addict too - lie i said earlier it was before i was into gaming. I can identify with the adrenalin rush from hitting the jacky. I'd beg borrow AND steal to play them on the way home from school and all weekend. There was always big bags of change at home from the pubs and various things my old man had on the go, my cousin and i used to TAN them! We used to steal the keys for our own fruit machines, empty the tubes into our pockets and then feed the money in to other machines at the fair.

Of course i got caught out in the end much to my embarrasement and pretty much gave it up.....round about the time i started smoking weed.

I do play poker for cash but just with the boys - no casino's for me, i get chills up and down my back just going near gambling establishments.

Oooooh, I couldn't go near a casino, I'd end up dead in the alley out back

I even try to keep away from pubs with fruitys - thankfully most of them round here don't have them (one reason I settled on my local early on is cos it's got no fruity, just happened by chance to also be a damn fine pub ) But I end up in a pub with a fruity after a few beers I can see the fucker in the corner, winking its lights at me going (Obviously name changed to username here) Booooooooojum, Booooooooooooooooooooooojum, just a quid, you know you want to, go on, just a lickle ickle pound, what's a pound ? AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH Cos you know a pound will become 5 will become 10 will become as much as you've got on you if it doesn't pay out

Nah, fuck em. And like I say, I wouldn't go near a casino, there's a couple in Brighton, got a mate who goes there a lot (he can afford it, he transports stuff up & down the country, know what I mean, he's loaded and into his charlie, he phoned a mutual mate one night when we were having a smoke last year, laughing that he'd just dropped £1,800 ), when we out on the lash he tries to get me to go, it's like even if I wanted to, he could drop more on a hand than I could afford to drop in over a fucking month

I'd put £100 in a machine just to see how it works. No point telling me it's just paid out. I'm stupid like that and that realisation along with being caught nicking £100 bags of ten p's from one of the shops. I still feel shit about that to this day - they thought it was their book-keeper for ages.

Likewise with the loaded mates, my old crew used to get a game going at my bosses house - within an hour or two every degenerate gambler that worked in a restaurant with 20 miles would be there, fifty quid to sit down. I was past it by then - i used to pour the drinks, skin up and dj instead. Watched a few painfull hands, mates losing hundreds on REALLY bad descisions - usually after a fair amout of booze. Casino's are built to strip you of your wealth - not enough people understand that basic priciple, also if you are winning you will be asked to leave i admire that kind of class!

I was lucky enough to play sega's r360 and i WANT to play alien extermination but i havent seen it here yet

Might give storm G a go too - dunno if i'll lose my lunch though, looks bloody mental

http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/...rcade_game.html <--- vid here

http://www.pinball.org/events/

drooooooooooooool pinball festival.......anyone up for any of these?