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What is/was your favorite arcade game?

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What is/was your favorite arcade game?
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July 15, 2023 at 1:37 pm
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RE: What is/was your favorite arcade game?
July 15, 2023 at 2:13 pm
There were two games that started out as quarter magnets and became time sinks:

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This one got me banned from one of the local (small) arcades because they couldn't make any money on the machine while I was there.  Arrgghh  Hehe

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I got really good at this one playing a rigged* machine that would only give extra lives every 90,000 points. I found one at the University of Oregon campus that coughed them up at every 40,000. The current high score owner on that machine plunked a quarter on the machine to claim next game and commenced to bragging about his high score. My only response was "not for long." He left in disgust when I doubled his high score and still had lives left. I more than tripled it before I had to start crashing on purpose so I wouldn't miss my ride home.
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The thing most players didn't know at the time was if you didn't crash any other cars for the entire round, you got a 50,000 bonus. To get 50,000 by crashing the other cars, as the instructions tell you to, requires bashing well over 150 of the enemy cars, and honestly a really good play could get 60-65 on a good run. My best run ever, smashing enemies, was around 25k.

In the early nineties I switched to pinball and got quite good at a few tables, but never quite as good as I got on those two arcade games.

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RE: What is/was your favorite arcade game?
July 16, 2023 at 1:28 pm
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RE: What is/was your favorite arcade game?
August 2, 2023 at 9:01 pm
(July 16, 2023 at 1:28 pm)brewer Wrote: [Image: 220px-Galaga.png]

That one ate a lot of my quarters as well. Big Grin
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August 3, 2023 at 8:03 am
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August 3, 2023 at 4:33 pm
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August 6, 2023 at 6:16 pm
(July 16, 2023 at 1:28 pm)brewer Wrote: [Image: 220px-Galaga.png]

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August 6, 2023 at 7:56 pm
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August 7, 2023 at 1:32 pm
Spent the most quarters on - Xenophobe or golden axe.. probably golden axe
was always the warm up game to play - digdug or kungfu master
Played so long gave me back issues - Soul caliber, virtual fighter or darkstalkers
Played just for fun while waiting on a ride - elevator or burger time
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August 7, 2023 at 1:35 pm
Skee-ball.

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