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KABOOKIE
2/2/2006, 02:36 PM
I'm trying to find the name of a video game popular during the 80's. It was one you could find at most Mazzio's or Pizza Hut game rooms. It was almost like Asteroids but, you flew around trying to actually hit the rocks and hopefully unleash valuable crystals. You had to collect so many crystals before some flying-head cam out of nowhere and gobbled your spaceship. Anyone?
crawfish
2/2/2006, 02:39 PM
Hemorrhoids?
SoonerWood
2/2/2006, 02:39 PM
SINISTAR
that big skull use to scare the hell outta me
soonerscuba
2/2/2006, 02:41 PM
Seinfeld reminded me of something last night...
StoopTroup
2/2/2006, 02:41 PM
Defender?
critical_phil
2/2/2006, 02:47 PM
SINISTAR
that big skull use to scare the hell outta me
http://www.jmpc.com/Starcade/Starimages/Sinistar/Sinistar1.jpg
giant picture link.
i played a lot of video games in the 80's, but i don't remember this one.
Hot Rod
2/2/2006, 02:48 PM
A child of the 80's and don't remember this one at the arcade as well.
StoopTroup
2/2/2006, 02:50 PM
48 way joystick...lol
fadada1
2/2/2006, 02:50 PM
gyro - or something like that.
you flew around in circles and tried to get further along in planets? is that the one you're talking about?
fadada1
2/2/2006, 02:51 PM
http://www.jmpc.com/Starcade/Starimages/Sinistar/Sinistar1.jpg
giant picture link.
i played a lot of video games in the 80's, but i don't remember this one.
waste of a quarter, bro. that dang head would get you before the quarter hit the bottom of the pan.
fadada1
2/2/2006, 02:53 PM
GYRUSS!!!!!
http://img418.imageshack.us/img418/8190/gyrussus9kw.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
StoopTroup
2/2/2006, 03:01 PM
http://www.sachsreport.com/underwear%20only%20video%20game%20tournament%20old %20school%20arcade%20berzerker%20frogger%20ms%20pa cman%20tempest.jpg
SoonerAtKU
2/2/2006, 03:08 PM
Sinistar - "I HUNGER!"
scary...
KABOOKIE
2/2/2006, 03:10 PM
Sinistar. Yes that was it. The flying head would yell that and scare the shiznit out of you!
Beano's Fourth Chin
2/2/2006, 03:11 PM
http://www.sachsreport.com/underwear%20only%20video%20game%20tournament%20old %20school%20arcade%20berzerker%20frogger%20ms%20pa cman%20tempest.jpg
Ed Rooney isn't likely to mistake that for Ferris.
fadada1
2/2/2006, 03:13 PM
Ed Rooney isn't likely to mistake that for Ferris.
the game, is finished!!!
Scott D
2/2/2006, 03:15 PM
I miss playing Joust while waiting for the pizza to be made.
soonerbrat
2/2/2006, 03:26 PM
my favorite was Tempest
Scott D
2/2/2006, 03:28 PM
for that matter how come in 1986 it took 30 minutes to make a pizza, but in 2006 it takes 8 minutes to make a pizza.
SoonerWood
2/2/2006, 03:29 PM
nukuler ovens
soonerbrat
2/2/2006, 03:30 PM
pre-fab pizza?
critical_phil
2/2/2006, 03:30 PM
for that matter how come in 1986 it took 30 minutes to make a pizza, but in 2006 it takes 8 minutes to make a pizza.
dude, if you were at Crystal's you could just sit back and watch the three stooges until it was done.
it was a simpler time.....
StoopTroup
2/2/2006, 03:33 PM
Galaga
I was addicted.
http://www.max.hi-ho.ne.jp/morymory/galaga/photo1.GIF
I'm sure it was galaga that later led me to playing 38 hours straight of Playstation which ultimately led to my Wife making the playstation disappear
for a month.
I think she thought I might have a seizure. :)
oumartin
2/2/2006, 03:39 PM
if you frequented a pizza joint as a teen and didn't watch eye candy till the food was ready shame on you... that was back when babes would show it off!
SoonerWood
2/2/2006, 03:45 PM
Sinistar. Yes that was it. The flying head would yell that and scare the shiznit out of you!
so what do I win? :texan:
Salt City Sooner
2/2/2006, 03:48 PM
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/Emulators/images/gorf.png
Pricetag
2/2/2006, 03:50 PM
http://www.tomheroes.com/images/sinistar.gif
Sinistar kicked butt. I wasn't very good back in the day, though. I'd be working on making my, oh, fifth Sini-bomb when I'd get the "Beware, I live." It was all over from there.
Pricetag
2/2/2006, 03:53 PM
I noticed that Gyruss and Galaga were both mentioned here. I didn't play a whole lot of Gyruss back then, but I did play a bunch of Galaga. I got a Gameboy Advance game that has Gyruss on it, and playing it, I realized that it's a complete ripoff of Galaga. The only difference is that you move in a circle instead of a straight line, and you get the double blaster by shooting the little thing that flies by.
KABOOKIE
2/2/2006, 04:02 PM
so what do I win? :texan:
Some good old anonymous spek!
I noticed that Gyruss and Galaga were both mentioned here. I didn't play a whole lot of Gyruss back then, but I did play a bunch of Galaga. I got a Gameboy Advance game that has Gyruss on it, and playing it, I realized that it's a complete ripoff of Galaga. The only difference is that you move in a circle instead of a straight line, and you get the double blaster by shooting the little thing that flies by.
Gyruss was a lot later with better graphics though
it has an end too, i think, does Galaga?
soonerbrat
2/2/2006, 04:37 PM
http://images.webmagic.com/klov.com/screens/T/xTempest.png
handcrafted
2/2/2006, 04:43 PM
Ahh, Tempest. I must admit to having been a Tempest junkie back in the day. Probably could have bought my first car with the quarters I dropped on that one. Sooo much more fun than Missile Command.
oumartin
2/2/2006, 04:44 PM
I was actually so poor growing up I never actually saw a quarter that wasn't in a math book until i was 16 and got a job.
handcrafted
2/2/2006, 05:01 PM
I was actually so poor growing up I never actually saw a quarter that wasn't in a math book until i was 16 and got a job.
And you walked to school barefoot in the snow, uphill both ways, right? :D
oumartin
2/2/2006, 05:02 PM
no, we lived in the school maintanence closet. DUH!
SoonerWood
2/2/2006, 05:14 PM
My parents owned a portion of a video game vendor company that kept games in the OU fraternities during fall and spring semesters. During the summers, we got to bring whatever we wanted to our house. :D
Basically, it rawked.
We had Joust, Stargate, Tempest, Donkey Kong and some others.
Widescreen
2/2/2006, 05:19 PM
I have a friend that restores arcade games from the 80's (he's not married, heh). He has:
Sinistar
Star Wars
Ms. Pac Man
Space Duel
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Jr
Dragon's Lair
Q-Bert
Tempest
Robotron
Joust
Stargate
Tron
I have fond memories of most of those while growing up and it's fun and nostalgic to play them now. He's working on one right now called Cliffhanger that I don't remember ever playing.
The only one I was ever really good at was Pac Man. Many years and beers later, there's no way I could remember the patterns.
oumartin
2/2/2006, 05:25 PM
What are these arcade games of which you speak?
were they hard?
SoonerWood
2/2/2006, 05:49 PM
I spent many hours at the helm of this one:
http://freespace.virgin.net/james.handlon/battlezone/bzshot21.gif
Pricetag
2/2/2006, 05:58 PM
Sweet, Battlezone. That game reminds me of the gameroom at Shotgun Sam's.
Sweet, Battlezone. That game reminds me of the gameroom at Shotgun Sam's.
Isn't that the one where you had to stick your face up in the viewer thing and breathe everyone else's breaf funk that had been there before you?
That was sweet.
KC//CRIMSON
2/2/2006, 06:01 PM
http://images.webmagic.com/klov.com/screens/A/xAtari_Football.png
http://images.webmagic.com/klov.com/screens/A/xAtari_Football.png
If I had a dollar for every time that thing pinched that fleshy part of your palm toward the base of your thumb, I would have been a rich kid. :mad:
Widescreen
2/2/2006, 06:04 PM
http://images.webmagic.com/klov.com/screens/A/xAtari_Football.png
Is that the one with the track ball?
Is that the one with the track ball?
Yes, very painful.
Pricetag
2/2/2006, 06:18 PM
Gyruss was a lot later with better graphics though
it has an end too, i think, does Galaga?
True. The whole flying back to Earth thing was kinda cool, too.
Yeah, Galaga had an ending. When those bee bastards looped back up from the bottom of the screen and destroyed your last ship.
KC//CRIMSON
2/2/2006, 08:26 PM
If I had a dollar for every time that thing pinched that fleshy part of your palm toward the base of your thumb, I would have been a rich kid. :mad:
Yep, and the two on two player was way better than the original. If I had a dollar every time the person playing QB crossed the line of scrimage and came back over the line of scrimage and threw a bomb for a TD, I would have been a rich kid.;)
GottaHavePride
2/2/2006, 09:30 PM
Galaga
I was addicted.
http://www.max.hi-ho.ne.jp/morymory/galaga/photo1.GIF
You know you're a Galaga junkie when you wait impatiently for the bastard to come steal your first ship so you can rescue it and have the double-ship blaster thing going.
StarCastle was my favorite... Google "mame" and good luck finding roms
dude, if you were at Crystal's you could just sit back and watch the three stooges until it was done.
it was a simpler time.....
Word.
http://images.webmagic.com/klov.com/screens/A/xAtari_Football.png
I'd hurt my hands on that.
Whenever a cat yarfs on a comforter I take it and plenty of quarters to this laundromat near UCO. It has a stand up Galaga.
The Skaggs at NW Expressway and MacArthur had Gyruss. It got to where I only needed one quarter to play it through my 15 minute break.
AllAboutThe'O'
2/2/2006, 10:51 PM
I had a fondness for Elevator Action and Burger Time back in the day.
And does anyone remember playing the Popeye arcade game? Spent a lot of time on that as well. I always believed the Sea Hag was a more dangerous villain than Bluto.
SoonerWood
2/3/2006, 12:08 AM
StarCastle was my favorite... Google "mame" and good luck finding roms
here also -
http://www.download-free-games.com/online_games/star_castle.htm
Salt City Sooner
2/3/2006, 12:12 AM
StarCastle was my favorite... Google "mame" and good luck finding roms
LOVED it.
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=S&game_id=9754
"And does anyone remember playing the Popeye arcade game?"
Sure do. Played it a ton: http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=P&game_id=9090
A few more of my faves (some from the late 70's) :
Starship I: http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=S&game_id=9782
Sea Wolf: http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=S&game_id=9459
Gunfight: http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=G&game_id=8039
Berzerk: http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=B&game_id=7096
Super Basketball: http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=S&game_id=9864
10 Yard Fight: http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=0&game_id=6761
RBI Baseball: http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=A&game_id=6958
Robotron 2084
Epilepsy on a video screen!
Pricetag
2/3/2006, 10:49 AM
Super Basketball: http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=S&game_id=9864
10 Yard Fight: http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=0&game_id=6761
I loved these games. I loved how you started at the high school level, and if you passed the challenge, moved up to college, pro, etc.
I remember with Super Basketball, you actually had to press a button to dribble the dang ball! That was challenging, to say the least. There was also an awful collision detection problem where, if you took a long shot (like a three) from the lower half of the screen, CPU players standing in the lane could jump up and block the shot as if it were a on a straight line to the basket, rather than an elliptical trajectory to where they'd have no chance to stop it.
I loved the ref on 10 Yard Fight. "FAAAAAAHST DOWN!"
Pricetag
2/3/2006, 10:51 AM
Did anyone have that "Pac Man Fever" album by Buckner and Garcia? I got it for my sixth birthday. "Pac Man Fever" got quite a bit of play time on the radio, but there were also songs about Frogger, Centipede, Donkey Kong, Asteroids, Defender, Mousetrap, and Berzerk.
If you check the jukebox at Waffle House, you'll find that the duo sing a couple of the Waffle House songs.
jthomasou78
2/3/2006, 11:31 AM
there was a bar here in Pensacola called the Wisteria that had sit down pac man and sit down track and field. It was awesome, about a couple of months ago they were replaced with Golden Tee :-(
Sooner_Bob
2/3/2006, 11:35 AM
You guys should download a game emulator. Then you could play Galaga, Asteroids, Pac-Man, Dig-Dug and all of the other great 80's arcade games right on your PC . . .
Do a search for the MAME emulator.
SoonerWood
2/3/2006, 12:00 PM
You can also play them on a lot of sites that have recreated them in Java or Flash
SoonerObsession
2/3/2006, 01:07 PM
Decathalon was my favorite. If you used the spoon method, you could make those runners cook!
Widescreen
2/3/2006, 01:21 PM
Decathalon was my favorite. If you used the spoon method, you could make those runners cook!
Cheater!
Pricetag
2/3/2006, 01:46 PM
You guys should download a game emulator. Then you could play Galaga, Asteroids, Pac-Man, Dig-Dug and all of the other great 80's arcade games right on your PC . . .
Do a search for the MAME emulator.
I was pretty big into MAME in the late '90s. I've looked into newer versions of the program, and they look really cool, but none of the old ROMs I had worked on them. They're not nearly as easy to find now as they were back then.
Pricetag
2/3/2006, 01:48 PM
Decathalon was my favorite. If you used the spoon method, you could make those runners cook!
That sounds like the pencil method with Track and Field. I always ended up with a sore spot between the first and second knuckle of my left index finger where the fulcrum of the speed device was located.
SoonerObsession
2/3/2006, 02:13 PM
That sounds like the pencil method with Track and Field. I always ended up with a sore spot between the first and second knuckle of my left index finger where the fulcrum of the speed device was located.
That's the game I was talking about. The cheap Atari version was Decathalon. Sorry for the mix up. With the Atari I always had a sore palm from the joystick wiggling (that sounds really bad). I later found out that you could hold the little red button while wiggling the joystick and the runners would have a power boost.
Pricetag
2/3/2006, 04:26 PM
That's the game I was talking about. The cheap Atari version was Decathalon.
That's what I was thinking, the Activision game with the running Pitfall Harrys. I was trying hard to figure out how using a spoon on an Atari controller would make it easier to play.
We used to use a comb on track and field buttons.
SoonerObsession
2/3/2006, 04:47 PM
We used to use a comb on track and field buttons.
I hope you didn't use that comb after making contact with those nasty buttons. :D
The reason we always used a spoon was because the pizza joint or whatever usually had those available.
I don't remember. That was too long ago.
AllAboutThe'O'
2/4/2006, 02:55 AM
I loved the ref on 10 Yard Fight. "FAAAAAAHST DOWN!"
My co-worker can hum the cheesy music that was played after the ball was snapped. I still get a kick out of that whenever he does it.
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