Arcade machines that have swallowed too much of your cash

[Cheshire Cat]

 

[JJ McClure]

When I used to work at Gatwick Airport, I recall spending most lunchtimes in the arcade playing Time Crisis 2, quality game.

 

[Bluejuice]

When I used to work at Gatwick Airport, I recall spending most lunchtimes in the arcade playing Time Crisis 2, quality game.

I know that feeling all too well. The worst part would be innocently walking through the terminal to get a sandwich from Boots or whatever, then just hearing the beckoning call of these machines just BEGGING you to piss up your wages shooting bad guys.

Some great examples so far. I'd forgotten that Simpsons machine you could play 4 player, I bled silver coinage into that thing

Interesting a lot of the more recent popular titles banded about are Sega games that were ported onto their now defunct Dreamcast console: Sega Rally, House of the Dead, Virtua Tennis, Daytona etc.

It's criminal how forgotten this machine is, although I hear it's making somewhat of a comeback now.

Anyone else ever had a Crazy Taxi addiction?

 

[Vankleek Hill Seagull]

Nothing beats this for total addiction and hours of fun on Eastbourne Pier.

 

[Jesus Gul]

Marble Madness, Pac Land, Line Up and track and field with the joystick not the buttons though you had to have a big f off blister in the ball of your hand to prove your addiction

 

[Rambo]

Dragon Lair...class.

 

[Grendel]

The Daddy of all arcade games:

 

[maffew]

Marble Madness, Pac Land, Line Up and track and field with the joystick not the buttons though you had to have a big f off blister in the ball of your hand to prove your addiction

true story

try finding a spectrum owner with Daly Thomsons Olympic Challenge and working O and P buttons

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

I put forward The Virtua Tennis series

 

[Bluejuice]

I put forward The Virtua Tennis series

Which you can play in arcade quality right in your own home!

Check out http://DreamcastON.com/ you can pick up these machines really cheap now and eBay have loads of old Dreamcast games going for next to nothing. There are several Virtua Tennis listings at 99p and this is the EXACT same game as you'll have played in the arcade

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Which you can play in arcade quality right in your own home!

Check out http://DreamcastON.com/ you can pick up these machines really cheap now and eBay have loads of old Dreamcast games going for next to nothing. There are several Virtua Tennis listings at 99p and this is the EXACT same game as you'll have played in the arcade

You can get it for play station as well, but still not the same!

 

[Bluejuice]

That's because the PlayStation version is just a copy. The Dreamcast version is a direct arcade port!