Arcade machines that have swallowed too much of your cash

[Jimbo26]

The football game with the rollerball controller saw most of my paper round cash. Well worth it though !!

 

[maffew]

Oooooh OPERATION WOLF! Nice one!

I liked the SIMPSONS and TURTLES games, which were basically both the same button bashing BRILLIANCE.

Also I remmebr being at Butlins or summat and constantly asking for more money to play COMMANDO, an overhead shooter thing.

Also there was a Ninja game which had a black bit over half the screen becuase it was deemed too violent for small kids so I had to stand on a stool to be able to see the screen.

They do NOT make them like that any more.

Simpsons and Turtles, simple but quite addictive and fast

I think the Ninja one you are referring to could be the orignal Ninja Gaiden

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Simpsons and Turtles, I seem to recall astrix as well

 

[algie]

Think it was called Kun fu master which cost me a packet.You had a bad guy at the end of each level.Commando is also another

Mr.Do
Pac man
Double dragon
Crime fighters

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Mrs Pacman as well

 

[Buzzer]

green beret in the canteen at Tescos in Durrington when I was doing my A levels.

Also Kung Fu Master.

happy days

 

[Mr Banana]

Pacman in The Arc club still costs me loads. Back in the day it was Turtles and Street Fighter.

 

[Beach Hut]

Galaxian and Space Invaders (table top) were my weakness

 

[McCririck]

Has to Be Gorf, fav arcade game of all time

 

[Badger]

and then there was paperboy itself....

ironic how you earnt money delivering papers and then spent it delivering pixelated versions

 

[Rangdo]

Excellent thread.

I've always hated fruit machines but must have binned thousands in these machines. Some bloody good examples so far. What about:

Double Dragon

Lethal Enforcers:

Virtua Cop:

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Hyper sports and commando were my favorites.

 

[Wilko]

Bubble Bobble

 

[Statto]

Over the years Virtua Tennis has probably taken the most off me. Back in the day the star wars machines got my pocket money.

Virtua tennis has always been a favorate of mine aswell. At home and abroad. I never bloody completed it though. I did get to the final once and lost in straight sets.

 

[Wardy]

I have spent loads on

The original black and white (or should I say green) Space Invaders
Track and Field
Gorf
Defender
Tron
PacMan
Frogger
Donkey Kong

To name but a few

 

[Meade's Ball]

I can't find the actual picture i want, but this sort of thing ate my cash most down West St in the eighties.

 

[Marc]

I can't find the actual picture i want, but this sort of thing ate my cash most down West St in the eighties.

hahaha yeah the one on the pier...underage gambling as it finest

 

[johnny jigsaw]

"Use the force, Luke!"

 

[Wardy]

The football game with the rollerball controller saw most of my paper round cash. Well worth it though !!

Talking of paper round money,

http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360/image/article/764/764099/paperboy-20070213003201836-000.jpg

 

[Hercules Rockerfeller]

Paperboy - How shit is that?