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As a kid this game completely fascinated me--friends and I would walk a few miles, pockets bulging with coins, just to play it. It was the first arcade game I came across that seemed to have somewhat of a plot and a definite ending--we were excited to make it to the 'city of the bug people' as we called it, and if you took too long on a stage a huge, menacing head would come out and literally chase you off the screen.
Rygar was one of the first more complex arcade games I believe, I loved it. it was a little harder to find though and I'm not sure if I ever finished it.
I remember as a kid being mesmerized by Street Fighter 2 when it first came out in the arcades in the early 90s.
The large sprites, the exotic international backdrops, the awesome jazzy music, the strange characters, the startling attention to detail, and so much....color. I was blown away. I've never seen anything like it (in the arcades).
I pity the kids today who will never know the feeling of entering an arcade, the sounds, the smells (depending on where you were it could be cigarettes, pizza, cotton candy or weed), the allure of Ms Pac Man and Marvel Super Heroes, the crowd gathered around MK2, the girl in the sitdown cabinet of Outrun who is REALLY good...we'd go in when MK2 was new, when someone knowing a Fatality or--*gasp*--a Friendship would draw a massive reaction from onlookers. Then you'd go home and try to re-create that magic on your weak copy of MK1 on SNES, hoping and praying MK2 would be like the arcade version when it dropped.
If I had been told then 'Hey, one day your console will allow you to play with others from the comfort of your home and it will be so commonplace that literally every game will have some form of it', I would've been blown away. It's fun to log onto GTA Online and realize the other cars racing by are real players--the same with Diablo or any MMO. But it's just not the same as the arcade, man. The vibe was just different.
I actually bought my favorite arcade games once, and had them when I had a house. Defender, Stargate Defender, and a Multi-Williams arcade machine with Joust, Robotron, Sinistar, Moon Patrol, and Bubbles.
I loved Defender. Great sound effects. I played often but was never very good.
I remember as a kid being mesmerized by Street Fighter 2 when it first came out in the arcades in the early 90s.
The large sprites, the exotic international backdrops, the awesome jazzy music, the strange characters, the startling attention to detail, and so much....color. I was blown away. I've never seen anything like it (in the arcades).
#1, easily.
The Capcom games all had amazing graphics even going back to the old NES and arcade games.
They are easily in the top 3 game companies of all time.
I remember being at Myrtle Beach in South Carolina in 1987 and seeing Outrun for the first time. It was such a different racing game--you were racing along the countryside, with traffic, and had the branching paths. I still play it to this day, just for the nostalgia--Outrun and the original Daytona USA are two of my favorite racing games of all time.
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