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HalfTimePie wrote:Born in 92 so I'm fully aware that I did not have it as good as most here when it comes to arcades. For me though playing House of the Dead and Time Crisis are my earliest
I first played The House of the Dead when I went to Walten on the Naze way back when I was in junior school. I spent all my pocket money on it. When I got home, I sold my Playstation to buy a Sega Saturn just to play it at home.
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I seriously miss Light Gun games on a big CRT TV. The Dreamcast light guns were absolutely amazing bits of kit. Didn't have that many games unfortunately, but the ones they did (HOTD2, VC2 & Confidential Mission) were all brilliant fun.

During a very brief period between jobs in 2000, I sat in my house for about 2 weeks, smoking pot, with the curtains drawn, "dual-wielding" the light guns.
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I used to go to Karate class at a leisure centre (Waterfront, Greenwich I believe) and they had two classic games I used to waste 10ps on waiting for my brother’s class to finish.
Sega’s Afterburner, and Konami’s Salamander.
Afterburner speaks for itself, but Salamander was such a challenging and outstanding scrolling space shooter with a plethora of power ups and bosses who would often get the better of me. I used to just want to get the Ripple Laser upgrade as quickly as I could because it would engulf the enemies onscreen and leave me well protected. I could never keep it too long.....

I was a massive Time Crisis fan. Much better game than Virtua Cop. The pedal system was quite innovative and very responsive and I enjoyed the mix of ducking for cover and killing the baddies. The PlayStation version was on point too, the pedal replaced with a button on the gun.

Capcom’s Final Fight was the first arcade beat em’ up I played. Of course it was the next level to something like Double Dragon or Vigilante with large neatly drawn sprites and unique special moves.
I also remember spending money on Street Fighter II: Champion Edition. Playing as a boss was really satisfying.
Mortal Kombat took over for a period before I understood its complete lack of depth and novelty factor. The same with Killer Instinct. Both were fun for a period but failed to have the enduring gameplay that Capcom’s Street Fighter and SNK’s underrated King of Fighters series still maintain to this day.
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Oh, and sitting in a Star Wars cab for the first time, 1983... amazing...

"Red Five, I'm going in..."

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UTJ, if you do one thing with your PSVR, pick up a cheap copy of SW Battlefront (not the newest one) and play through the VR mission....
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Up the Junction wrote:Oh, and sitting in a Star Wars cab for the first time, 1983... amazing...

"Red Five, I'm going in..."
"The force will be with you... always..."
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Hammer1972 wrote:UTJ, if you do one thing with your PSVR, pick up a cheap copy of SW Battlefront (not the newest one) and play through the VR mission....
Better still, find a Sega Model 3 emulator and run Star Wars Trilogy through it. Not the longest game ever, but plays brilliantly on a modern PC at 1080p & higher.
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Hammer1972 wrote:UTJ, if you do one thing with your PSVR, pick up a cheap copy of SW Battlefront (not the newest one) and play through the VR mission....
My son has it, played through the other day. Said it was great fun.
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What was the western style shoot em up game that appeared in the early nineties in the arcades? It was live action footage.

I remember we used to get the train to Southend to play that in the arcade on the seafront.

I used to love going to Sega World in Leicester Square as well and playing ISS I think it was. It was winner stays on and you could end up playing on there for ages.
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I remember it Ron.

The girl, twirling around the corner of the raised deck.
"There's a new band of outlaws in town.... and I'm scared!"

I remember it being proper moody acting, but cannot remember the name of the game.

Hillbilly Moonshine was always good fun in arcades - shooting the open things and them spitting water at you.
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Not that weird Sega Time Traveler "hologram" game?

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Found it (I think!):

Fast Draw: Showdown
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Looks about as good as the Time Traveler one.
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I think it was this (or a version of it):

Mad Dog McCree

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Cockneyboy311 wrote:Nothing tops Track & Field.
Hyper Sports does.

Super Sprint on a top down machine, at my Dad's work social club when I was a lad :scarfer:
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1943, Ikari Warriors and Bubble Bobble too. Coming back to me now!
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Mega Ron wrote:I think it was this (or a version of it): Mad Dog McCree
Ha, i remember this. Amazing.
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Amazingly ****, yes.
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