What is your First Arcade Game?/Cuál es tu Primer Juego de Arcade?

[HyperNelson01 HyperNelson01]

That's really a great question...my honest answer would definitely be: who the hell remembers it? Between sunday school (which were very temporary anyways), some minor luna park and summer vacations with parents, I feel the possible answers can be:

• Point Blank
• Puzzle Bobble
• Super Pang
• the Capcom's D&D beat'em up/NBA Jam/etc. (maximum other 2 I have no clue which ones were), but both are very unlikely to have been the first ones.
• Wonder Boy (and another one I really can't remember the name)
• Metal Slug X

These are definitely the ones ever first seen But if I have to pick the one that was most likely the first one ever played, I'd pick the last one. Definitely have put arcade coins to try that one. First time I got an arcade stick (the Tekken 6 one) and played Metal Slug X with it, the nostalgia was tangible.

But hey, what matters is that you had the opportunity to play these great Arcade games at that time, although I played all those games (except Point Blank) through emulation, like MAME, for example.

 

[Wolf_]

Magician Lord, and it blew my mind how beautiful it looked. I wanted the home version so badly because it looked as good as the arcade version but sadly my parents were not millionaires.

 

[HyperNelson01 HyperNelson01]

Magician Lord, and it blew my mind how beautiful it looked. I wanted the home version so badly because it looked as good as the arcade version but sadly my parent's were not millionaires.

Magician Lord is a good Neo-Geo game but at the cost that it is devilishly difficult even at Level 1, but it's playable and pretty good graphically and musically speaking to be a 1990 Neo-Geo game.

And I understand that your parents couldn't buy you the AES version of the game because it cost $100 at the time as in many Neo-Geo AES games.

 

[Wolf_]

Magician Lord is a good Neo-Geo game but at the cost that it is devilishly difficult even at Level 1, but it's playable and pretty good graphically and musically speaking to be a 1990 Neo-Geo game.

And I understand that your parents couldn't buy you the AES version of the game because it cost $100 at the time as in many Neo-Geo AES games.

But oh my god was it just so beautiful to look at.

 

[HyperNelson01 HyperNelson01]

And another curious thing is that KOF 2002 is a KOF game that is quite popular in Mexico , Brazil , China , South Korea , Japan and other countries in the world (even Panama is not far behind) along with KOF '97 which is quite a popular KOF game as well.

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[BrawlMan]

The earliest I can remember was either TMNT: The Arcade Game, or The Simpsons. That is far back as I can remember.

 

[HyperNelson01 HyperNelson01]

The earliest I can remember was either TMNT: The Arcade Game, or The Simpsons. That is far back as I can remember.

Good Arcade Games from Konami but challenging, but the good side is that the Japanese version of both games exists and is fair than in the International versions, especially The Simpsons of '91.

 

[Aunt Sarah]

I think it was Ms.Pacman at the theatre.

 

[HyperNelson01 HyperNelson01]

I think it was Ms.Pacman at the theatre.

I've played this game and it looks good for a spin-off of the Pac-Man franchise.

 

[SolemnlyDoc]

This arcade cabinet and the one next to it from my pediatric dental office when I was a little one. Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr, and Mario Bros all in one, and Ms Pac-Man in the other.

 

[HyperNelson01 HyperNelson01]

This arcade cabinet and the one next to it from my pediatric dental office when I was a little one. Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr, and Mario Bros all in one, and Ms Pac-Man in the other.
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And it's 3 classic Big N Arcade games in one Arcade.

 

[Clawsofdrakonian]

Super Hang-on would be my very first arcade game ever and one of the reasons how I got to love motorcycles.

 

[HyperNelson01 HyperNelson01]

Super Hang-on would be my very first arcade game ever and one of the reasons how I got to love motorcycles.

The Super Hang-On from Arcade looks good to be a sequel to the original Hang-On arcade game.

 

[HyperNelsonPlus]

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Announcer: Choose Enemy!, C'mon!!!, Round 1/2/3/4/5 Fight!, Winner!

 

[HyperNelson01 HyperNelson01]

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Announcer: Continue?, Game Over.

 

[Deleted member 908994]

Pac man and street fighter.

 

[HyperNelson01 HyperNelson01]

Pac man and street fighter.

For your first Arcade games they are fine.

 

[Deleted member 908994]

For your first Arcade games they are fine.

I don't even remember how long ago that was. But they are beautiful memories.

 

[zombie100379]

not certain but it may have been taito's "superman" game from 1988

 

[HyperNelson01 HyperNelson01]

not certain but it may have been taito's "superman" game from 1988

For your first arcade game it's not bad and the Superman Arcade game is decent for the time.

 

[DjQuick2008]

super hang on is definitely one of mine as well the motorbike cabinet was a belter. i used to visit the isle of man as a child and motorbikes are the rage.

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i had the c64 tape but i do remember the cabinet.

 

[HyperNelson01 HyperNelson01]

super hang on is definitely one of mine as well the motorbike cabinet was a belter. i used to visit the isle of man as a child and motorbikes are the rage.

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i had the c64 tape but i do remember the cabinet.

For your first arcade game, it's fine, although I got to know it through emulation.

 

[DjQuick2008]

For your first arcade game, it's fine, although I got to know it through emulation.

i had the tiger handheld.

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[HyperNelson01 HyperNelson01]

i had the tiger handheld.

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I didn't know it, although I got to know the game in the Mega Drive version and then in Arcade.

 

[DjQuick2008]

I didn't know it, although I got to know the game in the Mega Drive version and then in Arcade.

My friend had that mega drive multicart thats how i played it on a home system.