Yeah, Defender was cool. Centipedes is also a great classic (I loved that track ball) with totally killer sounds.
MAME is awesome. I have it on a USB stick, so I can bring it to work. I have a really old version of it though, but I have tons of ROMS and they all work fine, so I have no need to upgrade it. Iām worried if I do, something will go wrong and I wont be able to play them anymore.
I also have a Sega Master System emulator and a NES one. Have tons of games for those too.
Good times.
Thereās a bar in Brooklyn called Barcade that is all 80s arcade games, I think the latest one is Sega Ralley Championship from 1989.
Itās great, they have Gauntlet, Punch-Out, Paperboy (with the bike handles), Rolling Thunder, etc.
All eighties stuff, but they are fantastic. I donāt think thereās any pinball anymore, though.
We took a party bus to this pinball place over on the other side of the river in Illinois for my buddyās 30th birthday:
http://www.cppinball.com/games/
It was pretty fuckinā fresh. I finally got to play that old Dr. Who pinball, and they had the Circus game thatMr. Bungle took a bunch of samples from (RIDE THE FERRIS WHEEL!)
Theyāre building a third building to house even more machines now.
Juggling back and forth between a grip of stuff at the mo.
Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup 0.8.1 (I HAVE 9.1, but Teleport Self and Berserk Rage > no XP pool)
The Dark Spire
Final Fantasy III DS
Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift
Also trying to get back into fighters. Me and the guys Brawled like savages for a long time, havenāt done so in a minute, and now my Ganonās rusty as hell.
Slowly getting into Street Fighter 3: Third Strike. I always gravitate toward bottom-tier characters with nifty, if not gimped-out, advantages, and Iām an idiot because Iāve decided to main Necro. Killer pokes and a great corner-juggle game are worth the slow speed and shitty approach to me, and Iāve always been notoriously terrible with balanced, Shoto-esque fighters in any game.
Man.
What are games even.