My favorite arcade of all time is definetly Aladdin's Castle in Chicago/Chicago Ridge,Illinois.I've been going to that place for 15 years beginning with my debut as a customer in Spring,1986.Here are the top 5 games I played during the 1986-1987 year:

1.Rampage
2.Gauntlet
3.Kung Fu Master
4.Time Pilot
5.Super Mario Bros.

Aladdin's Castle is still the Ultimate Party Place!

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Welcome Nintendofan86! Rampage...there's one I almost forgot about...definitely a fun game! How can you go wrong with demolishing buildings and eating people as they scream out of there apartment windows http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//laugh.gif

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Hmmm. Let's see. Top five arcade games of the 80's.


Scramble
Tron
Battle Zone
Donkey Kong
Armor Attack


I'm not discriminatory though. I went into a frenzy for any arcade game that I could shove a quarter into. Man I wish I had some of that money back. I can't tell you how many days I went without lunch cause I had spent my money on games.

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Hey Roemello,

I take it that you played both the arcade and the NES 8-bit version right?When I rented Rampage for the Nintendo,I was the first one to destroy 128 cities and completed the game back in August,1989 and it became a hit for 9 more years.Wanna know my world record point total?It's 32,320,476 points.

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Thanks to emulation, I actually own the arcade version, NES version and GameGear version.

I've played through the N64 version as well. I've finished 'em all...no clue on scores though...never kept track of that http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//tongue.gif

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"Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive."

Still Jungle Hunt and Golden Axe were my favorites..

Especially Golden Axe... I want to play it now!!!
Roemello... find that game for me and tell me how I can play it... you're good at that kind of stuff!

(I may change my signature to "ROEMELLO IS GOD" if you do this) he he he he http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//laugh.gif

Also.. I used to play Double Dragon alot...

Of course.. Frogger, Ms Pac Man, Super Pac Man, Pole Position, Dig Dug, Centipede, and Galaga took alot of my money as well!!!


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Later!! Tina

Ok Tina....I'm gonna walk you through this deal step by step (and I'm assuming you use a PC and not a MAC).

Ok, first step is to get the emulator. Go to:
http://www.emux.com/english/emulators/mame-windows.phtml . Download the file 'mame32b-037b11.zip' This is the program you use to play the games.

Next, download the rom. Since all my old download sites seem to be down, I had to scrounge this one up. Just go to the following page and download 'goldenaxe(1.3MB)'
http://www.classicgaming.com/vault/roms/arcaderoms.GoldenAxe11506.shtml

Now all you have to do is unzip the emulator (DO NOT unzip the rom!). After unzipping the emulator, it should have created a bunch of folders along with the program itself. Move the zipped rom into the 'roms' folder. Now just open up the mame32.exe file and BOOM! You're in!

If any further assistance is needed, just ask http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//smile.gif

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"Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive."

Roem.. when I go to download the game (Golden Axe 1.3)
It just says web site found waiting for reply.... nothing.... nothing... still nothing.. and then the connection times out... every other link on that site works fine.. but when I go to download that game.. thats what I get...
http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//frown.gif

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Later!! Tina

Woo-Hoo, Tinajo. I had forgotten about Jungle Hunt. That was a great game.

Hey, Roemello. Doesn't Mame rule! I have been using it for quite some time. Let's me relive all of my past glories.

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Yes Shakey, MAME definitely rules! http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//biggrin.gif I have zip disks filled with roms http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//smile.gif

Tina, I'll have to find you a working rom link. I'll look for one when I'm done making my cruise through the forums and post it up http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//smile.gif It's hard now as all the really good rom download sites I used to go to are closed down http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//frown.gif

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I'm at a loss...I can't find any good rom sites. All the good ones are either closed or they don't work http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//mad.gif This sucks...I have a list of all these sites and they're all finished....the hunt continues unless someone knows of a good site?

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Tinajo and Roemello. Give this web site a try. I have checked and they do have the Golden Axe rom. Plus oodles more. Have fun. http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//PSYCHO.gif

http://arcadeathome.efront.com/roms.phtml

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Still didn't find Golden Axe http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//frown.gif


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Later!! Tina

It's a decent site, but a little aggressive with the automatic banner pop-ups http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//mad.gif

Anyway, I found it Tina! Ok, go to that link Shakey provided, click on 'ROM files' under the Emulation heading. After weeding your way through all those damn pop-ups, click on the 'Arcade Emulation' link that's right next to "Classic Arcade ROMS at"

After this a new window will open up. Click on 'M.A.M.E.' under the Arcade ROMS heading. Now just click on the letter G, cycle down the list, and there it is....Golden Axe in all it's glory http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//smile.gif

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Sorry. Didn't really notice the popups to much. I use popup killer. Pretty much smacks them down before they begin. Tinajo. If you can't find it, I will find it and mail it to you. Just let me know.

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Tinajo. I found another link that is to a good rom site. You can download it there. It is at:
http://www.emulation.clara.net/mame.htm

I downloaded just in case. If you have a problem, let me know and I will mail you the file. Hope this is what you were after.

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<FONT COLOR="#6699cc" SIZE="1" FACE="Verdana, Arial">This message has been edited by Shakey on 03-17-2001 at 12:31 AM</font>

Shakey.. I really appreciate the trouble you and Roemello have gone through to find this game for me... I'm still having problems setting the whole thing up...
But I'll get it figured out!! Thanks!! http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//smile.gif

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Later!! Tina

It'd be so much easier if all the good rom sites didn't shut down http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//frown.gif It's not hard to figure out though. If you already have the emulator, you're half way there. All you need now is to find your roms and you're set to play! http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//biggrin.gif

Some of them are really small files...if you want one like that Super Pac-man you spoke of one time or even Jungle Hunt/King, I can set up a place for you to download either/both of 'em http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//wink.gif

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Hi guys. Yah, I agree with you Roemello. Most ROM files are typically small. That's what throws me about the Goldenaxe rom. It is about 1.5 meg's. That huge... I have a broadband connection, so it's not to bad for me, but if you had a slow connection that would be a pain. If you come up with a place to upload them to, tell me and I will send it your way. Plenty of bandwidth. http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//smile.gif

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Ya know....I might just make a ROM site one of these days. Wouldn't be for a while as I'm strapped for time with my other projects, but at least it'd be a reliable download spot http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//smile.gif

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The only question is, how do you keep it from getting shut down? I don't think most of the places that offer free sites allow you to post ROM's for download.

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I have my ways....http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//laugh.gif If I wanna do something, it's happening whether they like it or not! http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//tongue.gif There's ways around everything. I have a couple tricks in mind :9devil:

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"Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive."

Man, I miss those arcade games from the '80s. Here are some of my favorites:


Robotron (all-time favorite)
Tempest
Ladybug
Kangaroo
Star Wars
Tron
Donkey Kong
Wizards of Wor

Funny story I heard this morning on the radio as to why they named Donkey Kong, 'Donkey Kong'

See, originally they wanted to name it King Kong, but the people owning the lisence to King Kong wouldn't allow it. So the makers of the game simply called it Donkey Kong to subtly make an 'ass' out of them http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//laugh.gif

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Ahhh, arcades in the early '80s - I have few memories as fond. Southern California, 10 tokens for a dollar, the girls in their really short shorts, smokin' cigarettes before we were old enough.

My favorite game was probably Zaxxon. A buddy showed me a pattern you could follow each time through and get a really high score. The only problem was that between levels when those airplanes would shoot at you, they would ocassionally back up and you couldn't really prepare for it.

Then Star Trek. I never was very good at it, but it was pretty cool. All I remember is shooting at various satellites and stuff, and I think it had some sort of radar to help you find targets.

And Gorf - it started out like one of those bounce the balls into the blocks game, but had a lot of levels after that that were totally different.

Defender - I've got it on my Playstation and I think I've made it up to level six a couple of times. Always a fun game.

And speaking of Playstation, I've got Robotron on it and I've actually gotten pretty good at it, even though it was never a favorite of mine in the arcades.

Those were the days... http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//wink.gif

Yes they were, lazy boy. I liked a lot of games that weren't the big named ones. Crazy Climber, Scramble and Armor Attack come to mind. They were good times...

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Speaking of downloading those games, I tried to download the emulator from that MAME site last night. The file was mame32b-037b11.zip, which is "binary", as opposed to the "source" one which was also listed. Anyhow, the problem was that I left the thing download all night, from about 8:00 pm 'till 8:00 am the next morning, and it didn't even come close to finishing the download. Hardly even got started actually. http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//frown.gif

I don't think it's a problem with my computer, because all the websites I go to seem to load up quickly.

Any suggestions? Should I try downloading one of the other files, like the "source" one? What's the difference?

Thanks - I would really like to play some of the old games again!

No, don't download the source....that's the actual source code of the emulator. Unless you're a programmer, that would be of no use to you.

Don't know why it didn't download....I think Tina got the emu without a problem off that site...http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//confused.gif Shouldn't take that long either, it's only a little over 2 megs....

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Oh well, like WC Fields said: "If at first you don't succeed, try try again. Then quit - no use making a damned fool of yourself." http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//wink.gif

I'll try again tonight. Maybe the site was just busy, or maybe I got a crummy connection with my ISP.

You know, Roem.. I have yet to get Golden Axe up and running!

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Later!! Tina

Are you trying to get Mame from the offical web site or from that rom link? If you were trying the rom link, don't Just get Mame here.
http://www.mame.net/

Like Roemello said. Shouldn't take that long at all. It's been a while since I was 56K, but I would think it should only take about 10 minutes or so.

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Combating links http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//hammer.gif I think you might prefer the following link better than that one. The one Shakey got is to the DOS version of MAME....there's a better version with a windows interface and a much more user friendly set-up at:

http://www.classicgaming.com/mame32/download.htm

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Roemello! I wish I knew how to type out the tune of "Dueling Banjo's"... That would be funny. http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//biggrin.gif

Guess I need to move into this century and get rid of all my old DOS based stuff... Just can't seem to do it. It's comfortable to me.

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I still use DOS too for most of my emulators....NESticle, Genecyst, ZSNES, etc.

I like a good GUI formatted emulator when it comes to DOS emulators. If it's not up to my standards, I find a windows port http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//tongue.gif

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What can I say? I was a major Donkey Kong fan

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Welcome Murdock! (somehow I begin to think of the A-Team...hmmm...http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//laugh.gif )

Yeah, Donkey Kong was addictive as hell...I had a blast when I found that the original was hidden in the 'Donkey Kong Country 64' game....my adventure came to a screaching halt when I found that...didn't want to stop with the original http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//laugh.gif

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Okay.. Roem.. I want Super Mario Brothers now...
You know... the origional arcade one...

can you get it for me?

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Later!! Tina

Yes maam! Probably not tonight with the party and all....maybe tomorrow or something http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//wink.gif

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