275th played so far Genre: Sports Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1986 Developer: Atari Games Publisher: Atari Games Right, let’s get this straight. Yeah, the game is officially called 720ยฐ. We believe 720 or 720 Degrees are also acceptable. We’ll call it that. Laziness! We recently got a copy of Midway Arcade Treasures: Extended Play, […]
Posts Tagged ‘arcade’
#34 Joust
Posted: 1st October 2013 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1982, action, arcade, williams electronics
274th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1982 Developer: Williams Electronics Publisher: Williams Electronics The reason this game is (apparently) included in the list? Its pure insanity. The reason is simple: You’re a knight riding a flying ostrich, defeating other knights riding on buzzards. Player 2 if, they’re playing, rides a […]
267th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1977 Developer: Midway Publisher: Midway And now for a trip back in time. One of the oldest game in the books, we now move slightly past Pong and Breakout to the first shoot ’em up on the list. Considering the size of […]
265th played so far Genre: Fighting Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1984 Developer: Irem Publisher: Irem Some games are games where I really have no proper justification why we played them. They’re on the list, they’re a genre we need, but they’re not a big name and we’re hard-pressed to see why it’s so special. […]
#153 Forgotten Worlds
Posted: 2nd August 2013 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1988, arcade, capcom, shoot 'em up
259th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1988 Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom When playing the most recent three games (we spent a Sunday afternoon catching up with some smaller games), we somehow managed to play through a chronological progression of shoot ’em ups. Both Gorf and Juno First were […]
#60 Juno First
Posted: 29th July 2013 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1983, arcade, gottlieb, konami, shoot 'em up
258th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release:1983 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami, Gottlieb Time for a bit more shoot ’em up action today. While I’m hesitant to call playing these games checkbox exercises, when starting out a game like this – a shooter with increased controls – is one we […]
#31 Gorf
Posted: 25th July 2013 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1981, arcade, dave nutting associates, midway, shoot 'em up
257th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1981 Developer: Dave Nutting Associates Publisher: Midway When starting on some of these older games, it’s quite humbling to see what they brought to the field.ย Gorf, for example, was the first to have synthesised speech – the first with voice acting, […]
253rd played so far Genre: Fighting Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1993 Developer: Sega Publisher: Sega In the realm of fighting games, there are two main early entries: Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. The former arose in the late eighties, with the latter coming in in the early nineties. Both started off as traditional 2D […]
236th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1982 Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco There is a big argument for doing games in strictly chronological order, that way we can see exactly who did what first and who influenced whom. Xevious is the earliest example of a vertical shooting game that […]
#403 Ferrari F355 Challenge
Posted: 17th December 2012 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1999, arcade, dreamcast, driving, sega
202nd played so far Genre: Driving Platform: Arcade/Dreamcast Year of Release: 1999 Developer: Sega Publisher: Sega So a few months ago (at the time you read this, that is), we went to Disneyland Paris. A nice diversion that turned out to be an amazing time off. The stories about that are for another time, but […]