198th played so far Genre: Music Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1998 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Okay, so the original Dance Dance Revolution wasn’t exactly released outside of Japan. Instead we in the UK got a game called Dancing Stage. As a kid I had the first home release of a DDR game called Dance […]
Posts Tagged ‘arcade’
#368 Dance Dance Revolution
Posted: 1st December 2012 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1998, arcade, konami, music
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189th played so far Genre: Fighting Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1988 Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco Rounding off our stint of games from 1986-1990 is a rather different title which is a cross between The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Zombies Ate Our Neighbours. Unlike any of the fighting games we have encountered during this blog […]
183rd played so far Genre: Music Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1997 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Music games started out in the arcade. I think we can all agree on this since all the home peripherals that we have grown to love (by storing them on top of a wardrobe alongside that dragon kite you […]
#400 Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
Posted: 28th September 2012 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 1999, arcade, capcom, dreamcast, fighting, street fighter
182nd played so far Genre: Fighting Platform: Arcade, Dreamcast Year of Release: 1999 Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom And so Dreamfest comes to an end after a whistle-stop tour through some of the major genres in gaming. For this final game there were a number of games in the running which we will, of course, have […]
#299 Sega Rally Championship
Posted: 27th August 2012 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1995, am5, arcade, driving, sega
174th played so far Genre: Driving Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1995 Developer: AM5 Publisher: Sega Did I ever tell you my father did some rally driving? While he was more often around to repair the cars (for one of the better teams in the country), he also got to be a navigator on a […]
#66 Bank Panic
Posted: 23rd August 2012 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 1984, arcade, sanritsu, sega, shoot 'em up
173rd played so far Genre: Shoot ’em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1984 Developer: Sanritsu Publisher: Sega This morning Jeroen accidentally (through a slip of the tongue) coined a term: short ’em up. I thought he was being clever since there are many shoot ’em ups left for us to do on this list […]
#334 Final Furlong, #269 Puzzle Bobble
Posted: 7th August 2012 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 1994, 1997, arcade, namco, puzzle, racing, taito, Various
As you have undoubtedly noticed we are, once again, doing two ames in one post. We did this two months ago after trawling the arcades of Piccadilly Circus so what could that mean? It was a grey Saturday. Slightly chilly and there was some spits of rain in the afternoon… so of course this is […]
#114 Ikari Warriors
Posted: 3rd August 2012 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 1986, arcade, shoot 'em up, SNK
167th played so far Genre: Shoot ’em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1986 Developer: SNK Publisher: Tradewest Do you know what this game signifies? We have now covered 1 in 6 games on the list! Woo! This is a bit of a mini landmark so it’s fair that this game is also a mini […]
#125 Space Harrier
Posted: 2nd July 2012 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 1985, arcade, sega, shoot 'em up
159th played so far Genre: Shoot ’em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1985 Developer: Sega Publisher: Sega 15% of games on this list are shoot ’em ups. Since this is not a genre either of us usually think of when it comes to picking games we are probably going to splurge on these every […]
158th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1979 Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco So here we go – game one of what I’ve unofficially dubbed our weekend of shoot ’em ups. We’ve got lots of them to do for the blog, and many are fairly quick and straight forward, so […]