Ceribaen wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 23:28:

Sc4r wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 18:56:
One of my fav arcade games when i was kid, have it on my arcade machine i have here with a bunch more, used to build my health up and sell the game off for a few dollars lol.

I think my favourite ones were...
X-Men (the 6 player/2 screen one)
Area 51
Golden Axe (2 I think...)
Simpsons
oh, and Virtua On

nin wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 16:08:

Bundy wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 14:59:

Verno wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 11:57:

dj LiTh wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 11:17:
Cool, remember it being my favorite game i had on the old Apple IIGS

Yeah Gauntlet was pretty badass at the time, not sure how it will hold up though.

When I was a kid, and this was in the arcade. Oh man! The game, actually TALKED!!!! ***Mind blown*** So decades later I'm messing around with MAME and, "acquired" a few old arcade classic ROMS. I fired this one up, nostalgically thinking, "my kids are gonna LOVE this!" Man, did my childhood memory ever build this one up. It's still a fun little co-op hack and slash in it's own way. But, technology definitely wasn't as advanced as I thought it was in 1985.

I remember encountering a Sinistar machine for the first time as a kid, and it scaring the fuck out of me.

Sc4r wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 18:56:
One of my fav arcade games when i was kid, have it on my arcade machine i have here with a bunch more, used to build my health up and sell the game off for a few dollars lol.

jdreyer wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 17:50:

Undocumented Alien wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 17:03:
Dam, I don't remember the original one being this bloody... when I saw the story title I thought my kid (7) and I could play together... my wife would kill me if I had him play this.

Hammerwatch. Also, Trine2. And of course, any of the Lego games: LOTR, Marvel Heroes, Batman. My son is 6, and we play all of those together. It's a blast.

Darks wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 11:28:

Strango wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 11:08:

MacLeod wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 10:02:
...Without the balance of using actual money to continue or add health, the game doesn't really work. If I can continue an unlimited amount of times, without having to worry about running out of quarters, the danger of the game is gone. I find that you just start barreling through monsters, where in the arcade you actually take your time and try to avoid being hit.

Hammerwatch struck a good balance on this subject. You had a limited number of lives (a shared pool in co-op) and when they were gone that was it. If you restarted it would be back at the first level again. You could earn more lives, but never enough to keep you from playing conservatively. Now with that said I doubt this new title will do something like that, but I hope to be surprised.

Let’s be realistic here about the lives and spending quarters. I worked in a movie theater when this game was release long ago. We had the keys to the machine so we would pump it up with lives so we could play all night long. Games like these in Arcades are designed to keep you spending quarters so you can keep drugging through the game. There is no end for a game like this, its made to keep regenerating levels until the end of time.

As for the new version, who knows how many levels there are. But gamers do not want to sit and rehash the same levels over and over again. The nice thing about Hamerwatch was, you could set the option in Coop to unlimited lives, and that’s the way we preferred it. No one wanted to die and the restart all over again because one person kept dying and using up all of the lives.

You can’t compare an arcade type game with your typical games of today. Most games these days have re-spawning. No different then having unlimited lives.

Shineyguy wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 16:35:
Played Gauntlet Legends with some friends endlessly. Was great fun plopping down on the couch and running through levels with each other.

Undocumented Alien wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 17:03:
Dam, I don't remember the original one being this bloody... when I saw the story title I thought my kid (7) and I could play together... my wife would kill me if I had him play this.

Yosemite Sam wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 13:52:

nin wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 09:57:
Hmmm...something seems off? Is it the camera?

View is too far away and areas are too big.

Ant wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 14:13:
I used to play the original arcade games too much. This does look like Diablo, Torchlight, etc. which I also enjoy though. I never got into Gauntlet 3, Legends, etc. though.

Bundy wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 14:59:

Verno wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 11:57:

dj LiTh wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 11:17:
Cool, remember it being my favorite game i had on the old Apple IIGS

Yeah Gauntlet was pretty badass at the time, not sure how it will hold up though.

When I was a kid, and this was in the arcade. Oh man! The game, actually TALKED!!!! ***Mind blown*** So decades later I'm messing around with MAME and, "acquired" a few old arcade classic ROMS. I fired this one up, nostalgically thinking, "my kids are gonna LOVE this!" Man, did my childhood memory ever build this one up. It's still a fun little co-op hack and slash in it's own way. But, technology definitely wasn't as advanced as I thought it was in 1985.

Bundy wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 14:59:

Verno wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 11:57:

dj LiTh wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 11:17:
Cool, remember it being my favorite game i had on the old Apple IIGS

Yeah Gauntlet was pretty badass at the time, not sure how it will hold up though.

When I was a kid, and this was in the arcade. Oh man! The game, actually TALKED!!!! ***Mind blown*** So decades later I'm messing around with MAME and, "acquired" a few old arcade classic ROMS. I fired this one up, nostalgically thinking, "my kids are gonna LOVE this!" Man, did my childhood memory ever build this one up. It's still a fun little co-op hack and slash in it's own way. But, technology definitely wasn't as advanced as I thought it was in 1985.

Verno wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 11:57:

dj LiTh wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 11:17:
Cool, remember it being my favorite game i had on the old Apple IIGS

Yeah Gauntlet was pretty badass at the time, not sure how it will hold up though.