What classic game are you best at?

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If you had to play for your life - against an unknown opponent - which game would you choose (of the more famous, classic arcade games)?

Write something here and if you have a moment, please click on your response on the poll on my blog. I have listed 16 of the most popular games.

Just wondering what everyone thinks they are good at. I was at college when Pac-Man ruled and yet I could never make my quarter last for too long. I was okay at Track & Field, but some folks ran right by me. If I had to choose, I'd choose Galaga. Win or die.

Make your choice on the poll...

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Donkey Kong is the only one I am even decent at. I have never reached 300,000, but I can play for about 45 minutes.
 
I am an absolute beast at Tetris, though I've never played the arcade version. The others... not so much. I've ALMOST broken 200k in Dig Dug and Ms. Pac, but my specialty is newer games when it comes to score.
 
I voted Tron...unless I happened to come up against one of the handful of people who are really good at it, I think I'd win :D
 
Best at galaga, I can put up 400,000.




On the reverse of this I am terrible at several machines I own.
Rally X
terrible at Battlezone 21,000
love asteroids, but I can't break 50,000
Missile command is a hellava hard game.
 
I'm gonna go with tron since my best score was a little over 700,000 and I'm pretty sure if I was playing for my life I could do better.

Runner up would be ms pac man.
 
Maybe Millipede?

But I still suck at that, too. I just probably suck at that game a bit less than any of the others I own.
 
I'm gonna go with tron since my best score was a little over 700,000 and I'm pretty sure if I was playing for my life I could do better.

Cool, I'd have some competition then :D My best is just over 1 million. Did it twice, and choked right away both times.
 
If it was for my life. I would be killed. The best shot I would have at surviving is street fighter 2 champion edition

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For me..Track and Field. I pumped a lot of quarters into that thing.

Track & Field can be so frustrating competitively when you are banging away for all you're worth and the guy next to you keeps pulling away. Drummers must be great at it.
 
If you had to play for your life - against an unknown opponent - which game would you choose (of the more famous, classic arcade games)?

Write something here and if you have a moment, please click on your response on the poll on my blog. I have listed 16 of the most popular games.

Just wondering what everyone thinks they are good at. I was at college when Pac-Man ruled and yet I could never make my quarter last for too long. I was okay at Track & Field, but some folks ran right by me. If I had to choose, I'd choose Galaga. Win or die.

Make your choice on the poll...

http://mamezach.blogspot.com/

I'd say "of the more famous, classic arcade games" is pretty subjective, but using the list of 16 in your poll I selected Robotron based on my current skills, since I recently rolled the score counter at 10 million, and to do that you have to roll the wave counter at 255 as well (that happens at around 7 million) so the game returns back to wave 1 at reduced difficulty, as if you started a new game. I'm just average on most of the other games in your poll, a couple I've played maybe a dozen times total in my life (hello Defender and Track & Field) and a couple I've never played at all (Street Fighter II and Tetris).

If this question was asked a couple of years ago when I was playing Donkey Kong regularly I would have selected that, as I was on the verge of getting a kill screen when I got busy getting married, buying a house, moving, and buying more games and putting together a game room, etc. I stopped playing Donkey Kong and really haven't ever got back to it yet, and my skills have atrophied I'm sure. My best score is 778k. My best run on a single man in that game is 552k.

If I had to select one classic arcade game to play against an unknown opponent, though, it would be Wild Western. I have seen evidence of only maybe three other players who are capable of maxing the score at 1 million like I have, whereas with Donkey Kong there are dozens of verified kill screen players and I think over a half dozen have since surpassed 1 million on that game. Same with Robotron; there are lots of talented Robotron players out there. I don't know how many of them are active today but there are enough that I'd rather take my chances with Wild Western. I'm an expert Kicker player too, but that game is relatively easy compared to Wild Western, which will kick you in the nuts.
 
I haven't looked at the list, but I would pick Joust. I used to be pretty good BITD and we used to play a lot of cutthroat in the lunchroom at Williams. It is one of the few games, other than the fighting games, where you actually compete against each other simultaneously.

ken
 
Track & Field can be so frustrating competitively when you are banging away for all you're worth and the guy next to you keeps pulling away. Drummers must be great at it.

just gotta use the popcicle stick trick,if your oppent will let you.
 
tron-cleared 2 million and quit after almost 4 hours of play
and
major havoc, I have been putting some good scores up on this and I just realized it was set for the most difficult setting. I moved it back to standard settings and now it's a bit easier.
 
I'm only really good at Battlezone. I remember getting 700K as a kid, but I've only documented a 400K game in recent years. Takes time. Lots and lots of time.

PS - I picked Star Wars from your list. I'd have to hope that the other guy can't get over 200K or it's Jesus time for me!
 
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