What popular game have you not played?

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I grew up in the "golden age" of arcades, and have never played any version of Mortal Combat or Street Fighter. And I sometimes think I must be the only one on here who hasn't.

So what common game have you never played (that everyone else has)?

-Jim
 
I grew up in the 80's and 90's and had an atari for the classics, so the newer stuff was "where it was at" at the time.

Personally i never got to play many classic Taito games and was never big into the Vectors so those didn't get much play either.

I've never played Mortal Combat ( :001_scry: )
 
Despite being a fan of Street Fighter II, I've never played a Street Fighter II cab. My hometown arcade had MKII, MK3, and Primal Rage as far as fighting games go, when I was growing up.
 
I am not sure if there are any popular games that I have never played. I guess there are a few that I have not played enough to form an opinion about: Asteroids Deluxe, Gravitar, Food Fight, and many others. Each of these games failed to grab my attention right away and I simply moved on to other games.
 
I've never played:

Any baseball game newer than 1994
Lethal Enforcers, Point Blank, or any gun game newer than 1989
Killer Instinct
Pokemon
Final Fantasy
Need for Speed
Resident Evil
Battlefield
Tekken
Assassin's Creed
Tomb Raider
Medal Of Honor
Counter-Strike
Diablo
Star Fox
Hitman
BioShock
Max Payne
Twisted Metal
World of Warcraft
Halo
Call Of Duty
FarmVille



...and I did not actively avoid any of them. Just a matter of time, $$, and/or circumstance.
 
You're always going to favor/play the games you are familiar with and what you grew up with. That's why some "Golden Age" guys will always bash on "JAMMA Age" games. They probably never played arcade games that came out after 1985. They were either too old to care or the change in types of games were a turn off. Either way, I can understand why some "Golden Age" guys have never played Street Fighter II or other common post-1985 games.

I guess I'm lucky to have grown up playing games in the early 90s during the last years of arcades (Aladdin's Castle, etc.), but I can also appreciate games that came before my time that my older brothers grew up with in the 80s. Nostalgia is obviously a huge part of loving a game, but it ultimately comes down to games you have honestly tried playing more than once that you have come to enjoy.

DK came out 2 years before I was born, but as a Nintendo fan, I've grown to appreciate/love it and it was my first arcade game and one of my favorites. Though, there are games I don't really like for example. Space Invaders. Yes, a well-known classic. But honestly, for someone like me, it's boring as hell. Yeah, I could try for a high score and there's a challenge there, but seriously, booooring.

To answer the question, I've pretty much tried everything notable at other collector's houses, CAX and if you count playing on MAME.
 
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You're always going to favor/play the games you are familiar with and what you grew up with. That's why some "Golden Age" guys will always bash on "JAMMA Age" games. They probably never played arcade games that came out after 1985. They were either too old to care or the change in types of games were a turn off. Either way, I can understand why some "Golden Age" guys have never played Street Fighter II or other common post-1985 games.

I guess I'm lucky to have grown up playing games in the early 90s during the last years of arcades (Aladdin's Castle, etc.), but I can also appreciate games that came before my time that my older brothers grew up with in the 80s. Nostalgia is obviously a huge part of loving a game, but it ultimately comes down to games you have honestly tried playing more than once that you have come to enjoy.

DK came out 2 years before I was born, but as a Nintendo fan, I've grown to appreciate/love it and it was my first arcade game and one of my favorites. Though, there are games I don't really like for example. Space Invaders. Yes, a well-known classic. But honestly, for someone like me, it's boring as hell. Yeah, I could try for a high score and there's a challenge there, but seriously, booooring.

To answer the question, I've pretty much tried everything notable at other collector's houses, CAX and if you count playing on MAME.
I feel the same way, older games are cool, but I grew up playing outrun, space harrier, street fighter etc.
 
I associate Street Fighter with the official end of my enjoyment of arcade games. At the time, that's all that were found in liquor stores or 7/11s, and invariably there were some loud swearing punks playing it. Now that I'm older, I understand in hindsight that arcades games were on a decline, so I no longer "blame" fighting games or the plethora of generic cabinets with generic games (JAMMA) for the end of my favorite pastime of youth, but to this day I haven't played 95% of games that came out after '88. I see photo's of gamerooms with MKs and Street Fighters and just don't get it, but I guess taste in titles is highly personal.
 
I associate Street Fighter with the official end of my enjoyment of arcade games. At the time, that's all that were found in liquor stores or 7/11s, and invariably there were some loud swearing punks playing it. Now that I'm older, I understand in hindsight that arcades games were on a decline, so I no longer "blame" fighting games or the plethora of generic cabinets with generic games (JAMMA) for the end of my favorite pastime of youth, but to this day I haven't played 95% of games that came out after '88. I see photo's of gamerooms with MKs and Street Fighters and just don't get it, but I guess taste in titles is highly personal.

There are a ton of post-1988 games worth playing that are not SF and MK as well. You should just try them out on MAME and see what you may possibly like. Just don't expect them to play like classics. They were meant to eat quarters by continuous coop or headtohead play, not high scores.
 
I don't know for sure if I've played all of the pac man games. Same could be said for all of the street fighter 2 versions although I think I have.

Thats where I would get caught. Same with like the king of fighter series. I've played most of them, couldn't say for sure I've played all of them.

Past that I looked at the klov top list and I think I've played pretty much all of them.
 
There are a ton of post-1988 games worth playing that are not SF and MK as well. You should just try them out on MAME and see what you may possibly like. Just don't expect them to play like classics. They were meant to eat quarters by continuous coop or headtohead play, not high scores.

Yeah, I've found a fair number on fairly fun newer ('90s) games on MAME, some of them are pretty fun, but I just never paid attention to them in their day. I guess it's more an age/era thing I'm sure if I came up a few years later than I did, I'd have a totally different point of view, just like the guys who came up before me who like their EMs and B&Ws.
 
I'm in pretty much the same boat as GoldenAge. By the time the Street Fighter and plethora of other fighting games came out I was in college and the military reserves and far too busy with other things.

Plus, I never really got into that entire genre of game where you had a joystick, 10-ish buttons that controlled every time of kick and punch possible, and you basically just went nuts on the control panel. Every one of those multi-player fighting games just seemed like a clone of each other to me.

So I'd say I missed a pretty big genre of games and there are a ton that are considered popular that I've never played.

Everybody has their personal taste, which is one of the reasons why this hobby is so cool. A game I love could be one somebody couldn't care less about, and a grail to someone else may be one I'd pass right over without a 2nd thought.
 
I don't think I've played any version of Street Fighter.

As for more popular classic stuff, I've never played Scramble/Super Cobra, Discs of Tron or Defender. (though I played Defender on Atari 2600, not the same)
 
I associate Street Fighter with the official end of my enjoyment of arcade games. At the time, that's all that were found in liquor stores or 7/11s, and invariably there were some loud swearing punks playing it. Now that I'm older, I understand in hindsight that arcades games were on a decline, so I no longer "blame" fighting games or the plethora of generic cabinets with generic games (JAMMA) for the end of my favorite pastime of youth, but to this day I haven't played 95% of games that came out after '88. I see photo's of gamerooms with MKs and Street Fighters and just don't get it, but I guess taste in titles is highly personal.

Yeah, thats pretty much my experience/opinion as well. It was just a different arcade experience to compare 1982 to 1992, that's for sure....
 
Bookeneds: Space Invaders and Street Fighter II.

You saw SI everywhere...then the classic era...then you saw SFII everywhere...then, poof.

After that, the only UR I regularly saw anywhere else were Neo Geo multis, and I never saw nearly as many of them as I saw SFIIs.
 
I guess I'm abit different because I would randomly run into arcade games. I missed some classic arcades but still got to play a few like Donkey Kong, Asteroids, Dragon's Lair and a couple of the Pac Man games.(heck I even played with a Baby Pac once) Then after some time lag due to moving around abit I went back in the (90s era to play things like TMNT, The Simpsons, Double Dragon, Super OffRoad, Un Squadron and NBA Jam just to name a few.(honestly I even played Sega Time Traveler once).

I liked all of them and miss them which is why I'm here
 
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Dragon's Lair (I have never seen one), Mortal Kombat, Double Dragon, Rampage, DK 3, 720, Return of the Jedi, Punch Out. There's more I'm sure, these are the ones I can think of quickly.
 
Hmm. This thread seems to have started out with popular games that people haven't played--and don't care to. I grew up playing video games during the golden age, the crash and beyond. But my favorites seem to hover somewhere between 1979 and 1985--with a few exceptions.

But there are some games that I think were probably considered "popular" that I never got to play for one reason or another...

Games I'd care to play but haven't:

  • Firefox
  • Time Traveler
  • Mousetrap: played the Colecovision version but never the Arcade one.


I've just never been into fighting games other than on consoles and even then I suck at them. So games I wouldn't really care to play and haven't are games like:

  • Street Fighter Series
  • Killer Instinct
  • Mortal Kombat

There is one exception to the fighting games... Tekken... I might play Tekken in an arcade. I mean, who doesn't want to be King?

I also kind of outgrew the sidescrolling platform coop games. Never had much interest in:

  • Captain America and the Avengers
  • The Simpsons

Though I did play TMNT a couple of times I think. And I loved Moonwalker.
 
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