What's your greatest arcade performance?

but I used to have my birthday parties at Malibu Grand Prix and Celebrity Sports Center here in Denver growing up,

Man I miss those places!! Sad Malibu is now a Furniture Row and Celebrity is a Home Depot. Those were my weekend hangouts from 85 through the early 90's (till the gangs took over Celebrity) and the arcade in Cinderella City

I can't remember my score, but the arcade here while I was in High School in 1984 had a Star Wars, usually I could do 4 -6 waves and that was it but one day the Force was with me and I was unstoppable (50+ waves if I remember right), I wish I remembered my score but it was huge, the arcade owners stayed until I was done which was over an hour after closing. The next day I went down there to show my friends my score and the arcade owner or route guy erased the scores!! I was pissed and no body believed me! :(
 
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Smalltownguy2's BITD Star Wars story has to be the greatest one I've read here....


Haha.....for your reading pleasure. What a great memory. Hot chick from a neighbor town - so awesome for a 13 year old.

Star Wars. When I was 13, Johndale Video in Amery, WI had this game. I was playing that game when this girl I had a crush on came up behind me and hugged me from behind when I was playing it. She smelled like Juicy Fruit gum and hairspray. I could feel her chest against my back and I sprang a woodie faster than Frizz in a kilt on a windy day. I made out with the same girl next to the juke box to the song "I ran" by Flock of Seagulls later that afternoon.

That was a great day.
 
Muwahaha! Patrick McGoohan The Prisoner avatar!... awesome! :cool:

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Yeah!!! It's the greatest television show to ever be created. (Sorry to hijack the thread temporarily)

Man I miss those places!! Sad Malibu is now a Furniture Row and Celebrity is a Home Depot. Those were my weekend hangouts from 85 through the early 90's (till the gangs took over Celebrity) and the arcade in Cinderella City

I can't remember my score, but the arcade here while I was in High School in 1984 had a Star Wars, usually I could do 4 -6 waves and that was it but one day the Force was with me and I was unstoppable (50+ waves if I remember right), I wish I remembered my score but it was huge, the arcade owners stayed until I was done which was over an hour after closing. The next day I went down there to show my friends my score and the arcade owner or route guy erased the scores!! I was pissed and no body believed me! :(

Malibu was so much fun - And I don't think anything quite captures the same feel. Maybe Boondocks or Al Unser, but I don't know.... It was really sad how Celebrity just fell apart at the end.
 
Yeah!!! It's the greatest television show to ever be created. (Sorry to hijack the thread temporarily)



Malibu was so much fun - And I don't think anything quite captures the same feel. Maybe Boondocks or Al Unser, but I don't know.... It was really sad how Celebrity just fell apart at the end.

Does Boondocks have an arcade? Never ever went there and I pretty much lived right across from it on the other side of I-25? The track in Morrison is pretty fun too LOL! Spent many weekends there also. (sorry, still on thread hijack mode)
 
I had a couple of the high score certificates for BZ... Summer '81

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And there's the guy that beat my BZ score... I was too early to get published in the CC

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Metal Slug on a MVS conversion kit in a tiny college campus arcade in carson. I had practiced a ton at home with neorageX on an old laptop. Beat the whole game without dying once. Not super hard to do in retrospect, but I was pretty proud of myself at the time.
 
Not sure. I have a few I'm proud of:


Over a half mil on my first man on Mario Bros.

550k on one man on Donkey Kong.


Nice!


I'm pretty proud of my 337,000 points on my FIRST CAR in Spy Hunter.

Wow!

The most recent 'performance' I remember was (two actually now that I think about it).

1. Winning the Tron high score contest at CAX in 2010. I played for like an hour + and nobody else was even close to my score. 400,000 or so on my first life and I called the judge over to tell him I was just killing off my lives.

Well some guy comes in and beats it. Now there is like 1 1/2 hours left in the contest, and I came in and beat him with minutes to spare before the 7pm deadline. Something like 562,000 then killed myself off.

That's awesome!


In that case one of my greatest arcade performances was my 900k+ point Ms. Pac-man game at Funspot with a huge crowd around the machine toward the end.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

Awesome feeling, wasn't it!?!


I guess my greatest would be my 1.4 million Galaga score on twin galaxy settings.

Impressive. Did you do the bug cheat where they stopped firing at you?


I have a couple:

I was obsessed with Dragon's Lair when it came out. Absolutely loved the game. I got to the point of being able to beat it every time I played. I could even kill the dragon with my eyes closed, and go only by the sounds and music. One day I was playing and had several people gathered around watching. As I got to the Dragon's Lair, I took off my coat and placed it over the screen and killed the dragon on sound alone. Yep...I thought I was pretty bad ass. People thought that was kewl though.


I took my daughter to the skating rink one day. She was perhaps 12 or 13 at the time. I would have been 31 or 32 (yeah I started early). This would have been around 2001 or 2002. The skating rink had a Pac-Man. I don't recall the high score that was there but I'm thinking it was around the 1st or 2nd key. I was doing quite well. Someone was watching and yelled to someone else that his score was going to get beat. Yeah, the guy that held the high score on the machine worked at the rink. Word started spreading as I continued my game. My daughter was standing right beside me, the whole time, watching me play. By the time I got to the 9th or 10th key, I had quite a crowd. Don't recall just how far I got, but I stomped the old high score. For me, it was just cool all around. Hadn't had a crowd like that since I was a kid, and my daughter getting to observe this. She was rather impressed when it was all over. I also thought how cool it was that this occurred on such an old game, the fact that people were interested. Part of it was due to the fact that the guy that had the old score was there, and people seemed surprised that he could be beat. It was a great day!
 
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Dragons Lair at my arcade got to the point that no one would play it. They already had it on the hardest level. To make it interesting, they got rid of the correct move beeps. I was the first to finish it on the hardest level, no beeps.
 
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