The Reverend - exposed!!
Haha. Actually this is no big secret for anyone who knows me. I'm a nut for vintage video games and I had nothing to do today so I posted some screenshots from my collection. Be warned, there's a TON of them, so you might be waiting for this entry to load for a few minutes.
These are my arcade games...
BurgerTime
A mindless game on the Pac-Man theme like a million others. Except here you're supposed to run around and drop burger parts to make full burgers while avoiding animated sausages and eggs. And if you're really backed in a corner you can throw pepper in limited quantities at the mutated breakfast food to stun them briefly. Overly cutesy, but fun.
Crazy Climber!
This one was kind of a cult hit in the arcade because it was weird and difficult. The whole point was to climb four buildings for points. You used two joysticks, one to control each of the climber's hands. Meanwhile, "Evil Doctors" were dropping flowerpots at you, a condor tried to shit on your head (no kidding), girders fell down the building at you, and even King Kong made an appearance. One hit by any of these bad boys knocked you off the building and cost a life.
Frogger
If I have to explain Frogger to you there's something wrong. Control frog. Cross the road and make it into one of the slots at the top. Don't get squished by cars or eaten by crocs and otters and snakes and no you can't just jump in the water. Bah.
Matmania
This was an early wrestling game. Strangely enough it was much more advanced than almost all other wrestling games that came out on arcade or home systems (until the Nintendo 64), because it had so many moves and the animation moved so quickly. I was crazy for this one as a child.
Mr. Do!
I think this one was a ripoff of Dig Dug, or it might have been the other way around. A bizarre little game in which you controlled a clown who dug through the game field picking up cherries while being chased by funny little red dinosaur guys. The clown carried a sort of powerball for use against the dinosaurs and could also drop oversized apples on the dinos as he proceeded. And there were some other odd wrinkles. I still like it. :)
Punch-Out
This one showed up later on the Nintendo as "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out" with some of the same characters. It had two video screens one on top of the other - the top one displayed stats and the lower one showed the fight. Its most memorable aspect was the computer voice that announced every move you made. "Body blow! Body blow!"
Puzzle Bobble
Re-released as "Bust-A-Move". Kind of like a cutesy Tetris with spheres.
Q*bert
Hehehehe... Do I really need to describe this one? I liked the knocker in the arcade cabinet that went THWACK when you fucked up and fell off the cubes. :)
Qix
I don't think anyone really remembers this one but me. I also don't know how to explain it to you in a way that will make sense. Basically you controlled a "pointer" that had to cordon off and claim a certain amount of the screen without getting touched by anything hostile (which was essentially everything on the screen). It's overly difficult and takes a lot of strategic AND last-minute thinking. I think I'm pretty good at it, but I've never played with anyone who knows it.
Rampage
This came out later on the Nintendo, but the arcade version was cooler. SMASH CHICAGO! SMASH LAS VEGAS! SMASH MEMPHIS!! hehehehehe.
Rolling Thunder
I'm not really sure of the plot of this game. You controlled a "hero" armed with a gun and a really bad dress sense and proceeded through level after level shooting masked, hooded enemies. Then when you lost a big green face laughed at you.
Star Wars
Stop drooling. It was fun as hell back then. Now I find it a little cheap.
Venture
My favorite. hehehe. As the heroic archer "Winky" (represented by a smiley face with a bow and arrow), you descended into a three-level dungeon in which the point was to enter the various rooms and escape with the treasures inside them. Each room was themed and featured unique monsters that you had to get by to grab the treasure and get out of the room - snakes, goblins, trolls, dragons, spiders, demons, genies, etc.
Wizard of Wor
Not sure of the back story (if there was one). You played a little guy with a big sci-fi gun trapped in various mazes full of monsters and had to clear each maze. There was another "human" character (second player or computer controlled) in each maze with you that could be a help or a hindrance.
WWF Superstars
A later wrestling game featuring eight of the then-popular WWF grapplers. You picked a tag team and had to win three matches to face the champion team, Andre the Giant and Ted Dibiase. If you beat them you had to defend in four more matches or something. The characters were different enough from each other to be interesting, but my favorite aspect was how BIG the damn ring was!!!!
WWF Wrestlefest
Sequel to WWF Superstars. It had a similar tag mode, but the part everyone liked was the "Royal Rumble" where you had to pin or throw out all the other characters (and there were a lot more than there were in Superstars). The ring was also smaller. :) I'm playing Mr. Perfect and snapping Hulk Hogan's neck in this shot.
What pisses me off is that I also have the old Simpsons multiplayer game, but it doesn't work anymore.
These are my arcade games...
BurgerTime
A mindless game on the Pac-Man theme like a million others. Except here you're supposed to run around and drop burger parts to make full burgers while avoiding animated sausages and eggs. And if you're really backed in a corner you can throw pepper in limited quantities at the mutated breakfast food to stun them briefly. Overly cutesy, but fun.
Crazy Climber!
This one was kind of a cult hit in the arcade because it was weird and difficult. The whole point was to climb four buildings for points. You used two joysticks, one to control each of the climber's hands. Meanwhile, "Evil Doctors" were dropping flowerpots at you, a condor tried to shit on your head (no kidding), girders fell down the building at you, and even King Kong made an appearance. One hit by any of these bad boys knocked you off the building and cost a life.
Frogger
If I have to explain Frogger to you there's something wrong. Control frog. Cross the road and make it into one of the slots at the top. Don't get squished by cars or eaten by crocs and otters and snakes and no you can't just jump in the water. Bah.
Matmania
This was an early wrestling game. Strangely enough it was much more advanced than almost all other wrestling games that came out on arcade or home systems (until the Nintendo 64), because it had so many moves and the animation moved so quickly. I was crazy for this one as a child.
Mr. Do!
I think this one was a ripoff of Dig Dug, or it might have been the other way around. A bizarre little game in which you controlled a clown who dug through the game field picking up cherries while being chased by funny little red dinosaur guys. The clown carried a sort of powerball for use against the dinosaurs and could also drop oversized apples on the dinos as he proceeded. And there were some other odd wrinkles. I still like it. :)
Punch-Out
This one showed up later on the Nintendo as "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out" with some of the same characters. It had two video screens one on top of the other - the top one displayed stats and the lower one showed the fight. Its most memorable aspect was the computer voice that announced every move you made. "Body blow! Body blow!"
Puzzle Bobble
Re-released as "Bust-A-Move". Kind of like a cutesy Tetris with spheres.
Q*bert
Hehehehe... Do I really need to describe this one? I liked the knocker in the arcade cabinet that went THWACK when you fucked up and fell off the cubes. :)
Qix
I don't think anyone really remembers this one but me. I also don't know how to explain it to you in a way that will make sense. Basically you controlled a "pointer" that had to cordon off and claim a certain amount of the screen without getting touched by anything hostile (which was essentially everything on the screen). It's overly difficult and takes a lot of strategic AND last-minute thinking. I think I'm pretty good at it, but I've never played with anyone who knows it.
Rampage
This came out later on the Nintendo, but the arcade version was cooler. SMASH CHICAGO! SMASH LAS VEGAS! SMASH MEMPHIS!! hehehehehe.
Rolling Thunder
I'm not really sure of the plot of this game. You controlled a "hero" armed with a gun and a really bad dress sense and proceeded through level after level shooting masked, hooded enemies. Then when you lost a big green face laughed at you.
Star Wars
Stop drooling. It was fun as hell back then. Now I find it a little cheap.
Venture
My favorite. hehehe. As the heroic archer "Winky" (represented by a smiley face with a bow and arrow), you descended into a three-level dungeon in which the point was to enter the various rooms and escape with the treasures inside them. Each room was themed and featured unique monsters that you had to get by to grab the treasure and get out of the room - snakes, goblins, trolls, dragons, spiders, demons, genies, etc.
Wizard of Wor
Not sure of the back story (if there was one). You played a little guy with a big sci-fi gun trapped in various mazes full of monsters and had to clear each maze. There was another "human" character (second player or computer controlled) in each maze with you that could be a help or a hindrance.
WWF Superstars
A later wrestling game featuring eight of the then-popular WWF grapplers. You picked a tag team and had to win three matches to face the champion team, Andre the Giant and Ted Dibiase. If you beat them you had to defend in four more matches or something. The characters were different enough from each other to be interesting, but my favorite aspect was how BIG the damn ring was!!!!
WWF Wrestlefest
Sequel to WWF Superstars. It had a similar tag mode, but the part everyone liked was the "Royal Rumble" where you had to pin or throw out all the other characters (and there were a lot more than there were in Superstars). The ring was also smaller. :) I'm playing Mr. Perfect and snapping Hulk Hogan's neck in this shot.
What pisses me off is that I also have the old Simpsons multiplayer game, but it doesn't work anymore.