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Posted: May 01 2008 03:05 pm

Did anyone ever have the experience when you were younger where you were at a movie theater or Chuck E. Cheese or something and you saw a game you had at home in the arcade and decided to play it? You thought to yourself, sweet, I'm gonna fucking kick ass at this, just like I do at home, so you put some quarters in. And then as you began playing, you thought to yourself, what the fuck is this? This isn't the game I like! The controls weren't quite as responsive and the game didn't play quite the same way. And then you died in like three minutes. And then you got pissed.

That happened to me with Contra. And Jungle Hunt. And Q*Bert.

Posted: May 01 2008 05:00 pm

Happens to me a lot when I frequent Dave & Busters. Donkey Kong Jr. I could go through it like 5 times, on the arcade, 1st level maybe the 2nd. Same thing with Castlevania and those Nintendo Vs. machines. Captain America was a similar instance as well...

Posted: May 01 2008 05:30 pm

I think only Golden Axe and Golden Axe 2... Although that second one kicked my ass rightfully so.

Posted: May 01 2008 06:26 pm

Only SF games MK games and Gauntlet Legends I wasn't ever and still am not a pro at any fighting game, (except Brawl)
though when some Japanese kid came to play and turn me into a baby in MK III I got pissed.

Either way better of playing the games at home that way you don't waste quarters. Laughing

Looking for an arcade just to play MvC would be nice that game isn't fun on an emulator.

Posted: May 01 2008 06:28 pm

Pretty much every arcade game Syd covered. I did not heed the warning that the console versions sucked and wasted valuable Simpsons watching time playing crappy ports of Bad Dudes, Smash TV, and Revolution X. Sad

Posted: May 01 2008 06:34 pm

Bionic Commodo and Strider were the biggest shocks when I first played them in the arcade. Completely different games with the same plots.

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I agree with knyte. This also happened with moonwalker. the arcade version was awesome though.

a lot of the neo geo multicart cabinets had games that I played shitty genesis/snes ports of first, then played the real version and loved it. I was especially floored by baseball stars, as compared to it's NES counterpart.

Posted: May 01 2008 10:13 pm

Mk2 and pretty much all capcom fighters. Gauntlet games were pretty true to form. Actually i found them easier than console.

Posted: May 01 2008 10:47 pm

I managed to luck out and not play the bad games, if anything I had the opposite experience. I played Sunset Riders at a laundromat at least once a day for the entire summer. I basically knew the game's ins and outs perfectly, and could beat it on relatively few credits. When I rented it on Sega Genesis I was pretty let down by the character choices and graphics. You can't have two guys with shotguns in the home versions, which is fucking lame. It just becomes a stupid fight over who gets to be Cormano, then we shut the game off and went outside to play.

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for some reason I remember not being able to have duplicates in the arcade version either. I think whichever slot you put quarters in determined who you plated as, like in the x men, ninja turtle, and simpson games.

Posted: May 01 2008 11:00 pm

I remember bringing home Street Fighter II for SNES and being kind of disappointed that it was missing frames of animation and the voices had been downsampled. I can't really think of any games where it was the other way around and I was let down by the arcade version. I guess Punch Out would be one cause it was a completely different fucking game in the arcade, and I had only seen the NES version up to that point. In most cases of 8 and 16 bit games I can think of, ie Double Dragon, TMNT, SFII, NBA Jam, Mortal Kombat, the arcade versions owned the NES/SNES ports. I do agree with the controls being more sluggish though. I was always better with a NES/SNES pad than an arcade stick.

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I downloaded a rom for the Jurassic Park game with the gun they have at Chuck E. Cheese and mastered it. I kicked ass everytime. I knew where every bad guy comes out and everything. The way you shot in the computer was pointing and clicking. When I played it at Chuck E Cheese the gun was rigged or something. I knew I was aiming right but I kept missing. I died in the same spot I always do. The field full of triceratops and little t-rexes. I also beat the Metal Slug games for PSP easier but the arcade versions wipe me out in the boss battles more often. Especially the robot boss and the guy with the knife. The knife dude takes me a whole continue to beat when I play it on the arcade.

Posted: May 05 2008 11:01 pm

I used to think that Street Fighter was nothing special. Then I played it in the arcade, and was blown away. And then I bought the Anniversary Collection and got raped by AI that is actually more difficult that the consoles.

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that Jurassic park game WAS AWESOME!

Posted: May 07 2008 07:05 am

JEW wrote:

for some reason I remember not being able to have duplicates in the arcade version either. I think whichever slot you put quarters in determined who you plated as, like in the x men, ninja turtle, and simpson games.

I think that depended on the cabinet type, mine was a two-player version and so you got to free select. They didn't allow you to pick the same guy, but there was a guy who played the same as Cormano, he just wasn't awesome.

Posted: May 07 2008 06:01 pm

I remember spending months playing the NES Ninja Gaiden to beat it, and thinking "This has to be the hardest game ever" only to play the arcade version a couple months later. That put me in my place. What sucked about it, if i remember correctly, is that it didn't matter how many quarters you had, because it didn't start you off at the exact point you died, which was the standard for arcade games of the time. So if you couldn't beat a boss the first time, you continued and had to try him all over again.

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Murdar Machene wrote:

JEW wrote:

for some reason I remember not being able to have duplicates in the arcade version either. I think whichever slot you put quarters in determined who you plated as, like in the x men, ninja turtle, and simpson games.

I think that depended on the cabinet type, mine was a two-player version and so you got to free select. They didn't allow you to pick the same guy, but there was a guy who played the same as Cormano, he just wasn't awesome.

I played as the guy with the two six shooters, personally.