Most ICONIC Arcade Machines?

[zapiy]

Looking back over the years which 10 Arcade Machines do you feel are the most iconic machines.. please consider these three categories when choosing.

1)Design.
2)Gameplay.
3)Lasting appeal.

[Greyfox]

Mate I could go on all day about this, I even created a fully fledged book on the subject. But I'll start with one of my favourites

Namco's Xevious

Design : Cabinet art was simply to die for, bring huge beautifully detailed space ships on the side of the machine and the Fabius decal of the front of the machine made you feel you were stepping up to the front of a cockpit incredible attention to detail and I've even wondered who the artist was who created it or what they went on to do next. Wonderful stuff and one cabinet that even today looks incredible.

Gameplay : Woth Xevious your tasked with not just handling your craft with simple laser fire found on every other shooter back then, but contending with aim accurately with place a perfect bomb deployment on ground targets while shooting on coming ships and enemies and as far as I know Xevious was one of the first game or type to bring a proper boss battle mother ship fight to the genre, so you had to strategise as you played Xevious giving the game great dept and gameplay mechanics not seen like this is a coin-op

Lasting Appeal: well I don't know about the rest of you, but what arcade game or games do you know that can play a tune over and over again without pulling your hair out? Yes, I'm talking about the music from Xevious , it's so fittingly brilliant it actually acts to the game very well, the lasting appeal for me what that the game didn't make thing near impossible to achieve , if you died it was because you made the mistakes and not the game, yes it was sneaky with the shots being fired from the corner of the screen, but it wasn't un-doable and didn't kill your will to return for another go, Xervious was one of those type games and I'm would say I was a massive shooter fan, but this was superb Back in 1982, I was 10 playing thing, and also to mention the lasting appeal was carried over to the atari 8-bit in 1984 and the Atari ST 1987, now not many arcades can claim to that

[TrekMD]

Well, there are plenty of choices here.  I have to say that Atari's Star Wars Arcade has to be one of the those that have to be on this list.

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Design
The sit down arcade cabinet is just mouth watering.  Don't believe me?  Look at the picture above.  You get an image of Darth Vader along with fighting TIE and X-Wing fighters around the cabinet.  The cabinet set up itself is amazing with the controller for your X-Wing really giving you the sense you're actually flying one of those fast ships.  This is one cabinet I always look for when I go to any arcade event.

Gameplay
Atari managed to capture a key event from Star Wars and covert it into one amazing game.  You have to battle the TIE fighters and survive their attack waves before moving onto the surface of the Death Star itself.  Face the attack towers before going into the trench so you can drop the proton torpedoes that will destroy the Death Star.  You want to live this superb movie scene?  Look no further than this game.

Lasting Appeal
It's Star Wars and the use of vector graphics makes this game one that will look great no matter how old it gets.

[zapiy]

Nice one guys, give me a list of 10 that fall into those categories now.. so 9 more each lol.

[TrekMD]

Hey, let other folks add theirs until we get 10.  

[zapiy]

Lol if others do.


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[psj3809]

Out Run

Design

The sit down cabinet for this is amazing, everytime i see this machine it brings back great memories of playing this abroad when i was a kid on holiday with my folks. Now years later i'm playing it in Arcade Club desperately trying to finish it !

Its so weird playing the upright version, but the sit down cabinet with the tunes blasting out, the cabinet shaking as you have a crash or that, just an epic game and experience.

Gameplay

All these years later i just cant complete it ! Got to the final level a few times but ran out of time. I heard going left/left/left is easier but i normally go left/right/left/right as i'm used to the tracks. Rarely use the brakes, normally 'brake' by changing gears.

Lasting Appeal

The logo, the car, the music, the graphics and levels, just all so iconic. Some people seem to prefer Out Run II but no no no, the originals the best for me.

I was so addicted to this game as a kid i stupidly 'enjoyed' the Speccy version which looking back was dire. Was so slow and playing the music via tape was embarassing !

(Would have gone for Star Wars if it wasnt already selected !)

[TrekMD]

That is definitely a good one!

[zapiy]

Nice one, you will soon see the reason behind this thread....