10p

Dun laoire

Ah yeah the old arcades. 10p a shot when i was a nipper. My local was the snooker hall in monkstown but the pierrot (sp?) in dunlaoghaire was the place to be.


Here are a few of my fave games

Street Fighter 2
Ghost n' Goblins
Kick and run
Final Fight
1942
Golden Axe
Salamander (i think thats the first game i ever played)
Shinobi
Double Dragon.

Anybody ever go pierrot?

Oobie

Streets of Rage was my favourite.

Often went to the Pierrot Club on the Quays.

brown*eyed*girl

I used to play arcade games in Tramore, some favs that spring to mind are:

Bubble Bobble
Tetris
Pacman
Pacland
Paperboy
Super Mario
Space Invaders
Donkey Kong

Can remember other ones but can't remember the names. I was actually quite good at them & got my initials in the top ten a few times!

GAA widow

I used to love Centipede, Shinobi and Bombjack.

Anytime the machines were serviced on holidays the owner used to put in a few 10p coins for free games.

trout

my favourite was Black Tiger .. http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=7138

ah the memories .... i nearly failed first year because of this game ... i logged a lot of hours on this baby ... up to a few years ago there was a working cabinet in an arcade in Bray ... must be time for a retro remake

i'd make a great barbarian ... imagine solving every problem with a sword!

Ruu_Old

Probably Shinobi and Outrun, great stuff.

Dun laoire

I got a cd off a mate last week with over 800 arcade games on it:eek: Absolutley amazing. Most of the games mentioned here are on it. Happy days. Cant believe they can fit that amount on one cd, suppose it goes to show how little memory was required for games back then.

r3nu4l

Ah yes, Golden Axe, New Zealand Story and Choplifter, great fun.

I remember when Final Fight came out and it was such a revolution in gaming technology :rolleyes: Then of course Street Fighter 2 hit the arcades and nothing was ever the same again!

If I'd saved all of those 10ps and converted them to Euro instead of slotting them into machines I could probably retire comfortably today

Degsy

Pierrot snooker club on Bachellors walk had a great game called Astyanax..ten p would get ya about half an hour if you were halfway good.The graphics were way better than golen axe and it seemed to be the only place that ever h ad it..pity!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Astyanax

John Mason

Hmm i grew up in Bray .......i spent many a day in the amusements! playing the pin ball machine - i was a pin ball wizard, i always had the highest score oh happys days not a care in the world

ferdi

Dun laoire wrote:

My local was the snooker hall in monkstown but the pierrot (sp?) in dunlaoghaire was the place to be.

jayzus i got a good hidin' in there once. where was the one in monkstown (still live there now)

Dun laoire

ferdi wrote:

jayzus i got a good hidin' in there once. where was the one in monkstown (still live there now)

The pierrot was a fuk of a place for trouble it has to be said. The snooker hall is beside the Farmhouse pub. Dont think they have any arcade machines now. In fact i was gonna buy one of his machines a few years ago.