Chase HQ - Dearest game ever???

Myrddin · 03-03-2011 11:27AM

keithgeo wrote: »

Im pretty sure they had a chase HQ in the bowling alley in palmerstown, i remember playing it years ago alongside the simpsons, wwf, world rally, street fighter 2, mortal kombat, virtua fighter, gemeni wing, pang, tetris. holy cr*p its been years since i was in there and i just remembered nearly every game from the place.. mis-spent youth. They are 3 large screen sit down machines for Streetfighter2.

I remember those 3 large screen sit down SF2's...there used to be que's to play them. Then the little side cove where Chase HQ was (I think), Super Pang, Final Fight & quite a few others.

Believe it or not, the place still has the exact same smell in it today (albeit it's missing all the old gems)

Edit - It was Chase HQ I'm sure of it. It was beside Cisco Heat. Man I spent way too much time up there!

Optimus Prime · 03-03-2011 12:06PM

haha yeh i forgot Final Fight! I can still picture where they where all positioned! That gemeni wing one had another game on it too, if you remember it was a two sided cab one side was gemeni wing and the opposite side had another game on it, ive been wracking my brain the last few weeks to remember what it was. I have a vague memory of it maybe being a "tobogan" game (I could be way off), where you are a dude sitting on an inflatable ring?

Does that ring any bells for you? Its only sticking in my head because i was scrolling through the games list and that one stood out.

o1s1n · 03-03-2011 12:17PM

A friend of mine was absolutely obsessed with Gemeni Wing on the c64..was convinced it was the best game ever made.

I recently pointed out to him that it's a conversion of an arcade game and showed it to him in MAME.

Completely ruined the c64 version for him now. Sill hasn't forgiven me!

Myrddin · 03-03-2011 01:34PM

keithgeo wrote: »

haha yeh i forgot Final Fight! I can still picture where they where all positioned! That gemeni wing one had another game on it too, if you remember it was a two sided cab one side was gemeni wing and the opposite side had another game on it, ive been wracking my brain the last few weeks to remember what it was. I have a vague memory of it maybe being a "tobogan" game (I could be way off), where you are a dude sitting on an inflatable ring?

Does that ring any bells for you? Its only sticking in my head because i was scrolling through the games list and that one stood out.

I remember where they all were too, that place lives on inside my head lol. Em I can't place that cab your mentioning there though, was in in the cove or out in the open with the later games?

It was all about the 20p dispenser on the main desk...would love one of them for my cab

Retr0gamer · 03-03-2011 01:35PM

The arcades in dublin airport, Dr. Quirkeys and Leisureplex Santry where my arcade haunts. There was also the legendary Budgy Bissetts in Balbriggan.

I remember discovering Hyperduel in leisureplex. That is one amazing game, made by the tecnosoft who made the thunderforce games. I'm pretty sure it's stupidly rare as well. The saturn version is great as well and actually improves on the arcade version with better graphics and making stage 3's boss not such a pushover.

LoGiE · 03-03-2011 01:38PM

keithgeo wrote: »

haha yeh i forgot Final Fight! I can still picture where they where all positioned! That gemeni wing one had another game on it too, if you remember it was a two sided cab one side was gemeni wing and the opposite side had another game on it, ive been wracking my brain the last few weeks to remember what it was. I have a vague memory of it maybe being a "tobogan" game (I could be way off), where you are a dude sitting on an inflatable ring?

Does that ring any bells for you? Its only sticking in my head because i was scrolling through the games list and that one stood out.

Was it Toobin'?

Optimus Prime · 03-03-2011 02:01PM

LoGiE wrote: »

Was it Toobin'?

Thats the game im thinking it was alright but im not sure.

Enternow: it was out in the open, but it wasnt around where street fighter2s where either, when you come out of the alcove and the streetfighters where on your left, it was over on the right. it was a low down cab almost like a table but with the screens on oposite sides coming up in a point like this /\ and it had a small stool on each side.

yrwhu8jxtni06a · 03-03-2011 02:03PM

*Digs this out again for divilment since SFII was mentioned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2nEFAI-F10

Hyperduel goes for 100+ so in the radiant range

Another sat port wort mentioning,100+ again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M22zp91ARFE

Retr0gamer · 03-03-2011 02:08PM

Hyperduel used to be emulated in mame but I think they removed it, could have been reintroduced. The saturn port is excellent although as always with these games not worth the money it goes for.

Retr0gamer · 03-03-2011 02:12PM

Stephen Broad Campus wrote: »

Another sat port wort mentioning,100+ again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M22zp91ARFE

That looks fantastic! Is it an arcade port?

Andrew76 · 03-03-2011 02:14PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The arcades in dublin airport, Dr. Quirkeys and Leisureplex Santry where my arcade haunts. There was also the legendary Budgy Bissetts in Balbriggan.

Was never much of a fan of Quirkeys, too many kids playing Tekken.

Was always in Amusement City on Westmoreland St playing Aliens though, dark a dingy like a proper arcade should be. There was also a small arcade down the keys that was always packed with folk playing SF2, think it was somewhere on Lower Ormond Quay or Bacherlor's Walk.
Any southsiders here frequent The Pierrot Club in dun Laoghaire? Had stacks of machines there.

yrwhu8jxtni06a · 03-03-2011 02:16PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

That looks fantastic! Is it an arcade port?

Update of 32x port,pwaaaaaaaar -
http://www.segagagadomain.com/saturn14/stellarassault.htm

Retr0gamer · 03-03-2011 02:24PM

Andrew76 wrote: »

Was never much of a fan of Quirkeys, too many kids playing Tekken.

Bloody noobs. The place was great before the 3D games started coming.

I remember Mosney was pretty good for arcades as well. Used to play a lot of Metal Slug and Aliens there as well.

I went on a week long holiday with my friend to Courtown once. Back then it was an absolute mecca for arcade games. There were arcades everywhere. MK2 and SSF2 had just come out at that stage as well as Samurai Showdown. Spent all my money on them. Must have been the Summer of 1994, my god I was 11!!!!!

Anyway along with the little arcades (which were great) there was one massive arcade that was just like this massive warehouse converted into an arcade with machines everywhere. It was amazing. They had pretty much everything there including some of the Sega hydraulic cabinets. Played a good bit of Galaxy Force 2 and G-loc in their crazy cabinets.

Stephen Broad Campus wrote: »

Update of 32x port,pwaaaaaaaar -
http://www.segagagadomain.com/saturn14/stellarassault.htm

Must give it a go. I've been gagging for a good Tie Fighter clone for a while.

Andrew76 · 03-03-2011 02:27PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I remember Mosney was pretty good for arcades as well. Used to play a lot of Metal Slug and Aliens there as well.

Aye, any time we went to Mosney myself and the brother spent most of our time in there, was good craic.

o1s1n · 03-03-2011 03:28PM

I never wanted to go to Mosney as a kid as I couldn't swim. I didn't know it had arcades!

Retr0gamer · 03-03-2011 03:32PM

o1s1n wrote: »

I never wanted to go to Mosney as a kid as I couldn't swim. I didn't know it had arcades!

If you managed to drown in the pool in mosney then you deserved to be taken out of the genepool.

TBH other than the deathtrap rides there wasn't much else you missed out on with mosney. You could probably consider yourself lucky!

Optimus Prime · 03-03-2011 03:32PM

Mosney had everything! Boating lake, crazy golf, pet farm, pool tables, arcades, cinemas, amusements.. hell it even had a discotheque! haha

Ill never forget the windows in the pub, you could see people in the swimming pool, under the water.. it was Moon city all day in there, one after the other people mooning all the people in the pub.

sham69 · 03-03-2011 04:08PM

EnterNow wrote: »

About €20...offer asking

Ha! no problem, do you want me to deliver it to you....

Pm sent montgomery.

Not sure on the condition of it but am waitig on a few pics of it.
A few fruit machines available aswell if anyone interested.
I didnt put them up on adverts as I don't have much info on them yet...

Myrddin · 03-03-2011 04:29PM

sham69 wrote: »

Ha! no problem, do you want me to deliver it to you....

Pm sent montgomery.

Not sure on the condition of it but am waitig on a few pics of it.
A few fruit machines available aswell if anyone interested.
I didnt put them up on adverts as I don't have much info on them yet...

Well I didn't want to totally Jack Burton it, but if your offering yeah that's grand

mondeo · 04-03-2011 05:50PM

I have chase HQ on the spectrum, really is a great game. In fact I'm going to play it later now after reading this thread:)

yrwhu8jxtni06a · 04-03-2011 06:15PM

mondeo wrote: »

I have chase HQ on the spectrum, really is a great game. In fact I'm going to play it later now after reading this thread:)

Had a sequel too-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wJ16Yjf46U

Also seen another thread you also had the misfortune to remember the prog remini riddle

CiDeRmAn · 04-03-2011 06:30PM

My god, that looks like sh1te!
I loved my Speccy and there were some great games on it, but my gods there were plenty of lazy developers out there, so not much has changed in 26 odd years then!

yrwhu8jxtni06a · 04-03-2011 06:40PM

Another less known speccy port

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBDESzhxjfk

kevmcdonnell · 04-03-2011 08:08PM

the best part of any of my holidays to mosney/ pontins/ butlins over in the uk was the arcades. They were absolutely massive, loads of them only 10p a go. Parents used to give me a few pound and they wouldnt see me for the night. Does anybody remember in mosney a gaming exhibition that was held there, have vague memories of going on a day trip there and going into an exhibition with loads of console games set up

Relikk · 04-03-2011 10:03PM

Andrew76 wrote: »

Any southsiders here frequent The Pierrot Club in dun Laoghaire? Had stacks of machines there.

The Pierrot was my local haunt and where I played my very first game of SFII. I'll never forget the day they got Champion Edition in, it was a sit down cab, and they day they got Hyper Fighting, went in after school and I cleared it on my first go.

Pierrot used to have some great games and I mourned the day it closed. Crime City down the stairs at the back, Aliens, Yie Ar Kung Fu, Bomb Jack, Pack-Rat (Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom was on that cab at some stage, too), The New Zealand Story in the corner by the window.

/tear

mondeo · 04-03-2011 10:07PM

I played Chase HQ II on an Amstrad 6126 plus and I thought it was garbage! I never knew it was available on the Spectrum though. It looks.....shoite:p

mondeo · 04-03-2011 10:18PM

Relikk wrote: »

The Pierrot was my local haunt and where I played my very first game of SFII. I'll never forget the day they got Champion Edition in, it was a sit down cab, and they day they got Hyper Fighting, went in after school and I cleared it on my first go.

Pierrot used to have some great games and I mourned the day it closed. Crime City down the stairs at the back, Aliens, Yie Ar Kung Fu, Bomb Jack, Pack-Rat (Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom was on that cab at some stage, too), The New Zealand Story in the corner by the window.

/tear

I remember this. Nice place! Although the first place I played SFII was at a pool club with an arcade room beside it above a Londis shopping centre in Old Bawn Tallaght:D. They also had a sit in Chase HQ setup...Hmm memories:(

Andrew76 · 05-03-2011 10:49AM

Relikk wrote: »

The Pierrot was my local haunt and where I played my very first game of SFII. I'll never forget the day they got Champion Edition in, it was a sit down cab, and they day they got Hyper Fighting, went in after school and I cleared it on my first go.

Pierrot used to have some great games and I mourned the day it closed. Crime City down the stairs at the back, Aliens, Yie Ar Kung Fu, Bomb Jack, Pack-Rat (Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom was on that cab at some stage, too), The New Zealand Story in the corner by the window.

/tear

That's where I was usually at! :pac:
Be nice to find pictures of these old arcades.

pdbhp · 05-03-2011 11:25AM

mondeo wrote: »

I remember this. Nice place! Although the first place I played SFII was at a pool club with an arcade room beside it above a Londis shopping centre in Old Bawn Tallaght:D. They also had a sit in Chase HQ setup...Hmm memories:(

I remember that arcade it was a rough as a bears arse. They had some good games in there though Shinobi, Super off road Racer amongst others:D

sengoku · 07-03-2011 12:15PM

mondeo wrote: »

I remember this. Nice place! Although the first place I played SFII was at a pool club with an arcade room beside it above a Londis shopping centre in Old Bawn Tallaght:D. They also had a sit in Chase HQ setup...Hmm memories:(

Ahhh..........:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:...........that takes me back, Unit 15 of the Old Bawn Shopping Center. I wonder what is there now?????

Chase HQ - Dearest game ever???

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