<Arcade> The Unregarded.

[F-ZeroOne]

One of the most famous videogame memes ever, but did you know "Zero Wing" was originally an arcade game? MAKE YOUR TIME! [1]



[1] Which only applies to the MegaDrive version, the legendary intro isn't present in the arcade version.

[F-ZeroOne]

We all know "Mr. Do!", but what about the other games featuring the character? I remember encountering "Wild Ride" in a pub once, though apparently its the least common, but I don't recall his war on unicorns (may be better known as "Mr. Dos Castle"):





There is also "Do! Run Run" which does look familiar:

[VNVObit]

Yes remember all of them from arcade which was close to my school.
Found both Wildride and Castle a bit difficult but Do Run Run was far more playable and fun

[VNVObit]

Yes remember all of them from arcade which was close to my school.
Found both Wildride and Castle a bit difficult but Do Run Run was far more playable and fun

[Deckard]

Yeah mr DO S Castle had a ton of strategy but hard as fuck - I remember being blown away visiting weymouth once by a guy on Mr Do - he knew ALL the tricks including the dont eat all the cherry one to make them pause when chasing you - as good as this guy I would say.



The tunes in that game and the sparkly diamond extra credit sound (along with the Bomb Jack one) take me straight back to my childhood.

[Whiteball]

Loved all the Mr Do! games.
We had Mr Do Castle on the C64, first and only place I saw it (until much later getting it in mame).

My dad also liked these games (probably as they weren't shooters). He was never very good (ok, but not as good as us kids ) but he always participated and had a go which was nice.

[Deckard]

Yeah my sister only ever played Mr Do , PacMan and Bubble Bobble in arcades.

[F-ZeroOne]

Wow, clearly a fondly remembered series!

[F-ZeroOne]

There were many, many "Space Invaders" clones, some of which were a bit more... different to others. Thanks to the fine folks at "Retronauts", I found out about this British reworking, "Invaders Revenge" which seems to grab elements from several other popular games as well (sound will kick in a little way into the video):

[Deckard]

As a Pro Missile Command player I am surprised I have only learnt about this today -





Certainly a fine cash grab from Atari !

[F-ZeroOne]

Was that the one done by the guys who would go on to do "Ms. Pac-Man"? Something like they got into a lawsuit with Atari, and at one point Ataris lawyer approached them and said "Look, what do you guys actually want?"...?

[F-ZeroOne]

The adverts for this seemed to be omnipresent in games magazines, but its only 40-odd years later that I now what the game was actually like!:

[NorthWay]

The adverts for this seemed to be omnipresent in games magazines, but its only 40-odd years later that I know what the game was actually like!:

I remember those ads, they were really striking.
I also have(had?) an mp3 version of the album that was a pressing (i.e. literally "here, take this") recommendation from a friend that was my introduction to it. Amazing stuff, kinda like radio theatre with the music as its focus.

[F-ZeroOne]

Oops, just realised that should have gone into the "Home Systems" edition of "Unregarded"! Gah. There were plans for a "War of the Worlds" arcade game by... Atari? Possibly?... but it never got released (there were working prototypes).

[F-ZeroOne]

Still some unknown surprises (at least to me!) waiting - "The Real Ghostbusters", apparently a re-skinned Japanese Data East work. Based on the animated series based on the movie(s?), some of which was written by some hack called JM
Straczynski. Wonder whatever happened to him?