Asteroids: Recharged

[Cody]

Asteroids: Recharged

Back in the day, my local pub had one of these:



Many happy hours spent there, drinking beer and playing Asteroids. <sighs wistfully>

[spud42]

Time pilot or 1945 were my favorites.... Asteroids was great too.....

[Nite Owl]

Showing my age but always was a Pinball player more than anything else. Although a good video game would grab my attention and coins from time to time. Impossible to find a decent Arcade of this type these days.

[Cody]

As a young'un, I spent a lot of time playing Pinball - and I could spend a lot of time here.
If there's one thing I miss about Win XP, it's the Space Cadet Pinball game!

[Nite Owl]

Space Cadet Pinball runs on my Window 7 install. A Google search turned up bunches of places to download it.

[Cody]

Aye, but I thought there was a bug which prevented MS porting it to 64-bit Windows. Raymond Chen wrote:

In particular, when you started the game, the ball would be delivered to the launcher, and then it would slowly fall towards the bottom of the screen, through the plunger, and out the bottom of the table. Games tended to be really short.

I guess those downloads work in 32-bit mode.

[Cody]

A little more info on Space Cadet Pinball - perhaps it does work in 64-bit.

[ffutures]

The 3D wireframe version of Atari's Battlezone was my favourite pub arcade game for several years until they pulled it from most pubs because good players could keep going for hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctr54kopo8I

Then I discovered Elite...

[Cmdr Wyvern]

I played the hell out of Gyruss. Interesting if simple combat model, and the rockin' symphwave rendition of Toccata and Fugue wasn't bad either.

Off the rails a bit, Toccata and Fugue done neoclassical metal style is the bomb. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDNR7j5B0RU