Memorable Arcade Attract Modes.

[Shipwreck Arcade]

Nostalgic attract modes. Doesn’t have to be the most advanced or best games, but the one's you remember from the arcades that fitted the game perfectly or made you want to play drastically and filled the area of the arcade with iconic sounds and images. From Shinobi to ABP.

 

[Lurch666]

Dragons lair.

 

[2DForever]

More for the noise…

 

[Shipwreck Arcade]

 

[Shipwreck Arcade]

Who wouldn't want to stick 20p in that in the 80s

 

[TWB]

Iron Horse

 

[TWB]

More cowboys, Sunset Riders

 

[TWB]

Berzerk: Iconic "coins detected in pocket" how did it know I had just got my paper round money,

 

[Body pop]

This will always be one of the best for me

 

[Body pop]

This was pretty awesome too

 

[Body pop]

One more ,this sends a chill down my spine

 

[Shipwreck Arcade]

The starting light sounds on Pole Position 'du du du duuuuuu' i remember booming out through all the other crazy sounds in the arcade even in the late 80s. Even when watching John's Arcade years ago he had his pole position going with the classic starter noise in the vids. I think every arcade should have a pole position. It's the law.

 

[John Bennett]

Great intro (before and after you coin-up).

I can't be done with singing in games (including you, Daytona 😐), but the first Turtles was very impressive at the time, as was The Simpsons.

Go Konami, I guess!

What was a bit rubbish was the version of Gradius 3 we got over here.
The Japanese version had images of the previous games in the series plus the year, but they took all that out the world version for some odd reason, so it just sat there with '1989' and a still image of the game, which looked a bit stupid.

No nostalgia as I obviously never saw it at the time, but two very stylish intros to Vertexer (still undumped) - the one at 1min 30 is the best.

 

[Max...]

I had a gap as it were out of arcades and returning to see Daytona and Sega Rally was mind blowing.

Soft spot for Soukerengetai and also Neo Geo Pulstar and Nam ‘75.

 

[_Matt_]

Shinobi is probably my favourite. The attract mode from the 1st level is just perfect. The music, the subtle sound of his shurikens being thrown and if the cab had decent speakers his jump sound effect was amazing.

A really bad example is Shooting Master. It has terrible speech and it echoed around the arcade on loop. You would hear the attract mode at its loudest when it was getting late and the arcade was empty and hearing this was very depressing.

 

[K1ngarth3r]

I don't know if non-videos are allowed but these would be my choices since a lot of the videos I would have chosen have already been said.

 

[Shipwreck Arcade]

Shinobi is probably my favourite. The attract mode from the 1st level is just perfect. The music, the subtle sound of his shurikens being thrown and if the cab had decent speakers his jump sound effect was amazing.

A really bad example is Shooting Master. It has terrible speech and it echoed around the arcade on loop. You would hear the attract mode at its loudest when it was getting late and the arcade was empty and hearing this was very depressing.

Yes, i used to love if they had a Shinobi up loud for that awesome music and sound effects. Rapid shurikens against the enemy sabres, yummy. The magic sound effect always felt a bit special and tad spooky, wonderful.

 

[John Bennett]

Catchy 😀

This was always audible down Whitley Bay

(Used in a few games)

Edit: 10 minute video! Thats akin to a torture method

 

[Shipwreck Arcade]

I don't know if non-videos are allowed but these would be my choices since a lot of the videos I would have chosen have already been said.

They all classic and good. Anything arcade nostalgia and memorable. From Fortune tellers to noisy parrots.

Let's see what score she gets! 🤣

 

[Body pop]

Here goes then