Rate the Game: Week 47

[M-A-G]

Praise be to the Invisible Pink Unicorn that I survived the week of living in Elsa's winter wonderland. I knew I could do it. I had games to get me through it! And you guys! Put those two together and we get this little shindig we've been doing for the last few <s>years</s> weeks! Before we dive any further let's put Earthworm Jim on its designated spot on the leaderboard based on his average score. Let's see it!

<select><option selected="">Rate the Game Results



<option>1. Super Mario Bros. 3 (4.7)</option>
<option>2. Chrono Trigger (4.5)</option>
<option>3. (TIE) Mega Man 2 (4.44), Donkey Kong Country (4.44)</option>
<option>5. Super Mario Bros. (4.41)</option>
<option>6. Metal Gear Solid (4.33)</option>
<option>7. Shadow of the Colossus (4.28)</option>
<option>8. Super Street Fighter 2 (4.15)</option>
<option>9. Sonic the Hedgehog (4.14)</option>
<option>10. Super Mario 64 (4.07)</option>
<option>11. (TIE) Grand Theft Auto 3 (4.06), The Legend of Zelda (4.06)</option>
<option>13. (THREE-WAY TIE) NBA Jam (4.0), Super Mario Kart (4.0), Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (4.0)</option>
<option>16. Final Fantasy 7 (3.94)</option>
<option>17. Mega Man (3.89)</option>
<option>18. Half-Life (3.83)</option>
<option>19. (THREE-WAY TIE) Contra (3.8), Castlevania (3.8), Devil May Cry (3.8)</option>
<option>22. Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (3.7)</option>
<option>23. Tetris (3.69)</option>
<option>24. Mortal Kombat 2 (3.67)</option>
<option>25. Diablo (3.66)</option>
<option>26. StarFox (3.61)</option>
<option>27. (TIE) Doom (3.6), Mortal Kombat (3.6)</option>
<option>29. Resident Evil (3.58)</option>
<option>30. (TIE) Killer Instinct (3.5), Ninja Gaiden (3.5)</option>
<option>32. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (3.39)</option>
<option>33. Resident Evil: Nemesis (3.38)</option>
<option>34. Quake (3.2)</option>
<option>35. Pac-Man (3.125)
<option>36. Virtua Fighter (3.09)
<option>37. (TIE) Time Crisis (3.0), Tekken (3.0), Earthworm Jim (3.0)</option>
<option>40. Streets of Rage (2.8)</option>
<option>41. (TIE) Silent Hill (2.6), The Sims (2.6)</option>
<option>43. (TIE) Tomb Raider (2.5), Halo (2.5)</option>
<option>45. Gran Turismo (2.3)</option>
<option>46. Ghosts n' Goblins (2.14)</option>
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<s>Sadly the little worm that could...well, couldn't reach that upper echelon of greats here at TPWW as his score of 2.85 lands him on the tail end of the thirties at number 39. Not much to write home about for poor Jim, unfortunately.</s>

*EDIT*Yeah, just ignore that part. I overlooked a little detail and had to recalculate the scores. Earthworm Jim actually gets an average of 3.0 and thus creates another three-way with Time Crisis and Tekken!

Well with that said and done it's time for a new draw! This time around the weather is business as usual so no sense in heading outdoors. Well, it actually didn't make sense last week but...shut up. Let's check the container!

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Well we go from one talking animal relic in Earthworm Jim to a quartet of talking animal relics in the Ninja Turtles as this week's game to rate is Konami's arcade installment of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This is the original arcade title not any of the console games or the sequel, Turtles in Time. So how does this quarter muncher rate with you? Rate, share, and reminisce and enjoy your week!

[Big Vic]

Nearly voted "2" because I thought it was the NES title.

[Big Vic]

I loved the shitty port port so I'm guessing I'd love the original even more.

[Destor]

Nearly voted "2" because I thought it was the NES title.
i voted a 5 because i though it was the nes title

[M-A-G]

i voted a 5 because i though it was the nes title

Do you want me to accept a different score from you when I eventually do the average?

[Destor]

id have given the arcade beat em up a 3. not my genre

[Ultra Mantis]

Is this the one with the annoying bomb diffusing underwater level or have I not played it?

[drave]

That's TMNT on NES Ultra Mantis.




The TMNT above is the arcade beat em up. This one:


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[drave]

I had a ton of fun with it. I remember it being the loudest arcade game when it was out.


Also remember both Bebop and Rocksteady having unavoidable attacks, but it was a quarter muncher.... low key thiccums for quarters.


Fun as hell. 4/5 for unavoidable strikes :D

[Emperor Smeat]

4

Had a ton of fun playing the game as a kid at a local Ames store that had a nice arcade section back in the day.

Spent the most quarters on this game, Double Dragon 2, and the Simpsons arcade game.

[M-A-G]

I had to do an edit of the leaderboard as Destor intended to score Earthworm Jim a 2 but he had clicked 1. It's not enough to make a huge difference but we're all about accuracy here, folks.

[drave]

4

Had a ton of fun playing the game as a kid at a local Ames store that had a nice arcade section back in the day.

Spent the most quarters on this game, Double Dragon 2, and the Simpsons arcade game.




I heard that comment man. I wish coin-op didn't really die out as it has everywhere. I know there are some solid arcade scenes on the West coast and in Chicago, but damn.......


Arcade was the go-to when I went anywhere. The movies, a mall (lol) putt-putt, shit, even ONE of the gabillion wal-marts had a PrettyCool arcade at one time.

[M-A-G]

I guess the main question now to consider is how much money do you think you sank into this puppy? I'd be shocked if I spent anything less than $100.

[drave]

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck, no way it was under $100.


This was one of the first games I remember being 50 cents instead of 25.


A few years later would give way to the abomination of $1 per play games.

[Black Widow]

I only played Turtles in Time on SNES but i played it constantly so it's 5/5.

[Sepholio]

Nearly voted "2" because I thought it was the NES title.

i voted a 5 because i though it was the nes title

That was one of my first games. Fuck that swimming level with the insta death vines on the walls or whatever. Uhg.

I voted 4/5. Good game but not the greatness that was Turtles in Time.

[M-A-G]

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck, no way it was under $100.


This was one of the first games I remember being 50 cents instead of 25.


A few years later would give way to the abomination of $1 per play games.

I can easily remember one instance where my dad had given me 5 dollars when we had taken an out of town trip and we were at a mall. Naturally I exchanged all of that shit for quarters at the arcade they had and blew pretty much all of it on this game. I know most people were all about Donatello in these games but I always tried to be Raphael when I could. The local Dairy Queen also had this game as one of its machines for a while so of course I had to dump some money there from time to time.

[drave]

Raphael FTW - always.


Maaaaaaaaaaaaaan, remember $5 worth of quarters in my pocket made it feel like I would play FOREVER.

[M-A-G]

Yeah, it was essentially a new branch of math where I'm determining the length of enjoyment I'm getting out of a session in proportion to the number of quarters in my possession. Anything more than 2 or 3 bucks was godlike.

It just blows that we're still in the midst of this crisis because I just barely came into the knowledge of a town about 4 hours away that has a place called Arcade92 that has a whole shit ton of these quarter munching classics. It'd have been nice to know about a fuck ton sooner.

[drave]

http://www.bossbattlegamesarcade.com/


Only arcade within reason of me.

[Tom Guycott]

I had a ton of fun with it. I remember it being the loudest arcade game when it was out.


Also remember both Bebop and Rocksteady having unavoidable attacks, but it was a quarter muncher.... low key thiccums for quarters.


Fun as hell. 4/5 for unavoidable strikes :D

It was pretty loud... but nothing beat whatever subwoofer came inside the Spy Hunter machine. That monster was insane.

There was a point in time that both of these cabinets were at a local skating rink. They were the only two machines you could actively hear over the DJ booth music while playing them.

[M-A-G]

It was pretty loud... but nothing beat whatever subwoofer came inside the Spy Hunter machine. That monster was insane.

There was a point in time that both of these cabinets were at a local skating rink. They were the only two machines you could actively hear over the DJ booth music while playing them.

The makers of the original Killer Instinct arcade game pulled a mean little trick in regards to the sound. The normal audio would be fairly low which would force the arcade operators to change the volume settings. The catch was that they had made the voice that shouts out the combos way louder than anything else in the game so any arcade that had the game would have this bombardment of noise which drew attention to the machine because it was so damn loud.

[drave]

C-C-C-C-C-C-COMMMMMBOOOOO BREAKKERRRRRRRRRRRR!!