Best classic arcade games never released on home systems

[Kid Ice]

I think the whole "nothing after the crash is 'classic'" argument only exists because gamers that are old enough that they were children/teenagers prior to the crash are highly nostalgic about the games they grew up with, so they look at everything that came later with some level of disdain.

I don't look at anything with disdain. I just said the NES is responsible for the comeback of gaming. My biggest collection is for the 3DO. My favorite system is the Playstation. I own all 3 current consoles and a DS and a PSP.

And the easiest way to reflect that is by denying everything else the term "classic", as if they're a lesser form of gaming.

Don't we have to draw the line somewhere? Or is every single game ever made going to become a classic, after say, 20 years? I just said the Playstation is my all time favorite system. Having said that, in my eyes, it will never be a classic system. It's not about greater and lesser, it's about classic or not classic.

Really, I think it's all silly. If this was still the 80s or even possibly the 90s, there might be some argument there, but when we're talking games that are all 25+ years old, is a difference of maybe 5 years at the most really night and day?

Yes it is, because there was a clearly defined period of time in the U.S. when there was no video gaming, as it had been dismissed as a fad. Why should it matter to me what was going on in Japan?

Is a 1982 launch Colecovision game that different from a 1983 launch Famicom game? One is "classic" and the other isn't?

Now who's being silly? Who in 1983 was playing a Famicom game in this country?

It's like looking at two elderly men, one 75 and the other 70, and saying "Man, that guy is old!" about the 75-year-old and "He's practically a baby!" about the 70-year-old.

Come up with all the analogies about old men and Guns n Roses you want. Look at any credible piece of literature about the history of gaming. You'll find that the NES is separated into a different era than the 2600, Intellivision, Colecovision, etc. Now if you feel the NES is a classic console, that's absolutely fine with me....although I disagree, I'm probably in the minority. But don't try this "the Famicom was released in Japan in 1983 so it's a contemporary of the Colecovision". It doesn't make sense, it has nothing or little to do with the U.S. gaming scene, and it's not even particularly relevant to this argument.