One of my office friends is making his own arcade game cabinet. He was lucky enough to get the game’s electronic board from eBay. The game was Xain’d Sleena, a platformer -shooter game from Technos Japan (1986), which was his favorite when he was kid. He told me that sometimes he played it with his father.

Xain'd Sleena, image courtesy from www.mamedb.com

This reminds me of myself, who also grows up playing arcade games. Thanks to MAME, I can play again all those games. Unfortunately, there is one game, which is really really my favorite but not playable in MAME: SKY ROBO or Tatakae Big Fighter. A shooter game with a mecha-robo.

Tatakae Big Fighter (Sky Robo), image courtesy from www.arcadeflyers.com

I don’t really know why I love this game. Maybe because the amount of coins I spent playing it, how suck I was in shooting game, the memory, or maybe just the nostalgia factor 🙂

So what’s your favorite arcade game?