Old school video games

[mlowe]

Pinball and video games, what was your favorite?

Galaga, scramble, defender etc?

 

[FL Knifemaker]

Back in the 80's I had an Asteriods game. My housemates and I got to be experts and could play for hours without getting killed. I'd love to have another one for my Den. It was simple, black and white but a very exciting game to play. Very complex sounds as well, shooting and asterioids blowing up

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

I can tell for sure that the Atari era was one of the happiest in my life so it's hard for me to pick just a few ones, but I'll try to do my best. The ones in which my fondest memories are:

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[notduane]

Back in the 80's I had an Asteriods game. My housemates and I got to be experts and could play for hours without getting killed. I'd love to have another one for my Den. It was simple, black and white but a very exciting game to play. Very complex sounds as well, shooting and asterioids blowing up

Another Asteroids fan

I got "in the zone" once and topped out at ~4.5 million on one quarter

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[Scottgun]

Konami's Lifeforce!

 

[ras1983]

Bunch of old farts!

I grew up in the 8 & 16 bit era.

I spent hours on Mario Brothers 3, TMNT, Sonic the Hedgehog 2,3, Mortal Kombat 2 just to name a few.

 

[Vandelay]

My favorite arcade machine was "Track & Field". You competed in 6 different events. The javelin and the high jump were awesome, the hammer throw was hard as hell.
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In the early 80's I also loved a little-known game called "Crazy Climber". You had to climb to the top of a building without getting hit by falling objects, and only using open windows. I pwned at Crazy Climber before "pwned" was even a word. Or whatever it is.
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[Scottgun]

Wow! Almost forgot Crazy Climber.

I remember when track and field went to the NES and a guitarist buddy of ours could murder everyone in the running events because he would put one finger between the A and B button and rapidly rock between em while I was trying to use bass technique on it.

 

[Son of Magni]

The old Atari - Star Wars was awesome!

 

[BetterBottomEnd]

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Have you ever seen the movie War Games?

 

[IotaNet]

All time Faves ...

Galaga - a classic.

Tempest - a game that gets overlooked but was the bomb!!!

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

Have you ever seen the movie War Games?

About some kids that hacked the Pentagon's codes or something like that? I saw the trailer but never the whole movie, man.

 

[BetterBottomEnd]

About some kids that hacked the Pentagon's codes or something like that? I saw the trailer but never the whole movie, man.

Yeah something like that. What I was referencing is the part where they have the giant supercomputer play its self in tic tac toe and everything starts flashing and smoking and its simulating game after game for a couple minutes then it comes back and says the only way to win is not to play.

I just find it funny that actually wrote so much AI for a game of tic tac toe that it took 20 minutes to make a move.

 

[smperry]

Galaga, Ms. Pacman, Spy Hunter, Asteroids, and Joust [edit: I forgot Centipede] probably took up most of my quarters. There were some others that I wanted to be good at but just couldn't hack it, like Q-Bert and Zaxxon.

Marshall

 

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Yeah something like that. What I was referencing is the part where they have the giant supercomputer play its self in tic tac toe and everything starts flashing and smoking and its simulating game after game for a couple minutes then it comes back and says the only way to win is not to play.

I just find it funny that actually wrote so much AI for a game of tic tac toe that it took 20 minutes to make a move.

In the case of Atari's TTT, the screen turned blank and displayed different colors in succession while "thinking". You knew you could leave and start doing anything else in the meantime if you wanted.

 

[IotaNet]

Back in the 80's I had an Asteriods game. ... I'd love to have another one for my Den

Actually, you can -- but it's pretty pricey!
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[KeithBMI]

I bought a Super Nintendo a couple of months ago... but I guess that isn't old enough for you guys.

 

[Vandelay]

Is anyone running "MAME" (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) on their PC these days? As I recall, it allows you to run EXACT copies of the arcade software on your computer. I ran it a long time ago, and it was somewhat buggy but still pretty fun.

 

[Ericman197]

SNES: Earthbound, Harvest Moon, Secret of Mana and Legends of Zelda were all pretty, pretty, pretty good.

Sega Genesis: Sonic games and Shining Force II

Sega Saturn: The Horde

and did anyone ever play that Nintendo Virtua thing or whatever it was called? You look into these goggles and you would see 3D images, all in red lines? 10 years later and my eyes are still burning.

 

[steve66]

Asteroids was my favorite. My first video game was the odessey 100 (circa 1975). It was the bomb back then. Then came Atari.