What arcade games did you play back in the 80's?

[Freebird]

I was sitting around on friday, day off with not much to do {the WW2 site was offline!! } so I went to check out the arcade in the plaza, they have one of those new multi-game video arcades. It was like taking a trip down memory lane, back to the 80's when I used to waste my pocket money plugging quarters into the local machine!

The best part was that this machine had a glitch, every time you croaked it gave you another credit.

I must have played that sucker for hours....


What games did everyone play way back when?

***Multiple choice***

 

[FLYBOYJ]

DIG DUG!!!

 

[comiso90]

try it:

Play Free Arcade Games Online - Classic-Consoles.com - 1992

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[rochie]

love defender have got it for my PSP

 

[Graeme]

try it:

Play Free Arcade Games Online - Classic-Consoles.com - 1992

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Brilliant comiso! Thanks for that. Much more the idea of 'gaming' than the bloody X-Box 360 games that my kids play!

Arcade games in Australia in the early 80's?

Pac-Man and Space Invaders.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Frogger and Q Bert fricken rule!!!

I still have my Atari and Frogger and Q Bert as well as Space Invaders and Pac Man for it.

 

[Wildcat]

Did anyone here have the old Sega Master system, with that most kick arse of games, Alex Kidd. Man those were the days!

 

[evangilder]

Ah the memories. There was a couple in the airmen's club at Lakenheath that were really fun, Out Run and Afterburner.

 

[Marcel]

yep, afterburner, had that one on my old AMIGA. That was some computer. I only sold it last year, about 18 years old and still worked like a dream.

 

[Graeme]

Frogger?

Is that the same game depicted in a Sienfeld episode? George Kostanza had to get the game across the street with an auxiliary power supply, engineered by 'Slippery Pete' (Peter Stormare of 'Fargo' fame).




Seinfeld: The Frogger Episode Cast Members - TV.com

 

[Matt308]

Defender rules!! Man I wasted some serious money riding my motorcycle up to the 7-11 to play that game. And Tempest!!! And my favorite because of the subwoofer in the machine, Space Duel.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ4-7XcFozU


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[Soren]

Aarh man I can hardly remember the names of those games, but heck I hardly ever played such machines.

I had a Nintendo 64 which I used to play all sorts of games on..

Anyhow I was always more of an outdoors person.

 

[lesofprimus]

The local 7-11 store was our arcade till we were old enough to get to the Mall....

Asteroids, Space Invaders and Dragons Lair were the ones we played in the early 80's....

 

[Negative Creep]

I'm too young for the early generation of arcade games, I grew up on Street Fighter 2, Daytona USA, Sega Rally etc

 

[Messy1]

Spyhunter was a favorite of mine.

 

[HoHun]

Hi Freebird,

>What games did everyone play way back when?

Gun Fight ... reportedly the first computer game ever to use a CPU

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8039

Regards,

Henning (HoHun)