Okay, I know you can do this...

[peacefuljeffrey 0]

Close your eyes (wait, not just yet, read the rest of my intructions first and then close your eyes!) and imagine you are standing in front of

an Asteroids video game in an arcade.

There's no doubt in my mind that you can picture -- even feel -- exactly what those buttons looked like, and how they felt under your fingers.

Video game buttons are an icon burned deeply into the memory of anyone who was about 6 years old or older starting in the '70s...

I might as well have one of those buttons mounted on my body, that's how familiar they are to me and how ingrained in my psyche.

Hey, by the way, reminisce with me about some of your favorite games from the late '70s through the '90s.

I'll start:

Elevator Action
-Jeffrey

-Jeffrey
"With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

[DrewGPM 0]

Burger Time

Even though I blame that game for my addiction to fast food hamburgers and resulting layers of fat that have accumulated around my waist line.

[mnealtx 0]

Sinistar

Joust

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

[FlyinNover 0]

up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, B, A, Start.

[Kris 0]

Defender, Joust, and Donkey Kong were my faves.

I used to be an arcade game whore and even had several in my house. One of these days I'll have a fully-functional MAME emulator arcade cabinet in my house.

Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and
Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

[Mayberry 0]

Galaga

Don

Don

Here's to friends!

[elias123 0]

Grand Theft Auto : San Andreas (best game ever)
just spawn a parachute and jump of a B, A, S or E. Or jump out of a plane.
Really fun if you wanna jump for real and the weather sucks :-)

"In a mad world, only the mad are sane"

[justaflygirl 0]

ummm hello.... pac man?...that was the best....

[peacefuljeffrey 0]

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ummm hello.... pac man?...that was the best....

Well, I'm glad you like it, but I was never a huge fan of Pac Man. I did like Ms. Pac Man a lot more, though. Wasn't a big difference the fact that the first game had only one screen over and over, but Ms. Pac Man had a bunch of them? Then there was Pac Man Jr., which had a pinball game attached to it! Those game makers mustabeen trippin' hard!

Ohhh, I also remember those games with the gun mounted on the deck, like Crossbow and Cheyenne. Your duty was to protect a band of adventurers (your guys) as they ventured across the screen and were threatened with all sorts of harm. Those were cool.

Then there was Spy Hunter, Star Wars, Donkey Kong Jr., Ikari Warriors (that was one of my favorites, but it was so rare!). Also I loved this game called Xybots, which was really a serious precursor to first-person shooters like Doom and Duke Nukem.

There were several Asteroids knockoffs that were actually pretty good. I can't think of the name of it, but I remember one where instead of asteroids, you shot at these colored pinwheel things. You could even play it with a partner on the screen, and you could even play it with an umbilical link between your ships (which made it really hard to steer!)...

One thing is certain: they DO NOT make games as good as the old ones anymore.


-Jeffrey

-Jeffrey
"With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

[grue 1]

Sonic the Hedgehog
Legend Of Zelda
Final Fantasy II
Lemmings
GoldenEye
Metroid

cavete terrae.

[justaflygirl 0]

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ummm hello.... pac man?...that was the best....

Well, I'm glad you like it, but I was never a huge fan of Pac Man. I did like Ms. Pac Man a lot more, though. Wasn't a big difference the fact that the first game had only one screen over and over, but Ms. Pac Man had a bunch of them? Then there was Pac Man Jr., which had a pinball game attached to it! Those game makers mustabeen trippin' hard!

Ohhh, I also remember those games with the gun mounted on the deck, like Crossbow and Cheyenne. Your duty was to protect a band of adventurers (your guys) as they ventured across the screen and were threatened with all sorts of harm. Those were cool.

Then there was Spy Hunter, Star Wars, Donkey Kong Jr., Ikari Warriors (that was one of my favorites, but it was so rare!). Also I loved this game called Xybots, which was really a serious precursor to first-person shooters like Doom and Duke Nukem.

There were several Asteroids knockoffs that were actually pretty good. I can't think of the name of it, but I remember one where instead of asteroids, you shot at these colored pinwheel things. You could even play it with a partner on the screen, and you could even play it with an umbilical link between your ships (which made it really hard to steer!)...

One thing is certain: they DO NOT make games as good as the old ones anymore.


-Jeffrey

I actually had an "odessy" game system as a child... and the paddle ball game thing that you played o the TV... I was deprived, my parents were too cheap to buy me an atari...

[peacefuljeffrey 0]

LOL! I had the Odyssey II system also! It was pretty cool! And we wanted the Atari, too, but I guess we were pushin' too hard.

-Jeffrey

-Jeffrey
"With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

[Peej 0]

Double Dragon
Golden Axe
Castlevnia

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[FreeflyChile 0]

Dr Mario
Bases Loaded
Tecmo Bowl

and then when SNES came out... the original Mario Kart!