Original Gamers

[ronzo]

Where did your quarters go?
Asteroids? Pac-man? Donkey Kong? Original Mario Bros.?
Mine were spent on Defender and Missile Command!

OGs?

[JCMach1]

1. Space Invaders... and before that

Space Wars (the one with two little ships battling it out)

Galaxian (loved that one)

[jayfish]

14. Was Space Wars The One...

that had a black hole or a star at the center of the screen that effected you ships flight. I think I was about nine when that game was out and I can remember being at an elementary school skating party, watching older kids play it with "My Sharona" pounding in the background. Are there still such things as skating parties?

Jay

[SlavesandBulldozers]

16. no

that was Tempest

[Dookus]

2. believe it or not....

we used to walk a mile to the bowling alley to play Pong. It was the coolest thing ever.

In college, it was all about Space Invaders and Missile Command.

[DoNotRefill]

3. Got an original stand-up battlezone game....

it's a pain to find parts, but hey, it's a true CLASSIC.

[Cadfael]

12. That was my absolute favorite

worked out a system where I ran up and rammed the enemy tanks, jammed their turrets, backed up and blasted them...had the top 5 scores wherever I played

[ET Awful]

4. Asteroids first . . then, the god of all video games TRON :) :) :)

The the original arcade Star Wars game (the sit down one but with only wire frame graphics and repeating vocals like "I lost R2" :)

[charlie]

5. Galaga

I could play that thing blindfolded. With each quarter, I'd rack up some 3.5 million points and go past level 255, where it would roll over to level 0 and get "stuck" with no more enemies. You'd have to pull the cabinet out from the wall and reset it by yanking the plug. The 7-11 guys used to hate me for that.

Other faves were Pengo and Robotron 2084.

[MojoKrunch]

6. Woohoo! Loved Galaga and Robotron too.

Beat 'em both.
I remember flipping Galaga, don't remember it freezing up.

Played Robotron for 3 hours on 1 quarter, flipped the screens, don't even remember the score, and then got bored and killed off the 35 men I had left... I coulda played it for hours more, easy.

That was gamer-geek sweet.

What was Pengo?

Mojo

[toddzilla]

7. The penguin who moved the ice cubes around

i think he had a pickaxe too for some use or another.


i can't pin it down for a particular game, i was a hard core gamer.

karate champ, gorf, xevious,wrestling,jungle hunt, donkey kong,phoenix,star trek, food fight, i loved em all


what was the army type game where you had a sick and a rotating, notched wheel? you could run and shoot in different directions and had to jump into an octagonal tank to get past certain points?

i was a big star castle nut too, although i thought it was cheating when the enemy "blips" would just appear next to you instead of moving across the screen after many levels.

road blasters! spy hunter.. ahhh i have to go to work!!

[charlie]

10. Ooh yeah, Star Castle

...with the plastic overlays for color. I loved that game, but I couldn't play it for longer than 10 minutes. Those two sparklies would become ridiculously fast. Evading them would become a white knuckle effort, never mind shooting at the castle.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

20. answer to your question

"what was the army type game where you had a sick and a rotating, notched wheel? you could run and shoot in different directions and had to jump into an octagonal tank to get past certain points?"

that was none other than "Front Line"

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=F&game_id=7859

[charlie]

8. It wouldn't freeze up

You could control the ship and fire, but there'd be no enemies. With no enemies, there was no gameplay, nor was there a way to die so the next guy in line could play.

If you're running IE, this is a near perfect emulation of Pengo in DHTML:

http://www.javascript-games.org/arcade/iceblox/

[LuLu550]

9. when I was in college, we used to drive

20 minutes away from campus to a Nathan's on Long Island that had Pong....we thought it was awsome!

[ACK]

11. Space Wars ... yeah!!

Asteroids was my game but Space Invaders was the second one.

[jayfish]

13. Asteroids, Followed By...

Zaxxon, Moon Patrol, Robotron and Centipede.

Those were the days.


Jay

[HERVEPA]

15. Missile Command and Galaga

[VelmaD]

17. Galaga and Gorf

Actually I was pretty good at anything that involved shooting space ships. I rocked the house at Space Invaders. I rolled the counter on Galaga 3 times on one quarter. And every time I fuck up at work I can still hear the little voice in my head saying "Bad move, Space Cadet".

I was also pretty good at Tron game and Tempest.

Ok, who remembers the name of the one that was sorta like a cross between Tempest (you could circle around the outside of the whole screen in a big circle) and Galaga (you had to shoot the alien ships)? If had the really famous Back Toccata and Fugue as the background music. I kicked ass at it and can't remember the name.

Woohoo - it just came to me - Gyruss. :-)

[SlavesandBulldozers]

21. Choplifter and Double Dragon

LOL, too many to name. NARC, Galaga, APB, Legend of Kage. OMFG Legend of Kage ruled. I remember there would be a line out the door for that game, at the height of the ninja craze of the early to mid eighties.

[proud patriot]

18. Galaga

My husband played Galaga , he's the gamer in this house

[Braden]

19. Saxxon

I will still play if I can find one. Mostly in ancient movie theatres.

[ronzo]

22. Remember Berzerk / Frenzy?

Evil Otto!

[toddzilla]

23. i forgot one of my all time faves..

elevator action!!!!