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patrickq 
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Logan
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Posted: September 29 2019 at 16:48 |
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I was more of an 80s arcade guy. I'm voting other for Tron, but probably played Galaga the most.
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siLLy puPPy
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Posted: September 29 2019 at 20:26 |
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We have a cool event called California Extreme once a year in Santa Clara, CA It's a massive conference room (or two) of retro arcade games from the 80s and 90s You pay admission and all games are free. It's freekin amazing There are hundreds and thousands of games you never knew existed Favorite? Impossible. The Mario Bros games are close though
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Finnforest
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Posted: September 29 2019 at 20:35 |
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Galaga Wizard of Wor Defender Mario Eight Ball Deluxe Chexx Hockey Missile Command All I can remember. 35 years ago is a long time.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: September 30 2019 at 06:18 |
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Wow.... only one I know in the list is Super Mario (which was name Donkey Kong back then if memory serves), but then again, I roamed, squatted and looted arcades & pool halls in the 80's, not the 90's. Never much into videogames (the first Star Wars games, a bit of Asteroids and that was mostly it), but I was a king at pinballs in a few Yonge Street arcade/halls... Used to play for hours for one 0.25$ and even made money selling free games that I won. I even got banned in a few of them arcades and other halls would shut down the machine or even ask the technician to change the parameters (inclination of the machine or bumper directing your ball down the middle)
My preferred one was Black Night (arcades) but I was best at Spiderman (at Uni) Had a buddy who owned a machine in his basement, and he had installed a beer holder and an ashtray screwed on the side, he rolled his joint in the right hand bottom corner and I know for a fact that he screwed a few times his GF on it, since she would sit on the glass window so he would worry about her instead of the machine.
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Odvin Draoi
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Posted: September 30 2019 at 09:26 |
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I was kinda expecting the pre and early 80s arcaders would be dominant here, but I was at least assuming to see some '90s gamers here too. I guess there are zero like me, at least not in my level of passion for the '90s games. I also had begun going to arcades in the mid-'80s, yet my real enthusiasm began with the early '90s. If we don't count River Raid that I first played in mid-'80s, my real addiction began with Double Dragon II (beat-em-up), that I first played in 1990 or sth.
Perhaps one of you could create a poll for the earlier arcade games. Anyway, cool to read all your experiences and reflections here. Thank you all.  Edited by Odvin Draoi - September 30 2019 at 09:28 |
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Posted: November 22 2019 at 18:39 |
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Ohter: Tempest (old school.... very old school)
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Posted: November 23 2019 at 00:07 |
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During the 80s, the arcade game I enjoyed playing the most was Tutankham, but the arcade game I was best at was Battlezone, which I had mastered.
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No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.
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