Atari Flashback

[Soulstation1]

i'm an old school mo-fo

up / down

left / right

fire

these are the only things i need for a video game, not 6/7 moves then fire

ss1

[Soulstation1]

old school games for free

http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/games.shtml#null

[Big Al]

Yeeaaahhh buddy!!! Mine's a little different, it's the joystick variety and only has games like Missile Command, Asteroids, Pong, Circus, Yarz Revenge, Adventure; pretty much all the games I played!

Who needs 3D anyway?

2600 forever!!!!!

[Soulstation1]

i still have these games, they are selling them at target

i bought the basketball game last year

Edited May 10, 2005 by Soulstation1

[Big Al]

Classic Football HECK YEAH!!!

[Soulstation1]

i WILL beat anyone's a$$ in a game of Football II

[Soulstation1]

i also play a lot of this game

[Jim Alfredson]

My sis had the baseball game when I was a youngin'. I hated it. I'd rather play Galaxia.

[Soulstation1]

[wesbed]

old school games for free

http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/games.shtml#null

Thanks for the link.

[Jim Alfredson]

Defender?

[Soulstation1]

yes sir

[Indestructible!]

Oh Yeah!

But I've gotta say, Stargate was a nice step up from Defender! So many freakin' buttons to try and figure out at first, but once you got the hang of it... whaddagame!

Still a fan of Phoenix, Vanguard, and Gorf!

Oh yeah, and Star Castle too (even with that bastard who talked shit when your game was over)!!!

Cheers,

Shane

[BERIGAN]

Oh yeah!!!!

Played the hell out of that, still have it somewheres, though no doubt some batteries corroded it beyond use.

[catesta]

DEFENDER!!!! B-)

I never got into those little Mattel games though.

[catesta]

PLAY

[Jim Dye]

FIGHTER CAPTURED

[WD45]

Yeeaaahhh buddy!!! Mine's a little different, it's the joystick variety and only has games like Missile Command, Asteroids, Pong, Circus, Yarz Revenge, Adventure; pretty much all the games I played!

Who needs 3D anyway?

2600 forever!!!!!

I remember many bleary-eyed nights playing tag-team Yar's Revenge.

That shit was hi-tech back then.

[Rooster_Ties]

So many games that I played in my youth. I never owned a home video game system, other than the games I had on my Apple IIe (though I did have a bunch of games on it).

But I especially remember playing hour, after hour, after hour -- on the coin-op versions of many of these games. I would spend $5 and $10 a session sometimes. Defender, Zaxxon(!!), Donkey Kong, Galaga, Centipede(!!), Phoenix, and so many more. Oh, the memories!!!!

[Rooster_Ties]

[billyboy]

I STILL play Robotron almost every day.

(on my PC).

Robotron and Defender, both created by Eugene Jarvis, are far and away the greatest action games of all time. There's so much happening on the screen at any one time, your mind has to go into an altered state to keep up. I never get tired of those games.

Pac-Man bores me after 2 minutes.

[Rooster_Ties]

What the hell was the name of the game where you spun around in a various multi-sided tube, and fired down the tube at various bad things. It was a vector-game, and the controler was a nob that you turned to go clockwise or counter-clockwise around the tube. I've been racking my brain for 2 minutes trying to think of it, so I can find some on-line version.

Man, there were SO many fun games back then.

What was also fun, were the illegal knock-offs of games that you occasionally would find. I'm talking full-size stand-up bootleg versions of other legit stand-up arcade games. I remember there was a knock-off of Phoenix at this one bowling alley near where my grandma lived, and it was even better than the legit version!! I seem to remember a knock-off of Donkey Kong too that was a lot of fun, if only because the graphics were a little crappier, and it was fun trying to notice all the visual problems with the game that they never bothered to get right. It might have been called Crazy Kong, now that I think of it. Or was that some other legit Donkey Kong spin-off?? (After a while, it got really hard to keep track of all the spin-offs.)

Oh, the many hours, and hours, and hours (and quarters!!!!) of my mispent youth!!!

Edited May 10, 2005 by Rooster_Ties

[billyboy]

What the hell was the name of the game where you spun around in a various multi-sided tube, and fired down the tube at various bad things.  It was a vector-game, and the controler was a nob that you turned to go clockwise or counter-clockwise around the tube.  I've been racking my brain for 2 minutes trying to think of it, so I can find some on-line version.

Tempest!

The Atari Jaguar home system had a version called Tempest 2000 that was excellent. Hmmm... might have to dust that off tonight!

I spent so much time and lunch money in the arcades. I was so addicted to Defender that I would catch myself playing it in my head during the day, moving my hands around like they were on the controls. These days, I would have been put on Ritalin.

Edited May 10, 2005 by billyboy

[Noj]

I have one of these from about 1985--it still works! I score virtually every possession.

[Dan Gould]

I honestly hated all that shit back when i was a kid, but when I was in Grad School I was introduced to Tetris and it became highly addictive, until the lady who ran the Social Sciences Computing Facility had it removed from all of the mainframe computers when she walked in one day, and there were undergrads who needed to use them, and every single computer was occupied by a Grad Student who was playing Tetris!

So, thanks, Chris, for that link up above, and DAMN YOU for getting me hooked again! If my wife divorces me cuz she never sees me again, I'm comin' to live with you, wherever you end up moving. So make sure you find a place with enough room for TWO extra large jazz collections, OK?