Oh hey, here's a pretty cool site if you're into those old games
http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/games.shtml#null

And now that I'm 29 and married - it's back to video games!

Legit, I hate that new generations of children will NEVER know the greatness that was taking a $5 to the arcade and playing all day long. Hell, for the games you still find, that $5 would give you five turns!

But seriously, watch the opening of Tron in Flynn's Arcade. That was a real deal. People gathered at arcades to see people beat high scores and to hang out with your friends while playing all the newest games. I remember when Dragon's Lair first hit the arcade scene! One arcade I frequented actually installed three TV screens over top of the machine so people in the area could watch without crowding the player - it was THAT HUGE!!!

I miss the days of the arcade, and while I love my home console systems, I can't help but feel sad when I realize that THEY are the reason arcades are dying out now! Why spend quarters in the mall when I can just spend $50 and play the game as much as I want in the comfort of my own home.

But kids in the new generation will never know that thrill. They'll also never know about Hostess Fruit Pie cartoon strips in the new issue of Spider-Man or The Fantastic Four. Nor will they know that Big Macs and Quarter Pounders should come in styrofoam containers for stacking games at McDonald's birthday parties.

I miss the 1980s, and weep for all others who never grew up during them like we did. Legit.

Boingo_Buzzard Wrote: There were a few decent ports of arcade games on the Atari 2600. Space Invaders, Joust and Ms. Pacman were all pretty true to the originals. Notable attempts that were not quite on but still fun were Centipede,Missle Command,Warlords and Asteroids. Collosal failures were the aforementioned Pac Man and Donkey Kong and Defender...

Yeah - those were some good Atari games. Many an hour I spent on each of them.

Defender - I actually enjoyed the Atari version of that and played it often. It wasn't a great likeness of the arcade version, but it still got a lot of game play from me.
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Yeah, that Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man was a bit of a let down when it came out. So much excitement for it. My parents put in a "rain check" for it at a local retailer so I could get it when it first came out I still remember being there to do the "rain check" thing.

I read somewhere on the net a couple months back that the lead programmer for the 2600 Pac-Man version got treated poorly by Atari and that's why he didn't do a very good port of it. I tried looking for that internet blurb last night before posting, but couldn't find it >:[ There were more details to it: like he wasn't going to get paid much by Atari, or didn't get royalties or something. Interesting blurb if you can find it. I wish I could remember what it said exactly. Sorry!

RE: Atari Space Invaders, my brother and parents remember watching me play that game for a long time... like hours or something. I wish we had a recording of me doing that feat. My dad wrote my PacMan and Space Invaders high scores in the respective games' manuals and put the dates on them. I hope I can find them in my garage!! If I find them, I'll maybe scan them in for "proof" -- my dad's "Certificate of Authenticity," if you will

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TheReelTodd Wrote:I totally sucked at it though. BUT, I enjoyed those brief moments playing the game each time.

I actually managed to finish it. Used to be, then, that I had the patterns memorized so I could do the whole game without losing a Dirk. I just recently got Dragon's Lair 3D for the XBox for nostalgia purposes and actually was pleasantly surprised. It was fun and looked great.

Boingo_Buzzard Wrote: TheReelTodd Wrote:I totally sucked at it though. BUT, I enjoyed those brief moments playing the game each time. I actually managed to finish it. Used to be, then, that I had the patterns memorized so I could do the whole game without losing a Dirk. I just recently got Dragon's Lair 3D for the XBox for nostalgia purposes and actually was pleasantly surprised. It was fun and looked great.

I remember hearing about the patterns in the game, but I could never master them. I used to watch others play the game and try and see how they moved the joystick so I could learn when to move, but I never got any good at it. Still, I thought that game was cooler than anything!

I remember having a marathon competition to determine the king of Atari 2600 Pac-Man in which my dad and I played the same game for hours, each of us turning over the score until I finally beat him. Man, that was crazy!

I never did finish Dragon's Lair in the arcade, but I did finish Space Ace! It took lots of quarters to learn how but I did it.

Years later I bought Space Ace and then Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp on DVD-ROM for my PC. I love playing these games. I'll pick up Dragon's Lair soon, thus rounding out my Don Bluth game collection.

Anybody remember the live-action shooting games like Mad Dog McCree, Who Shot Johnny Rock? and Crime Patrol? I fed those machines well, I can tell you.

TheReelTodd, there was a club for almost every Activision game as I recall, and if you took the picture of your qualifying high score and sent it in you would get a patch signifying your accomplishment.

In fact, I did a little searching and found a site that shows pictures of many of the patches: Activision Patches at AtariAge
Who here was in the Atari Club and got the Atari Age magazine?

There were games that were only available to club members, such as Crazy Climber, which I ordered and had a lot of fun playing.

BTW, Knight Rider was awesome - who didn't want their own KITT? - so was The Greatest American Hero, and Dungeons & Dragons was such a cool cartoon... I got my dad to watch it with me one Saturday, and he was hooked! He watched it every Saturday with me after that.

Ah, the 80's...

TheReelTodd Wrote: I remember hearing about the patterns in the game, but I could never master them.

Which is odd because my memory has always sucked (although it's gotten worse with age).... the fact I could commit all those patterns to memory still astounds me.

MutoidMan Wrote:The Greatest American Hero

Greatest American Hero ruled. Robert Culp was great as the dog biscuit eating detective. Remember when Reagan was shot by Hinkley, and Katt's character was actually NAMED Hinkley. They bleeped out his name for a few shows and then changed it... to Henley or something.

I also loved The A Team and Airwolf.

OMG! Who here at a "Tron" website could forget "Automan"!!!



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I also liked Airwolf... Max Headroom... and Manimal. And practically everything else mentioned so far.
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