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What arcade game "Did it" (AKA: Started/Motivated you down the MAME/Refurb path)
koz319:
Definitely Tempest, with Robotron a close second.
Early 80's arcades left a real impression, most of the games I play seem to be from that period.
Koz
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Robotron (on level 10, 30,000 per free man of course). A game that separates the men from the children. ;)
CIA_Guy:
Defender. Every night after dinner in college, my room mate and I played a couple of games.
Years later, when I got the chance to buy a real Defender, I had to have it. Only the real thing has that classic "graphics processor overload" when you really get the screen loaded with bad guys!
postalp123:
Deleted out of stupidity.LOL
leapinlew:
While Galaga is one of my favorite all time games... the one game I wanted a cabinet for was Gauntlet. I never could have enough money to play that quarter sucking hog at the arcade. The gameplay isn't very strong now, but when it debuted - it had a powerful effect on me.
Now, my machine see's more action playing classics, fighters and party games like World Class Bowling.