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Favorite 1970s games?
Spacejack:
Just thought I'd garner a little thinkin' on favorite games from the 70s... MAMEd or not! I guess other than Pac-Man and Galaxian. And pinball would turn into the phone book... but anything else goes!
And thoughts on collecting these older cabs would be welcome as well, I've never really seen them being traded much and certainly not in person. I know they've gotta be pretty much entirely in the hands of collectors by now and getting one would be a nightmare, but that's about ALL I know on that front...
Anyway, as for me, I've pretty much got MAME and shaky memories of Shakee's pizza to go on here (well, that and Dawn of the Dead), but my personal list would be:
AVALANCHE. Unsung, but I think it's better than Breakout. Became Kaboom! on the 2600, kind of.
SHERIFF/BANDIDO. It looks like it's going to be another Boot Hill ripoff, but it's actually a quite fun little Space-Invaders-in-the-round.
RIPOFF. Cinematronics madness! Encountered this one for real in a hotel game room full of obseletes sometime around 1984. Probably the most creative of the Asteroids/SpaceWar bunch.
ATARI FOOTBALL. I never played it, I never understood it, but it just BELONGS. And I hate football!
and lastly, although I'm not sure it's quite old enough:
KING AND BALLOON! The original escort mission. This game is still pretty fantastic. Protect your king against the beseiging gasbags! Why they want him is unclear... where are they going?? They're balloons! They kidnapped the king! MY MIND! Anyway, who cares why? Ours is but to be drafted into service and die... as many times as necessary... the only thing that matters is his majesty!
God bless those hotel and airport gamerooms that never changed until they died! I'd never have seen these things otherwise. And thanks go out to my folks for letting me hang around those places. It still means something to me that I played a real Sundance machine. Screwed-up priorities? Maybe, but I didn't get quite as much out of the Mona Lisa and that's a fact.
Let's hear about some prehistoric gaming experiences!
DrBunsen:
I'll chime in by saying what grabbed my quarters back in the day:
1) Stargate
2) Robotron
3) Tron
4) Galaga
5) Berzerk
There were lots of others, but these 5 probably did the most serious damage to my excretionary income (the money I could just s**t away).
Bunsen
Fozzy The Bear:
Sherrif is not 1970's..... It's Nintendo 1980.
Rip Off Is not 1970's.... It's Cinematronics 1980.
King and Baloon is not 1970's.... It's Namco 1981.
So none of those fall into the quite old enough catagory..... Although they're all great games.
However have a look on the Projects forum at the Tank 2 thread if you really want 1970's... great machine.
1) Stargate
2) Robotron
3) Tron
4) Galaga
5) Berzerk
These are ALL 1980's Bunsen.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
DrBunsen:
Well duh... Yeah, the ol' brain was definitely in the wrong gear.
I wasn't quite as active a player in the 70's, but none-the-less these games snagged a good number of my quarters:
1) Asteroids
2) Space Invaders
3) Lunar Lander
4) Stunt Cycle
5) Tank 8
6) Depth Charge
Bunsen
[The edit was to put Stunt Cycle into the list. Couldn't remember the name during original post.]
danny_galaga:
i think id have to say galaxians.
although i didnt play it until the early eighties.
and asteroids is great too.
i have a soft spot for space invaders too (re-awakened lately by my VERY slowly progressing SI cab repro). SI was the second computer game i had ever played.
the first was (i think, i was pretty young) an atari sprint in changi international airport (or maybe schipol). i remember both mum and i being extremely dissapointed in how quickly it was over! first of many of lifes downers...