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Gehrig:

I have fond memories of playing POW as a kid.  And horrible memories playing it later in life saying, "Man this game sucks!"

Ginsu Victim:

When I was in kindergarten, I used to go with my dad before school to a cafe every day for breakfast and this one waitress would always play me in Donkey Kong on their cocktail machine. (She paid, and hooked me up with free pie) ;D

I used to love going to any one of the several arcades we had back then. For some reason, I loved Super Pac-Man when it came out, but now I can't stand it. Same goes for Zaxxon. I loved it then, but I'm not big on it now.

Had a Pizza Inn in our neighborhood that had Donkey Kong Jr and a Galaga cocktail. I would scarf it down so I could go play.

In '86/'87, my older brother and I used to go to a local gas station and play Rastan for hours. Also Shinobi. He had a friend with a Donkey Kong machine, but he wouldn't let me play. Earlier on, my brother had a girlfriend who was pretty well off and they had an arcade room in their house. I was six, and thought I'd died and gone to heaven.

Got stuck in the laundry mat a lot as a kid, so I'd search the dryers for change, then go to their arcade room and play Cloak and Dagger, Centipede, Pac-Man, and Frogger. I wouldn't play Sinistar, though. I was a kid and that game scared me.

There was also one place that didn't last long that had a Defender and a Q*Bert.

I recall in my younger years going to Showbiz Pizza and playing Baby Pac-Man and Kangaroo for the first time. Loved them.

Later on, Strider hit arcades and just blew my mind. However, not as much as the 7-11 when I was five that had a Dragon's Lair.

CrazyKongFan:

I'm sure he meant Showbiz Pizza. We had one too, and my mom always took me and my brother there on Friday nights. I even had a few birthday parties there. I can't remember what games they had there any more, other than a Dragon's Lair (with an extra TV screen on top) and Joust. I remember the Joust was one of those with the Pterodactyl cheat, and the extra player score was only $6,000, so I could play on that for a long time ;) I think they also had a DK Jr, Popeye Q*bert and Space Ace. One rule, we had to go before 9pm, so my mom could be home to watch Dallas (this was before VCR's were affordable ;D )

nipsmg:

I was lucky that growing up, about 20 minutes from me was a very Large arcade called "Milford Amusement Center".  In its day, it was a GREAT arcade.  every game you could thing of, new ones cycled in all the time, with pinball, pool, laser tag, even bumper boats and stuff out back.  They even had this afterburner type game that sat you strapped into a gyroscope that went 360 degrees upside-down, sideways, etc.  I think at one point downstairs they also had virtual reality stuff.

I have fond memories of quite a few games.  I loved APB, steel talons, Killer Instinct, Primal Rage, stewart's 4x4 offroad, and the MK series.  Cybersled too.  And pacman/ms pacman.   And... (this could go on for ever).

wbassett:

Defender was my game of choice when I was in high school.  There were several of us in town that could actually roll the high score.  The real trick and challange of a 'Master' was to as close to a million as possible!

Later when I was in school to be a nuclear reactor operator in the Navy I got hooked on Major Havoc.  There was just something satisfying about spending all day in school learning about reactors and then at night playing a game where the goal was to destroy reactors!

Others that I have fond memories of are Police Trainer and Silent Scope.

I now can play all of those except Silent Scope on my MAME machine and I impressed the hell out of my son with my Defender skills, although being 20 plus years since I played it I have a lot of rust to get rid of!

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