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ringram:
Not sure if it was a 70's game, but I liked battlezone.

pmc:
Battlezone was 1980.

I also played alot of Sea Wolf (1976) but not until the early 80s. For some reason, I always think the name of that game is "Sub Hunt" but it's obviously not.

Anyone remember Fire Truck? That one was unique but fun to play with 2 people.

We also used to play alot of those 4-player auto racing games where the B&W monitor was horizontal (like a coctail table) and the players stood two per side and you raced around various tracks. There was an excellent smash-'em up derby game where parts flew all over the place when you whacked another car. I played lots of these games, but not until 1982-1984 or so.

-pmc

Zobeid:
No mention of Pong?

I remember the impression that Pong made on me when I first saw it.  I never saw a coin-op Pong game, I didn't go into arcades, but I remember seeing a TV Pong game at a hardware store (Western Auto!) and being floored by it.

I loved TV, I'd been watching TV all my life.  I watched our four, snowy, static-filled channels: ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS.  I watched whatever they showed whenever they showed it.  There was no cable, there was no VCR.  So when I saw that Pong game and grabbed the dial and actually moved the paddle on the screen with it, I was flabbergasted.  I had to have one.

I feel like the next roughly dozen-plus years of the whole "golden age" of videogames was basically just exploring all the permutations and possibilities that were opened up in that moment.

councilface:
Lunar rescue is an awesome game. I prefer it to lunar lander.

Boothill - the guy who programmed this is now a chick.

Glaxians - nuff said

The sprint series was great (not so great in mame).

Asteroids.

Whack-a-mole and skeeball ;o)

Zobeid:
As long as we're on this subject, I should add:   The oldest coin-op arcade game that I can remember playing and enjoying in an actual arcade is probably. . .   Blasto, which was released in 1978.   It stuck in my mind because it was a clever and rather fun concept, and I've never seen any other game like it.  I even programmed a similar game years later in Atari BASIC.  I didn't remember the Blasto name, it wasn't until recently that I looked it up and figured out what it actually was.

Some others I remember from those early days would be. . .    Rip Off (1979).  Tail Gunner (1979).  Lunar Lander (1979).  Asteroids (1979).   Hmmm. . .   Do I sense a pattern here?  I guess you can tell about when I first wandered into an arcade.

The sit-down Tail Gunner machine I remember was quite impressive.

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