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What games do you have fond (or not so fond) memories of?

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AgentX:
It's weird, but for me, video game memories are rarely about the game itself, but the people and circumstances surrounding me at the time I was playing it. It's like my brain has built its own little catalog of all the games I've played, who was there and what was going on. I still find myself driving down the street past an empty lot and thinking "Oh, that's where that Peter Piper Pizza used to be that had that Track and Field and Street Fighter - you know - that one where we stole that water pitcher from on the last day of junior year."

Some of my best memories:

1982 Gorf: My Dad and I used to walk up to Ron Jaworski stadium in Lackawanna NY on warm summer nights to watch baseball. Sometimes, before the game we'd stop in this little pizza shack to grab dinner. The place couldn't have been more than 10 feet deep, but they had a Gorf stuck in the corner. My Dad always spotted me a few quarters while we waited for the pizza.

1983 Star Castle: This is the game I played when Rochelle Thomas turned me down for couples skate at Leisure Land. Broken hearted, I turned my affection towards the Star Castle hidden behind the fooseball table. Now every time I hear 'Faithfully' from Journey I see vector starships.

1986 Excitebike: Excitebike was the first game I was really good at. I would spend most of my summer afternoons at the local craphole arcade down the street. One day I forgot to bring a chain to lock my bike up. I must have parked it too close to the door for the owner's taste because the next thing I know he's yelling at be incoherently and throwing my bike out into traffic. Thanks jerk!

2004 Time Pilot: After my four year old daughter had an incident at a friend's pool (read: slipped off a step and sank like a stone) my wife and I decided she needed swimming lessons. Every Tuesday for nearly a year we'd take turns sitting behind a giant glass window watching my daughter furiously splash about with enthusiasm only a preschooler can muster, all the while going nowhere. Tucked behind seating for 10 soccer moms, was a Time Pilot being slowly bleached away from the chlorine gas that hung in the air like fog. When it was my turn to take her, I'd always remember to bring a few quarters so afterward we'd share a game. She'd mash the fire button while I'd steer. Then we'd switch. When we did well, I'd always let her put her initials on the scoreboard.

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: Bones on May 06, 2008, 07:28:32 am ---Hey Dan, you do realise of course your cocktail machine busted into flames from the excessive NT summer two years ago?

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and you couldnt have told me this last week?! i just this week booked a ticket back to darwin to pick up some things, including the cab...

robC:
We had a bowling alley with an arcade that my group used to go play games at.  They had a Time Pilot game that I loved. Not very ethical, but one of my buddies found out the control panel was loose and would reach in and quickly hit the credit button a ton of times, and we would proceed to play for a few hours.  They weren't losing out too bad though, since the other games there consumed all of my paper route money!

GAJoe:
I was trying to think of games that I had not so fond memories of.  Galaxian was never fun for me.  Once I got a taste of Galaga, its predecessor seemed sluggish.  Also, the alarms and sound effects cut through my brain like a knife.  Tag Team Wrestling...it wasn't Mat Mania and I wasted a little money figuring that out.  Karnov, so freaking hard, yet so pretty I kept wanting to waste money on it and die in less than a minute.  For years afterwards, I'd have random dreams about playing Karnov in an abandoned glass shop, which we had passed on our way home on that first day I played the game.  I can't stand Krull, which I always associate with an ex-girlfriend who's step-father ran an arcade shop.  She loved the movie Krull and he brought her the cab.  It conjures unpleasant memories to see it.  A tip if you become friends with an arcade distributor, don't ruin it by dating his daughter.

CrazyKongFan:

--- Quote from: robC on May 07, 2008, 09:21:19 am ---Not very ethical, but one of my buddies found out the control panel was loose and would reach in and quickly hit the credit button a ton of times, and we would proceed to play for a few hours.  They weren't losing out too bad though, since the other games there consumed all of my paper route money!

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I've seen at least 2 Space Invaders that had this problem. One "back in the day" when I was at a campground, and one recently (at an arcade with a bunch of classics)

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