Oh My God!!! I hadn't thought about Yar's Revenge in ages!!! Remember how you could run your little robot fly into the line during the transition from one level to another, crash the game and see the programmer's initials? LOL! What was that all about?

My mom got totally addicted to Missle Command but then she got joystick thumnb (remember that?) and got really scared it was permanent so she never played again.

Okay, this will blow your minds... remember Mappy? That was my fav. You were a mouse who was running around a department store and you had to move from level to level by jumping off the edge of the floor you were on and bouncing back up on a trampoline. It was awesome!!!

:rokk:

Never really thought of it as a video game, but yeah.....oh man, memory flood of being about 13 and going to the computer center at my Dad's college to play Adventure... everyone carried around stacks of programming punch cards held together by rubber bands! They littered the whole campus....

"You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here."

Fuckin' dwarves with their axes...and the thieves! :nyanya:

Sounds like you all know your video games..

I got hooked on old video games (again) about a year ago. You can play all the old games via an emulator on your pc called MAME. I now have three MAME arcade machines at the house.. cool stuff.. plays just about every game ever made. I find myself playing Ms. Pacman and Galaga alot..

Here is one on Ebay..

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...&category=13716

Much cheaper one Bishop, you add the computer, ps2, xbox, whatever, think that's what I'm gonna put the new xbox in:

http://www.x-arcade.com/htm/cabinet.shtml

Toolz.. yeah I didn't buy one of those.. they are too expensive, just an example. I actually brought three old arcade machines and refinished them.. it was a fun hobby for about a week. My machines actually have the X-Arcade controllers.. Cost me maybe $500-$600 per machine. I got the cabinets for almost nothing and bought new inexpensive PCs.

I have three of them when I only really need one ... I had a wild hair when I decided to do it.. went overboard.

Robotron...
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:rokk: and Stargate too...;-))

they just re-released those games last year.

my brother got me the football and baseball ones for christmas last year, but i'm not as good at them as i used to be. i used to be the king of led football :)

How do you like that x-arcade controller? There's easy to find cabinets around here too and looks cheaper just to grab an empty cabinet throw on the new controller and plunk in a good monitor.

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I don't know how the X-Arcade controller is compared with other controllers but it feels just like the original arcade controls. I bought the X-Arcade controller because it was on sale at the time.. haha.. free shipping.

Finding an old cabinet is much cheaper than buying a new one or building one.. it would cost your more in time and wood to build one.. I got the three I have from an old vending company. I stripped the machines down and sold the original boards.. which worked.. on ebay. Made my money back from buying the cabinets.

I was an arcade junky during their hay day and had consoles at home as well. So I've enjoyed almost everything mentioned.

My favorite would be and still is Joust.

A strong second place would be Spy Hunter, preferably the sit down version.

"Off in the distance you hear the sound of a bird singing"

~ZORK