To follow up on yesterday's comments about the old days of video game arcades, I did a little research today. Here is a link to the best site I could find listing the arcade games of yore:
http://www.arcade-museum.com/?ref=ad_go ... v_main_001Didn't count them all, but I'll bet ya there are more than a couple dozen listed there. Maybe I should have said, more than a couple gazillion listed there. There were so many that it was overwhelming.
I had hoped that being able to scan the list would stimulate some of the dormant neurons in my brain, but it looks like those neurons might be in worse shape than just being dormant. Of course the obvious ones were easy to remember, but the obvious ones were not my favorites. It was a real battle to try to come up with the more obscure ones, that I really liked better.
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Here is my list of obvious ones, which everybody knows and played, and links to videos of them:
"Asteroids"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYSupJ5r2zo"Pack-Man"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlRwSv5Lxec"Space Invaders"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=437Ld_rKM2s"Break out"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib8dg1TuSKc"Centipede"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGEZ3NNH6cs"Dig Dug"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpq2VmlGdPQ"Donkey Kong"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Ey9OdQXV0"Frogger"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9fO-YuWPSk"Missile Command"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5FvIM8SNmU"Q Bert"
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Here is my list of more obscure ones that I loved to play, and links to videos of them:
"Elevator Action"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKHXB1cdFaA"Ikari Warriors" (Might have just played this on a 5 1/4" floppy.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nahbHjAYrdc"Galaxian" (Perhaps not so obscure, but one of my favorites)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0PM7SzSHbg"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"
http://www.wegame.com/watch/Indiana_Jon ... om_Arcade/"1942"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FXaw4Ev7Gw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FXaw4Ev7Gw_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
There are several more that I can visualize, but have no idea as to what they were called. One was a lot like "Commando", but I don't think that was it. It was an up-scrolling game, where you started out with a little guy, who fought his way forward, fired his weapon, tossed grenades, jumped into tanks, and could jump out of them to run over to jump into bigger tanks. Eventually, he came to a fortified wall that ran all across the top of the screen. Anyone know what that game was called?
Another one that I cannot remember the name of was a side-scrolling game, where you flew an aircraft over terrain, shot down enemy planes that came at you, dropped bombs on things (I think), and picked up fuel as you flew along. I remember it as a table top game that bars had in the late 1970's. It was very primitive, and was only in black and white, with simple lines to depict the terrain. Anyone remember anything like that?
Surprisingly, I found that many of those old arcade games are available for downloading, and a lot of them have been put out on floppies over the years.