>I remember playing these way too often in the early eighties:
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>Space Invaders
I was 7th Dan at Space Invaders. Used to have pints lining up on top of the m/c in the pub, till I'd give the game away after c. 5 times round the clock.
There was a different, better, more difficult version than the Taito in the pub next door to that.
>Star Wars
>Joust
>Bump-and-Jump
>Tron (the disc throwing one)
>Can't remember the name, but the one that you spun the control to kill the spiders crawling up towards you
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>Others that I played often enough, but weren't my favorites:
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>Centipede
>Millipede
>Defender
I thought that game was execrable.
>Pac-Man
>Tetris
>Galaxia
I loved the follow-up to this: Galaga.
>Frogger
>Asteroids
How about the other line-drawing games:
Rear gunner
tank command
one where you were a biplane pilot, shooting down Germans and zeppelins
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.