I wasn't very good - compared to others around me - at these games, but I loved to play them. I did well at the Star Wars game - wireframe, but very realistic - though I've never met anyone else who even heard of it.

>>I remember playing these way too often in the early eighties:
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>>Space Invaders
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>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.

What is "m/c" stand for?

>There was a different, better, more difficult version than the Taito in the pub next door to that.

I didn't know there were more than one version.

>>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
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>I thought that game was execrable.

Yeah, not one of my favorites either, but it was installed at a place I worked so we played it all the time.

>>Pac-Man
>>Tetris
>>Galaxia
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>I loved the follow-up to this: Galaga.
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>>Frogger
>>Asteroids
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>How about the other line-drawing games:
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>Rear gunner
>tank command

Is this the one where you moved around these pyramids and take shots at another tank? When you got hit, your screen would crack? Played that one a lot too.

>one where you were a biplane pilot, shooting down Germans and zeppelins