>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.
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>>>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.
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>What is "m/c" stand for?

Well I thought it was the universal abbrev of "machine"

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>>There was a different, better, more difficult version than the Taito in the pub next door to that.
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>I didn't know there were more than one version.

Yeah, that one really got the old leg twitching. It sort of disappeared into obscurity though but was a much better game.

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>>>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.
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>Yeah, not one of my favorites either, but it was installed at a place I worked so we played it all the time.
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>>>Pac-Man
>>>Tetris
>>>Galaxia
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>>I loved the follow-up to this: Galaga.
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>>>Frogger
>>>Asteroids

Oh! And that moon lander one where you only have so much fuel. That's brought to mind when I'm scuba diving and inject little spurts of air into my BCD on descent, to attain neutral buoyancy and keep off the bottom/coral, etc.

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>>How about the other line-drawing games:
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>>Rear gunner
>>tank command
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>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.

Yep
UPDATE: only just been informed that it was called "Battlezone"

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

There's defo places on the web where you can get most of these games, pobably free. I've seen some of them