>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.

Me! I've heard of that Star Wars game. There was also a wireframe Star Trek that I liked. Of course there was Space War.

BattleZone was one of my favorites. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone

Then they re-created it and I played it a lot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_%28computer_game%29

We hooked up a PC to our big screen, turned out the lights and tried Doom 3 when it came out. It actually made us jump!

The recent Battle Star Galaactica TV Series has a free-ware game based on the FreeSpace engine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLcHtKcB0nI&mode=related&search=

http://www.game-warden.com/bsg/

The latest game I want to try is Prey which uses the Doom 3 engine. Haven't had a chance to try it yet.

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

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