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[Newsdreams]

I do miss Pong

[El Guerrero 2]

Are we really going to play on CBSSN while DePaul and Georgetown play on FS1... WTF?

[tower912]

As I understand it, CBS gets to choose some of the games, as opposed to FS1 dumping them.  I am comfortable speculating this is one of those games.

[MU82]

I do miss Pong

Beer? Or Ping?

[Newsdreams]

Beer? Or Ping?

No, the best video game ever...

[MU82]

No, the best video game ever...

Was no Space Invaders, but it's up there.

[The Sultan]

1980s video games ranked:

1. Mario Brothers
2. Centipede
3. Galaga
4. Asteroids
5. Zaxxon

[barfolomew]

1980s video games ranked:

1. Mario Brothers
2. Centipede
3. Galaga
4. Asteroids
5. Zaxxon

That was my heyday, and I don't ever remember seeing Mario Bros in a standup cabinet in an arcade. I didn't think it even existed in that form until a few years ago.

That said, easiest 80's video games to identify if you walked into the arcade with your eyes closed:

1. Pac-man
2. Centipede
3. Donkey Kong
4. Joust
5. Pole Position

[lawdog77]

That was my heyday, and I don't ever remember seeing Mario Bros in a standup cabinet in an arcade. I didn't think it even existed in that form until a few years ago.

That said, easiest 80's video games to identify if you walked into the arcade with your eyes closed:

1. Pac-man
2. Centipede
3. Donkey Kong
4. Joust
5. Pole Position

[The Sultan]

Mario Brothers definitely was a stand up arcade game. I worked in high school at Chuck-E-Cheese and the line to use it was always long. This would have been 1984-86.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Now you're talking!

[mhendrick]

Tempest, asteroids

[MU82]

The State House had Missile Command and I played it so often that when I'd go to bed and closed my eyes, I could see those damn lines going down the screen. I had to give it up!

[21Jumpstreet]

Yessir! Had to use the comb/pen trick to get super speed. Add in Ms PAC Man, Galaga, Turbo, and Breakout, and I'm in. Honorable mention to Frogger, Tron, and Missle Command.

[brewcity77]

Double Dragon absolutely deserves to be in the conversation. Fantastic game, but the three-dimensional movement felt so transformational at the time. Awesome game and paved the way for both the beat-em-up and fighting games that dominated the 90s like TMNT, X-Men, Street Fighter II, and Mortal Kombat.

[4everwarriors]

Mario Brothers definitely was a stand up arcade game. I worked in high school at Chuck-E-Cheese and the line to use it was always long. This would have been 1984-86.

Oh, so that explains it entirely now, hey?

[21Jumpstreet]

Double Dragon absolutely deserves to be in the conversation. Fantastic game, but the three-dimensional movement felt so transformational at the time. Awesome game and paved the way for both the beat-em-up and fighting games that dominated the 90s like TMNT, X-Men, Street Fighter II, and Mortal Kombat.

100%, definitely paved the way.

I was talking with my brother the other day, and he brought up playing Gauntlet. Loved that game, too.

[Spotcheck Billy]

No love for Space Invaders?

[Dr. Blackheart]

[21Jumpstreet]

Mario Brothers definitely was a stand up arcade game. I worked in high school at Chuck-E-Cheese and the line to use it was always long. This would have been 1984-86.

Most definitely was a stand up game. For us growing up it was Showbiz Pizza where we would play Pitfall. We also had PinPan Alley and would spend hours playing the aforementioned Gauntlet. I was always the elf.

[brewcity77]

100%, definitely paved the way.

I was talking with my brother the other day, and he brought up playing Gauntlet. Loved that game, too.

Great call. I put a lot of quarters into Gauntlet marathons. I think "Red Warrior...is about to die" will forever be etched in the memories of anyone that played it.

[The Sultan]

Oh, so that explains it entirely now, hey?

Explains why I never took my kids there? Yep.

[BLWarrior91]

This was the progression in video games for me:

Pong
Space Invaders
Asteroids
Missle Command
Pac-Man
Donkey Kong
Galaga
Ms. Pac-Man

I do remember playing a lot of Arkanoid in the arcade at MU freshman year.  That game was like Breakout and a shooting game combined.

[MUDPT]

Double Dragon absolutely deserves to be in the conversation. Fantastic game, but the three-dimensional movement felt so transformational at the time. Awesome game and paved the way for both the beat-em-up and fighting games that dominated the 90s like TMNT, X-Men, Street Fighter II, and Mortal Kombat.

90s kid was definitely TMNT II, Mortal Kombat 2 and NBA Jam.

[Warrior Code]

What's the difference between the Pac-Man and Mrs. Pac-Man games?