1980 VIDEO GAMES POLL

Pac-Man was all that was on everybody's mind that year, and probably for the next year or so after.

Anyone gonna rep for Centipede?

i loved Battlezone, those wireframe graphics & tank controls - i think there was a sort of periscope thing you looked through as well? it was punishingly hard to play. Missile Command was fun as well, probably the best arcade use of the trackball controller. hang on, just remembered Marble Madness. ok second best. Centipede was boring though!

guh what is this bullsquid

Defender ftw.

Pac-Man - it's like the Revolver of videogames

i dislike defender AND centipede. pac-man all the way. i still play that and i was born after 1980.

wait does that mean i am not allowed to vote on this?

battlezone is pretty dope

battlezone groundswell! i have no idea how many quarters i pumped into that game (at GEORGES MINIGOLF which was pretty much 7 year old mes definition of heaven, big arcade and well shit minigolf duh). even better was the followup "Red Baron" which hopefully someone other than me played.

oh man dorko memories galore because of this thread.

I WILL REP HARD FOR CENTIPEDE BECAUSE IT WAS AWESOME

oh man have we ever done a POV of console videogames? im thinking we must have, but i think i will exercise the search function if not.

born in '85 but gotta say i've dropped many a quarter on the pac-meister

The thing about Centipede younger players are missing if they've only played it via mame or on comps is how great it controlled with the trackball & how much fun that made it. Switching that control to a joystick or keyboard and you're really missing on on what a smooth feeling playing that game in the arcade was. Same could be said of Missile Command, though I always found that game kind of boring

It's a little hard to believe all these games came out the same year. Pacman is certainly the most classic and the one that best stands the test of time, probably... but I gotta vote Defender - for the great sound effects, it's speed and just the different kind of feel that game had.

i love missile command but mostly played it on a friend's atari 2600. also ms. pacman >>>> pacman.

http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=red-baron-upright-model&page=detail&id=2197

born in '85 but gotta say i've dropped many a quarter on the pac-meister

okay srsly???? i basically never even set foot into an arcade until college wtf kind of timetrap did u live in????

fyi rogue is the only one of these ive seriously played

I still play Pac-Man all the time. No contest.

Loads of quality on there and my heart says warlords but this simply can't be anything but pacman.

i totally grew up going to arcades. mostly in/near movie theaters, and at the mall.

Pac-Man is great but Ms. Pac-Man is better, and you really can't beat the apocalyptic freakiness of MISSILE COMMAND. Defender has a similar fried day-glo aesthetic but you really need the tension of inevitable, impending doom. Such a downer of a game.

voted defender, all-time top 20 for me

oh man, asteroids.

honestly i got most of my asteroids fun out of my friend's TI-85 calculator in high school

to be fair to asteroids, I have been wearing this all winter: http://www.joystiq.com/media/2006/03/asteroids_burton_jacket.jpg

roid rage

I was 10 at the time, and defender swallowed me up with all that sound. I can still totally picture those thuddy sounding explosions.

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(xpost) that's one thing you don't get by MAMEing it through a pair of headphones - that great big bass KABOOMMMMMMM!!! of being in a video arcade

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Respect due.

Hold up, I'm SURE I voted for Rally X? Not cos it's better than pac-man (or asteroids, or missile command, or even rogue), but cos it still deserves love.

old games are gay, i voted for pacman but really who cares

how i will lol when next gen ilxors hit the chrono trigger thread to tell you how gay 16bit games are

when will that be happening, 15 years from now? if i'm still posting on ilx by then, u have my permission to track me down and deliver a bullet into my head

video game whipper snappers turn over faster than you would think, canks.

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=440112

well, that's terrifying

when will that be happening, 15 years from now? if i'm still posting on ilx by then, u have my permission to track me down and deliver a bullet into my head

Your like 30 and your spending you're time complaining about video games on a forum full of other 30 yr olds and sprinkled with the occasional gay teen. Guess what I'm gonna be doing when I'm 30. Let's just say first I'll get up out of a 5000$ bed in my waterside mansion on the east coast of japan, awoken by the light of the rising sun that glorious island is nicknamed after. I'll gently lift myself out of bed so as not to stir my beautiful eastern european pale skin dark hair small boobs wife and go to my huge walk in closet. I'll come back out moments later wearing a really expensive italian suit. Strolling down the corridor I come into a room with glass cases full of the trophies of my achievements. I proudly look at all of them and then move into the next room, it's the room with a wall-sized HD display and walls upon walls of DVDs, mostly Anime but with a few Western classics throuwn in there. Jealous yet? Next I move into the kitchen and have my servant make me a breakfast, its usually pancakes with chocolate chips and whipped cream, but today... lets go healthy. Just a few slices of apple, Servant. Thank you. How delicious. Now I'm strolling into the living room about to make for the door so I can go out and enjoy my day at Comiket, but in the corner there I see something. I walk over by the 5000 dollar gaming rig, its turned off for now but later tonight I'll be playing Prostitute Farm Online, max settings and DirectX12. I begin to turn and make for the door again but then i stop and look at the black monitor screen (no less than 40 inches, btw). I just laugh. And laugh and laugh. I'm laughing because the guy who was 30 when I was a 17 year old pathetic yix poster is still a yix poster, meanwhile, I'm living the literal dream. All because I shoot for the top. Deal with it, bitch. YCS.

never 4get

lollll

(xpost) I'd like to know who that fucker is, just so I can track him down and laugh in his face in 13 years time...

i think we just banned that guy, didn't we?

ah, wait, it's a troll on an SA forum, never mind...