1980 VIDEO GAMES POLL

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i think this is the farthest back ima go with these so feel free to rep for the apple knock-off of space invaders or the asteroids follow-up as if they were the originals

this is several years before i was born so im really interested to see wat type of history u dudez (and abbott) can school me on

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Pac-Man 11
Defender 5
Battlezone 3
Centipede 2
Rogue 2
Missile Command 2
Asteroids Deluxe 1
Navalone 0
The Prisoner 0
Rally-X 0
Galactic Empire 0
SOS 0
Super Invader 0
Tank Battalion 0
Warlords 0


Trigga Happy Fraiser (Lamp), Thursday, 26 February 2009 06:22 (seventeen years ago)

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

PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 26 February 2009 07:00 (seventeen years ago)

PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 26 February 2009 07:03 (seventeen years ago)

Anyone gonna rep for Centipede?

Mordy, Thursday, 26 February 2009 09:04 (seventeen years ago)

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!

zappi, Thursday, 26 February 2009 10:45 (seventeen years ago)

guh what is this bullsquid

s1ocki kong country (cankles), Thursday, 26 February 2009 10:51 (seventeen years ago)

Defender ftw.

Matt OCD (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 26 February 2009 12:20 (seventeen years ago)

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

snoball, Thursday, 26 February 2009 12:37 (seventeen years ago)

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?

Brilli.am/writes (Will M.), Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:38 (seventeen years ago)

battlezone is pretty dope

Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:57 (seventeen years ago)

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.

Exodus 14 VS 14 CAGE MATCH FITE (jjjusten), Thursday, 26 February 2009 16:20 (seventeen years ago)

I WILL REP HARD FOR CENTIPEDE BECAUSE IT WAS AWESOME

Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Thursday, 26 February 2009 16:21 (seventeen years ago)

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.

Exodus 14 VS 14 CAGE MATCH FITE (jjjusten), Thursday, 26 February 2009 16:27 (seventeen years ago)

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

uncannydan, Thursday, 26 February 2009 16:32 (seventeen years ago)

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.

Jeff LeVine, Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:07 (seventeen years ago)

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

Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:09 (seventeen years ago)

Jeff LeVine, Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:09 (seventeen years ago)

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

Exodus 14 VS 14 CAGE MATCH FITE (jjjusten), Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:27 (seventeen years ago)

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

Trigga Happy Fraiser (Lamp), Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:30 (seventeen years ago)

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

Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:39 (seventeen years ago)

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

Fight scenes don't hold a candle to Asian action (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 February 2009 21:40 (seventeen years ago)

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

Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Thursday, 26 February 2009 21:41 (seventeen years ago)

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.

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 26 February 2009 21:51 (seventeen years ago)

voted defender, all-time top 20 for me

cozwn, Thursday, 26 February 2009 21:57 (seventeen years ago)

oh man, asteroids.

Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Thursday, 26 February 2009 22:09 (seventeen years ago)

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

Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Thursday, 26 February 2009 22:10 (seventeen years ago)

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

Fight scenes don't hold a candle to Asian action (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 February 2009 22:15 (seventeen years ago)

roid rage

PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 26 February 2009 22:18 (seventeen years ago)

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

pj, Thursday, 26 February 2009 22:22 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Saturday, 28 February 2009 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

(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

snoball, Saturday, 28 February 2009 00:18 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Sunday, 1 March 2009 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

Respect due.

Fight scenes don't hold a candle to Asian action (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 1 March 2009 00:13 (seventeen years ago)

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.

JimD, Sunday, 1 March 2009 12:14 (seventeen years ago)

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

s1ocki kong country (cankles), Sunday, 1 March 2009 12:22 (seventeen years ago)

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

Fight scenes don't hold a candle to Asian action (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 1 March 2009 15:04 (seventeen years ago)

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

s1ocki kong country (cankles), Sunday, 1 March 2009 15:07 (seventeen years ago)

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

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

Fight scenes don't hold a candle to Asian action (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 1 March 2009 15:11 (seventeen years ago)

well, that's terrifying

s1ocki kong country (cankles), Sunday, 1 March 2009 16:01 (seventeen years ago)

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

I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Sunday, 1 March 2009 16:22 (seventeen years ago)

lollll

s1ocki kong country (cankles), Sunday, 1 March 2009 16:42 (seventeen years ago)

(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...

snoball, Sunday, 1 March 2009 16:58 (seventeen years ago)

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

Fight scenes don't hold a candle to Asian action (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 1 March 2009 17:24 (seventeen years ago)

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

snoball, Sunday, 1 March 2009 18:10 (seventeen years ago)


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