Earliest recollection stood at an arcade game and first game(s) played

Pac-Man - I was in Spain with my parents when I was 3 and I can remember my dad lifting me up to play it.

Fond memories of:

Ghosts n Goblins
Shinobi
Splatter House
Golden Axe
Rolling Thunder
Road Blasters

Only arcade game I ever completed was Double Dragon.

broona said:
My first real memories are of playing Spy Hunter in the arcades at Seahouses, can't remember too much before that, think I'd have been 8 or 9 then.
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Just gone back through this thread, thats pretty mad as I played on that very machine lots of times. Used to visit Seahouses quite often as a child and it was in that arcade that I completed Double Dragon. WWF Wrestlemania was my favourite game in that arcade though.
 
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Old Wino said:
Space invaders arcade machine, late 70's, Hannover airport, West Germany

Image you'd never seen or heard of video games before, no-one has a computer, you are a teenager, there is a strange noise comming from the middle of a mahoosive crown of people - you elbow your way through and get your first glimpse of... a 'video game', Bingo - hooked for life ;)
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Oh I hear you brother same here ;)

First memories were Playing Star Wars in a Sit down Machine in the Black Cat in Towyn North Wales.

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Full on Vector graphic goodness for the handsome fee of 10p a go
 
Efour2 said:
me and my cousin completing double dragon with 10p each on "pure elbow"
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LMAO i remember doing that - moving along the screen a mm at a time so you only have to face one baddie at a time.

Space invaders was the first for me.

Most played game was definitely Wonderboy followed closely by Roadblasters, Pacland (the one where you had to tap the joystick to run), Silk Worm and Cabal.

Can't believe no one has mentioned Kick and Run the four player footie game with the kick pedals on the floor - if you picked Germany you could shoot from the wing on near enough the half way line and score.

Super Hang-on the motorbiking equivalent to OutRun, Kung Fu master, Green Beret - Ah the hours of mispent youth.

Have often toyed with the idea of a mame cabinet.
 
Bubo said:
Not really, "Red five standing by" might though ;P
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someone never actually destroyed the Death Star then?
hehe

..."standing by" was the noise it made when you put some coins in...."going in" was the trench approach ;)
 
Oldest memory is probably while on holiday in Crete when I was quite young and there was a Bubble Bobble machine.

Some German kids had figured out how to break the machine so they could keep hitting the coin recieve to play it for free. The whole time we were there they were always on it.

On evening me and my brother walked past and it was free, so began playing. A few minutes later the German kids came back and started hassling us which we couldn't understand. One of them then just switched the machine off at the wall.

We then had something of a scrap. Luckily my Dad happened to be coming by at the time and I believe he managed to find one of the sets of parents to have a go at them about their kids.
 
Late 70's and it was Space Invaders in the Portsmouth 'Seaspeed' waiting room whilst waiting to board the hovercraft to Cowes. I don't know what fascinated me the most, those little green aliens or the whopping great hovercraft!
 
Old Wino said:
Space invaders arcade machine, late 70's, Hannover airport, West Germany

Image you'd never seen or heard of video games before, no-one has a computer, you are a teenager, there is a strange noise comming from the middle of a mahoosive crown of people - you elbow your way through and get your first glimpse of... a 'video game', Bingo - hooked for life ;)
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How did space invaders seem in the late 70's? Although the grapchis are dinasour by todays standards did they seem really realistic back then?

Can't actualy remember what my first arcade game was but I spent a lot of time and money on Kung Fu Master probably the first really playable fighting game. Suprised that no-one else has mentioned this one.

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Berzerk when i was around 11 then double dragon ahh memorys using the
elbow move the whole way through double dragon isn't it though.
 
Azagoth said:
Late 70's and it was Space Invaders in the Portsmouth 'Seaspeed' waiting room whilst waiting to board the hovercraft to Cowes. I don't know what fascinated me the most, those little green aliens or the whopping great hovercraft!
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You should have played the deluxe version with the coloured strips of plastic over the screen so that the green aliens changed colour as they came down.

I have memories of asteroids and phoenix. Not sure which was first. I think it was asteroids but can't recall where.
 
magick said:
How did space invaders seem in the late 70's? Although the grapchis are dinasour by todays standards did they seem really realistic back then?
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from what i recall, i would have been 7 or 8 when i first saw/played space invaders.
it's not like the graphics were in any way realistic, but the whole thing was simply unprecedented in my experience. the graphics were amazing because i had never seen anything like them before. the cabinet itself was huge and was covered in fantasy art type graphics. you've got to remember this was pre PC's, pre consoles, pre computers in general outside of business.

i think it would have been at least 1980 or so when i first saw a computer on tv.

it was all just so new and different and cool that it really got your imagination.
and i think the fact that the world was going futuristic / space mad anyway back then really helped.

remember, star wars had only just been released in 77.
in fact it was only about 8 or 9 years earlier that we'd landed on the moon.

for me though by far the biggest thing that locked me into the arcade space invaders was the sound effects, especially the noise when you pressed fire. once again, noises like that just weren't part of your every day experience.

and then every arcade machine after that for maybe the next 10 years just seemed to add something new. you just don't get "new" very often these days.

:)
 
The_Dark_Side said:
someone never actually destroyed the Death Star then?
hehe

..."standing by" was the noise it made when you put some coins in...."going in" was the trench approach ;)
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Got to be honest I don't ever remember it saying red five going in. When you clear the towers after the tie fighter stage I only remember the "Use the force luke" sample, and when you blow it up Han Solo comes came up with "Yahoo you're all clear kid". It ocasionally said "Look at the size of that thing" when clearing the tie fighters, so yours may have been an ultra rare sample.
 
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