I actually had that Pacman board game when I was a kid. I feel like such a dork.

*viral and *commercial for the Hitachi ad at the start of the vid (laaaaaaame!)

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Uh, *videogames!

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Hahaha, I had the Pac Man, Donkey Kong, and Zaxxon board games!

skip past the ads and it is worth it.

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Yes! [*80s nerdgasm]

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I do have NOW the DooM boardgame -.-

I'm just going to upvote all of the siftbot comments from here out.

Very nice... didn't actually know that about the vector games, well, I knew they drew differently, just didn't know that once they're dead these days, that's kinda it!

I came along a little later, in the late 80s with Double Dragon and the like, and going to arcades which had mornings on weekends where you paid an amount at the door and all the machines were on freeplay for, like 4 hours or something... awesome fun back then

It was the ONLY way I could beat the T2 game (And man did the gun get hot after playing it for as long as I did... from the recoil unit in it)

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I loved the vector games. Never had a Vectrex, but played one at Sears.

The coloured Vector games were called Quadrascan I think. I enjoyed Captain Havoc, TacScan and some Asteroids clone that was in color, and the asteroids were replaced with wheels that looked like spirographs. Anyone remember the name of that one? I'd like to Mame it.

Holy crap! I have that robotron game (or a variation of it) for my old atari!

I feel kind of cool because I've played Pong on an actual Pong cabinet at the Arcade Museum in St Louis. I played around on a virtual reality system at Union Station on that same trip. Made for an interesting contrast.

some Asteroids clone that was in color, and the asteroids were replaced with wheels that looked like spirographs

Space Duel?

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Yes! That's it. Thanks Jonny - great link, I even got play it a bit.

From the Hak5 show:
http://www.hak5.org/

Exactly what the host says at the end: MAME is great and we're lucky to have such things, but it's just not the same. When I saw the Tempest high scores screen, I got a dizzying warm fuzzy. Everything about the old arcades, the darkness, the neon, the black screens with bright flashing colors... I hope the retro arcade catches on and spreads.

While we're on the topic, maybe someone knows: I was told years ago that there is supposedly some 5-floor mega arcade, possibly in NY state. Supposedly it has everything from the 80's hits to the most recent VR simulators. Flat fee paid at the door lets you play all day. So far I haven't succeeded in finding any info. Does that ring a bell for anyone?

It eludes me yet again! Damn you, mystery NY arcade!

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*promote because I'm going to 1984 this weekend

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promote because I'm going to 1984 this weekend


Olympics in L.A.?