Remembering arcade games

Yes whether it be space invaders, paperboy, pinball, Star wars, Gauntlet, Mortal kombat, Street fighter, Racing car games, pin ball machines or the one armed band I remember them with a smile and sometimes confusion As to why I was sometimes hopeless at some of them doh rolling on the floor laughing

Paperboy was one game I did not venture to far in but it was fun nun the less and I also remember blowing up the death star in the star wars game yay

Can you remember the arcade games of the past?
Did you have a favourite?
Were you a whiz at them games?
Or were you more like me?

My first posting is of the original star wars arcade game for your enjoyment




Here is one of my favourite arcade games paperboy




If only I had that cheat when I was playing paperboy it would have saved endless hours of frustrated doh laugh
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Hi Lind, Yes I remember spending hour upon hour playing these machines until my pocket money run outgrin

This blog is just for fun and reliving old memories of the pastwink

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Hello freedom,

Many a misspent hour was spent playing.
Moon patrol, Lunar lander, and my favourite, Xybots
At 10p a credit you had to get good quick laugh

in later years of my youth I played space harrier and
Ghost and goblins. cheers

You can play all the originals on your PC useing the MAME emulator. grin
Phoenix my friend,,quality game,pit fighter,double dragon,,all quality retro games,,pitfall on the atari 2600 was a fave of mine also.....roll eyes violin popcorn dancing pizza detective sheep playball choir transport jackolantern oh and track and field..... cool gift cheers
wave Yep an original from way back, played Pong in 1972.
Then Space Invaders, Pac man(I did not like), then Galaga.
On to Nintendo and onwards, still enjoying.
pedalguy, you chose a great game there, GALAGA grin
Another good one was RYGAR.
Nothing beats to classic arcade games. All these new games focus on bling, they look nice, but they lack that simplicity.
Welcome Non, I remember enjoying playing the 2p a go fruit machines and I also enjoyed the half penny fruit machines laugh

Yes I know about all the games available on the PC, but the experience is not quite the same as it was back then if you know what I mean wink
Butterfly, I forgot about mario brothers and loved that game beer

I was too young to drink at the time, but I made up for it in my teen years beer drinking beer drinking rolling on the floor laughing

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Lind, Sometimes the simplest things in life we have fond memories of and I'm glad you enjoyed taking that walk down memory lanewink

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Twazzle, I used to have a dragon computer and later a commodore64
as a we lad and I used to enjoy loading up the cassettes grin
wave Twazzy, we are cut from the same cloth.
Pedal, space invaders is a classic arcade game and very simple to play, but also good funbeer
Doc, Yes these modern games have the razzmatazz, but sometimes the most simple concept can be more funcheers
Wow now those, I found out were also good stress reliever Freedom and very enjoyable specially if you keep beating the machine? and gives you a lot of credit? My ex was unbeatable on the shooting gallery..back in the 80s and there were so much fun.

thanks again my friend...

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Cheers pedal..cheers ..Hi freedom,,,the commodore 64,,jeez i remember buying the mags with the demo tapes sellotaped to them....Do you recall the loading times of the tapes,and the multi coloured lines on the tv whilst said tapes loaded up,,loved the c64 ,,there was a game called "creatures" on it,and at the time it was graphically brilliant and awesome gameplay.....p.s .just watched the paperboy video...better than i remembered it to be.....quality blog my friend...detective cartwheel frog reunion guitar tip hat thumbs up shimmy sheep transport
Sunday, The 1980's was special to me and I even love a lot of the 80's music to this dayyay

How much fun was it to be so young and so carefreedancing

I remember Playing arcade games, building snow men, climbing trees, roller skating, Ice skating, skateboarding which I was rubbish at doh rolling on the floor laughing hind n seek, building a tree house, dressing up for Halloween and going trick or treating, camping etc

Have a lovely evening wine


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None of that jazz for me!!

I like plain ol' Solitaire with a 3 card flip!
Yeah I remember . There wasent a week without going to the fair to play them, specialty this lupin game. A video film that you had to push the direction pad at the right time, if not you were dead.rolling on the floor laughing

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