80's arcade video games

http://limelightdaily.com/23-brutally-tough-80s-arcade-games-tb/?utm_tracking=23

the green guys aren't really a problem. as you can see on the left one of them starting it's attack run. it's slow and mostly vertical and he actually try's to get fancy about it. but it's the purple guys that always worried me. they swing much wider. in the beginning the purple ones will send one scout at a time on one of the ends, just to try to rattle you a little. almost like it's showing off. and the red guys they think they're all badass because they fly in formation with the yellow guy. but when the red guys come the purple guys don't go after you. presumably because they want to let the flagship have it's moment.

it's when the green guys end up forcing you into a corner and the alien horde starts moving the opposite way and the purple guys get evil. and they make what seems like a vertical dive and then slingshot while you're trapped in the corner, like they are defying the laws of gravity, and sweep horizontally across and kamikaze.

[Piney Boy]

Galaxian. I played that one. I was more a Galaga fan.

[Piney Boy]

Some of my favorites from that site:

[Fresno Bob]

Tempest was my favorite 80's video game

[revo]

My favorite early 1980s games were Defender, Joust, Spy Hunter and Elevator Action. My favorite late 1980s games were Smash TV & Heavy Barrel.

I used to play Smash TV with a college buddy at the arcade in our student union building; when the game came out for the XBox 20 years later, we finally completed it!

[TranaGreg]

very early 80's, I spent a LOT of quarters on Space Invaders & Ms. Pac-man. Got to the point where I had to get the high score on every Ms. Pac-man machine I came across.

[Riff Raff]

https://archive.org/details/internetarcade

[Riff Raff]

For my 12th birthday (1987) my 10 year old sister gave me $10 in quarters. Unrolled, packed neatly in two rows in a box.

A birthday gift I remember over all others.

[swampdragon]

http://limelightdaily.com/23-brutall...tm_tracking=23

That was great - I played a ton of GORF but I was the Carnival master at 2 arcades (but no one cared)

Couldn't play Robotron worth a damn and we all envyed the fat kid that could.

My buddy was the Tempest master

[Igor]

Cool chain of bars in Ohio, craft beer, and if your drinking the games are free. Love me some Gauntlet.

http://www.16-bitbar.com/cleveland

[Piney Boy]

https://archive.org/details/internetarcade

We all know you play Journey on that site.

[griswold]

Cool chain of bars in Ohio, craft beer, and if your drinking the games are free. Love me some Gauntlet.

http://www.16-bitbar.com/cleveland

This looks awesome! I might have to head up there!

[revo]

Cool chain of bars in Ohio, craft beer, and if your drinking the games are free. Love me some Gauntlet.

http://www.16-bitbar.com/cleveland

That's awesome.

I don't know about where you guys grew up, but in Brooklyn we had some arcades of course, but mainly you'd find arcade games at the local pizza place, convenience/drug store, and in the case of Gauntlet in the summer of '86, at a local car service dispatcher. I spent many a quarter at that place!

Your life force is running out!

[MrFurious]

Cool chain of bars in Ohio, craft beer, and if your drinking the games are free. Love me some Gauntlet.

http://www.16-bitbar.com/cleveland

There is one of these near me in Dallas as well. All the games are free play, but you pay a $10 cover charge. They serve beer and food as well.

My parents bowled when the video game craze was hitting big so I would find ways to get change save up quarters all week to take with me to the arcade at the bowling alley. There were about 10 games in the arcade, pretty good for a bowling alley. I rarely saw my parents until it was time to leave. There were several other kids who usually went on the same night. It was alot of fun. We would alternate playing games and eating sugar out of the little packets at the snack bar. Good times.

[baldgriff]

Red warrior needs food - badly!

Yum!!