re: 80s Arcade Throwback Thread

Excite Bike every morning before school while waiting for bus

Dig Dug, Donkey Kong, Centipede and of course PacMan. Right off campus in the early - mid 80s. Best of times. Hit up Round the Corner, Library, Louie's, Godfather's, Bengal, etc. Before Chimes...

One of my all time favorite games- Pole Position

Watch the world record in Pole Position

Pole Position 2

Gauntlet and virtua fighter.

Great thread!

I miss arcades so much. They were awesome.


Dig Dug I played at a Shakey's pizza that was here in town at the time. That and Joust.


Donkey Kong was a big part. Played it at a place called Pat O'Carroll's.

The main arcade was in the mall, it was called the Land of Oz. I remember playing Zaxxon there, Karate Champ, Moon Patrol, Star Wars, a game where you were in a tank driving it around.... Battle Zone?

Dang Dragon's Lair always sucked me in because it was a "cartoon." That game was so hard. Yet you'd stand there and dump in a bunch of dollars in quarters.


Gauntlet (elf shot the food!). Then you'd go next door and get a slice of pizza and a coke, even if it was a Sprite.


Played the heck out of Pac Man at a little convenience store right across the street from Prien Lake Park.


Tron at the local skating rink. I think I spent more time playing Tron while wearing my skates than I did actually skating. I loved that game. The light cycles!

Good times.

Mat Mania
Double Dragon
Shinobi
Operation: Wolf
10-Yard Fight
Kung Fu Master
Karate Champ
Hie-Ar Kung Fun
Punch-Out!!
Ring King
TRON
Jungle Hunt

My grandma used to give me 10$ when she went shopping in the montgomery mall...this was the 90s but I loved pacman and galaga. Cruisin USA for the newer game but Galaga was my main shite

I owned Spyhunter.

Don't think this is 80's but I could walk into any arcade, pop in my two quarters and play Street Fighter 2 all night on 2 quarters. No one could beat me.

Won a few Tecmo Bowl tournaments back then as well.

And I could play Tetris until it stopped getting faster.

Galaga
Missile Command
Tron

Ours was next to a Godfathers Pizza. There was a dark empty field nearby for mugging with the 8th grade girlfriend. It was like paradise for this sun-britches and Union Jack tee shirt wearing cheeseball.