I don't know how many can see this news link from January 1982 since it's on facebook. A blast from the past.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2086880942129322

I loved that game and even I got hooked on it.

 

The only game I was hooked on was Galaga. At that time you could only play it at arcades, I played the game so much (25 cents a game). I eventually became the high score on the machine at our local arcade, so my name was plastered in lights, lol. It was quite the feat to be the high score user on a machine with your name listed on it. Once I reached that point I stopped playing.

 

Still have this!

 

Asteroids was my game in college. Our unofficial school (University of Washington) hangout was Goldie's on 45th.

They used to have a weekly high score prize of $50. My friends and I bought a lot of beer and played a lot of foosball with that money.

 

When I was in about seventh grade I can remember playing pac-man on Atari for hours on end with my buddy. He had an 8 track and we would listen to VH and JGeils playing over and over while playing lol.

 

We played Asteroids and Space Invaders and Missile Command too.

 

Galaga was my choice in the arcade.

In college, there was a game "Track and Field" that allowed four people to play at a time so that was a choice. Gauntlet was another 4 person game.

Two player cooperative - Silkworm.

 

Galaga was a favorite of mine too. Wife got me an arcade version of it for the basement a few years back.

 

I was never very good at Pac Man. I enjoyed Galaga but only when the venue did not have a Dig-Dug machine, my addiction of choice. I was a young adult when all these video games came out so my play was limited more by time than quarters.

I've always preferred a good pinball table to video games, especially since I could get some of the video game experience at home, first on our Atari 2600 and later on my Commodore 128.

 

Rick liked video games. Still does. He played some pacman. We've had various gaming consoles. Back in the day the graphics were little stick people playing baseball.

He still has gaming consoles. Playstation 4 and 5. He likes the driving games, and some of the violent stuff too. He only plays a limited time, generally later in the evening for an hour or so.