For those of us who are old enough to have been a part of the video game revolution of the early to mid 80’s, which games were always the hardest for you? Which ones did you never get good at?
The classic 80s arcade games we loved the most Every week we poll people around the office to see what makes them tick. This week we asked which games were their favorites back in the 1980s, when.
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For me, I could never play Asteroids to save my life. I was always overdoing it on the thrust and ramming into the asteroids.
15) Tron & Discs of Tron – 1982 & 1983. For some reason, Tron became the central focal point of our arcade for a long time. Understandably after the film was released, but the machine never moved. The game was pretty tough: I/O Tower, MCP Cone, Battle Tanks, and Light Cycles made up the four levels and each was a big pain in the ass. The 80s are well-known for a lot of things. While the Western home console market was crashing, arcades became a huge cultural mecca for teenagers and cabinets were chirping and whirring to the beat of New Wave punk. Genres of games were being pioneered and new ways to make arcade cabinets brought i. There are 2155 80s arcade game for sale on Etsy, and they cost $37.25 on average. The most common 80s arcade game material is polyester. The most popular color?
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I could also never get the hang of Missile Command. I hardly ever got past the third level. I think this game progressed too fast in its increasing difficulty. By the third level the bombs were dropping so fast and in such high numbers that it was impossible to keep them at bay. I think I actually got to level 5 once. I know from playing the Atari 2600 version there are lots more levels.
As for the games I was good at, I had Pac-Man down pretty well. I had memorized several patterns. I got to the 9th key a few times (the ghosts would no longer turn blue at this point) and I think my score was around 238,000 IIRC. I could also play Galaga for hours and score over a million points (the display reset to zero and rolled over). At this point I had so many ships that I just killed them off so that I could go home. I also got pretty good at Centipede and could beat most of my friends at it.