Most notorious quarter-eating arcade game

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Battlezone was kinda fun - all those raster-graphic tanks and cubes and pyramids and rockets and a kind of lunar horizon that never, ever, got any closer. Plus you got to stand up against this kind of vision slit so you ended up with a horizontal line on your forehead.

All this and a musical quote from the 1812 overture…

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My favorite feature was the people you could rescue from the jail cells who would then become your sidekicks. Among my friends, the most sought after sidekick was the girl (amazon maybe), aka “The Babe”. We would be like “Yeah! I got the babe to help me kick ass!”

Pretty lame, I know, but we were like twelve…