In the 80’s, I spent every lunch hour for two months playing an arcade game called Mad Planets. It was a variation of Asteroids, but for some reason I found it very addicting. I pumped a lot of quarters into it, to the point of getting tendonitis in my right arm.
Anybody else care to share tales of misspent youth at the arcades? What game did you play the most?
I used to be quite good at Donkey Kong.
And it’s a slightly different type of arcade game, but on the rare occasions I can find it, I still kick everyone’s ass at Whack-A-Mole.
A pinball game named Gorgar. It was the first talking machine It would start off by saying"Me Gorgar, me Mean. It also had an electronic heartbeat sound that would get faster as the game went along. What a fantastic pinball game. If someone recreated it for the computer I’d buy it in a heartbeat.
Keith
Centipede.
There was one called Pleides that my friends and I would play for hours.
There was another one, that featured a talking alien (I recall he would say “So, a creature for my amusement. Prepare for battle!”), but I can’t remember the name of it. (Anybody know?)
Centipede. It was the only one where I could last long enough to get my quarter’s worth. Have it on Atari 2600, but it’s not the same without that track ball.
Good topic, btw.
Missile Command was cool.
I had a real zen mastery of Centipede. Those bugs wanted to get shot.
Ms. Pac-Man. even still have the hand held version.
Tempest, and Space Invaders.
Do I admit that I used to also play Tron and…Pong?
Oh yeah, forgot that one. Probably could have paid for college with all the money I put into that one!
I loved…
Pac-Man
Super Pac-Man
Ms. Pac-Man
Crazy Climber
Frogger
Qix
Burger Time
Donkey Kong
And please help me. I loved a game in which you were a paint roller and had to outline blocks within a larger block. Once you outlined them, they would be colored in. I can’t remember much else about it. Does anyone remember this game, and more importantly, what its name is?
Robotron 2084. Still is- I can’t pass a Robotron machine without trying to save the human race.
I also like Punch Out! (in fact, I own it) and 720, but I think that they’re considered “newer classics”.
Galaga
Pac Man
Ms. Pac Man
I still play Galaga every chance I get and I still get one of the highest scores. 
On pac man and ms. pac man I used to play both so much that I knew the pattern of the game and ALWAYS won. I used to have all three in the table top versions also.
I think it was called Warriors. You needed to have two players, and they were fighting each other with these BF swords, two-handed, like samurai swords. It was a best of five match, I think.
Star Wars
Arkanoid
Ms. Pac Man
There was also an Empire Strikes Back game. I’ve only seen one, and it didn’t last long. Same vector graphics as the first Star Wars.
I loved the old Star Wars game, and of course I dropped a small fortune in the original Pac Man, but my favorites were actually pinball machines. Eight Ball Deluxe and Xenon were the tables I played most.
Pole Position
Moon Patrol
Kung Fu
Spy Hunter
I can still usually find these games in the cheap sections of some arcades.
Tempest was my absolute favorite, with Q*Bert and Joust tied for second. I have Q*Bert for my PC now. Woohoo!
Rampage-You got to be the monsters destroying cities. I still play when i’m at the arcade in the back corner with all of the other oldies
My favorites were Robotron, Time Pilot and Berzerk (intruder alert! intruder alert!)
What a cool thread. I wanna go to an arcade now.