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heebeegeebee

Any old-school gamers here got any favorite pre-NES era games? I consider anything up until about 1983 or '84 to be from the golden age. Here's a few of my favorites:

Arcade: Q-Bert/Kangaroo/Dig Dug
Apple II: Sneakers/Dungeon Campaign/Swashbuckler
Atari 2600: Adventure/Stampede/Wizard of Wor
C-64: Beamrider/Jumpman/Tir Na Nog
Intellivision: Lock N'Chase/Venture
and of course, Pong in any 2-player form and any type of Pacman ftw!

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TKOWL

the nes is part of the golden age. they owned 90% of the game market back then and Nintendo Power was the magazine with the most subscriptions EVER. so i think the NES is also part of this age

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heebeegeebee

ryanknight717 wrote:

the nes is part of the golden age. they owned 90% of the game market back then and Nintendo Power was the magazine with the most subscriptions EVER. so i think the NES is also part of this age

Well, yeah Nintendo was around, but they had only made a few arcade games during the 25 year span before the NES console came out. And it took a couple years for that to be able to bring the market back from the '83 crash. It's more like silver age. I'm refering to the first big boom of arcades and primitive consoles.

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DjPhatskillz

here are some of my favorites but really there are sooo many:
arcade: Grobda, Mappy, Bosconian, Pacman, Dig Dug, Dig Dug II (its from 1985 but i would say it still counts) Galaga, Defender, Tron, 1942, Satan's Hollow, Star Force and so so so many others...

atari 2600: Pit Fall, Yar's Reveng, Quadrun, Combat, Caverns Of Mars, River Raid just to name a few.

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cheetahman91

Anything made by Namco or Activison are my favorites.

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Arcade: Congo Bongo, Dig Dug, and others [Sega Genesis Collection, Namco Museum (various), etc...]
Intellivision: Shark! Shark!, Thin Ice, Thunder Castle [Intellivision Lives!]
Atari 2600: Keystone Kapers, Pressure Cooker, Laser Blast, Kabobber, Thwocker, Dolphin, Stampede [Activision Anthology]

To each their own

DjPhatskillz

do you get down with any Williams/midway games, cheetahman?

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cheetahman91

DjPhatskillz wrote:

do you get down with any Williams/midway games, cheetahman?

Heck yeah! 2nd favorite arcade golden age game maker besides Namco!

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DjPhatskillz

thats exactly how i feel. namco is just too on top of it, they are totally number 1 in my book.

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well mt first console was an atari 2600. Never played with the computers or the other consoles (intellivision, collecovision, etc.)

Atari 2600 - Pac man (yeah I thought it was ok), Atari video cube, Taz, Jungle Hunt, Pitfall, Breakout! E.T (jk)
Arcade: Ms Pac man, Dig dug, space invaders, donkey kong.

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