I-Mockery, one of the best gaming-related websites on the internet, has a great list of the 50 greatest arcade consoles ever made. For those of you too young to remember the glory days of the arcade, a console is this big box that has a video game inside. Just one video game, mind you. Despite being the size of a wardrobe, there was usually only one or two games inside those giant machines.
It was designed to get your attention and take all your quarters. Once upon a time, they only cost a quarter to play, and you didn’t have to stomp on a giant flashing footpad to get your little guy to do stuff and kill things. It was just you, a 64-oz soda, a bag full of money you were SUPPOSED to do your laundry with, and Donkey Kong.
Of course, since I’m only in my mid-20s, I missed most of the great arcade days, but several of those machines ate a lot of my money, like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cabinet, anything you had so sit on, and the classic cocktail table design of Ms. Pac-Man that they used to have in my neighborhood Pizza Hut. I miss that game.
What was your favorite arcade game back in the day?
H/T: Destructoid
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Oh gawd, I spent more quarters than you can imagine in arcades back in the early-to-mid '80s. Donkey Kong, Ms. Pac-Man, Pac-Man, Asteroids, Space Invaders, X-Men on occasion, and I can't even remember some of the names. Pinball machines were (and are) still my fave, but they were hard to find sometimes.
Posted by: Jade | January 14th, 2008 10:37 pm |