Remembering 80s Arcade Games

The funniest thing triggered some great oldbut it was far in the 60s and what I am really fond
memories of 80s arcade games . Last night I wentof are the memories of actually going to an arcade in
to a store, a 24-hour convenience one, to get aorder to play games. Real arcade with a change
cigarette lighter and asked for the differencemachine only apart from the stand alone, full sized
between Bic lighters and Scripto lighters.games with their handles and buttons, such as
Unexpectedly the boy on shift was helpful and kindAsteroids, and Donkey Kong, Pac Man and Mr. Pac
enough to inform me that as per their reputation theMan.As there was nowhere else to go after school
Bic works much better. That's when I made myactually, because apart from the malls that e didn't
decision to go for the good old, never failing Bic.Thatlike t hang into, the 80s arcades games were the
is how I remembered an old TV ad with Peggyonly places for under 21-year-olds. And we devoted
Fleming. And I told the kid about it, about her skatingboth ourselves and our free time to spending every
on a Bic pen attached to the blade of her skate andlast quarter there.There was one 80s arcade game
after a round on the ice the pen was still writing.that I liked much more than the others. It was called
Obviously that story I told him made him calculateQuix and I never managed to find a copy of it again,
quickly, and he made me laugh with the questionneither in the internet, nor on a CD-R. The task was
asking if that was back in the fifties. But he wasn'tto part off pieces of a huge rectangle that was on
scoffing, on the contrary, he actually confessed thatthe screen, using a stylus controlled by the joystick,
he would have loved it to be born and raised in thisavoiding the electrical sparks/fuses moving around,
age, in the time when things have been new andbecause in case they get to you, your score returns
cheap as the first video games and evento zero and you start from the beginning. It was just
McDonald's.This on is turn made me think about thea simple game or people who were not fond of all
things we had as children and how very few kidsthe killing and shooting and in was much easier to
nowadays will consider them worthy to even look at.move in the limited 2D space.But in fact I still have a
Unlike the twenty-something generation now thatplace in my heart for the times (a few months only)
only know computers and the latest video consoles,that I was totally addicted to the great Space
I've experienced first hand how the 80s arcadeInvaders. Boy, the more I think about it the more I
games were played, and how they paved the roadrealize just how much I loved those 80s arcade
for PC games and the portable handheld games.It isgames.Morgan Hamilton offers expert advice and
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