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Originally Posted by STinLA
Yar's Revenge!!!!!! Definitely.
And anyone remember "Space Shuttle" for the Atari 2600? Led you through all phases from launch, to orbit, to docking with a space station, to deorbit burn, to landing. Loved that game.
A couple months ago I went to the Retro Gaming Expo which featured old school cabinet arcade games like PacMac and Dig Dug and people selling 80s era console games. They also had those video games that were built into a small table with a glass top that you played looking down from above.
Never played Space Shuttle, but I'm not sure I would have been the right age for it... probably wouldn't have had the patience at eight years old. The junior-high version of me would have enjoyed that to no end, though. (As it is, I spent many of my high school hours on a game called Falcon, which was a flight simulator of an F-16.)
As for those cabinets, my friends and I rented a vacation place near Tahoe a few years ago. Typical VRBO type of listing, which advertised a kids' room with a video game center. We just figured it would be some console system, and made an agreement to limit the number of hours the kids spend on there.
But noooooo. Turns out, it was a customized cabinet that had about 30 classic arcade games from the 1980s. I guess technology is such that you can pack dozens of games into the space that would have contained just one game 35 years ago. So we had titles like Joust, Dig Dug, Q-Bert, Galaga, Pole Position, Centipede – roughly that era of games. The kids had no interest. The adults had to pry themselves away from it.