What was the video game you were best at as a kid?
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Originally posted by p08: So no one had an Odyssey game console? We played pong on it and other games involving a white dot. Had screens that stuck to the TV with static cling. 1972 I was 8. http://mrglitchsreviews.blogsp...agnavox-odyssey.html
Haha! What a blast. Our family had that when I was a youngun.
January 11, 2022, 06:58 PM
lkdr1989
As a kid, we couldn't afford any console/video games, in fact it wasn't until about 1990 that we got a TV and that was only because my grandparents gave us a VCR.
Earliest, I ever played a video game, was on my Dad's Tandy TRS-80 - it was knockoff version of Space Invaders on the floppy disc.
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January 11, 2022, 07:27 PM
Ronin1069
Wow.
My games were Contra and Dig Dug…I was really good at those.
I also enjoyed the ‘pattern’ games; specifically Dragon’s Lair.
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January 11, 2022, 07:43 PM
Jimbo Jones
Centipede and Zaxxon
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January 11, 2022, 11:43 PM
83v45magna
Galaga, hands down.
January 12, 2022, 08:43 PM
divil
Ditto. Galaga.
January 12, 2022, 09:12 PM
SR025
Super Mario Bros 3
January 12, 2022, 09:24 PM
smschulz
Pinball & Foosball is as close as I got as a kid.
January 13, 2022, 08:47 AM
Nickelsig229
I think it was 1993 when computer gammer magazine had to create the award called "Online multiplayer game of the year" for a game called CYBERSTRIKE.
It was a mech game which had equal parts situational awareness, skill, strategy and tactics. It was four teams of four pods (aka mech) fighting over a grid map.
It started on GEnie moved to AOL durring its height and then on to play.net which was owned by the game devs.
Durring the peak of the game I was the top player statistically however there were two maybe three others who I would consider my equal.
30 years later my college friends and I still talk about the game.
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January 16, 2022, 07:42 PM
AUTiger89
Arcade: Joust Console: Pitfall PC: Prince of Persia
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January 16, 2022, 11:50 PM
the Hudge
Tempest.
January 17, 2022, 07:38 AM
.38supersig
Zelda.
January 17, 2022, 08:36 AM
CoastieLT
Karate Champ arcade game
January 17, 2022, 09:59 AM
mr kablammo
I suppose that Battlezone was the one I did best.
I really liked Galaxian. 'Bugs, Mr Rico...' sometimes I think about buying a Galaxian machine.
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January 17, 2022, 11:24 AM
jhe888
Pong was the first one out when I was really a kid.
After that Space Invaders and Asteroids.
I liked Asteroids, but I wasn't really good at it.
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January 17, 2022, 01:33 PM
Leemur
Biplanes mode of Combat! for the Atari 2600 and the original Mario Kart.
January 17, 2022, 03:01 PM
Chris17404
Enduro on the Atari 2600!
January 17, 2022, 05:02 PM
Prefontaine
Galaga, and the original stand up Star Wars game. That game came out and there was a line at my arcade. Red5 standing by.
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January 17, 2022, 05:08 PM
Pyker
Another game I was pretty good at was Desert Strike and it's sequels.
