Mom!!! Do you have any quarters?

[USAFCAPcTSgt]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWevidSFyjY

Thoese were the days.  Happily spending hundreds of dollars of your parents money playing coin operated 8 bit video games.

Until, you hit 16 and your parents say it's time to get a job.

When you did get a job, then you had more money to waste.


Sure do miss the 80's.

Every game shown, I know I played.  A few have taken hundreds of dollars from me over the past 4 decades playing.

Pac Man Family
Donkey Kong Family
Mario Brothers Family
Galaga
Star Wars Family
Dig Dug
Mr Do Family
Tempest
Defender
Joust
Karate Champ
Commando
Ikari Warriors
Bad Dudes
Double Dragon
1942
1943
Two Tigers
Time Pilot
Asteroids
Afterburner
Missile Command
Tron Family
Popeye
Operation Wolf
Crossbow
Gauntlet
Space Ace
Dragon's Lair
Xevious
Q-Bert
Goonies
Pole Position
Spy Hunter
Moon Patrol
Galaxian
Kung Fu
Ye Air Kung Fu
Sub Hunter
Many more that have been forgotten. 

[uptown]

Asteroids, Joust, and Galaxian were my favorites. To this day I'd like to find and old sit down asteroids game for the basement. That would be cool 

[Tec]

Contra and Ghosts and Goblins were my two favorites.

Even though it missed the 80s by just a hair did anyone else ever play the Time Traveler machine by Sega?  It was a dollar when everything else was still a quarter. It was tough and the game play wasn't all that great, but man was it cool.  

[Zacherof]

I would play rolling thunder, dig-dug, 1942, and mappy for hours. Even tho the year was 2005, they were just plain fun.  Wish they had more arcades

[rpm]

The greatest arcade game I ever played was a helicopter sim with great graphics like Dragon's Lair had. You had a collective, cyclic and pedals. It was hard as heck to fly and you had a guy screaming commands at you as you flew NOE thru New York City, desert canyons, jungles, ect. I think it was called Cobra Command. It was expensive to play, too. $2 per credit, but it was worth it.

[icepac]

I had an ex-girlfriend from 20 years ago sneak up behind me in the grocery store, put her hand over her mouth and say "prepare to qualify" in a perfect imitation of the muffled female voice in "pole position".

In hindsight, I should have married that one.

[ROC]

Ahhhh High School, worked in a pizza parlor at night.  Closed it up and we all cracked open the beer and unlocked the coin boxes in the arcade. Played all night.
Joust, paperboy, q-bert, frogger, man those were fun times. 

[MrGeezer]

When I was a kid we had a couple of flying arcade games and that was it outside of foosball and pinball.  I was already in college by the time Pacman came out.

It was INSANE before that.  We went outside and played civil war, robin hood, hide & go seek, kick the can, tag, and a quarter was A LOT of money back then.  Getting them from our parents?  GOOD LUCK on that.

[DubiousKB]

We went outside and played civil war, robin hood, hide & go seek, kick the can, tag, and a quarter was A LOT of money back then.  Getting them from our parents?  GOOD LUCK on that.

  I'm under 30 and I still played half those "outdoor" games!     Kick the can, man I can remember many a afternoon blazing through backyards to boot that can as hard as possible.  

Also, my older brother and I, being farmer kids, drilled out a quarter and tied fishing line to it and played for a few weeks before getting busted by the store owner...   we weren't allowed back to purchase swedish berries for a few months..  

[Slate]

  I still will pop on the PC versions of Pacman and Asteroids. 



http://www.play.vg/games/4-Asteroids.html

[mbailey]

Wow, great memorys  

Loved Tony Stewarts Offroad
Paperboy
Tapper  
Star Wars (the sit down in the  booth version)
Dig Dug
Joust
Galaga


And when you were out of quarters, there was always Coleco Head to Head Football 

[jeep00]

How I hated Dragon's Lair.....

[Waldo]

 Space invaders 

[MrRiplEy[H]]

  I still will pop on the PC versions of Pacman and Asteroids. 



http://www.play.vg/games/4-Asteroids.html

I used to play Asteroids, Dig-Dug, Super Galaga, Centipede, Gravitar, Bubble Bobble etc. on Mame32 after the coin ops disappeared. Gravitar and Asteroids were my all time favourites, my wife is crazy about BubbleBobble etc and we used to play them on 2 player mode.

[Saxman]

I largely missed the 80s arcade games except for the ones that were still in the arcades in the 90s. I mainly played:

The Simpsons
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Dungeons and Dragons: Tower of Doom (the Elf chick was pretty hot when you're 13)
Primal Rage
Mortal Kombat 1 and 2
Afterburner

And like I said, some of the 80s-era cabinets were still around in the 90s, so I did play some of those as well (Star Wars stands out most prominently).