Mom!!! Do you have any quarters?

[Lusche]

Was only able to play that games for a short time in my youth. Then they changed the law and limited arcade games to the actual arcades, which are off limits to minors over here. 

[guncrasher]

I still remember the first time I played asteroids.  it was so much fun.  at .25 cents it was expensive but I spend as much money as I could on it.  galaga was another great game along with centipede.


semp

[The Fugitive]

I think I still have 8 games here. NBA JAM, Rampart, Xmen, Super Mario World, Super Tennis, Fzero, Thunder Shark, Centipede, and a crappy baseball game. Use to work for a vending company and when they "upgraded" a game they would buy a kit that came with a board, graphics and controls. We'd clean and reuse the cabinets and they would throw the boards away.  We would take turns being the trash can 

Have an 8 foot single piece slate pool table, juke box, and HAD a pinball (Amazon Hunt). Kids birthday parties were ALWAYS a hit at our house as we had our own arcade!  LOL!

[USAFCAPcTSgt]

I remember when arcades switched to tokens.  Many arcades used to have 8 tokens for a dollar.  Most games were one token to play with the newest games at 2 tokens a single play.

Some arcades used to give out 50 tokens for a 5 dollar bill in the token machine.  If you had a 10 dollar bill, then you gave it to the game attendant and he or she would give you 120 tokens.

Have you ever seen a 10 year old kid trying to stuff 120 tokens in his little pockets?  He usually winded up making quick friends at the arcade.

[DREDIOCK]

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 

Here
http://www.thepinballcompany.com/search.aspx?find=asteroids

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Here
http://www.thepinballcompany.com/search.aspx?find=asteroids

The one and only model (for me) is the table model. That's the one I used to play as a kid... Cool site though.

[DREDIOCK]

This.

The year. About 1981. A female friend and I used to hang out at this bar (were really just friends) get drunk drinking  beer shots of JD, flaming shots of Sambuka on top of whatever else we ate or smoked on a given night.

One night we were both tripping on some double barrel white mesc and between drinking and commenting on how the walls were breathing we played this game. As a goof we tried something different. She took on flipper, and I the other. The experience was wild and amazing. Its as if each of us and the machine were all joined as one with the flippers being extensions of our fingers. We turned the score over on the first ball!  Something I've never done before or since.




We lost contact with one another a few months after that as she, and another one of our friends decided to delve further into the more addictive drugs of heroine and started shooting up everything else. Something I was against. Not wanting to go there. I walked away.

We'd lost touch and only met up a couple more times after that after she got clean. Unfortunately her life was cut short by an impatient truck driver who decided to cross the solid line and pass just as she was making a left turn to pull into a parking lot and proceeded to smash into her crushing her in her car against a telephone pole.

Anyway. That night on that machine is one of the fondest memories I'll ever have

[VonMessa]

Tron 

[Kuhn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HHRCA6CS8k

[Wiley]

Tron... Joust... TMNT... Asteroids... Choplifter... Operation Wolf...

I am also ashamed to admit that I was a Street Fighter 2 junkie...

Wiley.

[Volron]

Let's see...

I still have my NES and SNES.  NES is temperamental, but I can still get it to work.  SNES still fires up right off.

NES:
Mega Man 2-6
Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt
Mario 2
Mario 3
Guerilla War
Marble Madness
Legend of Zelda
The Adventure of Link
1942
1943
Commando
Ikari Warrior's (I am unsure if I still have these or not. I believe I have 1 and 2, but REALLY unsure bout 3)
R.C. Pro-am (I am unsure if I still have it or not)
Tecmo Bowl
Tecmo Super Bowl
Top Gun

Played but don't own:
Back to the Future
Caveman Games
Contra
Rampart
Tiger Heli
Twin Cobra
Sky Shark
Spy Hunter
Super Sprint

SNES:
U.N. Squadron
Super Mario All Stars
Super Mario World
Super Mario Kart
Super Scope 6
F-Zero (I honestly do not remember if I still have this one or not.  I'd have to dig, but ballz to that. At the very least, I've played it quite a bit)
Star Fox
P.T.O. II: Pacific Theater of Operations

Played but don't own:
Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf
A.S.P. Air Strike Patrol
Doom (I played Doom on the SNES to see what the difference was, and that I didn't have the full thing on PC.  Was disappointed with music)
Earthworm Jim 1/2
The Hunt for Red October
Mario is Missing
MechWarrior
MechWarrior 3050 (I can't remember WHICH of these two I played, but I know I played one of them if not both)
Micro Machines
Operation Europe: Path to Victory (This game got me started on strategy games, big time)
Pilot Wings (Wish I could of played this one more often, even own it. I found it quite fun)
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Future's Past
Super Battletank: War in the Gulf
Super Star Wars (all 3 of them)
Tom and Jerry

Wing Commander
Wing Commander: The Secret Missions  (both I really wish I had purchased  )

Wings 2: Aces High  (when I first saw the commercial for Aces High, it instantly made me thing back to this game )
Rampart


Everything still works.   Well, aside from my NES giving me the 8bit middle finger now and again.

Arcade wise, oh boy, Galaxian, Galaga and Asteroids, definitely.  Afterburner, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Rampart, and so many other's I can no longer remember the names too.

Damn you all!!!  Now I wanna pull all that stuff out and set it up.  And damn well would, if I had the bloody space to do it.

[Mickey1992]

I have a Ms. Pacman (mostly for the Mrs.), a Donkey Kong Jr. (with the DK and DK3 boards to swap out), and the 1992 Data East Star Wars pinball.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Can't believe so few of you know Gravitar which is IMO a huge classic.

[Slate]

Can't believe so few of you know Gravitar which is IMO a huge classic.

   Forgot about that one. Loved it too.

[hyzer]

Must have been around 1978 or so, stationed at Ft. Campbell Ky.  There was a bar just south of the base on 41A where me and a buddy use to drink a bit and play Space Wars.  I can't even image how much money we feed that machine.