Video Games of the 70’s and 80’s – what a blast!

It has been a while since we took a long walk down memory lane so this week let’s take that walk.  Follow me down the path to…

 Favorite video games from the 70’s and 80’s

Some that I can remember in no particular order:

• Pong
• Space Invaders
• Missile Command
• Moon Patrol
• Battelzone
• Tron
• Defender
• Asteroids
• Tempest
• Pac Man
• Ms. Pac Man
• Centipede
• Frogger
• Joust
• Donkey Kong (I, II, III and Jr)
• Mario Bros
• Super Mario Bros
• Galaga
• Dragons’ Lair (using laser disc)

 In addition to the arcade and home video gaming systems I should also mention the primitive hand held football and baseball games that were a very popular time waster.  In the same category, I also remember air hockey, foosball and the foosball-like hockey game pitting the USA vs. the USSR.  Before video games became popular I remember playing pin ball machines before they developed electronic scoring.  I can’t remember any particular names but I spent a lot of loose change on those too!

 It might have been a waste of time, but playing those games burned off a little boredom and maybe helped studying – once you actually got down to it.

Next week back to business after our video game break.

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