favourite old school arcade game is probably galaga:
or frogger:
favourite newer school arcade game was definitely r-type:
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That sounds like Defender -- although that wasn't using vector graphics, just a conventional (but sparse) bit-mapped display. The aliens ("landers") come down and carry the "humans" (which consist of about a dozen pixels) away to the top of the screen; and if they succeed, they turn into mutants. Other aliens were like pods that burst open into loads of tiny spores when hit .....Fond pub memories of Pacman, frogger, galaxians, missile command, tank commander (I think, all green vector graphics), asteroids, Star Wars, and another whose name escapes me but it was also vector graphics and you had to blast the aliens in a left/right scrolling landscape before they could come down and abduct your people.
That sounds like Defender -- although that wasn't using vector graphics, just a conventional (nut sparse) bit-mapped display. The aliens ("landers") come down and carry the "humans" (which consist of about a dozen pixels) away to the top of the screen; and if they succeed, they turn into mutants. Other aliens were like pods that burst open into loads of tiny spores when hit .....
haha! chuck rock and rick dangerous!!! i actually had rick dangerous as my avatar a little while ago.
another word and flashback for the amiga/snes were amazing too.
and cannon fodder!
i loved mortal kombat but i think mk 2 was the ultimate in that series with all the cool fatalities and characters.
The first computer game I can recall playing was Elite on the BBC computers at school.
Other old time faves were Frogger,Space Invaders, Asteroids and Chucky Egg.
Those are the games which stick in my mind the most though I'm sure there are plenty of others I have forgotten about.
Wasn't Sinistar that one with the terrifying ermm...Sinistar that randomly appeared in front of your ship or something?