SaminVA
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What was your favorite game as a kid and do you own one know!!
Wow, you guy's are making me feel old. Well sense I am now 51, boy dose time fly, I graduated high school in 1976 so I was around when all video games were new. But when I was a kid we didn't have arcades, well none that I knew of anyway. The first coin op games I played were electromechanical games. Most all I came in contact with was in Department stores like Grant's ,later called Grant City and a local store called Kings. Grants had one of my favorite games a Helicopter Simulator which I wish I had one but I don't. I don't remember the names but their was a car game that had a paper roller with the road on it and you would steer the car on the paper and try to keep it on the road. Their was a jet airplane game, the flight yoke moved a plane right or left and you would shoot at planes being projected on the back ground. Then their was the sub game where you would shoot at ships,not the video one, that came later with the black and white video games. I still remember Boot Hill. But if you are talking about video games in a real arcade, a place with wall to wall games I would say the first game I always looked for and went to first was Red Baron. I loved that game. I was so sad the day I went in the arcade and it was gone. No I don't have a Red Baron. I almost found one but it sold before I got their and I haven't found one close by sense. I guess my next favorite game was SEGA Star Trek and I have 3 of them. As for laser games I always loved MACH 3 and I have 2, upright and cockpit. It's hard to pick 1 favorite. I like them all.
Wow, you guy's are making me feel old. Well sense I am now 51, boy dose time fly, I graduated high school in 1976 so I was around when all video games were new. But when I was a kid we didn't have arcades, well none that I knew of anyway. The first coin op games I played were electromechanical games. Most all I came in contact with was in Department stores like Grant's ,later called Grant City and a local store called Kings. Grants had one of my favorite games a Helicopter Simulator which I wish I had one but I don't. I don't remember the names but their was a car game that had a paper roller with the road on it and you would steer the car on the paper and try to keep it on the road. Their was a jet airplane game, the flight yoke moved a plane right or left and you would shoot at planes being projected on the back ground. Then their was the sub game where you would shoot at ships,not the video one, that came later with the black and white video games. I still remember Boot Hill. But if you are talking about video games in a real arcade, a place with wall to wall games I would say the first game I always looked for and went to first was Red Baron. I loved that game. I was so sad the day I went in the arcade and it was gone. No I don't have a Red Baron. I almost found one but it sold before I got their and I haven't found one close by sense. I guess my next favorite game was SEGA Star Trek and I have 3 of them. As for laser games I always loved MACH 3 and I have 2, upright and cockpit. It's hard to pick 1 favorite. I like them all.
