Tempest Cab

[JMX]

Saw Tron in the back room once. Tron ffs. my all time fav game.

[Deckard]

I loved Tron - memorising the light cycle patterns and those bloody tank rounds !

Reminds me when I first saw a Discs of Iron cabinet in WSM - thought it was just incredible !

[F-ZeroOne]

I feel like I have been lucky in life with old arcades. I always thought living in Eastbourne meant i missed out on so much gaming stuff back in the 70's and 80's. But it seems I was in the best place. (

Me also. There were a couple holiday camps near me that had some stuff that must have been positively ancient at the time, including what I think was a Taito "Gunfight" (or something very similar (it may have been even older than that). It amazes me to look at release dates for some of the arcade games I played, because as far I was concerned at the time, it was all kind of happening at the same time. You could tell that some things were clearly older than others, but in my memory they're all mixed in together, even though I must have been playing some classics over a period of several years.

[Deckard]

You re right - i think I remember this as my first arcade video game in Blackpool which is 79 apparently -



But then I remember queuing for Space Invaders a year earlier apparently in Quik Save !

All the Williams games blend time wise for me but then they released Defender, Robtron, Joust and Stargate in just 2 years ! Possible the best shortest development time for anything so stellar ever !

Robotron is my Desert Island Discs game by the way

[JMX]

You re right - i think I remember this as my first arcade video game in Blackpool which is 79 apparently -



But then I remember queuing for Space Invaders a year earlier apparently in Quik Save !

All the Williams games blend time wise for me but then they released Defender, Robtron, Joust and Stargate in just 2 years ! Possible the best shortest development time for anything so stellar ever !

Robotron is my Desert Island Discs game by the way

I remember that classic in the local corner shop!
Funnily enough I have just returned (yesterday afternoon) from a long weekend in Bath, what an amazing place, knackered from walking though, and did not see any arcades

[Deckard]

Funny enough I was in Bath visiting family last week - When I was a nipper there were 2 arcades there - the crystal rooms at the top of bath near the Theatre Royal and near the bus stop my mates dads' one owned by the Edwards - they had ALL the williams games within a week of release....happy days !

[skab]

Over here there was never a video arcade game culture. They were treated like gambling machines and hidden in dark over-18 gambling dens, so as a kid in the 80s all we heard about arcade machines was hearsay and some reports in the computer game press in the context of arcade conversions. That's it.

I guess the only times I had the opportunity to play a lot of old arcade machines was at the monthly open house days of our local-ish retro gaming club. I and the wife went there February this year for the first time and have been there nearly every month since. Lots to catch up

Biggest surprise for me was Atari Basketball from 1979. Black and white graphics with clunky animation, big heavy trackballs and somehow surprisingly good gameplay. It feels like I'm the only one who ever played that game there, it gets criminally overlooked, but I somehow really like it.

No Tempest in their collection, though. The only Atari vector game there is a cute cocktail Asteroids, and I still suck at it...