happyfilmluvguy
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Video games have become so popular within the last decade. They've also become so advanced that they try to take realism to a new level. But video games weren't always so advanced, full of secret codes and cheats, and originally they didn't even have a handheld controller.
When I was in middle school, there was an arcade just a couple blocks from my house. It's still there. I used to go there every so often and play the big boxy 80s arcade games like Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, those alien shoot em' up games, and the everloving pinball. At home, I would play Super Mario Brothers, Mortal Kombat, WWF Wrestling and Super Pinball on my Super Nintendo. I never had very many games. I rented more games than I owned. A friend of mine had hundreds of them, though.
At the pizzeria, I'd play Packman on one of those horizontal systems that looked like a table and had little yellow, white and and red buttons. The console had two games, Packman and Space Invaders.
I was never much of a video game person, even though I had a 3 different consoles over the years. But those classic games I once played at the arcade and pizzeria I'll never forget. As much as I enjoyed creating my own wrestlers on my N64, or skateboarding around as Tony Hawk in his first Playstation game, there was just something about Super NES and the arcade that I enjoyed. I still need to get a new Super Nintendo.
So what games do you still play or remember playing, where and on what? Even if you remember PONG, you were there to see the beginning of a gaming era.