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I miss the original #Qbert game. Me & my brothers loved playing it together. I was really good at Qbert.
What were some of your fave video games from the #1980s ?
I loved #SegaGenesis & classic #Nintendo consoles. I had #ColecoVision, #Atari & old #RadioShack #Tandy computer games too.
@PhoenixSerenity Oh boy, so many! I loved Rampage and TMNT in the arcade. I was a Genesis kid at home and dug Sonic 1 quite a bit and, for a different pace, The Immortal. On my Atari 2600 it was all about H.E.R.O.
What were your other favs?
@KevinFreitas I loved Tetris, Sonic the Hedgehog, Golden Axe, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Lode Runner, Ms Pac-Man, Mega Man, Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Contra, Donkey Kong & Galaga!
@PhoenixSerenity And they all hold up remarkably well today!
@KevinFreitas I'd love to have a retro gaming night with fellow Gen X 80s gamers!
@PhoenixSerenity I’m down for something like that. Not sure how the mechanics might work via video chat and game emulators but I’m sure the Twitch/retro gaming community already has solutions.
@PhoenixSerenity @KevinFreitas Lode Runner ruled. Played hours of that.
@blueemu @PhoenixSerenity Oh yeah! Played that on my Apple IIe along with Karateka!
@KevinFreitas @PhoenixSerenity omg yup. We had an Apple IIe.
@blueemu @KevinFreitas You lucky bitches!
@blueemu @KevinFreitas I got into fights with my brothers over that game 
@KevinFreitas I LOVED Pole Position in the arcade but had to bring my own pillows to downtown arcade because it was too big for me & I couldn't reach pedals & steering wheel without back pillows 
@PhoenixSerenity Zaxxon in arcade & on #colecovision was the shiz.
@rpardee My brother LOVED that game.
@rpardee @PhoenixSerenity
I loved Zaxxon. The first game to emulate moving in three dimensions!
And I remember the YMBFKM moment when I plugged in the Atari cartridge. They had turned it into a 2D game!
@ohmu @rpardee @PhoenixSerenity There's no way in a million years I don't think you could get anything looking like that 3D motion on the 2600.
In the 1980s, I was a big Williams nerd: Defender, Stargate, Robotron 2084, and Joust. Also had a Tempest and Gorf addiction that lasted a good while too.
@lerxst @rpardee @PhoenixSerenity
You go ahead and tell my inner 8 year old that.
@PhoenixSerenity in the coin op world I loved Bomb Jack. You could get a decent play for a credit and you could get better at it.
At home. I probably spent most time in Repton 3. It had a level editor and it was thrilling to play a level you had made.
@jfrench I remember Bomb Jack but unfamiliar with the other game.
@PhoenixSerenity it looks like there is a Linux port of it http://www.keelhaul.me.uk/krepton/
I don't know how well it holds up nowadays.
@PhoenixSerenity
Respect.
QBert kicked my butt.
My big sis liked qbert. I liked Castlevania and Mario
@ShinyAmygdala I liked playing all of those games.
@PhoenixSerenity I loved Qbert, but only one place in town had it (along with Gauntlet). At home I loved the notoriously hated E.T. as well as Tutankham, Venture, Vanguard, Defender, Joust, and Combat. I also loved Scott Adams's various text adventure games (especially Pirate Adventure and The Count).
@handmade_ghost Defender! I remember getting completely annihilated by my brothers on that game
@PhoenixSerenity I was not awesome at it, but I loved the sounds! 
@handmade_ghost I really sucked at that game but still enjoyed playing it with my brothers.
@PhoenixSerenity I loved watching my brother play games--I used to give him my quarters so I could watch him play Dragon's Lair at the little arcade in the local pizza place. Great memory.
@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party Solaris. very sophisticated for a 2600 game. even has an ending!
@PhoenixSerenity Asteroids, Ms Pacman, Centipede, Moon Patrol, Galaga, Scramble, Xevious, Raiden and other shoot-em-ups!
@Captainobservant Centipede was awesome! I still remember freaking out as the screen filled up before my player died!
@PhoenixSerenity The one I played the most back in the early 80s was Tempest, with occasional forays into the world of Donkey Kong Jr.
I remember feeling a real sense of accomplishment the time I posted the top score on Tempest at the arcade on Bank Street in Ottawa.
:EA DATA. SF: Getting the two ships in Galaga felt so good.
I enjoyed Joust but was terrible at it.
Same with Tempest.
I loved BattleZone when I could find an arcade with it.
@PhoenixSerenity Centipede, Battlezone, Tempeset. I learned that if you can't have fun losing, it's not a game.
@PhoenixSerenity You know, my sister and I really loved Jungle Hunt on the Commodore 64. It’s pretty racist, so I don’t recommend it.
Another favorite was Munch Man on the Texas Instrument TI-99/4A. It’s a PAC Man clone and we loved to turn the sound up on the dying sound: Boooooo DUNG! 
I purchased a cartridge on eBay a while back but have not been succcessful in getting the computer. *shrug*