Growing Up In Arcades: 1979-1989

April 29th, 2011

I don’t know how old you were in 1981, but I was ten when I was spending my allowance getting high score on Defender.

—The Future Where Soda Cans Have Screens

If you want to know if this is me, no, but the hair is about right.

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One Response to “Growing Up In Arcades: 1979-1989”

  1. tochigi says:
    April 29, 2011 at 9:24 am

    i grew to really dislike Defender. because i just wasn’t any good at it. some of my friends got huge scores on it. we all played it a lot. it was the first really big game after Space Invaders. i was 14 in 1980. the first really good arcades opened in Auckland in 1980. i was only ever really good at two games. the first one was Fire Bird, a really un-major game. there were only ever a handful of the machines in the entire city, but i could always get the high score. went through the entire software cycle several times. the other one was Moon Patrol. also mastered the whole cycle.

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