LogFAQs > #939605296

Zeus posted...

So 1977? You mean the year after Breakout? Wait, you never played Breakout?!

Not AS Breakout, no.

The 1976 release was arcade only, and I wasn't going to arcades as an infant. And by the time I was going to arcades, the days of games like Breakout (and Pac-Man, and Defender, and Galaxian/Galaga, etc) having cabinets there were looooong dead.

There WAS a version of Breakout on the Atari 2600, but a) the console versions of arcade games were usually different from the arcade version back then, b) it wasn't released until after I was born, and c) I never played it anyway.

I have played Arkanoid and Brickles, but those are technically different games, and they both came out after I was born.

I think the oldest arcade games I've ever played (in arcade form) are Pac-Man and Centipede, and those were both 1980s. Which I think is true across the board for me - even games that were released in the 70s (like Asteroids and Space Invaders) that I have played, I only played ported console versions that were released in the 1980s. I don't think I've ever played the original version of any game released in the 1970s. And like I said, my earliest console games were all on ColecoVision or Atari 2600, which were both second gen consoles (and the first ones to have cartridges), and both of which were released after I was born.

And no, I haven't played old PC games either - I've never played Spacewar. I've never played Lunar Lander. I've never played Hamurabi. I've never played Akalabeth. I've never played Pong (at least in its original form).

So yeah, I don't think I've ever played a single game that existed in the same form before I was born. Only later ports, rereleases, or clones.
---

"Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76
"POwned again." --- blight family