Top 10 Arcade Games Of The 1970s

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For this list, we're looking at the best games released to and played in arcades between 1970 and 1979. These are the games that made a significant impact on popular culture and the video gaming medium, helping to influence bigger, better games of the future.
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[@Hawbitten]

I was born in 1990 and serveral of these still hold a place in my heart. Space Invaders is still one of the best games ever even 40 years on. Old games never die, they just ask for more coins!

[@Hispandinavian]

In the arcade fun centers they got the giant screen Space Invaders with the gattling gun. It's a total blast 🙂

[@gutz1981]

My dad had a Space Invaders table cabinet in his fish and chip shop back in the early 80's in Australia. And one day he just brought it home and put it in our living room and there it stayed and played for years, serving as the "Kids" area of the hose. Being a glass table arcade, it garnered quite a bit attention until the game one day stopped working. Wish I still had it.

[@jakeknapp6833]

Will you tell watchmojo to read my comment please about it to like my comment and respond back to me also do you like it to

[@fredisausthevenision1071]

I remember back in 1978 in a library in Canberra. If I am Correct 20 cents To play a game!!!🇮🇹🇭🇲

[@NuGanjaTron]

@@fredisausthevenision1071 yep, 20c with the platypus it was!

[@squirrele.1266]

@@gusic709 Outlaw

[@vladimirvolkhov6786]

Nothing like the feeling of walking into a dark arcade full of these vintage games, a very distinct and great memory from Generation X.

[@russellspeak3096]

I started playing video games with the first one Pong, and I've been playing them ever since. I aim to be the longest living video gamer. If I make it to 100, I would've been playing video games for 95 years.

[@raydeen2k]

For me, the mind blowing '70's arcade game was Tailgunner. Vector graphics with 3D ships flying at the screen blew my little mind!

[@robertlipsett2535]

loved that game especially the cockpit version. almost felt like shooting fighters from the falcons turrets

[@Datan0de]

@@robertlipsett2535 YES!! It really added a lot to the experience!

[@NoodleyBits]

I feel old...I've played most of these at the arcade.

[@adolphuscampbell4339]

+FarfalleAlfredo I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm old too.... All of the games listed I've played and still do.

[@WrenFaithBridger]

+Adolphus Campbell My hometown's first video arcade opened on my 16th birthday; one of the guys who worked there invited me to the opening. My father said no. A part of me is glad because that particular guy is now wanted in 6 states...but, at the time, not so much.

[@adolphuscampbell4339]

But you still love arcade games, right?

[@MattMcIrvin]

I've played some of these at the arcade RECENTLY. (Funspot in Weirs Beach, NH has a stupendous collection of oldies.)

[@Datan0de]

You're not alone by any means. I have happy memories of playing every game on this list except Death Race. Admittedly, my experience with Computer Space was at a video game exhibit in the '90s, but the rest I played when they were cutting edge.

[@jimjammy1788]

Most of these were a bit before my time but I fondly remember the 80's games Moon Patrol, Frogger, Donkey Kong, Shinobi, Galaga...they were the ones that blew my mind as a kid.

[@albertowen1025]

LOL - I remember spending so much time playing both "Computer Space" and "Sea Wolf" at our international airport, waiting for our flights out - most of these came out at the time when I was between 10-18 and it's awesome to see these again on your upload. Thank you for the memories!

[@makishepard]

Space Invaders is 40 this year.

[@richk3325]

I heard the game caused a big shortage in the yen because it was so popular. I picked up Taito LEgends for PS2 2 weeks ago for when I want arcade games. It has Space invaders, deluxe 2, and return of the invaders along with 26 other games. Worth it.

[@jnessij]

42

[@RemagDeadLee]

Pac man turned 40 this year

[@TravisTheMaximus]

Woow thats very crazy

[@pokerandphilosophy8328]

I'm still waiting for the release of Pong 2.

[@Nerdite]

I released that last night... I had baked beans yesterday.

[@jazzyboygacha5620]

Wii tennis

[@SuperBoomshack]

I need 3D Pong

[@TheWeepingCorpse]

You can play pong 2 inside the arcade, in city 17, half life 3.

[@waggsmith5889]

Well, it would probably be the same as the original Pong just like Tetris and Tetris 2

[@bernhardwall6876]

The first video game I remember playing in the 70s was Stratovox.

[@markzilla9623]

That one was from 1980.

[@MaraschinoMary1]

I flunked out of college in ‘78 due to space invaders. Met my husband in ‘79. Been happily married 41+ years. Kids and grandkids. Go space invaders woooo!

[@joshthegreat7826]

The 70s produced few arcade games, and began the golden age of arcade games in 1979.

[@kennethferrari5232]

I would suggest Spacewar and Outlaw also as honorable mentions.

[@SyntaX7777]

Space War! was from 1962

[@raspberry1440kb]

@@SyntaX7777 That was the first version written in a academic context, the arcade release was in 1971.

[@SyntaX7777]

raspberry1440kb yeah, I know. Just saying the original was from 1962.

[@xshadow_dem0nx]

Thanks for making this, it helped with my lab project about video games back in the second generation of video games (late 1970s)!!!

[@ThePlaceboEffect000]

this list has put a big nostalgic smile on my face thank you watchmojo a big thumbs up from me

[@bradwooldidge6979]

I was addicted to Space Invaders in 1979!

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

"Space Invaders" actually caused a nationwide _yen_ shortage in Japan when it was released.

[@SyntaX7777]

Lol

[@machigiceb7788]

Damn lmao

[@janX9]

That's actually a misconception and not entirely true. Yes the game took up a lot of yen however, they also didn't produce as much Yen as they usually did. It only they had known.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

@@janX9 I think it's one of those urban legends that sounds like it could be true so it isn't questioned. I've heard both that it is true and that it isn't, so who knows?

[@mateodelavega3580]

Notice how important and succesful spaceships games and movies were at the 70s

[@buddhistsympathizer1136]

You have given a fair selection. I'd mention 'Boot Hill' and 'Depth Charge' . . . great games from the 70s also.

[@johnbonardi9819]

This really takes me down memory lane. The one game I remember playing was Vanguard.

[@jeffreydotson4842]

I have to say that the 70's also had some of the hardest games of all time.

[@SRC-lo2nc]

Those games were simple in concept but hard in gameplay. But dude the 80's had much harder games.

[@staringcorgi6475]

It's hard because they want to suck out all of your quarters

[@citylights8678]

@@SRC-lo2nc Defender and its sequel stargate are still difficult by todays standards

[@fernandoorozco3751]

They made them hard on purpose because $$$$$.

[@TheDuckClock]

Probably the most retro Video Game list Watchmojo has ever done.

[@lonewolfjedi493osswfan]

This takes me back, being born in 73, I remember these. Looking forward to the 80s list

[@rajwvilla]

The sound of space invaders rings fresh in my ears today !!

[@gabbyseni3798]

i like the sound of arcades game ..

[@TimLeeSongs]

I’m teaching a ‘retro gaming’ enrichment lesson at a college for adults with learning difficulties and of all the games we played, Pong was the one that captivated them the most! At first they were like ‘what is this?’ As they are used to XBox and PS4s but once they played it the gameplay is like no other! Simple, addictive and still a lot of fun!

[@IronSalamander8]

Pretty solid list really! I was there for the later parts of the 70s as I was too young to play until at least 76 or so, but this brings back memories!

[@GKitz211]

From the 80's on, it would be necessary to make a list per year. 1980 started an arcade-revolution, and among the hundreds of classic you'll have many games to choose from. :-)

[@markpapenfuss1111]

Quargelbrot1, so true.

[@SimpsonDG]

1980 - PacMan!

[@LittleLottieLorah]

I have a space invader's scarf. This isn't an important comment.. i just needed to share cause it's awesome lol

[@bradylanders]

I have a space invaders Black and White silk tie

[@LittleLottieLorah]

Brady Landers that's awesome.. and for some really odd reason I find that kind of hot lol

[@TheCommentNinja81]

+lor b No, that's kind of cool! I have a worst comment: I like to take movie and game titles and turn them into porn parodic titles. There's some so ridiculous out there made into real porn movie! The Space Invaders song inspired me one: 'Space Invadnus' ! Feel better about your comment and scarf? :P

[@markzilla9623]

So cool..i'm looking for Space Invaders pajama pants !

[@biffroberts1007]

Well I don't have one of those, but I DO have a Asteroids poster in full color on my fridge. lol P.S. Oh yea I almost forgot. I also have the Space Invaders video game too. lol

[@Zakalwe-01]

Pretty much spot-on for the list. The sound of Space Invaders always instantly raises my heartbeat and I'm transported straight back to the cafe at my local pool in 1979...

[@dignityshmignity]

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[@IIGrayfoxII]

Fun Fact: The increasing speed of Spacing Invaders was a unintentional bug that is a result of less sprites to render which meant the game made them move faster, the bug was never fixed as it made the game more fun.

[@staebal]

huh... the more you know!

[@johnalanelson]

The Galaxian flagship winds up in Pacman as one of the "fruits"

[@mariodykstra6555]

I seen that! It appears in the 9th and 10th levels.

[@awotnot]

my all time top score was 271 000

[@insearchofbw]

Thanks for saying that!! I always knew that the bonus looked familiar but I couldn't remember from where.

[@arokh72]

These lists make me feel old. I remember Asteroids and Space Invaders when they were new. Exciting times.

[@stephenperry5021]

I remember playing a lot of these games on my uncles computer back in the early 2000’s. I had a blast playing them!

[@VGC-cc4xt]

Radar Scope,Night Driver,Monaco GP,Sheriff,Circus,Gun Fight,Side Trak,Rip Cord

[@gutz1981]

So is 'Death Race' the first movie to video game (Arcade Game) adaptation based on the 1975 movie 'Death Race 2000'? If so, that is mad cool.

[@grimmations9603]

gutz1981 lol

[@starsabre42]

From Wikipedia: The 1976 video game Death Race was inspired by the film Death Race 2000.

[@amightyatom]

You can bet it kicked up a right stink. The 70s GTA. Death Race 2000 is one of the best films ever made. One of Stallone’s first films

[@MattMcIrvin]

I think it wasn't actually a licensed adaptation, though the movie definitely inspired it.

[@briannotafan3368]

i just down loaded it a few weeks ago its corney now to todays standards

[@michaellavery4899]

Asteroids was (is) hellishly difficult. I'm surprised it only took that meagre sum. My friends and I contributed about half of it.

[@SuperBoomshack]

I like Atari 2600 Asteroids better

[@michaellavery4899]

@@SuperBoomshack. If you had an atari console when I was a kid you were very popular. Unfortunately I only played a friend's occasionally. He didn't have asteroids. I seem to remember a game where I put fires out and another where I shot ducks, or did I imagine that?

[@SuperBoomshack]

@@michaellavery4899 Fire Fighter and Duck Hunt?

[@michaellavery4899]

@@SuperBoomshack. Haha! Brilliant! I imagine you spent too much time gaming in your youth too. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[@lordevyl8317]

SumerBoomshack Funny, because I feel the same way about the Atari 2600 port of Battle Zone. I love vector graphics, but I found the arcade version fiendishly difficult

[@wendyrobinson9759]

Pong introduced me to video arcade games. Also loved Battle Zone, Outlaw (an early shoot em up from Atari), Space Invaders (which had color by using colored plastic strips over the monitor) and Galaxian.

[@zz-if1ic]

I’m so old I remember being mind blown seeing Galaga for the first time. Today I played Inside on my PC with my 7 year old niece. Gaming is wonderful and brings generations together. I hate how some people look down on it.

[@hepchaos]

I remember, back in 1980, learning how to code in BASIC and machine language, that it only took 7 lines of code to make Pong. That game made MILLIONS of dollars by the time they stopped putting those arcade machines out.

[@suckmyass7368]

Compared to Facebook's 7 million lines of code

[@helge666]

The original Pong had exactly 0 lines of code, because it was TTL based (no CPU, only discrete analog logic circuits)

[@KRex1961]

Pong is the definitive godfather of all video games.

[@19580822]

We had a home version. My Dad got it for me and my siblings for Xmas back around '73 or '74. It was fun at first, but got boring pretty fast.

[@iteratedofficial]

@IAN HEINE lol

[@8-bitsteve500]

I think you mean Computer Space, it was before Pong.

[@markzilla8004]

Very close, to me it's Space invaders, making Pong the granddaddy of them all and Computer Space as the Mother of its own invention.

[@Game-The-System]

Totally forgot about Lunar Lander...and yeah, the difficulty level was ridiculous. It was probably easier to land the REAL lunar module on the moon than that game.

[@dreadhead170]

My Dad used to lift me up to see through the periscope on Sea Wolf because I was only a kid and not very tall.

[@don4321]

I believe that Computer Space game can be seen in the film Soylent Green. Its in the rich guy's apartment and is supposed to symbolize future tech as well as wealth...

[@stephanierando3477]

I believe that arcade box is in a museum.

[@SuperBoomshack]

Its also in Jaws

[@paulmorphy6187]

I remember a game in the arcade in the 70's that had a 'black hole' in the centre of the screen (with gravity) and you piloted a ship around this battling enemys being careful not to be sucked in...it had wireframe graphics i wonder if anyone knows what it was called? Edit: It came back to me shortly after writing this...it was 'space war' circa 1977

[@SyntaX7777]

Space war was from 1962

[@MattMcIrvin]

@@SyntaX7777 Spacewar! appeared on the PDP-1 computer in 1962. But he was probably playing Space Wars, which was Cinematronics' arcade-cabinet version of Spacewar! from 1977, or Space War, which was Vectorbeam's release of the same game around the same time (the relationship between Cinematronics and Vectorbeam was complicated).

[@SyntaX7777]

Matt McIrvin Yeah, probably

[@mikemoyle527]

Galaxian was my all-time favorite game. Great memories.

[@Bijuklich]

cool list, definitely my favorite in this list is galaxian....just played lunar rescue and lunar landing for the first time and they are awesome :) thanks for the video

[@vernhoke7730]

Man, if I had all the quarters I wasted in a video arcade back in the '70s I'd have, well a lot of quarters right now. I have to say I've played pretty much all of these at one time or another. Death Race was a favorite, so much so the arcade I went to ended up with 2 machines shortly after they got the first one.

[@wildbilltexas]

Good choices, but Pong should have been first. It's super-popularity got Atari and the whole arcade and home videogame industry going in the mid 1970's. By the time Space Invaders came out in 1978, video games in the arcade were commonplace, and many homes had Pong consoles.

[@clarky23]

I remember reading a story about Pong....the creators put the first Pong machine into a bar to see what kind of response it would get. A few days later the owner of the bar called to tell them the machine was broken and to get it out of there. Discouraged the creators went to check on the cabinet only to find out the reason it wasn't working out it was so jammed with quarters that it would no longer trigger the credit switch. They knew then they had a fortune waiting for them.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

A "Computer Space" cabinet can be seen in the movie _Soylent Green_ at the house of the millionaire who gets murdered (because he knows what Soylent Green is made of.... [SPOILER: It's people!]). It is played by Charlton Heston's love interest in the movie. It's easy to notice because of its very unique cabinet design.

[@BeerInTheWoods]

Night driver- it was the first sit down cockpit game I ever saw, and the color overlay on the monitor was revolutionary.

[@dignityshmignity]

The one where you steered the road!

[@grimmations9603]

*when your the only millennial kid that prefers pong over call of duty*

[@davy2wavyfr]

damn u must get bored af

[@hugedisappointment309]

Grim's Retro Life Style ugh younging I play tennis for 2

[@jj45455]

Ok boomer

[@ACanOfBakedBeans]

Crap of Duty is overrated shit

[@SyntaX7777]

Relatable

[@HumphreyTennant]

Space Invaders is likely my favorite.

[@kellychuang8373]

Good list, that Pong console is really hard for gamers nowadays. Along with some of these arcade cabinets. In fact the Space Invaders cabinet had a version with nothing but Buttons to shoot and move if I remember.

[@Johnjwalt]

The vector graphics introduced through Lunar Lander were awesome because they were later used to create a higly dynamic 3D illusion.

[@WatchMojo]

This is the beginning of a series! Be sure to stick with WatchMojo from now until November 29th for Top 10 Arcade Games of the 80s, 90s, 21st Century and OF ALL TIME. You'll know so much about arcade games by the end of this!

[@brodycook6652]

80

[@brodycook6652]

80s

[@danielbigger6175]

i played battlezone at the museum of play, it's an ok game.

[@scottharvey8582]

space invaders are still able to play on the internet!

[@Adrian-yp7nb]

+Brody Cook They had better have a few SEGA Arcade game titles in there....

[@Tyrone_M]

God I love the Space Invaders song so much Even have it on a record.

[@oposoum]

I was 13 and a small store opened near my home. It had pre-computer arcade games, before the first computer game, ping pong, appears. These games was in similar cabinets like the arcade computer games, but with real objects inside. There was a game where you drove a car with a steering wheel and you tried to avoid to crash with other cars. These cars was real miniatures and the game was mechanical. All the base of the game was in the hidden side, in the bottom of the box and you saw the cars and the whole thing through a mirror! A similar game was one with motorcycle race and some others with shooting. The first time I saw ping pong I was very impressed and I spend a lot of coins.

[@theaussiebackflipboy]

Ahh, Pong - the game that started it all. I remember the day my brother brought it home and hooked it up to our television and the family was amazed at this marvelous new technology. Nearly 50 years later, it's barely remembered as the great, great grandfather of whatever the kids are playing nowdays.

[@theyamo7219]

Actually, Computer Space and Space War came out before Pong. It's just that Pong was the first successful video game.

[@ultimatemegakazooie6627]

My mom remembers asteroids Also space invaters

[@kennybroussard410]

Spaceinvaderoldschool

[@kennybroussard410]

Space invader older one

[@kennybroussard410]

Spaceinvadetr

[@blackpirateking2754]

The Buddy Christ dude that’s mean

[@lordevyl8317]

Bosscj07 Videos Fuck off, pathetic thin skinned outrage culturist

[@louismj1866]

Magnavox Odyssey

[@MattMcIrvin]

I remember the TV ads for that, though we didn't buy one. It's kind of amazing that the first home console predated the first coin-op videogames. Pong was a knockoff of the Odyssey's table-tennis game.

[@lordevyl8317]

NOT AN ARCADE GAME

[@nishanthsurendran7721]

Nice list

[@awilliams468]

I really like this, it sums up my entire life.

[@Dsworddance22]

Where's Call of Duty?

[@giganigga4347]

Lol

[@Dsworddance22]

No, seriously. Call of Duty shits on these games easily.

[@MyNameIsNidos]

You have a point. Call of Duty is the best game of all time. It's super realistic, unlike most games like GTA. Better than Counter Strike because it has way better graphics! Call of duty required so much skill and teamwork to play, and the community and players are so friendly. Surprised WM didn't include it in the video. Unsubscribing and blocking on myspace

[@millielockley819]

+Dsworddance22 Call of duty is RUBBISH AND CRAP

[@millielockley819]

+MyNameIsNidos Was call of duty out in 1970 NO SO BUGAR OF THESE AMAZING VIDS BRUH

[@nintendozilla9843]

Space Invaders at #1! HURRAH!

[@frankx8739]

I was there at the start. There was a special feeling you got playing these games as a kid excited by technology, back in the 70`s. Nowadays a video game is the implementation of a concept: you are rarely aware of the system generating the effect. But, back in the days when computing was primitive, graphics were blocky, and sound that actually sounded like it was electronically generated, the experience of gaming was like...communing with a computer, with electronic circuitry; the crackle of the cathode ray screen: a whiff of ozone. You felt like a space cadet.

[@wleon4068]

Me too. How video games have changed since 1he late 1970s is remarkable.

[@JoseMolina-ij3xx]

When video games were classified in the 80s. They were modelled after 4 types. The Pac-Man type, Asteroids type, Space Invaders, and the Miscellaneous type. Later came the Platform type and Player vs Player type games and Simulator types. I remember when Battlezone was considered the miscellaneous type, now it's viewed as one of the first simulator types. Crazy Climber, a miscellaneous type, would later form the platform type games.

[@johnalexander7490]

Crazy Climbers were converted to other titles as soon as Conversion Kits came out. That, Armor Attack, and Exidy's Venture were about the poorest earning machines I ever had on route. True dogs. Could barely give them away back in the day.

[@tomasdelizia3695]

PS2 vs Xbox vs GameCube

[@infraredtoa9105]

+Tomás Delizia vs dreamcast

[@tomasdelizia3695]

Considering they didn't include the Sega Saturn on the last video I doubt they will include the Dreamcast or even the GameCube in the next video

[@infraredtoa9105]

Tomás Delizia what last video?

[@tomasdelizia3695]

Santi T PlayStation vs. N64

[@infraredtoa9105]

Tomás Delizia Ahhhhhhhhhh, i know!,youre right

[@qspoonq278]

I'm early, let me think of a joke Why is this comment overused?

[@ryanbarker5217]

good list. one of my personal favourites was 'gun fight,' (aka 'boot hill') and i pumped many quarters into atari's 'football.' midway's 'haunted house' always caught my eye, or anything with a light gun, lol.

[@zerox_8544]

the arcade games were a great impact in my life :)

[@jasminejohnston6393]

Arkanoid is infinitely better than Breakout...

[@WatchMojo]

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[@boglenight1551]

First in response to an epic comment!

[@SimpsonDG]

I remember hearing on the radio in the late 1970s that Americans had spent more on Space Invaders than they had on the entire Space Shuttle program. I remember playing Pong for hours in a local computer store. No one had ever seen a computer game before. Games at that time were things like cards, dominoes, chess, checkers, Monpoly, and Parcheesi. Computer games were mesmerizing.

[@anthonyortiz3933]

I was born a baby boomer and all these games in our area will never fade away they are still being played now and they will be played then in the future

[@tomas6043]

first!

[@liamherkes6666]

I was

[@boglenight1551]

Potato

[@bennybeetle572]

+Mystical Productions JEP

[@tomas6043]

+Factastic what?

[@bennybeetle572]

Mystical Productions You are the first on this video, senpai teach me to be first

[@thejasonlundgren]

Thank you!

[@ZagnutBar]

A couple of clarifications re: Lunar Lander. This game used a realistic physics-based system incorporating thrust and gravity that was dropped for a while but became an essential part of modern gaming. Secondly, using quarters to continue a game did not become a mainstay in coin-op gaming until quarter-sucking games like Gauntlet made it a regular thing in the late 80s. Nobody could continue a game of Pac-Man, Frogger or Galaga, right?

[@yazminamelendez5267]

I remember playing #4 long ago^^ That was fun at the arcade

[@Daniel-rk5tl]

That crack noise at the end of the videos get me all the time

[@galacticbroadcastingcompan1120]

A quarter then was like a dollar now. I pumped a lot of quarters into most of these games. Sometimes Asteroids and Lunar Lander was just a dime. That was a huge deal.

[@oldbloke135]

I was an arcade engineer back then and my favourite machine was Asteroids. Not because the game was good, I just liked the vector graphics system. More interesting than the normal raster scan everything else had.

[@NeilVanceNeilVance]

Galaxian was so advanced in 1979, I think it was the 1st true RGB pixel arcade game. It was fluid and each 'galaxian' gave you a sense of 'AI' and personality. Even at the time, there was still black and white games being made with colour gels taped over the screen, Even for several years later some colour arcade games were not RGB pixel and had blocky non-fluid movements. In the UK video games cost 10 pence per play. Galaxian was mostly the very first game to be double the price (20 pence) as it really was so advanced almost out of this world at the time.

[@rlj151]

I played them all back in the day in the arcades. they were fantastic at that time.

[@michaelsmith7425]

I vote for Defender ! Man that game was one of the best arcade platform games ever !!! I grew up on Space Invaders and Pong and Asteroids. Then I got a job and a Sega and played Sonic 'til HE was tired of running lol

[@theyamo7219]

Defender came out in 1980. 1980 = not a game from the 1970s

[@jondstewart]

To me 1979-1983 was the golden age of the best video games ever. There’s some locations called Pinballz in Austin, Texas that has a whole section devoted solely to that era mostly with original consoles

[@timothysmith5111]

didn't know about pinballz, thanks

[@rozzie101]

My late Granny Mable for whatever reason had the Pong game, and she got me into gaming...

[@cast982]

The Game "Pong" is a 1972 Arcade Game and Also with Easter Egg Found in "Wall-E" in 2008.

[@plumberpete86]

I remember playing a game in third grade, i think it was called Mr. Goodnight. I can't seem to find anything documented about it though. It was about a secret agent who had to had to save the world, kinda like James Bond. I can't remember everything but i remember it was only black and green and we would all stand around watching to see if the kid playing would get on to the next level, and getting so excited if they made it. Wish i could find out more about it now.

[@DEATH2thaSTUpid]

exept for Pong and Computer Space i used to play these as a kid...very frustrating and fun at the same time.

[@mariodykstra6555]

I have 4 games from the 1970s; Breakout, Space Invaders, Asteroids, and Galaxian.

[@juan-ksporty7348]

I remember playing some if those games in the 80s

[@Hispandinavian]

My childhood. If I was rich, I'd have a restored Sea Wolf, a classic arcade cabinet with multiple 80s/90s games, and a pinball machine.

[@samthehikingman9484]

My step dad's job at the time was to fix these machines.... my mothers job was to collect the money. He would bring them home and I'd play them... I had a stand up Pack- Man ... a table top Galaxian .... pin ball machines..... they had to go back to the pubs and clubs etc after a while, but they were mine for a while lol....

[@racafritz]

Sam Lawrence you lucky duck!

[@MrYnysygwas]

As the prisoner in Life of Brian said, "You lucky luck bastard".

[@chrisbewley5133]

no missle command ? The sound effects were what got everyone hooked.

[@lordevyl8317]

Because MISSILE COMMAND WAS RELEASED IN 1980. 1980 = NOT A 1970S GAME, MORON

[@chrismayer3919]

Call me a noob, but unlike Pac Man Fever, I did NOT know there was a song for Space invaders. WOW!

[@maha77]

I'm glad Space Invaders was number one I remember playing it on my brand new Atari 2600 in 1977 for Christmas

[@calvin3464]

My favorite arcade game from the 70s is Ozma Wars created by SNK in 1979.

[@PlasticBubbleCosplay]

After seeing another video agpbout the "golden age" of video games, I came across this one, and actually I love the games here (Asteroids, Space Invaders, Lunar Lander, and especially Breakout) along with a few select games from the the early 1980s. One of the defining qualities is that the game doesn't need to "cheat" to be a challenge (especially higher levels) by expanding the collision box, requiring pixel-perfect positioning, or having the enemies suddenly pop in beside your ship out of nowhere. If the controls aren't all wracked up, it's just you vs the rocks. :-)