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I'm so from another generation.

I remember feeding quarters into video machines, though I don't recall the term "game" having been referenced.

I remember calling them "Arcade Machines"... Video "game" wasn't part of my vocabulary for some time.

Whoosh!

(Nick, it was the most deviant of references.)

Speaking of 8-bit, did you catch this yesterday?

72pins creative director discusses taking Call of Duty and Halo back to the 8-bit days

I was a C-64 grrrl . . . Epyx Summer Games FTW! Just remember to start loading it *before* dinner!!

I programmed on a Commodore PET in High School.

Bryan, my first game I programmed was similar to Defender.

Ooooh, C-64! I used to play hours of donkey cong on it.

I'm gonna be dreaming about that program - you remember the one that made your name run all over the screen? All I can remember is

>20 go to 10

Mig Alley Ace. After reading for months about what an incredible simulation it was, I purchased it, loaded it up.... and have never been so saddened in my life. That's an airplane?

After looking at screen shots of Defender, it does not look like the same game. Now, I'm not sure what the one I played is called, but Defender is the only thing that I can remember.

Crazy Climber was fun too!lol