What was the first game you played on location?

[OTTOTHEMADANDEVIL]

I think this is a good question as on this forum there is a community of people of variable ages and from all walks of life.

The first game I can remember playing at location would be Mumbles Pier Arcade in the very early 90's ( maybe very late 80's), I was really into pins right then but I can defiantly remember playing Gauntlet and I think on the same day playing Smash TV with my sister. That for me was my first experience of an arcade ( beyond Pins and 2p machines that is ) and is a very fond memory.

OTTOTHEMADANDEVIL2013-11-20 17:55:07

 

[backflipper]

I remember playing super breakout when I was about 8 or 10 in 82-84 and it was in the games room of a holiday park.

EDIT(added location)backflipper2013-11-20 08:55:19

 

[OTTOTHEMADANDEVIL]

I was born in the wrong decade, I didn't turn up till 83

 

[Alpha1]

Space Invaders and Frogger!

 

[OTTOTHEMADANDEVIL]

When an where big man?

 

[IDCHAPPY]

I was born in the wrong decade, I didn't turn up till 83

Young whippersnapper

Is loation a drug of some sort ?

Back to the question

, emm mid 80's was about my era. I can remember playing Ikari Warriors at my local arcade

 

[Milky]

1978. Pontins @ Selsey. Main Dining hall. Breakfast time. Boot Hill.

 

[IndyJones]

Really tough to remember for me, as you get older you seem to have conflicting memories, the first ever arcade will probably be a small town arcade at a place called Thorne near Doncaster, I used to go there with my Dad to his market stall & vanish with my pocket money for an hour or two, I suppose I must have been about 8 or 9, games that I most remember playing were Scramble, Frogger, Crazy Kong, Carnival, Hunchback over the year or so I went there.

I remember Defender being there as well, I can see in my mind now when an older lad, probably about 18ish completed a level & did that thing where you move the ship left & right blasting his lazers quickly, as if to say, yes I am the man, you young 'uns aren't worthy as a small crowd had gathered to watch

I've popped back a few times over the years to the town,the arcade closed decades ago of course but I thought I'll just go back have a closer look earlier this year at the actual bulding, it was smaller than I remember & now a beauty bar & no chance of anything being dumped in a back room sadly.

I also remember a small cafe I'd go in for a game on Pacman as well in the same era, I've also started some research into that cab & somebody who used to work there fairly recently reckons there is an old arcade machine in an outbuilding at the back, possibly the pacman, unconfirmed yet but I am going to investigate further, imagine owning a cab that you used to play on 30odd years ago

My conflicting memories refer to if I visited the Thorne arcade first or if I had already started going into arcades during seaside trips, I cannot remember exactly what started my arcade career for me but I think it was the town arcade though iirc & seaside arcades after came after.

 

[AndyGeezer]

First arcade machine I played was guerilla war in the red lion pub in St. Oysths in '89.

I lived there a couple of years and went to school in Clacton. Obviously spent all my time down the muzzies (arcades).

 

[IDCHAPPY]

1978. Pontins @ Selsey. Main Dining hall. Breakfast time. Boot Hill.

So, do you think playing that cowboy themed cab influenced you in later life at all?

 

[Milky]

1978. Pontins @ Selsey. Main Dining hall. Breakfast time. Boot Hill.

So, do you think playing that cowboy themed cab influenced you in later life at all?

Hmmm. Now you mention it.....

 

[playoldgames]

Space Invaders, in the Guildhall pub, Folkestone, in 1978 at the tender age of 3.

And then, in 1980, Pac-Man happend, and a life-long love affair began.

 

[cosine]

Earliest game I remember playing is probably Asteroids, when I was 4-5 years old, so 1982-83?

 

[Blip]

Asteroids cocktail for me at Bracklesham Bay Pontins.
I remember it was possible to spin a 2p coin up the coin reject mech to get a credit. Great days

 

[muddymusic]

Centipede cocktail table in Blue Anchor cafe near Minehead prob about 83-34.

 

[Jase]

1978. Pontins @ Selsey. Main Dining hall. Breakfast time. Boot Hill.

Uncanny! Same year, same game, but in Bridlington!

Followed by Super Bug and Sea Wolf.

 

[ZuPoint]

Skipsea caravan park.
Mappy
Nemesis
Jackal
Pacland
Choplifter
Gemini wing
1942
Good old days.

 

[OTTOTHEMADANDEVIL]

I was born in the wrong decade, I didn't turn up till 83

Young whippersnapper

Is loation a drug of some sort ?

Back to the question

, emm mid 80's was about my era. I can remember playing Ikari Warriors at my local arcade

Damn my crappy typing, Im my defence I was on my second bottle of Pinot Grigio while and trying to watch Invaders of Space and Time.

 

[OTTOTHEMADANDEVIL]

I was born in the wrong decade, I didn't turn up till 83

Young whippersnapper

Is loation a drug of some sort ?

Back to the question

, emm mid 80's was about my era. I can remember playing Ikari Warriors at my local arcade

Damn my crappy typing, Im my defence I was on my second bottle of Pinot Grigio while trying to watch Invaders of Space and Time.

 

[Kenth333]

The first arcade game I remember playing is Space Gun, early 90's, at a local shopping center. I was ~ 10. Also remember playing Splatterhouse at about the same age, at an amusement park. From before that I really only remember playing the nes at a friends house.