I was always partial to that one
galaga edition, which until recently I had on MAME. (Comp. sweep made it act wackey, so I erased it.)
I had confused
asteroids with galaga back when I got the Mame. But 'asteroids' was okay too.
They both came out when I was about 17 or so, and I didn't play video games a whole lot, but I liked those two. Out of those 300 or how-many-ever of those early video games they had on the list, I could only find 4 or 5 that I wanted to play.
But I did enjoy pinball in the "old days", as well as now, with visualpinmame that emoulates all the pinball tables out there. When many of us were kids, the "arcades" were just pool tables and a hundred pinball machines lined up on the walls. That was the way we "got our game on", with a good pt table!
For you other pinball fans out there, go to 'visualpinmame' and follow the intstructions. (It's all freeware.) You gotta make a file for the pinball packet and then files in that for the ROMs, etc etc. But it's cool. I've got over 650 pinball machines, and this isn't 'windows pinball' like you get on your op system.
It's three-d, and it's cool. A giant old pinball arcade at your fingertips. They imitate everything, down to the 'scratchy' sound of one particular table I played on the boardwalk in Atlantic City back in 1975! And they have a few tables from the '30s and 40s before pinball tables EVEN HAD FLIPPERS!!!!
And since most here are Trek fans, they have a great Star Trek 25th Anniversary table that's a good game. At one point, when you lose your ball, Scotty says, "Arre ya daft, man?" When you achieve 'multi-ball', the Transporter activates and everything is "energized".
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