Hope you can sleep at night now, because I won’t be able to. I’m a monster thanks to your peer pressure. I didn’t have fun and dragged an innocent child’s weekend down with me.

Retrogaming, also known as classic gaming and old school gaming, is the playing of older video game consoles, and/or video games (generally arcade), in contemporary times using emulators.For those that say “you’d of had more fun if you played (name of game) co-op”, I played Mario Bros. The arcade game industry truly entered its “ Golden Age” in the late 70’s and early 80’s,with consumer awareness and market penetration of video arcade machines in bars, pubs, malls, storefronts and restaurants rising rapidly with introductions of such classic video arcade machines like Asteroids, Space Invaders, Galaxian, Donkey Kong, and the timeless video arcade classic game, Pac-Man. Other prominent arcade companies such as Sega, Nintendo, Capcom, Konami, Taito, Williams, Bally / Midway Manufacturing Company, Cinematronics and SNK were among many others also played major roles in the early development of the video arcade game industry. These two companies wrestled for the top slot in American video arcades for several years.

The two most successful arcade game companies of this era were Namco (the Japanese company that created Pac-Man, Pole Position, and Dig Dug) and Atari (the US-based firm that first introduced video games into arcades). At the same time, video games started to appear in supermarkets, restaurants, bars, pubs, liquor stores, gas stations, bowling alleys storefronts and many other retail establishments looking for extra income and customer traffic.Very popular video arcade games would more than on occasion cause a crush of teenagers at arcades, eager to try the latest in public entertainment. This era also saw the rapid spread of video arcades and gamerooms across North America, Europe and Japan. Video arcade games were designed in a wide variety of genres, while game developers had to work within strict limits of available processor power and memory. The Golden Era of Video Games was a time of great technical breakthroughs and game design creativity in arcade games. Many of these video games are mobile device and Iphone friendly. I hope you enjoy playing these free versions online. I remember playing the Pong Console, TRS-80 Color Computer, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Colecovision, Intellivision, Atari 7800, Sega Master and the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Growing up in the eighties, I spent countless hours playing these classic video games. These are some of my favorite retro arcade games from the 1980's.

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