Very 1st Arcade Game you ever played?

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I cant remember so I'm gonna go with the first few I remember.

Silkworm at a Circle K
Rastan at Circle K as well

Pac Man Cocktail at Pizza Hut
Michael Jacksons Moonwalker at Skateland
 
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A cocktail Pac man at a bowling alley.
 
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Asteroids in 1980 at the local Pizza Hut we went to every Friday night. They had Space Invaders there before but I didn't care. The noises for Asteroids drew me in.
 
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Probably Pacman or Asteroids but I can't remember.

I do clearly remember pumping coins into Double Dragon though so I'm going to go with that. The love of brawlers was cemented.
 
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1983 - Q*bert, The Penny Arcade, Nantasket Beach
 
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I wish I could remember. I had to be extraordinarily young, because my father was interested in Atari. It had to be Pac-Man or something, I assume.
 
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I was gonna say, alot of people are probly gonna say pac-man or maybe tron. :)
 
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It happened way too young for me to remember, but it was probably something like Pac Man. I remember going to the mall arcades quite a bit with my dad, Pole Position was probably one of my favorite games, to this day I still prefer racing games over all others.
 
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Donkey Kong at a Venture store can't remember when but guessing the early to mid 80's.
 
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The first I remember was Ikari Warriors at Marsh Grocery store, they also got a R-Type & Shinobi later
 
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Not really sure but if I had to guess it was probably one of the Pacman iterations.
 
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It was Asteroids Deluxe, but I recall playing Joust in the same day as well. Still two of my favorites. :D
 
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Probably Asteroids, but the first arcade that really hook me was Donkey Kong Jr.
 
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I think it was Spy Hunter or maybe its was Demolition Derby by Midway at a local skate ring.
 
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Watched my Mom's buddy play Moon Patrol. Popped my 1st token into Gyruss.

At the Roller Rink, y'all.

80s as fuck.
 
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The earliest arcade games I remember playing was Pac-Man and Donkey Kong.
 
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I wanted it to be Spy Hunter but someone else was playing it so it ended up being Arkanoid.
I think so anyway, I was only around 4 years old. I seem to remember this being the case, but I may have just thought it so much over the years that I've convinced myself this is true.
Or it was implanted Total Recall stylee.....
 
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Both Super Punch-out and Vs. Duck Hunt in very early '85. After that I remember playing Donkey Kong Jr., Pacman, Joust and Galaga a little later. Shit didn't get real until '88-89 IMO. Final Fight got me hooked like you wouldn't believe.
 
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SNKNostalgia said:
Both Super Punch-out and Vs. Duck Hunt in very early '85. After that I remember playing Donkey Kong Jr., Pacman, Joust and Galaga a little later. Shit didn't get real until '88-89 IMO. Final Fight got me hooked like you wouldn't believe.
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Hell yeah the first time I played F.F. arcade I dethroned D.D. on beat'em ups.

Contra arcade is what got me hooked hard into video games. Still to this day holds a special place w/ me.
 
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Pac man cocktail in Pizza hunt in the mid 80s...I actually did a lot of my arcade gaming at that place come to think of it. They had a program here called "book it", and if you finished a book you got a personal pan pizza as a reward. They ran that for the entire time I was in elementary school...played Simpsons, xmen, captain America, TMNT, Operation Wolf, and ninja gaiden there for the first time too.
 
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Probably Pac-Man since we had it on our first PC, and I always used to play it. I remember playing Street Fighter II right when it came out, though, and getting hooked.
 
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