Top 10 Video Arcade Games of the 70's!
Top 10 Video Arcade Games of the 70's!
Ah the 70’s… Wavy hair, ill-fitting pants and yes… the beginning of the golden age of arcade video games. You don’t want to miss THIS nostalgic episode of 10 Reasons Why Show: Tech!
WELCOME to another episode of 10 Reasons Why Show: Tech in the Morning with me Scott Tomasso. It’s the show that highlights the day’s hottest tech… for you the layman.
Today’s episode is a special episode. In fact it’s the FIRST in a two-part series of my “Top 10 Video Games of All Time!” Special. This week’s show starts with MY Top 10 Arcade Video Games of the 70’s.
And not to date myself… but I grew up in the 70’s. So these are these are the games I was dumping pounds of quarters into on a daily basis. The are also the games I came to love and STILL love to this very day. So without further adieu…
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asteroids 1979???
Asteroids was a ground-breaker in speed and control. Yes, it was just a black and light blue but game play was and STILL is awesome!
I was hoping to see Sheriff in there…
lunar lander and spacewars were amazing! thanks for posting
you mentoned "Sonar", there were dozens similar to it such as "Sub Hunt" that used a realistic periscope device. Red Baron. wasted rolls of quarters on Donkey Kong. and there was one, the name currently escapes me, but it was a trap/skeet shotgun shooting game that was 2 player side by side that sent circular blobs of light across the screen that exploded if you hit them.
I would call it the Bronze Age of arcade gaming w/ Pong the 1st commercially successful game,spawning many bootlegs til the market became oversaturated,thus causing the 1st videogame crash..that is until Space Invaders ushered in the Golden Age of gaming and singlehandedly saved gaming as we know it, from being just relegated to bars,pool halls and bowling alleys-now even doctor offices and restaurants would have a game or two. To me it’s the Godfather of all gaming while Pong is still the granddaddy of games.Computer Space wasn’t commercially successful enough to take Pong’s place in history but it IS the 1st videogame ever made, respectfully..And dont forget Space Wars and Tora Tora ..! ( Next to Asteroids (1979)Space Invaders Deluxe is my favorite one from the ’70s, that’s why my avatar is a space monster..:)
Really great memories!😊🌌
Okay, so you chose Sonar, but skipped the game that featured a real periscope, Sea Raider?
Your score came up as "tonnage sunk"! They made a more modern, faster moving game called
Sea Wolf. There is a new version based on the originals, but it’s a redemption game.
Old school games nice
i have sweet-sour memories of gun fight. I was a small kid and occurred to me being around some very early home console for display in a store during the late seventies, running, you guessed it, "Gun Fight". Another kid of my age came by and we immediately started a heated duel, pretty balanced, that went on for ten intense minutes, maybe even less, until the store owner kicked both of us from his premises. Probably he was good at spotting poor kids who couldn’t become customers anyways. That storeowner may or may be not still living today and I kinda forgot that episode, but I’d like to address him, forty years later, now that I’m an old mean guy myself who stopped behaving, my most vibrant F*** YOU °°°HOLE .
The sleet shooting game was…
(brain kicked in)
Laser Clay, if I recall it was made by Nintendo in the early 70s, but gained massive recognition in the later 70s when video arcades such as video city, video galaxy, Malibu grand prix took a serious hold in society.
My 2 personal favorites of all time are:
Robotron and Tempest … could play for an hour per quarter on either game.
No missile command, track n field, jungle hunt, dragons lair, I still like your list.
The first time I played Space Invaders there was no joystick, but buttons to move left and right.
Pac man!!
Wozniak… AS WELL??? I hope you were being sarcastic.
Video games
great works…
"I dont even remember Atari Arcade games!" Yet you claim to be knowledgeable about video about games from the 70’s? I should not be surprised though . Here is a small list of Atari ’70’s video games. 90% of which were quite popular:Pong, Spike,Rebound,
Quadra Pong
Puppy Pong
PinPong(Precursor to Video Pinball)
Video PinballSpace Race
Tank
Touch Me(Simon)
Grand Track 10 Formula K
QwakCrash N’ Score
Indy 500(Kee Games)
Tank II
Anti-AirCraft
Shark Jaws
Stunt Cycle
Quiz Show I&II
Night Driver
Breakout
Sprint II
F-1
Time 2000
Airborne Avenger
Middle Earth
Space Rider
Cops N’ Robbers
Atari Destroyer
Super Bug
Canyon Bomber
Avalanche( was Kaboom before it was 2600 Kaboom by Activision)
Drag Race(Dragster before it was 2600 Dragster by Activision)
Lunar Lander
Asteroids
SUBS
Sprint 4
I’ve forgotten the name of my fav. game. Does anyone remember a game that as panted red white and blue like Evel It was B&W . A little motorcycle went in a zig zag motion from top to bottom of the screen where it jumped an ever increasing number of busses
P O N G
Are you guys twins?
I was a kid of the 70’s/80’s.
I remember the following (additional) big hits of the 70’s:
Sea Wolf
Firefighter
Atari Football
Night Driver
Super Breakout
No Red Baron? I spent a damn fortune on that game.
I have been searching ( with no luck obviously ) for the name of a space shooter that was obviously inspired by Star Wars, as it had you firing lazers at Tie Fighters in a first person perspective. I played it all the time at our local grocery store. No luck turning up the name, must have been made around the time of the first Star wars film, so 1977 or thereabouts.
I play Space Invaders.
I born in 1960’s.
😑
One of my favorite ones from the 70s is Atari’s Starship 1. When I first played it at the Sears in Laredo, Texas, I was not tall enough to see the screen. But I liked the game’s sounds, and two of the ships resembled those from Star Trek.
Damn. I remember all those games from my childhood on real arcade machines.
I am so frigging old…
Great choices! Although these two ’70s classics deserve an Honorable Mention:
_Star Fire_ [Exidy; 1978]: https://youtu.be/XwELyhziVmc
and
_Seawolf_ [Dave Nutting Assoc. (dist. by Midway); 1976]: https://youtu.be/ss0FEdCIJEM
Speaking of _Galaxian_ and _Galaga_ (@ 2:24), the latter is really the sequel to the former, followed by _Gaplus_ (AKA, _Galaga 3_ ) [Namco, 1984] and then _Galaga ’88_ [Namco (dist. by Atari in US); 1987] and then some others, you can find the rest of them hehehehe
I won’t subscribe you
The earliest games were all black & white, a popular one was Robot Bowling…
Dear god, i’ve played every one of these.
I remember seeing 2 or 3 of these ONLY at "Sesame Place" in Langhorne, PA.
I believe Death Race was inspired by the movie Death Race 2000, which was released the year before. In the movie, there was a race across the USA and drivers would get points based on running over innocent civilians. Babies and old people scored the most.
I would have to disagree with your “ill fitting pants” statement. I think the 70s has some of the best fitting pants ever. Asses were hugged and thighs were wrappers tight. Even if they did flare out they still fitted where it mattered. Better than 80s parachute pants or tapered styles. Just my opinion 😉
How old are you guys? The reason I ask is because you guys know nothing of the details of these games – The video you show of space invaders is not Space Invaders, I feel like you are trying to come across as having knowledge of playing the games, when clearly you do not, By the way, they were not called templates. They were called Overlays.
packman rocks
two guys talking about videogames in front of a MAC?! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAH
Great list.
What about pong
Hello
Where’s Pong?
Love the fact you guys are game lovers but there’s something weird about these videos maybe it’s the format do you need more funny edits or something I don’t know it’s good but it seems like it’s missing the secret ingredient from being great not trying to be mean just trying to give some constructive criticism
Great selection. Nostalgic good old times, when fun was the main reason we used to play for !
Hey, You know in space invaders the bad guys speeding up was unintentional? The less there were, the faster the game ran because the processor had a lighter load. Turned out to be a key component of the game and one of the ONLY and last examples where humans could be faster than the computer.
NO – Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak DID NOT design the arcade version of Atari Breakout!! This is false history, that just keeps getting repeated, over and over! Wozniak, friend of Jobs and Hewlett-Packard employee, created a version of Breakout, for Atari, but it was not put into production. Jobs, a not particularly talented, Atari technician, took credit for Wozniak’s work, and earned a $5000.00 bonus. He gave Wozniak only $350.00!
One notable omission–How about Night Driver? First sit-down race game. A plastic overlay car over a screen of white pylons flying by. Very simple graphics that made for a great game.
Gun Fight wasn’t based on lives, it was a timed game. you kept playing until the timer reached zero
Where is Pong?
Wasn’t there an arcade version of Canyon Bomber made during that same decade?