Ah yes, the mutant attacks. I’d make them chase me and cluster all together on the screen, then smart bomb their butts! OH! And remember on the higher levels when you’d warp to the next screen, and there would always be the 4 pods that would warp in with you? you’d try to make sure that all 4 would be on the screen with you at warp, then BAM! Smart bomb that had enough points to give you an extra man! I LOVED getting those 4 pods on the screen at the same time! But as long as they were CLOSED. Remember when you’d bust them open, and the little swarmers would come out? I HATED the swarmers! But the true menace was the BAITER. I swear, the baiter is the character that actually made you BETTER at defender. If you could kick HIS butt on a regular basis, you were good at the game, period. I haven’t heard about the asteroids movie on here, but I’ll do a search and see if I can find it.

your sending me into a flurry of nostalgia, My thumb is cramping and I haven’t held a joystick in years! You may have “turned over” a few, but in my part of the world we “rolled” the frigger! My Atari in my basement kept a dozen kids from getting sunburnt one summer, and centipede, defender… oh yeah, re: defender – remember when the thing went into mutant attack!! I was sweating bullets but I got through it. Have you read about the Asteroids movie on here? Rolled it, took a picture of the score on the screen, true story… really.

Christ on a cracker. I was good at a LOT of games. There were a handful of games I could “turn over” with one quarter(for those of you that don’t know that old school arcade phrase, it’s when you can play a video game for so long that you flip your score all the way back over to zero, usually from either 999,999 or either 9,999,999). Some of the games I could play good enough to turn over were: Defender, Pac Man, Centipede, Tempest, Star Wars, Joust, and there are others but I can’t recall them at present. Also, I was able to get to the end of the cartoon games “Dragon’s Lair”, “Space Ace”, and “Cliff Hanger”, all with just one quarter.

thanks for the info on the doc. I’ll check it out… and for Zaxxon and Wonder Boy 2, I got next dude!

2 things about your comment made me twitch with excitement. One was the suggestion that instead of a mainframe, they expand the world of Tron to the internet! Oh MAN, can you imagine them being able navigate anywhere within the entire net! The infinite levels of choices gives me chills. Also, when you talked about lining your quarters up on the bottom of the screen at the arcade; I remember that VERY well! People lining their quarters up to get the next turn. When you get a chance, do a google search for the phrase “i got next”. The 1st thing that will pop up is a documentary about video games. It was produced by a college student and is 100% free to download. It’s about the new school generation of arcade players, NOT home console players. I personally thought arcades were dead and buried, but there’s actually a new generation that was taught by us guys in our 40s and 50s that have kids in their late teens and 20s that carried on the tradition of going to the arcade to play games as opposed to sitting at home in front of consoles like the majority of the new generation does. The documentary follows a “Street Fighter” tournament where these new guys are among the best in the world at it, but they mastered it by going to the arcades to play it as opposed to learning it on a home console.

Can’t wait!! But where is Capt. Sheridan?? He is friggen Tron.

It just means you have to go to youtube to see it…