my vote(s)
1) Star wars (enclosed cabinet) – it was ‘ACE’ !
2) Scramble – the table top / sit down version they had in the pub
3) Gorf (think this was the 1st game I heard with speech !)
4) Tron – just for looking cool (not sure the game was that good?)
Lol was just looking for an image of Operation Wolf. Class game. One of the first proper gun games and the originals has a nice heavy metallic Uzi rather than the plasticky guns they all use these days.
The chippy down the road from school did a line in slightly retro – for the time – arcade games. So while the big amusements in the town did Ridge Racer and other high end cabinets the chippy still had bastard hard 80’s games
I (well we) built thousands of Sega Rally machines in Wimbledon. Crazy Taxi, F355 Challenge and the football one (forgotten the name) were big lunch hour favourites in the r&d lab. There were more annoying games than great ones though.
Sega peaked the coin-op thing with Manx TT, Datona USA and of course Sega Rally IMO – I still can’t resist putting a quid in now when I see them – they must be well made, they’re 20 years old now!
We had Gauntlet and the vector graphics Star Wars in our Student Union. It begins to explain why I went to so f ew lectures. It’d be ace to buy one for home except a) not sure they’d stand the test of time and b) I bet they are silly money…
I was always partial to sega rally, and a mate has just bought an original single seat version but he’s hoping to get a twin seat so we can all compete against each other at the same time, but i’m still shite at it 🙁 , needless to say he’s rather better.
Got 6 very old pinball machines as well and these are great fun to play, they need a bit of care and attention but some of them are almost 60 years old so that’s to be expected.
My fav game is pool though,
Also got one of those original tabletop video games that you used to see in pubs, it’s pretty cool to play as there is a choice of 50+ retro games on it.