Haven't played pinball in years....
Curious as to what us older people played for video games as a kid
Asteroids
Armor attack (which we figured out and played for hours on 2 quarters)
Space invaders
Frogger, Donkey Kong, PAC man, were a little bit after my time
Played or play? I still partake. This might get long winded!
I grew up on the original Nintendo. Played some Atari when visiting family but never owned one. On NES some notable favorites were super Mario 1-3, Kung Fu, Renegade, Break thru, bubble bobble, mega man 1, I’m sure there are literally a hundred more. I actually did own a cartridge that held 110 games.
Was the last kid in town to get a sega Genesis, and didn’t care for it as much. NHL 94 was great though. Sega has its gems but there was a lot of junk.
Original PlayStation was the game changer imo. NFL game day 98, NHL faceoff 98, all of the fighting and racing titles, cool boarders 2, Tony Hawk. Not to mention the chip i soldered into the board that bypassed the security check, allowing copied discs to play. I did have a frogger disc for PlayStation too actually, and it was quite fun
N64 and PS2 were the last consoles i purchased. Got some good mileage out of those too. When i moved out in college i bought a used ps2 and used copy of the original SOCOM game, just so i could play online on a squad with my two youger brothers. That was tons of fun.
A couple years ago i received a Switch for Xmas. I love it. The kids love it. It’s such an incredibly well rounded platform. The only thing Nintendo lacks is sports titles, but i don’t play them much these days anyway. It’s got games the kids can play alone or together, games i can play alone, stuff i can play together with the lady friend, and titles we can all play together.
Right now, I’m just about finished with my very first play through of the resident evil 1 remaster. I haven’t played the original in over 25 years, so with the cleaned up graphics and quicker loading screens, this legitimately feels like one of the best games I’ve ever played. I don’t know how I finished it when I was a kid.