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i have no idea what my first game was maybe super mario bros.
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My first arcade game was probably the original Pole Position. I loved the driving games as a kid.
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I wasn't really a big racing fan when I was younger, but the games grew on me through the years.
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Racing games I could take or leave. It depends on how realistic it is.

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I didn't care so much about realism as I did about the feeling of sitting in a car seat and playing with a gearshift, pedals, and a steering wheel. That was such a gas for me as a kid.
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I'm going to age myself: the first arcade game I ever played was Space War.

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What the hell is Space War?
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What the hell is Space War?
I second that.
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The one that was supposedly used to train astronauts for landing on the moon?
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Screen caps?
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http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/projects/spacewar/

Supposedly an online simulation of the game. Seems like there's no point to it really.

I can't imagine how games like that could entertain people...

Although, then again, my younger cousins can't imagine how Atari, Coleco, even Nintendo could entertain me at their age.
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I can't imagine how a game like that could actually be used as a training simulator.
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There was more to it than that; in the original game, the two ships looked like the Enterprise and a Star Destroyer... kind of. I played it on a ferry from mainland BC to Vancouver Island in 1979.

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Speaking of classic games, I want the original arcade Star Wars that looked like neon beams of light that made up the pictures. Anyone remember that one? I loved it!

Here's a link to it.
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It came with the Rebel Strike game for the Gamecube, its pretty cool for its time.
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OK, now I gotta get Rebel Strike; OT footage and the original SW arcade game are too hard to pass up.

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I'm thinking about buying an entire GameCube just for that. Finally have the justification. And I might get the classic Metroid collection.
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It also has the ESB and ROTJ arcade games.
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Damn you, Sessler. I'm drooling. ...
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The main game isn't half bad either
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My wife is going to kill me; are they hidden as easter eggs, or how do you access them?

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My wife is going to kill me; are they hidden as easter eggs, or how do you access them?


You can either get all of the gold/platinum medals for the missions or use cheats like I did

You put in these cheats and you are taken to a normal Star Destroyer hanger with the Imperial March playing in the background. You see arcade cabinets in the middle of it. When you walk towards the cabinets all of a sudden Death Star disco ball comes down and the Meco version of the Star Wars theme starts playing.
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