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by anigbrowl 5098 days ago
I've never heard of Centipede before

what

Well check out tempest and Super Locomotive (which hardly anyone else remembers). And Q*Bert. And Gorf.

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Tempest and QBert are excellent.

Try to find an actual historic arcade. The games make more sense in context. In particular, Tempest has been redone in a dozen forms, but without the original spinner controller it's just not the same.

(QBert, on the other hand, is just fine in emulation.)

In the Northeast you can go to Funspot:

http://www.classicarcademuseum.org/

It's got the flavor of the real thing. Takes me back to the old days.

In Chicago (or, at least, down the street from me in the near-west suburbs) we have Galloping Ghost, which is $15 for unlimited all-day play; they have both Tempest (every time we've talked about going, Erin asks "but do they have Tempest?") and Q*Bert.