Tags 1942, After Burner, arcade, Asteroids, atari 2600, Battlezone, Breakout, defender, galaga, Galaxian, gaming, gauntlet, Ghosts 'n Goblins, Golden Axe, Joust, Mad World, mortal kombat, Outrun, pac-man, Paperboy, Pole Position, RoboCop, space invaders, star-wars, Street Fighter II, tron, video, Zaxxon
I don’t know about you people, but I grew up on classic arcade games. I spent more hours than I care to admit in front of the warming glow of an old-style CRT monitor, aiming a light gun that used to be red but had turned bright pink over the years at the endless hordes of aliens charging at me.
I died. A lot. After all, in the arcade the entire goal was to make you die as quickly and frequenly as possible to keep you putting quarters into the machines. Well, some 20+ years after arcades stopped being viable, BoingBoing has gone and made a musical montage of all the classic deaths in gaming from the 1980s.
I love the chiptune version of “Mad World,” by the way.
