Comments on: 1970s Video Games: History, Pictures & Consoles

By: chef Mark K

chef Mark K — Mon, 17 May 2021 16:32:54 +0000

found it. Computer Space.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Space

By: chef Mark K

chef Mark K — Mon, 17 May 2021 15:56:23 +0000

I played that game to the point of bankruptcy and finally beat it. Had the entire arcade surrounding the machine cheering me on. I think I walked away after 30-35 minutes and never played again. If memory serves me (and it frequently does not anymore) I believe it was called Space Odyssey. I too am looking for info on it. I think that it was in a curvy futuristic plastic enclosure and the gamer controlled a rocket type ship that could go forwards only but you could rotate it to reverse direction. I remember that it wrapped around if you went off of the screen as did the (photon torpedoes) that you fired so you could hit one of those alien saucers by firing off the screen and have it come around and hit it from behind’

By: rae

rae — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 14:00:31 +0000

I recall the game too. My parents owned a small town hotel & had this in the bar. I can’t find info on it either. Good memory on the names of the 2 players.

By: Q. Green

Q. Green — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 22:26:18 +0000

There was a video game at the theater I used to go to in 76-77 that I remember putting a lot of quarters in, despite it being graphically hard to look at; huge block graphics, one of which was the Enterprise from ST:TOS. It was a shooter, and I don’t remember if it was using a primitive color monitor or it had a colored lens, but the Enterprise was yellow!. No ideal what the name was, but it was there about the same time Death Rase was out.

By: neider xavier

neider xavier — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 21:42:12 +0000

sure friend, what you played in 1972 was called computer space from 1971, first commercial arcade video game

By: TS Resul

TS Resul — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 02:00:41 +0000

That was Asteroids too. But a newer version. I forgot the name. I used to play that too.

By: Kevin KNAPP

Kevin KNAPP — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:19:56 +0000

Impossible game to find..the spaceship crashes and by typing in commands you get the alien to search for the parts of the soceship that are scattered around..rebuild the spaceship so you can leave the planet you crashed on..pc game that I played in the 70s ..basic game but I couldn’t figure out what command to type..miracle if someone knows this game..was on old floppy disk

By: Gael Cortezano Funez

Gael Cortezano Funez — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 02:01:37 +0000

I never thought we have video games at the 1970!!!

By: cecil adams

cecil adams — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 15:15:37 +0000

multi player game in which answering questions took you to a higher level. the trip took you thru a “forest” and swamp infested with crocidals and I believe hippos. Incorprated learning and working your way thru this maze of animals and terrain at the same time. I don’t remember it as a compition as much as an educational game.

By: Michael Mcfadden

Michael Mcfadden — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 00:52:18 +0000

Somewhere around 1972 a friend took me to an arcade in vaguely midtown or lower Manhattan where they had an AMAZING game (for the time!) It was basically an ASTEROIDS on steroids with little flying saucers that would fly out to shoot at you and spice things up. There was only one of the machines at the place and it cost 50 cents a pop instead of 25 cents…

And it wasn’t until Asteroids itself appeared in ’78/’79 that I saw anything similar.

Anyone have any idea what game it was that I played back in ’72?