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80s Video Game Sweaters

By on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 | No Comments

Found the following pics on a website where the blogger’s mother knitted some sweaters based on arcade games of the 80s. I’m not sure if I’d wear them today, but they are a great time warp back to the decade that mattered Incoming search terms:video game sweater80s video gamesarcade sweaterclassic 80s arcade games80s video game [...]

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Missile Command Retro Game

By on Monday, February 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment

Missile command was a very simple (as far as graphics go) yet very addictive arcade game released in 1980 by Atari. The aim of the game was to defend your six cities against a never ending barrage of missiles, and with your three anti-battery stations, you had to stop them. To do so you had [...]

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Play Galaga online here

By on Friday, February 13th, 2009 | No Comments

A very popular arcade game of the 80s was Galaga. It was the sequel to Galaxian and was released in 1981 by Namco. I’d call Galaxian a typical space invaders clone but taken to the next level where the aliens have much more movement when flying around. Galaga goes one step further. The aliens fly [...]

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Play Qix online

By on Thursday, November 27th, 2008 | No Comments

Qix was released in 1981 by Taito. The aim of the game was to claim a majority (75%) of the playing field with your little marker. You could draw fast or slow (thus gaining more points) lines to claim your land. Trying to stop you was the Qix, a randomly moving object (and quite adavnced [...]

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