I would follow my two older brothers up to the arcade (on my roller skates), which they totally loved (seriously). I tried all of the games, but was a rock star at Tempest - and was not too shabby at PacMan... Once all of our quarters were gone, we'd go next door to the Winn-Dixie and get a doughnut. That was good living.

As the "seniority" (in years of age) member of the Pickering staff, my PacMan memories are those of being far outdone by my kids in ability. PacMan was fascinating to watch, and little did I realize it was only a rough form of what was to come via video games.

My dad and I used to go to the local department store and play Donkey Kong on their demo game system.
Later I got my own Commodore 128 and dialed up the local BBS (Bulletin Board System) at 300 baud.

Not long ago my son tried out Moon Patrol and his response was "that was harder than I thought it would be"

I was terrible at all console video games. It was a waste of quarters for me, even more so than for other kids. That's when I got into Pin-Ball.

Donkey Kong was one of the greatest games...by I like LauraMc was pretty dang good at Tempest. Those were the days!