I took a recent stumble down memory lane the other day when I discovered the Killer List of Video Games. Though I did have fairly regular access to an Atari 2600 when I was a kid, the dimly-lit dens of iniquity known as video arcades was where I cut my teeth on videogames, like many a child of the late Seventies and early Eighties.

This is the most comprehensive list of old arcade games I’ve seen to date. I was happy to find an entry for Sea Wolf; a few years ago I unearthed an old composition book from the fourth or fifth grade in which I gave the game high marks. I clearly remember fogging up the viewpiece of the periscope for as long as my exasperated father would keep feeding me tokens. I was also delighted to find M-79 Ambush, which I had completely forgotten about, until the screenshots took me back to ages past.

Never having been one for Pac-Man, Asteroids, or some of the other games commonly considered "classics", I seem to have gravitated towards games involving robots: Blasted and Escape From The Planet of The Robot Monsters were two that I remember sinking uncounted quarters into. From this perspective, my deep distrust of artificial intelligence seems to have germinated just after I graduated from high school.

This site is definitely worth a browse or two. Not only does it go back quite a way, it also contains really weird gems like Knock Out!! that was produced by a company with the provocative name "KKK", as well as games that I don’t remember, with interesting names like Homo, Irritating Maze, and Tinkle Pit. I can’t imagine why those never caught on.