Your favorite game when you were a kid?

[Pop Bumper Pete]

What were you favorite game that you would always play back when you were a kid?

I could never go past Card Whiz, Solar City, Sinbad and Evel Knevel
I would also play Eight Ball deluxe and Space Shuttle whenever I could

[pinnies4me]

Great topic!

Mine was Time Warp - loved those banana flippers, and for some reason I could always own that game.

[Freiherr]

Depends what your definition of a kid is.
I always say that I got my skills on Gottlieb EMs as a kid.  Funny thing is,  Williams got my attention big time with titles like Superstar,  Travel Time,  Gulfstream and El Rancho.
Bally  continued to lure me in the golden years with Lost World,  Supersonic,  Playboy,  Kiss,  Star Trek.
Then came my 2 favourites Black Knight and Firepower.
That's it,  I then became a big kid.

[Pop Bumper Pete]

Freiherr, 'kid' can mean what ever you like
No rules in a PBP thread

[oldskool1969]

Every year at the Perth Royal Show I HAD to play Whirlybird (helicopter simulator in a bubble) in the massive arcade hall they had set up in side show alley.
Geez I miss that place. Not a pinball but cool as fxxk!
This place had so many old EM arcade machines, pins and video machines.

[spacejam0]

I first got hooked on pinball around 35 years on the em's at the anchorbell caravan in cowes phillip island. There were 4 machines i remember one was kingpin and down the road at the council park was a sinbad the rest of the games names escape me but i loved them all.
It was a few years later that i became hooked on kiss, playboy, paragon and space invaders at toy world in brandon park spending all my free time and papper round money there. Kiss was my favorite but hard to get a game with all the 20 cent peices piled up on the glass.

[Strangeways]

Every year at the Perth Royal Show I HAD to play Whirlybird (helicopter simulator in a bubble) in the massive arcade hall they had set up in side show alley.
Geez I miss that place. Not a pinball but cool as fxxk!
This place had so many old EM arcade machines, pins and video machines.

As soon as I saw the thread title - This Game (Whirlybird) popped into my head. I remember this game as a young child. Pinballs - GTB Super Score and Kingpin. WMS Winner, Olympic Hockey and Honey. Bally Nip It was unforgettable with the Balligator.

As I got older - Spirit of 76 became my favorite.

Then Paragon appeared and was instantly my favorite. It still is. It would be the last game out of my collection.

[andypinboy]

As a kid (little) it was Kiss - this is an iconic machine I've never forgotten. But I really picked up pinball when at uni & it was Shadow I would play the most (it was new at the time).

[Scotty]

NSW - Ballina RSL = Bally Playboy, I was 10yrs old on holidays, was about 1979

NSW - Gerringong  milk bar = Space Invaders,  about 1982 - 83. im sure from memory it was a week long holiday with some school mates and one of their parents, a beautiful part of the country, beaches etc. etc.. spent every day of that week at the Space Invaders machine.

[StuartT]

Eight Ball Deluxe and it made me a fan of drop target games.
It was also the first machine I bought.

[Steve2010]

For sure not the best games out there, but were my "favourites" as a kid in the 1970's .... starting out with Old Chicago, Delta Queen, Freedom, Buccaneer, Jacks Open.  Starting playing pins probably around 1974/75 and of course at that time there were just EMs.  The early SS I do remember playing tons of were Mata Hari and Future Spa.

[Pop Bumper Pete]

For sure not the best games out there, but were my "favourites" as a kid in the 1970's .... starting out with Old Chicago, Delta Queen, Freedom, Buccaneer, Jacks Open.  Starting playing pins probably around 1974/75 and of course at that time there were just EMs.  The early SS I do remember playing tons of were Mata Hari and Future Spa.

that is whyt I started this thread

we all know which are the game that appeal to us as adults
but back in the 70s and 80's, you could only play what you found on location

we all know that Black Knight is the best of the two level, magna-save, multiball games . but what if the ops in you area did not have any BKs, did jungle lord get all your 20c or did Pharaoh ((as in my case, no Black Knights, only Pharaoh)

[Brunswick Brawler]

Pinball - a taboo
I didn't really play much as a kid - I felt guilty spending my parents hard earned money!

The only two games I remember, were at the local squash court at separate times: Kiss and Playboy.  True - perhaps the reason why I only remember those is that I've been hearing about those ever since.  I can't recall any of the many other games I would have seen and but rarely played as a kid, yet I love EM games.  Perhaps catching up on lost time as a youngster, when I craved playing them but didn't.

Wine - "it's good for you"
From the age of 10, my father always encouraged me to drink wine at the dinner table instead of what he called 'trash soft drink'.  The amount of alcohol I've drank in my whole life is probably less than 20 litres.  I have minimal interest in alcohol.


The moral:
Make something a Taboo as a child, and you are sure to encourage a passion for it.  Don't taboo something, and there will be no interest in it.

So teach all young kids that pinball is bad!  

[Wiked]

Used to play Hankin FJ at Ballina squash courts a fair bit back in the early 80's. Played Kiss, Playboy and Harlem Globetrotters at Goonellabah Tenpin Bowling Alley. The Ampol (Chew and Spew) in Ballina had only room for 2 but they did change them out regularly. I remember Gorgar, Black Knight, Centaur and many other new ones but was blown away when black hole arrived one day.

[andypinboy]

Pinball - a taboo
I didn't really play much as a kid - I felt guilty spending my parents hard earned money!

The only two games I remember, were at the local squash court at separate times: Kiss and Playboy.  True - perhaps the reason why I only remember those is that I've been hearing about those ever since.  I can't recall any of the many other games I would have seen and but rarely played as a kid, yet I love EM games.  Perhaps catching up on lost time as a youngster, when I craved playing them but didn't.

Wine - "it's good for you"
From the age of 10, my father always encouraged me to drink wine at the dinner table instead of what he called 'trash soft drink'.  The amount of alcohol I've drank in my whole life is probably less than 20 litres.  I have minimal interest in alcohol.


The moral:
Make something a Taboo as a child, and you are sure to encourage a passion for it.  Don't taboo something, and there will be no interest in it.

So teach all young kids that pinball is bad!  

BB - this is incredibly insightful & very true. And sometimes it cycles by generation - eg . a liberal generation (grandparents), strict generation (parents), liberal generation (me). Alcohol was not welcome at my parents' home & so it was pretty interesting to me as a teen - & I still enjoy a good drop    Another eg. is although mum & dad were well-off they would always be careful with things like not use the dryer & dry things on the line. It annoyed me to the point that if I want to run my heating at 26 degrees & wear shorts around the house I do. And nah - Kiss was awesome at the time - I reckon it's from those days, not what you've heard since.