I do remember playing an Asteroids arcade game. Galaga was probably the first I played a lot.  My older brother claims he played a Pong machine in the lobby of the Four Seasons hotel in LA in the early 70s.

I’m not quite old enough to remember Pong, but I do remember when Space Invaders came in two styles: the big budget actual color screen version and the lame ass black and white version where a colored film was pasted onto the screen to make it seem like it was in color.

My favorite was Space War, which I think actually pre-dated Pong in it’s creation, if not deployment (might be wrong on that)—overall, the vector based games (Space War, Asteroids, Battlezone, Moon Lander) were more appealing to me than the raster games (SI, PacMan, Defender, Crappy Beat ‘em Up Du Jour).

My favorite arcade was in a local holiday town: they’d rescued a bunch of games from the pre-decimilsation era, mostly all mechanical and with a huge number of classic pinball machines, and you’d trade in your new money for the old coins these machines knew. It was a great way to view how pin table design had evolved, and was also very cheap (increased by the fact that these games would allow you to play until you lost, which could be hours if you knew what you were doing—no extra money required.)

Damn I miss my analog flipper and plunger…

You may not remember Pong, dimmer, but you ARE old enough ‘cause *I* remember Pong.

Ah, but I was back in the old world, where our entertainment was still mostly sheep worrying. Hell, we didn’t have electricity.

(BTW, the best way to worry a sheep is to start from an existentialist position, then slip into classic cynic. Fucks their heads right up.)

Or just separate it from the herd. That’ll scare it up quick.