Obscure Arcade Games, Presented By Gary

Used to be there were many thousands of different arcade games that you could find nearly, in arcades, convenience stores, grocery stores, gas stations and sometimes even just on a street corner. In the US (the country that originated arcade games somehow), those days have been gone for a long time, unless you count video poker machines as arcade games, and I don’t, as doing so would send me into a profound depression. More than that, arcade games in the days of their ascendance had a breadth and variety that no other style of video game has ever had. Even home microcomputers, to my eyes, didn’t see games as ludicrously peculiar as arcade games could be, especially in their early days. Somebody on Youtube with the user name GaryRetroGamer has made a three videos showing off obscure but interesting arcade games from the 80s, ranging in length from 20 to 25 minutes, 127 games from 1983-1984 (25 minutes): 133 from 1985-1986 (22 minutes): and 100 from the late 80s: To help you track down…