My Favourite Video Game Featuring: Ghosts of Sunset
My Favourite Video Game is a guest feature from bands and artists where we set them a simple task… tell us about your favourite video game. In this feature, hard rock/heavy metal duo Ghosts of Sunset took up the mantle, and you can read all about their choice below.
My favourite video game? This is going to be tough and maybe even boring because I’m O.G. status when it comes to gaming. My first system was literally “Pong”. Of course, eventually I graduated to “Atari 2600” and the game that occupied most of my time was Pac Man as I recall. For the time, it seemed so sophisticated and advanced. Remember we had just come from a blip going back and forth across the screen, now we could interact with other figures that occupied this “world” AND we were able to play actual ARCADE video games in our own homes.
So, on 2600 I rocked a ton of Pac Man and other classics of the era. It seems like I remember when “Defender” came out in about 1982 I loved that game and played it a lot. Again, it was mind-blowing to play arcade games on the living room floor in front of the TV. “Night Driver” was a fun one too. Also, of note to gamers who know their history, I also played a lot of “E.T.” which has been dubbed the worst game of all time and caused the video game crash of 1983. Make sure you watch “Atari: Game Over” a 2014 documentary about the topic. Cool stuff.
After the 2600, we got Coleco Vision and the “arcade experience” jumped forward significantly. This is where you found all the arcade classics. “Donkey Kong”, “Donkey Kong JR”, “River Raid”, etc… During this era, I spent a lot of time on “Qbert”, “Zaxxon” and my all-time favourite, “Pitfall”, How much did I love Pitfall? One morning before school, I was on a run playing Pitfall, I was heading to beat the game (which as I recall was to get a money bag, treasure, gold, or something like that), anyhow, I’m DOING it. I’ve got all my lives, I’m getting every available point, but alas, it’s getting time to leave for school and I’m pushing it until the last minute, knowing you can’t just stop and “save” your progress. I’ll have to restart.
My mother, who has been popping in and out of the living room as she gets ready, notices what’s happening. The time comes and we have to go, I’m about to stop and turn it off. My mother comes into the room and says, “don’t stop, I called school and told them you were sick and wouldn’t be in”. She sits down on the couch and watches, I say “mom, you have to get going to work”. She replies, “I called in and told work I was sick and wouldn’t be in”. I beat “Pitfall” that day. I had PlayStation later in life and loved Madden and “Driver”, along with “Call of Duty” and a bunch of EA Sports titles, but “Pitfall” will always be my favourite and one of my best memories of my mother.
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