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My favorite new (to me) old game was probably the first controversial game, Death Race -- you and a buddy compete in running down "gremlins" (probably changed to placate moralists) who give a thoroughly unpleasant squeal and they transform into a tombstone that then blocks the progress of your death-on-wheels car.


I liked it quite a lot.


Leonard was more staid.


Leonard playing a comically undersized game he remembered from his dentist's office, "Leprechaun".


I got the high score in Gyruss!


And Pengo. Though it looks like I was the first person to play that day. Still, still I got through many levels, honed from years of experience in the Atari 2600 version years prior... Leonard didn't know there was a "kick the wall to stun enemies" trick. Though as I crunched Sno-Bee egg after egg (to stop new Sbo-Bees from form to replace their squished-by-sliding-ice-block comrades I wondered if this game would have been as popular if it had been called "The Sno-Bee Holocaust".