Arcade Games on the Big Bang Theory

[jhd]

The most recent episode of the Big Bang Theory featured numerous scenes in a personal arcade/movie memorabilia collection.

 

I saw the following games:

 

Asteroids

Centipede

Computer Space (in a blue cabinet)

Donkey Kong

Donkey Kong, Jr. (?)

Gotcha

Mario Brothers

Shark Jaws

Tempest

-- unidentified cocktail game

 

Gameplay was shown for Donkey Kong and (very briefly) Centipede.

 

This is a really odd mix of well-known games and extremely obscure rarities.

 

Did anyone recgonize any other games in that episode?

[racerx]

The cocktail was a 4P Warlords.

All of the games came from Supercade.

https://www.facebook.com/supercade

[almightytodd]

When the episode first aired, I told my wife and daughter I was pretty sure I'd see a post at Atari Age about it. They're watching the episode again tonight, so I did a quick search here, and here we are... Cool games though; I especially like the Computer Space up and running.

[ledzep]

When I saw that scene and what games were in there I knew immediately that none of those dorks was going to even attempt to play Warlords or Tempest and even Asteroids would be too intimidating for them. They went for the "safe" game, Donkey Kong. I mean there's adhering to a stereotype (nerdy guy wouldn't do well with confrontation) but there's being too literal sometimes, can't even deal with the more "violent" arcade games. No, I'm not a fan of "cute" games beyond Centipede (which isn't that cute but coded by a woman and geared towards girls, apparently) and Dig Dug. I had hoped that the writers would have gone beyond the stock/safe/predictable (Donkey Kong, at least it wasn't Pac-Man) and had those guys at least trying Warlords because it's 4-player or Tempest because one of them could express his inner I can defeat an endless horde of enemies dream. And, ya, I understand that it tied into a cheap dig at Leonard about him fantasizing about ending up with the blonde but they'd already referenced that earlier in the episode (talking to creepy guy in their apartment) so it was lazy.

 

I am glad that they had so many actual arcade games (from the best era) in the scene but I'm disappointed that Team Dork didn't even acknowledge the other games by name or pretend to recognize them or like them. Their nerd cred would have been much higher if they had been excited about all the games. If my games (Space Duel, Red Baron, Xevious, a few others) had been in that scene those guys would have been dumbfounded. Of course Sheldon would have been playing the hell out of my Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator game, haahaha.