Everybody made Mix Tapes in the 1980’s and 90’s and everybody had a cassette player, so how did you make yours and what song did you HAVE to have on the tape!? You’ll hear some the history of Mix Taping and how FM Radio sent it through the proverbial roof.

The Thursday Night Throwdown gang debates Hank Williams Jr. vs David Allen Coe, Clapton vs Vaughan and other Throwdowns plus we get a surprise Mix Tape Top Ten from—- well, it’s a surprise!

The Thursday Night Throwdown crew tackles the topic on every retro 80’s fan’s mind: What Was The Arcade Greatest Video Game! Featuring the 1981 top 10 hit “Pac Man Fever” plus a rundown of every arcade game made before they went out of style in 1986 and got supplanted by home video games. From Classic Arcade Gaming:

So based on this interesting revelation, a list has been put together of the Top 100 games for the years 1978-1986.

Compiled mostly by Pat Laffaye, various sources were used so as to minimize possible subjectivity through any personal biases. Additional input and consultation was obtained from Robert Mruczek and Mark Alpiger, both game historians and extremely knowledgeable people for putting together such a list.

Methodology: The three individuals aforementioned looked at all video games from the period 1971 (Computer Space) to 1989 (Klax) while the poll voting was taking place. Relatively quickly it was determined that there were two problems with scores prior to 1978: first, so few machines were made before the video game boom that those few that are left either are a) destroyed or b) in private collectors hands. Secondly because of the rarity of these early titles, there are no scores or very few scores, so a strong basis for score comparisons is pretty much eliminated.

Thus we all decided to focus on the years 1978-1986, while still considering over 150 popular games. We weren’t so much concerned about specifically Top 80, 100 or 120, but that we had a comprehensive list of the BEST video games from the era.

• 1980 Armor Attack
• 1980 Battle Zone
• 1980 Berzerk
• 1980 Centipede
• 1980 Crazy Climber
• 1980 Defender
• 1980 Missile Command
• 1980 Moon Cresta
• 1980 Pac-Man
• 1980 Phoenix
• 1980 Rally X
• 1980 Star Castle
• 1980 Tempest
• 1980 Warlords
• 1980 Wizard of Wor

This is an EXCELLENT resource, check out their whole history of Arcade Games!

The Great American Hamburger Thursday Night Throwdown!