Arcades in the 1980's

Congo Bongo, Carnival, and UniWar S were three games that caught my attention for sure! These three games were very fun, and I had too much fun playing these classics…
Congo Bongo is an arcade game that is similar to a very well-known Nintendo game called Donkey Kong. Although the theme and layout of both games are very similar, the objective game Congo Bongo is different. Congo Bongo is about adventures of a safari hunter who tries to catch an ape (coincidence… I think not!). Gamers have to navigate through only four different levels and avoid countless enemies. Unlike other games, players have the choice to increase the intensity of this game to their liking. Only two players can play this game simultaneously. Like Donkey Kong, the player has to jump or sidestep everything that comes close to them. This game was released
in 1983 and was developed by Sega. 
The second game I played was Carnival. To me this was a really cute game because of all the carnival animals. The objective of this Sega created game is to shoot the carnival animals with a limited amount of ammo. This game was very distinct to other games in its time because it had a bonus round to it. The bonus round included a big bear that you could shoot at as many times as possible until it disappears off the screen. At the end of each round, the player receives points for all the unused ammo. Carnival ends when you run out of bullets, and sadly I ran out very fast. This game was released in 1980 by Sega in almost every arcade. In 1982, however, Carnival was released to ports like Atari 2600, ColecoVision, and Intellivision. 
Now UniWar S was one that I enjoyed the most because the title reminded me of Star Wars and I am a huge fan of Star Wars. The objective of this awesome, well thought out game is to shoot the incoming enemies, or space soldi
ers. These space soldiers try to spear you from behind by trying to make it to the bottom of the screen where you are. Because the settings are so similar, this made me think of Star Wars even more. Considering the fact that the first Star Wars movie was made in 1977, maybe just maybe they based this game off of the movie… Like many games in it’s time, it has four stages of enemies to shoot. This game was released in 1980 by Irem and was a very popular game.
I loved all these games because like I have mentioned before I love old antique things. I really enjoyed this and let me tell you, these were not the only
classic games I was playing though…





All these images are from Wikipedia.