They made a 4 Gold? You whippersnapper, I played the first Killer Instinct
I did as well when it was in the arcade in Harrisonburg, VA, Valley Mall. Also played some altered Beast around then & Gauntlet, Galaxia, Centipede.
Still enjoyed pinball, fooze ball, air hockey, darts, bowling. We also used to go around for pickup hoops at times, or just play Horse. Played a little tennis though it wasn't exactly one we enjoyed much.
Then, I also went round to places like Blue Hole, Half Moon Beach, swam, paddle boated, canoed, fished. We built a small wash away damn from stone and silt one Summer. Swung with a rope off a high river bank that let us drop into 12-15 ft of water from around 60-70 ft off the "cliff". We also stalked, tracked, hunted, trapped.
Being weird I liked going up to the stock yard and helping as "contract" with the auctions. Sure we had Atari at home, then Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Genisis, Playstation. My younger brothers "grew up" more on video games than me. I used play Pac Man and get a line of crowns covering the top. Would piss off my step dad, that and playing Tetris like mad, beating him. Since that was the way he was, I lost interest in it.
Besides what's a country boy need TV games for? I'll go climb a tree. Go lay in the river wait to catch a turtle crawling by. Go roust out some rabbit, go wander the woods, hike a mountain tracking a cougar. I had more natural Hell to raise and keep me occupied. A better "game" was seeing how close you could get stalking critters, or running from them as bait so the men could protect the farm. Then, lead the forest ranger in to the mama's den to get her three kits. They got transplanted elsewhere after being raised up to be turned free.
Sure, I played some video games. Liked a few but also had some balance in life. Like some card games, board games too, but again still not something I'm overly "caught up" in.