Blog Assignment #9- My Top Five

In the novel, High Fidelity and also in the subsequent film, there is a lot of talk about personal "top fives."  You are going to come up with your "Top Five."  The category is up to you (school appropriate).  The selections 1-5 are up to you.  Order your list from 5 to 1.

Write a few complete sentences describing each choice and why it merits a spot in your "Top Five."
Include a link to each thing (if possible).

Example:

Blog Assignment #9- My Top Five Classic Arcade Video Games

The following is a list of my top five classic arcade games.

5.  Space Invaders (1978)-  One of the first wave of arcade video games, this alien battling game was an instant classic.  The first time I saw this machine I was instantly hooked.  I prefer Space Invaders over Asteroids (1979) because of the graphics and the ease of gameplay.

4.  Ms. Pac Man (1981)-  Pac Man was good, but Ms. Pac Man was great.  Bouncing prizes and changing mazes upped the gameplay to make a very enjoyable upgrade from the original.  Being eleven years old and poor was a bad combination.  I spent a lot of time watching people play instead of playing myself.

3.  Super Pac Man (1982)-  Yet another extension of the Pac Man story.  The regular dots were replaced by the prize of each level along with keys that unlocked walls to get to those prizes.  This edition featured the super pellet that transformed Pac Man into Super Pac Man.  He became very large, fast and flew threw locked walls to gobble the prizes.  I ended up playing this game a lot in my late teens.

2.  Q*bert (1982)-  One of the first classic games to use a virtual 3D game board.  Q bert was a funny little creature that needed to change the blocks to a specific color by hopping onto them.  He had to avoid snakes, falling balls and other creatures.  If he fell off of the game board there was a knocking mechanism inside the cabinet that would sound.  When he was touched by one of the creatures or hit by a ball he would curse in his alien language.

1.  Donkey Kong (1981)-  One of the first video games that had a storyline.  The villain (Donkey Kong) kidnaps the lady (Pauline) from the carpenter (Mario) and your goal is to maneuver Mario through different mazes and obstacles in order to save Pauline.  Donkey Kong spawned 2 sequels (DK Junior and DK3).  DK Junior was possibly better than the original, but I'm gonna give the Number 1 spot to Donkey Kong.

I remember the early eighties in the town I grew up in.  An arcade called Outer Limits opened and at one point or another had all these games.  I was yet into my teens and wished I had the disposable income to afford playing all day long.  Alas, I was poor, and spent a lot of time watching older and wealthier people play these awesome games.