So....I actually have a connection here as I used to work in the game industry. I loooove old games. I worked at 3DO and if anyone here played any 3DO games from 1997-1999 (High Heat Baseball, Army Men, Battle Tank, or later versions of Might & Magic or Heroes III-IV) then you've heard my voice.
I was not a voice actor - I was an IT geek who fixed computers and worked the help desk.
But I auditioned to do heckling for the High Heat game and did vendor calls & heckling ("my mother hits better than you!") - while doing that, the sound guy was trying people out to do the voice-over for the opening credit of all the 3DO games....when the 3 characters swooshed into the screen with sound effects, you heard a voice say "3DO!"
That, was my voice.
Anyway, I worked there with the gal who helped to create Asteroids, and Tempest and several other "classics".
Personally I've been gaming since the original pong, the 1st system I owned was an Atari, and went on from there.
I love so many of the games listed so far. Here are a few other of my favs:
Marble Madness
Paperboy
The laser disk era games like Dragon's Lair & Space Ace...Don Bluth was awesome
Q-Bert
Kung Fu (think that was the name - side-view Red fighter & white fighter)
Battlezone - Such an awesome game
Golden Axe "warrior needs food badly" - I pumped so many quarters into that one!
Contra
Commando
Time Pilot
Missile Command
Joust
Berserk "intruder alert, intruder alert!"
Robotron 3000
Ghosts & Goblins
Defender
Scramble (defender on steroids)
Xevious
Duck Hunt
Frogger
Track & Field
Pole Position
NFL Blitz (ok, I think this was 90s but it was awesome)
That awesome racing game with the little gold wrenches - up to 4 players - gah! What was that called?!? Loved that one. Was it championship sprint?
Many many more...love this topic!