ALS'/DLF' : your daily dose of Arcade Life Style...inside the Dragon's Lair!
Loved that game on the C64 (the trick was to use the auto-fire on your joystick when you reached a gate)
Somehow this didn´t stop us from playing those games
All in all, it's a miracle I became a peaceful geek even after playing constantly games like Commando, Green Beret, Combat School, Rambo and many more during a period of time when my brain was very malleable...
(...) and headaches.
Don´t want to hijack this one, but speaking of games banned in germany: i think everyone with who had a C64 or 2600 played and loved River Raid:River Raid was the first video game to be banned for minors in West Germany by the Federal Department for Writings Harmful to Young Persons (German: Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Schriften). The indexation notes of 19 December 1984 explains that, in River Raid, "minors are intended to delve into the role of an uncompromising fighter and agent of annihilation (...). It provides children with a paramilitaristic education (...). With older minors, playing leads (...) to physical cramps, anger, aggressiveness, erratic thinking (...) and headaches." (BPjS-Aktuell Heft 2/84)