I never thought of starting a video game thread. Usually I just hijack other threads to talk about video games :) I think there was one video game thread a while back, though, on old PC nostalgia.
A while back my family and I went to see a movie, and in the lobby there was an old arcade game -- Galactica! With the 8-bit graphics and everything. It was so awesome. I could have played that game forever.
That's what's so wonderful about arcade games. Anyone can play them, anytime. There aren't storylines, mini-tasks, character developments... just gameplay. Businessmen and teenagers alike could play them, and then walk away. You can't do that with today's games (not that they aren't good in their own respect).