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* Q: What were your go-to video games at the arcade?

* Justin Diehl: The full size 6 player Xmen and Dragon’s Lair.

* Janet Westlund: My faves were Mrs. Pacman, Pacman, and King’s Quest. But I played Centipede the best.

* John Clifford: Battlezone, Tempest, Qix and Tron were some of my favorites.

* Scott Tyler: Dragon’s Lair

* Shaun Brachman: Asteroids

* Kevin Devin: Galaga and Asteroids

* Brian Hollandsworth: Ms. Pacman, Dig Dug, Pole Position, Hang On

* Dan Wideman: Galaga

* Ben Sweetser: Jungle Hunt, Qix, Pacman, Pinball

* Jon Lyle: Asteroids

* David English: Tempest, Defender, Stargate,

* Tiffany Matlock: Pole position

On This Day In History for April 6, 2016

This is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 269 days remaining in 2016.

* It was on this date in 1199 that King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder.

* At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town 364 years ago today.

* Also today in 1808, John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America’s first millionaire.

* It was 155 years ago today that Arthur Sullivan had success with his debut performance, his suite of incidental music for The Tempest, leading to a career that included the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

* April 6, 1869, Celluloid is patented.

* Also today in 1896, in Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.

* Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole on this date in 1909.

* First round-the-world flight commences on this date in 1924.

* That same date in 1926, Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).

* Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, “With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire,” beginning the Salt Satyagraha on this date in 1930.

* The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement on this date in 1947.

* April 6, 1957, Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.

* It was today in 1965 that the British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.

* It was 51 years ago today that Launch of Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.

* Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft on this date in 1973 to explore the asteroid belt, Jupiter and Saturn.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer and academic born on this date in 1851.

* Arthur Wesley Dow, the American painter and photographer was born that same date in 1857.

* Anthony Fokker, Dutch engineer and businessman, founded Fokker Aircraft Manufacturer was born today in 1890.

* Also born today in 1920, the inventor of the Taser gun, Jack Cover.

* Lando Calrissian, actor Billy Dee Williams is 79.

* At one time, this man was brought in as the CEO of Apple Computer, John Sculley turns 77.

* English mathematician and computer scientist, most noted for his work on GIS, Mike Worboys is 69.

* and finally Italian soldier, engineer,