#2 Food Fight
Arcade, Atari 7800: 1983, 1986
In Food Fight you play as Charley, some darling, doe-eyed, tow-headed Dickensian moppet. As Charley, you are all about the ice cream. Man, do you love ice cream. You will risk life and limb, and tempt death itself, to eat some fucking ice cream.
I don't purport to understand why the four chefs—Oscar, Angelo, Jacques, and Zorba—are so violently opposed to Charley having some ice cream, but fun-killers that they are, these chefs are basically out to murder you. And they can't even be mature adults about it: they're throwing food right and left. Food! It's like if you crossed Battle Royale with that one scene from Hook. What's that? You say I just missed out on a primo Hunger Games joke? Bangarang!