Have you guys ever been to the pinball museum in Vegas? I visited a couple of times. They have super old games from the early early early arcade days. Some of the pinball machines are worth playing just to appreciate the best our ancestors had, but also to understand that at the time, they’d never played anything like it.
You’re probably right. I didn’t even play Mario. It wasn’t interesting to me. I found the games I could make quarters last on and focused on them.
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JC can serve another term right?
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It’s been quite a while, but I don’t remember a bar. I’m the wrong person to pay attention to whether there is a bar, though. Can’t be one more than ten paces away if not
We went there once. A lot of the games were broken, or subpar quality, but they were the games. I played Tron, and quickly realized how effing awful that was as a game. It was a true quarter eater.
Mine are all 40+ years old.
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Tron - level 1 trivially easy, level 2 very hard, level 3 - completely impossible.
Or something like that.
Discs of Tron was a lot of fun.
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Some selected ones for me:
Punch-Out!!
Karate Champ
Star Wars
Excitebike
Tetris
Millipede
Jungle Hunt
Off Road
Mat Mania
Phoenix
Crazy Climber
I think this weekend’s posting will result in microdaughter never ever ever inviting her 20-something friends to come anywhere near this place.
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True. And to the broken games thing, there’s usually a repairman there tweaking things, fixing a sixty-year-old machine. It’s a piece of history worth seeing at least once, sort of like seeing someone planking IRL.
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What is a teahut?
It’s sort of like a coffeehut, because both are composed of four wallhuts
It’s like Pizza Hut, only for tea.
I don’t think it’s that famous arcade-wise, but on the NES everybody I knew played the hell out of Life Force.
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That was an epic game. I never could beat it on the NES but later in life I got a ROM of it and cheated like a bitch and finished it. Konami had so many incredible NES games.
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Did he specifically not sing the song for 1 out of the 5 of you?
The movie was better because of two specific things.
tittays
Long read on taxi medallion prices, which were often pointed to as a scam to justify the rise of Uber. Cliffs: They were in fact a scam, but not quite in the way people thought. The whole thing was a pump and dump scheme by outsiders.
Detective suzzer asking the questions no one else thinks to ask