Replies

This is cool.

I saw a review of that Flashback thing just the other day. Made me smile.

I used to play Gallaga a lot. When I was in college, I used to collect empty cans for the refund money and that was my "fun" money.

So I only played a couple of games so that I got good and could make a quarter last a LONG time.

My daughter was impressed when i found a Gallaga machine this summer, and even 20 years later, old Mom can keep it going for 15 minutes! LOL!

She was NOT impressed with the graphics, though, and told me so!

:-)

My daughter was impressed when i found a Gallaga machine this summer, and even 20 years later, old Mom can keep it going for 15 minutes

It's like riding a bike, isn't it? I play Ms. Pac Man maybe once or twice a year, and each time I make it to the final maze without a problem.

Galaga was my all-time favorite arcade game from the early 1980s. During the 1979-80 period, I worked in a restaurant that had this "cocktail table" version of the game in their bar and I had access to the coin box key. I used to get to work early in the morning before the restaurant would open so that I could take out some coins and feed them back in for free games (with the manager's permission - he even played me sometimes).

I lost interest in video games once they started getting so complicated to learn. I just don't have that kind of time anymore. I need something that I can learn to play in 5 minutes or less. Somebody gave me MYST a few years back for Christmas. The thing came with six CDs and a 90-page instruction manual! Forget it. I "regifted" it to somebody else.