Posted on 06/30/2004 10:19:24 AM PDT by jj_fate
At least it wasn't KLINGON.
"Tak ba, Tak Beha!"
Understood.
I'd better go to bed now before I REALLY start getting weird and typo-ing myself to death!
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).
We have an old computer. If I even tried to play today's PC games, the system would probably crash (and die and burn).
Goooooooo chu! [Christopher Lloyd, "Star Trek III"]
Good night! When you wake up you'll still be trapped in the thread, bwahahahah! :)
Galactica--LOL! I remember my friend in 6th grade was good at that. I always got killed on the first screen :) My favorite arcade game is probably Ms. Pac-Man. I also love the old Atari home games.
My father loved Asteroids. And there's always Pong. (Now THERE's a retro classic!)
You know, they have a little vid-game system out called 'TV games' by Jaks Pacific. There are several editions of this $20 system that have old arcade games on 'em. One of them has a bunch of the old Atari games on it -- and another one has Ms. Pac Man! You can find it in toy aisles at Wal Mart.
Several platforms...PC, mac ( mine) X-Box, PS2...
Conversation was all over the place.
Darksheare wrote:
I'll grab this leg, you grab the other, we'll drag him over to that corner there, wrap him up good, and try not to walk on opposite sides of that pole back there in the process.
Perhaos Lord Vicodin will release his new charge long enough for some basic necessity later, but that isn't likely knowing Lord Vicodin.
Doesn't matter what I say. this thread is trash.
My husband is devoted to Batman
I like Spiderman, but always had a real soft-spot for Superman.
I haven't seen that Jaks Pacific system. Usually I use this to play retro games:
How did you get your soft spot for Superman? Batman was the first hero I liked because of the old live-action TV show and the "Superfriends" cartoon. The latter is how I learned about Superman as well, so Superman was my second big superhero. Then when I was about 4 or 5 I first saw Spider-Man a little later when they added him to "Electric Company", and he became my favorite after that.
And before all that, the first cartoon I ever watched was "Speed Racer". I also remember seeing "Wally Gator" and "Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har-Har" early on.
The graphics on the PS2 and Xbox are really impressive. G4TEchTV had a special on the XBox today. Told about the history of it. Four guys got together and brainstormed it up. I'm gonna do that someday! All I need is Bill Gates behind me! LOL
Nintendo's Gamecube is cheaper and more family-oriented in the games, but Nintendo is getting left in the dust by its competitors. It's making more games for the hand-held systems than for the console.
Watched Superman with my dad and as a little kid spending WAYYYYYY to much time in a hospital, on crutches, in braces or in a cast.
( screwed up hips and back, and botched surgery)
So i read a lot, watched too much TV, and got into ANYTHING that would take me out of where I was....
Got into Star Trek TOS that way, too.
I'll have to try to get the G4TEchTV special about the XBox.
We have a PS2, and my husband and daughter fight over it....
I'm off to bed.
for real this time!
Sleep well, lads!
Which Superman did you watch? When I was little they used to show reruns of the live-action show.
I first caught "Star Trek" in cartoon/comic form in the early 70s, when I had a "Star Trek" board game and toy phasers :) I didn't watch the live-action show until I was older and saw it in syndication. In between "Star Wars" came along.
"Planet of the Apes" was another thing I liked back then.
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