Posted on 02/09/2007 8:56:25 AM PST by qam1
Finished dinner at a local Mexican restaurant not too long ago, and upon exiting passed by the open door of a neighboring computer-gaming business.
It looked like dozens of (if not more) young guys were in there playing "Halo" or some other war game against each other on networked PCs. Business appeared to be good!
Mindboggle, River Ridge Mall, Lynchburg, Virginia. Spent MANY an afternoon there getting my Joust on and sucking at Pole Position. Ah, memories.
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Good stuff. I still indulge myself the occassional game of Galaga...
Sad, but there will still be pockets of places for those who remember. I mourned my beloved pinball places until I found dens of iniquity like this one http://ujuju.com . There's also a great pinball museum in Las Vegas if you want to drop quarters and not hundreds of dollars ;-)
Now that just ain't right. ;)
There are only 3 acts in Ms. Pac Man.
It always amazes me how much I love Xevious (still do, it's available in one of the Jakks TV plug ins, as well as Gametap) while being completely horrid at the game. Galaga is still my all time favorite coin-op, followed by Elevator Action and Pengo.
You made me cry!
That game was hilarious (if I'm remember the game correctly). Wasn't the main character Dirk something?
Nevermind, wrong game. It was Dragon's Lair.
Ahhh, yes....Centipede and Frogger, two of my favs. I was never good at either, but I was more that willing to pump my hard earned allowance into those machines!
My daughter and her boyfriend play WoW at one of those places. It is a coffee place/gaming place. It has a good reputation, and I would rather have her there than God knows where. There hasn't been an issue yet. *knock wood*
Tempest was one of my faves too. They have it on a compilation, but it isn't the same without the spinny thing.
I was best at Galaga, though.
*snurgle*
Oh, and also this one. Loved it!
Ahhh yes. Wasted many an hour at my college's arcade. Wasn't much on the regular machines, but I had a real knack for pinball machines. As a Gen Xer (born 24 Nov 1976) it makes me smile to see my 7 yr old son enjoying games like Pole Position and Galaga, even if it is on a Jakks plugin or on the Game Boy Advance.
It's a sign of just how good game makers back then were that they could make games so freaking hard yet so completely addictive. Zaxxon, pretty much anything by Williams, Gravitar, great games that very few people could play for more than 5 minutes on a quarter.
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