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To: SnuffaBolshevik

It's from an Asteroids game I lost that I got my screen name. Me and someone else who played it at the bowling alley where the game was, used the same 3 letter initials for high scores. So we played against each other, winner keeps initials loser picks something else. I lost* so I closed my eyes and randomily picked letters and up came QAM and 25 years later I am still using that name (Now systems require you to use 4 characters minimum so I later tacked on the 1).

* I technically won, But in Asteroids when you go over 99,990 it resets back to 0 and I had 99,970 and just before I commited suicide into a 20pt Asteroid to get a perfect 99,990 the ^@^# little ship shot it out from under me and I crashed into the resulting 50 point asteroid and went over.


28 posted on 12/11/2004 6:59:50 PM PST by qam1 (Anyone who was born in New Jersey should not be allowed to drive at night or on hills.)
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To: qam1

Oh my God! You are the legendary QAM??

Too strange...

And Defender was the game that I played endlessly.
After that, Stargate Defender.

I still have a working Atari 5200 with a ton of games, and the new, vastly improved, keypad/joysticks.


90 posted on 12/18/2004 4:16:07 PM PST by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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