One more thing, we rent some space out to a friend of ours that rebuilds, repairs, and sells pinball machines, juke boxes and video games. Here's a pic of some of the machines he has. We have plenty of fun on breaks around here!
I've always loved pinball. I still have the Gottlieb "wedge-head" Cowpoke machine that was the first one my dad ever bought. It takes dimes and it still is really fun to play. It's funny how people's tastes change and it just isn't popular any more.
I lived these ads, minus the whole parental interaction part. I logged time on a TRS-80 at school until you could get the TI-99 4A for $50. Most adults were terrified of computers back then and the computer games pretty much sucked except for Chisholm Trail...Explaining extended basic to your parents was the equivalent of your parents explaining sex to you when you were 3.
I always make the OK sign while watching video games!
It shows how I overwhelmingly approve of what my kids are playing and works to mitigate the risk of the game console coming to life and killing us in our sleep!
"booted from the TV" ??
Pfft, wannabe geek! I had the Commodore color monitor for my C64, complete with composite video input (which I later hooked up to my first VCR to watch movies in my room!)
Even if the game system emitted nitrous oxide, dispensed cheeseburgers, AND printed money, I do not think that it would make me THAT happy. That's some serious crazy going on there!
When I was in college, some friends of mine discovered (I can only imagine how) that if you picked up one corner of one of the pinball machines at the student union and dropped it at just the right velocity, it'd give you a free replay. Of course, there was very little leeway between "free game" and "tilt," but after enough practicing they could play the machine for free all night.
Back when my family had money, we had 2 arcades and a pinball machine. Pong, The Blob, and Evil Knevil(sp?). I thought it was the greatest thing ever when I was a kid until a family built a house across the street and had an indoor baseball court and a basement with about a dozen arcades (Moonwalker!).
We kept the pinball machine for decades, until my brother got married last year and had to make room. It wasn't until it it was gone that I really appreciated all those things in retrospect (though they weren't for me, I have 4 siblings).
@KassiaHaoe: By 'arcades', I think he means 'video game consoles' such as Defender, Galaga, Pac-Man, Dragon's Lair, and Spy Hunter. I could be wrong though(I'm reeeal high right now), my friend Jim's parents owned an arcade around the corner from where we lived in Anaheim....we used to steal quarters all the time to buy ice cream and candy from Thrifty Drug store.
@madog: "Evel Knievel", an American motorcycle daredevil, had a lot of games (on different platforms - can we view 'pinball' a platform?) named after him, but I think most everybody pronounces his name "Evil" as you wrote it. I know we - me and my friends - did, when we were kids, and played a Evil/Evel Knievel gameon my C64.
@ipodrulz: Not really. More of a: Grandpa sells family business from underneath his son, my father, who had been running it for 20 years then my father starting up a similar business and doing the same thing to me and my brothers. We got fired through a text message from our dad! I suppose it was due to the recession though. Times were slowing down.
You know, that old story.
I hope My children aren't doomed to the same fate.
@KassiaHaoe: Just the ramblings of an old man about a past long encased deep down inside his subconscious. The kind that usually end in a friendly fire shooting spree in Modern Warfare.
@Yuri Dambyotch: Yes. "standing game contraption" if you will. Not arcade in what some may think as a "business full of several standing game contraptions".
@ipodrulz: Can't complain! Not like I'm on the street or anything. I have a computer with broadband access so I'm happy. Oh, and a healthy wife and daughter, but, you know.... broadband.
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One more thing, we rent some space out to a friend of ours that rebuilds, repairs, and sells pinball machines, juke boxes and video games. Here's a pic of some of the machines he has. We have plenty of fun on breaks around here!
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I mean, judging by the year and the dental set-up of the dad in the back, I'm going to have to go with British. Definitely British.
Let the wapping begin!
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It shows how I overwhelmingly approve of what my kids are playing and works to mitigate the risk of the game console coming to life and killing us in our sleep!
OK!!
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Pfft, wannabe geek! I had the Commodore color monitor for my C64, complete with composite video input (which I later hooked up to my first VCR to watch movies in my room!)
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We kept the pinball machine for decades, until my brother got married last year and had to make room. It wasn't until it it was gone that I really appreciated all those things in retrospect (though they weren't for me, I have 4 siblings).
Ah, those were the days.
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You know, that old story.
I hope My children aren't doomed to the same fate.
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