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moosez45 said:
Ok, who had that football game that was about 6" wide, 9" long, and about 2" thick, that was just red dots that you moved with the arrows. I still have that and play the hell out of it. Was that the Mattel football game, because I remember it having a black chassis, and green stickers that looked like stadium seats.

You could play 1 or 2 players, and when you played your friend, usually, you wound up in a fight, LOL.

Moose
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ME ME ME... It was green, dude that totally rocked.. Somehow after I moved here from Cali it was lost, thrown away or something.. Had one for like a hundred years, that scores right up there with the paper triangle footballs you'd kick field goals with in school:D

Come on now, on coin op.. I remember when Pac-Man and Astroid's were IT.. Missle Command, Donkey Kong, Galaga, DigDug...

They didn't warp your mind like all this crap out there nowadays, don't get me wrong its all good in moderation just seemed like simpler times back when I was a kid...

the lamest game I thought could have existed I now play online every other day, Mario Kart... go figure..

I used to see my wife's little cousins playing that on the cube and thought how lame, now its like my all-time favorite mindless chitchat game..
 
moosez45 said:
Ok, who had that football game that was about 6" wide, 9" long, and about 2" thick, that was just red dots that you moved with the arrows. I still have that and play the hell out of it. Was that the Mattel football game, because I remember it having a black chassis, and green stickers that looked like stadium seats.

You could play 1 or 2 players, and when you played your friend, usually, you wound up in a fight, LOL.

Moose
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My wife found hers at her mom's house a couple of years ago. My son still plays with it from time to time.

We bought one of those $10 handheld thingamabobs that has Pac Man, Gallaga, Dig Dug and a bunch of other arcade classics. It's pretty fun.
I remember playing Zork (all text-based adventure) on the C64. Anyone else?

These days, I'm interested in games, but not so much playing them. I'm interested in them as forms of practice and as social worlds.
I want my children to appreciate the real world and the outdoors more than a virtual realm.
 
On the coin op thing, I want all the money back I spent on Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat. Jeez those things raped me. I would get some good licks in, but they still took money to run.

Coin op arcades are all but a thing of the past. With all the interactive stuff now, and HUGE flat panels, coin ops are dinky, and not real fun. I do like the ones with the guns attached to them.

Moose
 
My parents ran a small general store when I was a kid. And we had pool tables and arcade games in the back.
I got pretty good at eight-ball and nine-ball and used to whip old men and take their cash.
However, I also got crazy good at games like Frogger, Donkey Kong Jr., Galaga, Pac Man.
The store got half of what went in the machines, so it only cost me 12.5 cents a pop. :p
I'd still rather shoot a game of pool than play video games. I play with my son at Chuck E. Cheese's once in a while though.
 
Guyon said:
My parents ran a small general store when I was a kid. And we had pool tables and arcade games in the back.
I got pretty good at eight-ball and nine-ball and used to whip old men and take their cash.
However, I also got crazy good at games like Frogger, Donkey Kong Jr., Galaga, Pac Man.
The store got half of what went in the machines, so it only cost me 12.5 cents a pop. :p
I'd still rather shoot a game of pool than play video games. I play with my son at Chuck E. Cheese's once in a while though.
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I grew up in pool halls. My favorite thing in the world. Combines math, geometry, skill, hand eye, and money. I actually played on the billiards team for Texas A&M, when I went to school there. Girls and booze made that a short stay.

Sidenote, I did win a few tourney's before I left though. Won a nice Meucci 2 point. Still got it, so does the cue.

Moose
 
moosez45 said:
On the coin op thing, I want all the money back I spent on Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat. Jeez those things raped me. I would get some good licks in, but they still took money to run.

Coin op arcades are all but a thing of the past. With all the interactive stuff now, and HUGE flat panels, coin ops are dinky, and not real fun. I do like the ones with the guns attached to them.

Moose
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Geez, I spent so much money on those two games... when I convert that into possible Kabar/Becker's, it makes me really sad.
 
Guyon said:
Yeah, I was sort of thinking that video games on an outdoor-oriented forum is just a touch blasphemous. :p
Seriously, a lot of kids never see the outdoors these days because they stay cooped up safely in their rooms playing Starcraft II.
I think we need more free-range children with dirty hands and feet. :D
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well said, kids nowadays spend way to much time in fantasy land, Ive never owned and never will own any type of gaming console, when I was a kid and the ps1 came out it was the craze of the time, my dad said no you cant have one and got me a 22 rifle instead, I was always outside doing stuff, or playing sports I wasnt really that interested and when you saw the kids at school who were gaming addicts they were the cotton wool wrapped nerds who couldnt do anything practical to save themselves. I would rather spend my time doing something productive like spending time with the family etc than sit on my arse for hours playing a pointless game. I must be weird I hardly watch any tv I hate the ads they piss me off. blade forums is my only electronic past time.
 
I haven't played pool in ages, though I'd always be up for a game.
It would take considerable practice to get any touch and sense of angles back.
Pocket pool excepted, of course. :p
 
I was an unbeatable superfreak at Goldeneye on N64. Now I just intermittently play Black Ops on PS3 to chillax.
 
I grew up on PS1, that thing came out when I was 4 and we got one when I was 6. Played Crash Bandicoot and Tekken with my buddies. Those games were awesome back in the day! Then came PS2 and Xbox and Need For Speed Underground and Mercenaries were my favorite games at that time. Now that I'm 18 though I find myself devoting less money and time to videogames and more to knives, airsoft, and outdoor stuff. I love getting outside and doing all the stuff the videogames try to simulate for real. That doesn't mean I don't still game though! Battlefield Bad Company 2, Breach, and Mass Effect 2 are the things I spend my indoor time on (And up here in WNY we have plenty of that).
 
Update. So I thought Resident Evil 4 on WII was the shiznit until I started playing Bioshock on an XBox 360. Man it's great having a son. :thumbup:
 
I grew up on the first nintendo. super mario, duck hunt, cobra triangle, double dragon and some bmx game that i can't remember the name.

Just got a wii for christmas(for the kids) and the super mario wii game is very similar to the original controls.:thumbup:It feels like i stepped back in time.
 
I'm terrible a video games. I own a Wii that doesn't get much use. I've downloaded some classic NES games to it that my 4yo loves to sit and watch me play. I still am horrible at Super Mario Bros, I need maps for Zelda once I get to about level 5 or 6, Kid Icarus is new to me, but hard as hell and I have been stuck on the same part of Ghosts and Goblins for over 20 years. Literally. Sqoon, my namesake and favorite NES game is still not on the Wii virtual console yet.

I'm better at some of the Wii Play games like the shooting game, billiards and that cow racing game. I've never played these Call of Duty, or Medal of Honor games. Waaaaay to complex for me. I've always been more of a video game spectator.

I suck at being 29.
 
played everything I could get my hands on, but many years ago, old DOS games, then games like red alert 1, doom, duke nukem, quake, q2, q3, the homm series, and so on, the list is way too long,
these times I just remember how much I enjoyed fragin' some in quake, and Q3, but don't play anything anymore
I've tried to play now and then, new and old games, but they just don't catch me, no matter how hard I try, guess my gaming days are over, and have been like that for a long time, I'm 31, I play with my knives now :D
PS. I'm not a beckerhead..yet
 
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Grew up playing arcades - Street Fighter, Metal Gear and Dakar Rally.

Moved on to computers and played Red Alert, Command And Conquer: Generals, Half-Life, Commandos and a handful others. Half-Life was the shiznit :cool:

Ive totally ditched gaming now, although i still spend time on the internet. I prefer spending my time in the outdoors instead of gaming now.
 
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I've been a gamer for a long time.
Back in the day I'd bug my pops for some quarters and go play some arcade games down at the corner store, but he'd always beat me at Galaga. Had one of those corny electronic baseball games with the little red LED's, and my grandfather had an Atari 2600 for me to play over at his house.
Over time I eventually scored a Nintendo and a Sega Genesis before the Playstation showed up and rolled all over those. Old games like ice climber on the Nintendo, the Mario Bros. games, Soulcalibur, all good stuff. Was a fan of the Twisted Metal series, Resident Evil, too. After the Playstation 2 came out it was all about Metal Gear Solid and funky Japanese imports, Final Fantasy etc... My downstairs neighbor at the time worked for Microsoft games and she gave me a great deal on an Xbox which opened the door to Halo and Half-life and countless other xbox greats, not to mention the original Guitar Hero.
These days I've an Xbox 360 and a Playstation 3 (a gift from my bro in law), still play the Halo games and the Resident Evil games when they come out, and we even have a full fake band set up to play Rock Band 3 during parties (it's really fun after some beer).
So I guess I'm definitely a lifelong videogamer, it's just hard to find time to play when there are so many other interesting things to do.
 
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