Lol. Well I trust ya too.
Yes it has. It makes me miss the 80s though. Good and fun years.
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Lol. Well I trust ya too.
Yes it has. It makes me miss the 80s though. Good and fun years.
When I had my store, I had a 200 sq ft glass area in the front. I had a "History of computers" display there. People would donate their computers for the display too. I had some great machines. I put my C64, C128 Amigas, etc out there. I had a customer donate a Trash80 with the 8" floppies. It was great. The ex wife sold all my old systems when the store closed.
Now, I restore classic (and some newer) arcade machines for my hobby. I have some great ones. Abi can cream me in Frogger but, she plays it more. It is fun to watch her and her friends play all the classics when she has sleepovers. I keep my favorite in the game room (Gyruss). The living room has a few classics (Frogger, Galaga, MsPacman,etc), a NeoGeo and a Tekken Tag. I have an Atari Gauntlet Legends, PaperBoy, Stun Runner and a few more out in the garage.
Now, I restore classic (and some newer) arcade machines for my hobby. I have some great ones. Abi can cream me in Frogger but, she plays it more. It is fun to watch her and her friends play all the classics when she has sleepovers. I keep my favorite in the game room (Gyruss). The living room has a few classics (Frogger, Galaga, MsPacman,etc), a NeoGeo and a Tekken Tag. I have an Atari Gauntlet Legends, PaperBoy, Stun Runner and a few more out in the garage.
Yep Vander-the 80s were great. I spent 7 years during the 80s in Germany and have lots of great memories. I did lots of traveling....Oktoberfest in Munich, Skiing in the Alps, tossing coins in Trevi fountain in Italy, the Red Light district in Amsterdam (as a tourist, not a client....LOL). It was so cheap to travel through the military ticket office that I was jaunting around Europe every chance I got....
Im so totally jealous!
Oh cool frogger, what about centipede? I always got squashed on frogger, and centipede made me freak out because of how fast it would get to moving
I am going to the next auction with a centipede machine in mind. I am also going to make sure I have it on the MAME cabinet when I am finished. I have a 1315 board that I use for testing that has centipede but, I have yet to get the 2.5" trackball for it. Also, have a universal classic machine and am going to put centipede on it. It is pretty popular.
My favorites were Terra Priesta and Tempest. I wasted so much money on both of those games.
Nope, I forgot about that game as well. I liked it too.
I was so addicted to that game! My husband (well he was my BF then) always gave me a hard time about liking that game so much. He was a foosball player. Pretty good one at that.
BTW- I am talking about back in the late 70s.
I used to play Space Invaders at the NCO club in Germany....It was a great gig since I got pretty good at it and won my share of free drinks from the guys who thought they could beat me!!!!!
I would love a Tempest machine but those Vector monitors (they were called Quadrant Scan or something like that) are very hard to repair and almost impossible to replace. You can MAME them though.
I picked up a Deluxe Space Invaders for $100 one time. Sold it for $350. It had a bunch of problems too.
Thats what I have been doing. I have been using MAME for years. I think the first version I used was like .027 or something. lmao
I ported it to the Sharp Zaurus about 5 or 6 years ago. I had a ton of those and gave a couple to my nephew. He still plays with a C3200. He is 14 now and very into emulation, thanks to his uncle. So, he goes looking for MAME for the Zaurus. He finds a link that doesn't work on one of the old software listings. He clicks the email to email the author and it brings up my gmail account. His jaw hits the floor and I get a frantic phone call. It goes something like this:
"Hey, umm, uncle David. Did you write MAME for the Zaurus or something."
"Yes, I did that years ago.", I replied
"Umm... Well I got a Super Nintendo emulator and a Gameboy one but, I can't download the MAME one."
"Yup, I wrote some SNES and Gameboy emulators too."
"Umm... Oh yeah. You did. Ummm... can I have MAME?"
"I don't have any of that stuff anymore Gregg."
"Ummm.. Can you write another one?"
My jaw hits the floor!
Well what are you waiting for? Take care of that nephew! Its clear that YOU are his HERO and you are, after all, the FSUSA Hero who rescued MN!
Well LD...after that story I can say that I like you even more....DORK
I'm all geek. Master Geek!
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