Writer's Block: Gamer's Choice

[i_calql8]

[Error: unknown template qotd]Of course, 'old school' means 'put one quarter in it to play':

1) Metro Cross--not a well-known game, but fun. Run and jump like hell to get past obstacles and get the the end of the course, using skateboards and springboards, and avoiding glass floors and slick tiles. Some of my best middle-finger blisters came from this game
2) Q*bert--I can now play for hours on a quarter
3) Frogger--Likewise, but man, those later levels are tough.

Comments

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

LOL

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Jealous? :P

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

No, just remembering my younger bother (sic) stealing my quarters to play those games. :-)

I was in college when most of those popular arcade games were around, and we used to play them on Friday nights. My partner still loves to play Ms. Pacman.

wakka wakka wakka wakka wakka wakka wakka wakka

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Pac-Man lost its luster for me when it was discovered that there was a winning pattern. Kinda like today's cheat codes, which is why I don't like today's video games much.

"Younger bother" sounds kinda like the pig sister (sic) I had.

Oh, yeah, many nights I have spent at the arcade while in college. First year teaching, too.

Over all, when it comes right down to it, pinball FTW.

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the pattern -- now I remember.

I actually get along quite well with my brother, but a friend of mine used to refer to his older bother and I liked it.

Pinball is even older than the arcade games -- I had a neighbor with a pinball machine in their basement. It was the coolest. Learn to time those flippers just right and send that ball flying through those high scoring bumpers, with their bips and boops...

Pinball FTW.

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

My dad had an old-style pinball machine in our rec room. The flippers opened the opposite way, with the pivot on the right side instead of the left. Not much action on the ball, not even with bumpers.

I played a demo for a new Batman pinball machine at Comic Con a few years back. Because of the line waiting, we only got one ball to play. However, with multi-ball and decent skills (can you time your flipper so you can catch a ball on it?), my ball lasted over 20 minutes, lol. The teenagers were in absolute awe..."Check the old dude out--he's had the same ball for 15 minutes now!" "Whoa, this is his third multi-ball!" I even got a smattering of applause as the ball coursed down the left channel.

Pinball FTW, indeed. Good times.

[lovellama.livejournal.com]

Galaga!! Love that game.

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Good one!

I also was a Klax (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klax_(video_game))-a-holic, and I loved Bank Panic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Panic). Now, that'll cure any itchy trigger finger you have, lol.

[herbe.livejournal.com]

oh man, Klax was killer-addictive..
and Q*bert i'll always remember as the first game to feature profanity:)


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