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Off-topic TalkWhere overpaid, underworked S2000 owners waste the worst part of their days before the drive home. This forum is for general chit chat and discussions not covered by the other off-topic forums.
Jeeze kids, in the early 80's I was the Director of Domestic Operations for one of the largest video game developers in the world. I knew the guys that designed those games. Anybody remember the first Golf game, Birdie King? It had my mark on it. Disney wanted us to develop Tron and do the Tron Arcade at Epcot. I had to turn them down because they wanted us to do it for the honor of being in Epcot.
There was a very tall, very pretty girl that used to play a lot of Donkey Kong and Dig Dug in one of our Arcades. One day I walked up behind her in the middle of a good game of Dig Dug and kissed her on the back of the neck just for the hell of it. Well, it screwed up her game but now I've been married to her for almost 19 years.
Yeppers, I used to get paid to play games and tell the techies what I wanted to see in games. Life was great and I got a wife out of it too.
When I was in grade six, this buddy of mine had a Ms. PacMan cocktail table machine in his basement. Between that and the vintage Hustler collection (circa 1970's) hiding under the stairs (the story was that it once belonged to his father), we kept ourselves quite busy.
Man, trip down memory lane here, loved Pac Man, but Galaga was my favorite!
What ticks me off is that the patterns don't work on the PS games, I bought the NAMCO Museum Vol. whatever that has Pac Man on it, then did a little research on the web, found the patterns, but they don't work .
Whoaw ! This all brings back great memories !
Clocking Space Invaders by counting ships to get the 300 Bonus points when you hit a UFO.
Playing Crazy Climber at the local Bowling Alley circa 1980 while the big kids smoked looseys and had rows of quarters up on the machines to play next.
MS Pac Man had even better sounds than Pac Man.
I play all of these old games for free using the M.A.M.E. emulator on my PC.
These are actual dumps of the real roms from the original games.
I bought an excellent joystick console called the Hot Rod From www.Hanaho.com
that has 2 Joysticks and 8 Buttons per side so you can play Robotron, Defender, Asteroids, etc.
and still do when i go to Chuck E Cheese
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