i alwas liked donkey dong

or was that a sex toy?

either way i had to put a quarter in it to get it running

Wasn't a big arcade game player, but I did like Joust.

i have ALWAYS said ms pac man was a slut... also, minnie mouse.

and don't get me started on smurfette...

Yeah, Joust was good.
Missile Command too, spin that ball. A couple of years later, Double Dragon. Always loved how you finished it, and got to start all over again.

Joust confused me. Were those things ostriches or turkeys? And who the hell rides either?

About a week ago, we went out to a local pizza place. My son, the energetic toddler that he is, ran straight for the back room. Turns out, they had a pinball machine and a couple of standup games. Galaga. Ohhhhh... My wife got sucked in. She made ME run for quarters. My son "helped", which means that he bashed the buttons while my wife tried to steer out of harm's way.
Then, I found a box in the garage marked "Atari". Uh oh.

Bob, that is like finding buried treasure!

Now I can't stop singing that old Atari jingle.

Have you played Atari today?

I grew up with the next-gen arcade standups. Some great games there (I'm looking at you, TMNTII). Some real crap too. Remember Revolution X, where you had to save the world from the music of Aerosmith or some shit? That game sucked royal balls.

Galaga is still an awesome game. I found a table top one in Austin a year ago and spent like three days drinking Jameson and chasing that elusive ending on Galaga. Tron was another that I absolutely loved. And Spy Hunter? Well, I wasn't very good at it. But I could play it all day. When the first Mortal Kombat came out, holy jeebus. I was a whole new color of pale after I found that thing.

Hah! That game SUCKED.

That is funny because when I was in college there was a divey Irish bar / tavern practially across the street from my dorm that I was a regular at. They had video golf in there and I would play that thing for hours.

The place ruled. All dim and dark and smokey inside, they served 3 only kinds of beer, all on tap. Guinness, Bass and Bud.

There was always some half drunk Irish folk singer in there singing 'Charlie and the MBTA'.

I'd go over there and drink jack and guinness and play video golf practically all night till the bartender kicked everybody out.

golden tee

but that was just a game to break things to

"Stop playing so hard! You're breaking my game!"

trackball games were always about violence

SpyHunter was THE SHIT. Loved that. I'm not sure if I could get the same feeling sitting in my livingroom with that one. Mine was in a bowling alley. Better than a bar. Smokey smell, stale beer and the sound of big heavy things knocking over other big heavy things.

spy hunter, galaga, golden tee... yes yes and yes.

but nothing beats good old indiana jones the pinball adventure

I was the prototypical "arcade kid". Pale, fat and rumpled. (How is that different from now ? Oh yeah, I'm taller....)

I would spend hours in front of the sit down version of Spy Hunter when playing by myself. And Elevator Action. I played that game until my hands bled.

Gauntlet, however, was The Shit. Four players yelling and screaming. "Warrior needs food badly", echoing in my head, long after I'd gone home.

And Street Fighter II and Addams Family Pinball and... Okay, I'll stop now...

Nice michele--yeah, that's it. "Shoot Steven Tyler in the FACE!" Oh, how we used to yell that as loud as we could. Especially when we were playing that game.

Our Spy Hunter was in a skating rink. We had the smokey smell, stale beer, and the Fat Boys. Not quite the same . . .

Gauntlet, however, was The Shit. Four players yelling and screaming. "Warrior needs food badly", echoing in my head, long after I'd gone home.

I used to work in a warehouse where I was the inventory manager. It was in a bad area and the place had two different gangs in there, the bloods and the crips, all working for minimum wage. I got along with all of them, barking orders at them to get the shit done right and they would listen, fights were kept to a minimum. It really was like LA County jail in there where I had to split people up into different parts of the warehouse. They all had their territories.

Really bad scene.

But, one motherfucker would never listen to me. Just was an asshole huge crip.

One day I was out smoking a cigarette when he came out and sat next to me. Of course we didn't talk. This was the guy controlling the crip section of the warehouse and I controlled the whole warehouse, so we had power struggles all the time, but he sat down next to me and we both were smoking. The roach coach came up and played it's "La Cocaracha" song and at the same time we both said "Warrior needs food....badly"

We both looked at each other and laughed. We became friends after that. The hell if I knew a year later he would be sleeping on my sofa......

Two words:

Naked Gauntlet.

Turtle that golf game, I'm a little fuzzy but I believe it was 'Golden Tee' and yes, I do recall getting yelled at a few times by the bartender to take it easy on the game.

I'd lean way back then throw myself forward to get as much spin on that trackball as I could when teeing off a hole. The goal was to get the video game's golf announcer to comment, 'Wow'.

naked gauntlet is awesome

if someone could get my fucking back when the ghosts are nailing me

and no

nipple tweeks are not a distraction. they make someone play better

I do recall getting yelled at a few times by the bartender to take it easy on the game.

oh hell yeah. The palm of your hand nailing the plastic over the screen with someone yelling "You're breaking my game!!!" was funny stuff

"if someone could get my fucking back when the ghosts are nailing me"

If someone would keep his hands on the controller long enough to actually do his job instead of groping his partner, maybe he wouldn't need so much help.

If someone would keep his hands on the controller long enough to actually do his job instead of groping his partner,

well thats what the warrior does.

Grope his partners titties and keep fighting.

It's called multitasking.

/or maybe i was the elf...

According to "The Official Gauntlet Multiplayer Handbook", groping another player is only acceptable if:

A) It's Naked Gauntlet or
B) You're on vacation and already naked or
C) Your SO is playing the elf, which has a faster rate of fire than the warrior. Theoretically, she should be able to cover you while you cop a feel.

It looks legal to me.

I know this is horribly off topic, guys, but did anyone else know today is talk like a pirate day? I first heard about it through ASV, so I figured Michele would dig it.

what's a pirate's favorite beer?

PB arRrrr

finn: MYOB!!

Josh: Look for turtle and I to do a pirate themed post tonight.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Yes, ma'am.

Spy Hunter. Standing, sitting, don't much care. I loved the fact that the Peter Gunn Theme would lull you into a rythum and then you'd get suckered into an out of synch crash.

Joust.

For pinball: Eight Ball. Classic, not Deluxe, and make damn sure the table's been Pledged this week.

I never realized how much of a whore Ms. Pac-Man was, but yep, you're right, she is most definitely a whore.

And that ghost looks like he's ready to give it to her good. Wow.