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So I went camping this weekend, and what did the 'office' rec area have in it?
#291427 - 07/10/12 06:16 PM
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Donkey Kong, Ms. Pac Man (speedy version) and Jr. Pac Man.
Quarters and Memories were flying.... 
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Re: So I went camping this weekend, and what did the 'office' rec area have in it?
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#291429 - 07/10/12 07:20 PM
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> Donkey Kong, Ms. Pac Man (speedy version) and Jr. Pac Man.
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> Quarters and Memories were flying....
I *love* stumbling across random machines in obscure places like that. Jr. Pacman is a cool find in the wild, I don't think I've ever seen one other than at Funspot.
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Re: So I went camping this weekend, and what did the 'office' rec area have in it?
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#291430 - 07/10/12 07:43 PM
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Donkey Kong must be da-bomb! I have seen that in an oil change place in Butte, Montanna of all places!!
What was really touching and REALLY cool is that there were a bunch of 10+ year old kids playing the table top Ms. Pac Man with their 30~40 dad.
Edited by TheBigAmbulance (07/10/12 07:43 PM)
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Re: So I went camping this weekend, and what did the 'office' rec area have in it?
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#291438 - 07/10/12 08:59 PM
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What was really touching and REALLY cool is that there were a bunch of 10+ year old kids playing the table top Ms. Pac Man with their 30~40 dad.
And that is why I love retrogaming. Kids are intrigued by the simple shapes and colors then get hooked into the challenging gameplay. Not everything has to be a 3-D GPU-hungry memory-sapping space-hogging fragfest to be awesome.
Well, except Battlezone. ;-)
What's more cool than showing kids what you used to play when you were kids and turning them onto that? And not just kids. I've even had requests from family members to turn their personal computers into clandestine arcade machines.
But finding machines still working out there? That's pure awesome! It's the way these games were meant to be played. It's even better if the machines are found in a nice family restaurant. It makes family night a bit more memorable. :-)
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Re: So I went camping this weekend, and what did the 'office' rec area have in it?
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#291451 - 07/10/12 11:10 PM
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> What was really touching and REALLY cool is that there were a bunch of 10+ year old
> kids playing the table top Ms. Pac Man with their 30~40 dad.
I'm trying to keep my expectations realistic, but I'm really hoping my boys will take an interest in all of dad's old video games when they're old enough. I'm certainly going to do my best to indoctrinate them as early as possible. 
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