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Bekki Doll |
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A cynical yet secular shiny retrogamer, thread ressurector and fan of the word "gay".
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Reged: 01/28/12
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Posts: 771
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Loc: Freeport, PA
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Re: So I went camping this weekend, and what did the 'office' rec area have in it?
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. :-)
--Bekki
Combating functional illiteracy with latex-clad drama since the '80s, because old video games rule!
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