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Vigo:

--- Quote from: Hoopz on October 31, 2012, 02:15:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vigo on October 31, 2012, 02:10:40 pm ---I was very little, but have some distinct memories. The first machine I encountered was Tron. Didn't have quarters, but I stared that that screen for what seems like hours. The bright neon glows against a black background was purely mesmerizing for a little kid. I remember having the misconception from the demo screen that in the game you were suppose to be the grid spiders and your job was to kill the blue man to keep him from destroying the big rainbow Popsicle.

The first game I plunked a quarter into was Donkey Kong Junior. It didn't take me long to realize that those machines were designed to eat your quarters. I was a little kid, it gave me nightmares. I had a nightmare that the evil man in red  (which turned out to be Mario...I had no concept of Mario at the time) was sending those rope chomp creatures to eat off my arms and legs.

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That may be the scariest post I have ever read.   :dizzy:

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 :laugh2: Happy Halloween

Hoopz:

--- Quote from: Vigo on October 31, 2012, 02:28:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: Hoopz on October 31, 2012, 02:15:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vigo on October 31, 2012, 02:10:40 pm ---I was very little, but have some distinct memories. The first machine I encountered was Tron. Didn't have quarters, but I stared that that screen for what seems like hours. The bright neon glows against a black background was purely mesmerizing for a little kid. I remember having the misconception from the demo screen that in the game you were suppose to be the grid spiders and your job was to kill the blue man to keep him from destroying the big rainbow Popsicle.

The first game I plunked a quarter into was Donkey Kong Junior. It didn't take me long to realize that those machines were designed to eat your quarters. I was a little kid, it gave me nightmares. I had a nightmare that the evil man in red  (which turned out to be Mario...I had no concept of Mario at the time) was sending those rope chomp creatures to eat off my arms and legs.

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That may be the scariest post I have ever read.   :dizzy:

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 :laugh2: Happy Halloween

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Looks like  you have plenty of things to cover with a therapist.  :applaud:

Vigo:

--- Quote from: Hoopz on October 31, 2012, 02:32:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vigo on October 31, 2012, 02:28:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: Hoopz on October 31, 2012, 02:15:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vigo on October 31, 2012, 02:10:40 pm ---I was very little, but have some distinct memories. The first machine I encountered was Tron. Didn't have quarters, but I stared that that screen for what seems like hours. The bright neon glows against a black background was purely mesmerizing for a little kid. I remember having the misconception from the demo screen that in the game you were suppose to be the grid spiders and your job was to kill the blue man to keep him from destroying the big rainbow Popsicle.

The first game I plunked a quarter into was Donkey Kong Junior. It didn't take me long to realize that those machines were designed to eat your quarters. I was a little kid, it gave me nightmares. I had a nightmare that the evil man in red  (which turned out to be Mario...I had no concept of Mario at the time) was sending those rope chomp creatures to eat off my arms and legs.

--- End quote ---
That may be the scariest post I have ever read.   :dizzy:

--- End quote ---

 :laugh2: Happy Halloween

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Looks like  you have plenty of things to cover with a therapist.  :applaud:

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I don't even want to go into what kind of demonic nightmares Mr. Do! had induced.  :duckhunt

Player 3:

--- Quote from: Vigo on October 31, 2012, 02:52:16 pm ---
--- Quote from: Hoopz on October 31, 2012, 02:32:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vigo on October 31, 2012, 02:28:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: Hoopz on October 31, 2012, 02:15:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vigo on October 31, 2012, 02:10:40 pm ---I was very little, but have some distinct memories. The first machine I encountered was Tron. Didn't have quarters, but I stared that that screen for what seems like hours. The bright neon glows against a black background was purely mesmerizing for a little kid. I remember having the misconception from the demo screen that in the game you were suppose to be the grid spiders and your job was to kill the blue man to keep him from destroying the big rainbow Popsicle.

The first game I plunked a quarter into was Donkey Kong Junior. It didn't take me long to realize that those machines were designed to eat your quarters. I was a little kid, it gave me nightmares. I had a nightmare that the evil man in red  (which turned out to be Mario...I had no concept of Mario at the time) was sending those rope chomp creatures to eat off my arms and legs.

--- End quote ---
That may be the scariest post I have ever read.   :dizzy:

--- End quote ---

 :laugh2: Happy Halloween

--- End quote ---
Looks like  you have plenty of things to cover with a therapist.  :applaud:

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I don't even want to go into what kind of demonic nightmares Mr. Do! had induced.  :duckhunt

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Lemme guess, Mr. Do is your uncle and that makes it twice as scary.

Zero_Hour:
Definitely remember. PONG, Christmas eve, either 1974 or 75 (which would make me either 5 or 6 at the time so forgive me for not being exact on the year. It was at the Greentree Holiday Inn in suburban Pittsburgh, PA. The machine was in a corridor off the main lobby, next to the cigarette vending machines (which I always used to love getting free packs of matches from). Through the years, my father gave me uncountable quarters for video games, but that is probably the only time he ever actually played a game with me, as the PONG machine was 2 player only.

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