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| RayB:
Hey Mark. What is the scale of your map? Would be interesting to see how far you pedaled to get your fix. ;) I like this idea. I'll be making one too... I remember as a kid it felt like I biked "2 miles" to go play games. Would be interesting to see how far off my estimate was (kids have such poor judgement when it comes to time and distances) |
| markrvp:
--- Quote from: RayB on February 23, 2006, 02:08:54 pm ---Hey Mark. What is the scale of your map? Would be interesting to see how far you pedaled to get your fix. ;) --- End quote --- Each square on the map is a city block. I used the Google legend to measure and the longest distance was approximately 1 Kilometer that I actually rode my bike. |
| MinerAl:
I had to walk by a QuickTrip and a 7-11 to get to junior high school in 1984-86. We'd buy candy and play Karate Champ at one and buy a bucket of Coke and play Tron at the other. Seems like that Karate Champ machine lasted the entire 3 years of junior high and moved back and forth from one place to the other. The first Home machine I ever bought was a Tron (which died an humiliating death in a minor flood), and the second was a Karate Champ. Three of the five of us who walked/played together have a Karate Champ machine. It's a really stupid game, but we still gather 'round them with our low-carb candy and buckets of caffiene-free-diet Coke and play for hours. We played videogames at: the grocery stores, the bowling alley, the skating rink, the bowling/icehockey place, the mall, school dances, the dentist's office, Showbiz Pizza, Pizza Inn, Pizza Hut, Godfather's Pizza, Shaky's Pizza, Big Cheese Pizza, my grandma's old-folks-home, truck stops, the "meeting hall" at summer camp... 1984 was a hell of a time to be 13. |
| leapinlew:
--- Quote from: MinerAl on February 23, 2006, 03:07:26 pm ---Three of the five of us who walked/played together have a Karate Champ machine. It's a really stupid game, but we still gather 'round them with our low-carb candy and buckets of caffiene-free-diet Coke and play for hours. 1984 was a hell of a time to be 13. --- End quote --- LoL! Nice dude. I love me some karate champ! The VS machine or the single player? When it first came out - it was hard to get someone to play with me. Quarters were valuable and no one wanted to risk a vs. match and see their precious quarter disappear. These feelings were totally gone by the time street fighter hit the scene. Yes! 1984... the thing is, did you ever think it would end? I didn't.... this was just how it was. Little did I know the games I loved would disappear in favor of all the new fangled gimmicky games that are designed to take your money as quick as possible. In 84, I could make $1 go as far as $100 at Dave and Busters. |
| MinerAl:
Vs of course. There is, to this day, little in life as satisfying as flipping over a dude's head and kicking him square in the back. That may be why I'm still friends with these guys 22 years later (OUCH!), we regularly walk over and kick each other in the 'nads... virtually. |
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