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Texasmame:

--- Quote from: Naru on January 14, 2007, 08:22:32 pm ---I'm 32.
Being in the arcades back
in the 80's was heaven for me.
I seriously want to fill my home
with arcade machines.
In 32 years, hanging in the old arcades
was the pinnacle of my life.
That's sounds kinda' sad doesn't it?

--- End quote ---

No, not really. 

I still look at the time I was 10 to 13 (80 to 83) as the best years of my life.  Plenty of money, what with my paper route and all (heh); no worries; I had an Atari 2600 with 31 games; no "real world" concerns - just a pocket full of quarters or hours in front of my VCS was all it took to make me very happy.   ;D

In the three years I collected, 50 or so games shuttled their way in and out of my basement arcade.  The memories all of it brought back were priceless.  I'll always look back on my collecting days with great joy and be eternally grateful to my wife for allowing all that silliness to take up what was supposed to be her beautiful, finished basement retreat. 

Go for it.

:cheers:
CC6264:
Another old fart at 44. My brain tells me I'm still 19 - but my body tells me otherwise.
Gaston77:
I am 29 YO. Mental age is 29-16(amount of years ago when Streetfighter 2 came out) = 13. And I will be stuck at 13 mental years. Hail to videogames, they keep us young at heart!!!!

To quote some wise words that Bono sings; "Time won't take the boy out of this man!"
DAMN RIGHT
yalborap:

--- Quote from: deadkenndys1105 on August 31, 2006, 03:53:59 am ---I'm one of the young guys at the age of 16.  At one time I thought I was the youngest.  I may not be the youngest but I'm damn close.  I spend much of my time at my cabinet and even more time tweaking it.  No help from mommy ether other the ocasinal can you hold this for a second.

--- End quote ---

I've probably been beaten already, but I'm personally 15. I'm not much of an oldschool obsessive, though, so generally just emulation via consoles is enough to satisfy me. I'll be honest, there are many a time I wish I could get into it as much as you guys do, but sadly I just wasn't born early enough.

Now then, to actually read through the bloody thread...
diverdown:
32

Just for curiosity I klov'ed the first game I remember playing.

Arkanoid.   WOW I played it when it was new......... Ahh the days of jumping the caravan park managers back fence, stealing ( I mean borrowing) the bucket of 20c coins taken from the parks BBQs and returning them back to the arkanoid machine in the games room.


And before you start a caravan park is a trailer park but we actually went there to stay while on holiday. Not live there like MnM :)


hmmm  maybe it was a subliminal thing but i found myself FORCED to buy a spinner as soon as I got my 1st cab.
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