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Title: Passing on the classics
Post by: mgb on March 31, 2013, 12:30:59 pm

Man, I've been blessed with a cool little foster son (we are in the process of adoption).
He's six and loves video games. I've been lucky that he's really taken a liking to the classics.
  He loves Gyruss, Eyes and Bomberman, among others.
 Today I was thrilled to introduce him to quite possibly, my favorite game ever, the C64 version of Jumpman.
  He's loving it

Title: Re: Passing on the classics
Post by: DrumAnBass on March 31, 2013, 03:15:03 pm

That is very cool! Yah I need to break out Jumpman for my little guys, who are currently addicted to Dig Dug  ;) Hope all goes well with the adoption, sounds like a great match!

Title: Re: Passing on the classics
Post by: Jumpman64 on March 31, 2013, 03:33:10 pm

YAY!!!   :applaud:

I still want to build a dedicated Jumpan (or Jr.) cab one day.  Such an awesome game.

Title: Passing on the classics
Post by: mgb on March 31, 2013, 05:06:15 pm

Thanks drumanbass,
  My son and I also had a time where dig dug was in heavy rotation.

 A dedicated Jumpman cabinet.
Man I have been knocking that same idea around in my head for a while.
 I think it would be a great project to build a Jumpman cabinet as if it were actually commercially available back in the 80s
  I just wish I had the room

Title: Re: Passing on the classics
Post by: Gray_Area on April 01, 2013, 07:53:02 pm

Oh. I read it as passing on it - versus passing it on.

Title: Re: Passing on the classics
Post by: mgb on April 02, 2013, 11:57:45 pm

Oh yeah, I can see how that can be misread.