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POLL: How old are you?
escher:
--- Quote from: bleemus on August 31, 2006, 10:31:25 am ---I'm wondering what the "cutoff line" in age for people to really know what an arcade used to look like; a bunch of games with joysticks, spinners, and buttons. Not all gun/dance pad/motion sensor/misc prop games.
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Arcades make me cry now. I was at a few in OC, MD, and most are just complete crap. However, one near the pier did have few classics.. Ms. Pac-man, Tron, DK Jr, Tetris, Galaga, and a broken Dragon's Lair. However, there's nothing in between those and Time Crisis 4. No MK, no Killer Instinct, no Final Fight... I had to search just to find games with joysticks.
Anyway, enough of the off-topic rant. I'm here at 25.
RandyT:
Weird numbers.
Does everyone die when they hit 40? Or only their interest in retro gaming?
Hope I'm not next! :P
RandyT
*edit* More likely is the probability that the older folks are less likely to accurately report their age, or they don't take part in the poll. ;)
RobotronNut:
--- Quote from: escher on August 31, 2006, 02:39:45 pm ---Arcades make me cry now. I was at a few in OC, MD, and most are just complete crap. However, one near the pier did have few classics.
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let's just say that my fondest memories of the ocean city boardwalk are of acres of pinball machines, punctuated by the occasional "computer space" or "pong". it was a paradise! (fishing from the end of the pier under the floodlights after midnight was another truly unique experience...)
i guess that puts me in randyT's class :)
ahofle:
--- Quote from: RandyT on August 31, 2006, 03:44:48 pm ---Weird numbers.
Does everyone die when they hit 40? Or only their interest in retro gaming?
Hope I'm not next! :P
RandyT
*edit* More likely is the probability that the older folks are less likely to accurately report their age, or they don't take part in the poll. ;)
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I bet if this poll is taken in 5-10 years, everyone will be in their 40s. I think it was just the timing of the video game revolution personally. People in their 40s now were probably old enough in the 80s to do more interesting things like drink and chase women. ;D
RobotronNut:
oops... meant to edit previous post... must be getting old...
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