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Should I fix this, or gut it? (Head-On 1979)
shardian:
--- Quote from: mushmouth on November 08, 2007, 09:50:09 am ---Pac-Man sucks? Wha-wha-whaaaaat????
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I can only stand pacman if I turn the sound off. Ms. Pacman is another story though.
Gehrig:
Yeah.. they probably had those games in the arcades...but neither my friends and I had any interest in them.
MaximRecoil:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on November 08, 2007, 01:23:16 pm ---
--- Quote from: Gehrig on November 08, 2007, 09:55:41 am ---Heheh. Well if I was 10 years older I would probably think differently. I am only 28, so I was too young for that golden age of arcades. My best memories of arcades were of the late 80s/early 90's
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How could you be too young? My earliest and fondest memories of the arcades involved Tempest, Ms. Pac-Man and Dig Dug. Even though they were released in 1980, '81, and '82, they still persisted in the arcades as main fixtures for years.
BTW, I'm not thirty yet.
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I was born in January of '75 and I never saw any of the late '70s or very early '80s arcade games at the places I went to (I started playing arcade games regularly in '84). Wherever I went, they had all current games, and things like Pac-Man and Donkey Kong were considered old news. For example, in '84 I started playing Karate Champ VS, and that was the first arcade game I got good at. And then Punch-Out. Both of those games came out in '84 and so I was playing them the same year they were released.
The very first arcade game I ever played was Pac-Man, in the mall in '80 or so, but that was just one time and I didn't even know what I was doing (I was only 5 years old). And of course, in '84 I was well aware of the late '70s and very early '80s arcade games, because my older brother and neighbors had played them and talked about them, plus they were famous in general. Also, I had some of the ports for my Atari 2600 and ColecoVision. But as far as seeing them in the arcades, in my area they were extinct. They also seemed very dated to me. If you compare the graphics of Pac-Man or Donkey Kong to Karate Champ or Punch-Out, you'll see why.
I don't care much for Pac-Man or Donkey Kong, aside from their historical and cultural significance. I wouldn't go out of my way to own either machine. There are a few "before my time" arcade machines I'd like to own though, e.g. Asteroids, Missile Command, and Defender. I never saw those machines in the arcades either, except for Asteroids in '81 at a country general store in the tiny town that my great grandfather lived in—but I only watched my older brother and his friends play it.
BrentRadio:
Please don't gut it. Sell it to someone who will appriciate it. You don't see those everyday. Gut a common game like Pacman before you do it to a game like that.
I just sent someone an email letting them know you have this game. Maybe you can work something out. His name is Dan.
Brent
BrentRadio:
--- Quote from: XyloSesame on November 08, 2007, 09:57:38 am ---Am I the only one who loved dodgem?
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No, I loved it as well.
Great game.
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