Re: <News> - Tron Joystick Handles!

[Zakk]

My older brother and his friends used to go in the early 80's. I heard them talk about Missile Command, Battle Zone, Defender, Asteroids, etc., but they never took me along.

Yeah I can imagine why:
"Hey you guys going to pway Missiwle Command?"
"Yes Eugene"
"Can I come wiff you?"
"No Eugene"
"But whyyyyyyyy!!?!?!?  MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!"
"Because, you bit of fly spit, every time we play it you just keep telling us how inferior the trackball controller is to a nintendo joystick!  We don't even know what a nintendo is!!!!"
"But I pwomise I won't this time!! Honest injun!!"
"Listen, stay home and play with your barbies.  We AREN'T taking you, story closed!!!"
"MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[MaximRecoil]

Yeah I can imagine why:
"Hey you guys going to pway Missiwle Command?"
"Yes Eugene"
"Can I come wiff you?"
"No Eugene"
"But whyyyyyyyy!!?!?!?  MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!"
"Because, you bit of fly spit, every time we play it you just keep telling us how inferior the trackball controller is to a nintendo joystick!  We don't even know what a nintendo is!!!!"
"But I pwomise I won't this time!! Honest injun!!"
"Listen, stay home and play with your barbies.  We AREN'T taking you, story closed!!!"
"MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

At 5 years old I was quite content just to be in on the "secret". While my mother didn't outright forbid us kids from playing arcade games, she didn't exactly approve either. She considered them to be a waste of money, and addictive. She lightened her stance on that when she started working at one of the places in town that had a few arcade machines.