Zaxxon Karate Trek... is this what killed the Arcade?

[b1buwg97]

A pet peeve is when I type 2 screens of stuff and the response is "ok" or "thanx" and nothing else.

LOL

[RayB]

However, if you bring Fido over to my place and wonder where he's gone off to, look downstairs and you'll probably find him humping Defender.

A long read, but it had a good ending!

[ericball]

A good perspective wysiwyg and one that probably isn't considered as much - operators were interested in making their investment back. Maintenance, especially in the face of ongoing vandalism, would be an extra cost which might or might not bring in additional revenue; but certainly wouldn't restore it to the levels when the machine was fresh off the truck.

It's like classic cars. At one time, it was someone's way of getting to work. They might change the oil and do the other recommended regular maintenance, or they might skimp and take your chances. Scratches, dents, rough idle? As long as it got them to work and back. And one day, something expensive broke and the car got hauled off to the scapheap, or it got sold at auction for pennies to a shop that stuck it on the backlot as a parts donor.

[Lewinskys]

A good perspective wysiwyg and one that probably isn't considered as much - operators were interested in making their investment back. Maintenance, especially in the face of ongoing vandalism, would be an extra cost which might or might not bring in additional revenue; but certainly wouldn't restore it to the levels when the machine was fresh off the truck.

It's like classic cars. At one time, it was someone's way of getting to work. They might change the oil and do the other recommended regular maintenance, or they might skimp and take your chances. Scratches, dents, rough idle? As long as it got them to work and back. And one day, something expensive broke and the car got hauled off to the scapheap, or it got sold at auction for pennies to a shop that stuck it on the backlot as a parts donor.

Great analogy.

Every time I drag another machine home and start taking it apart, it tells me a tragic story. It was obviously very clean and new once but every little thing is twisted, cracked, stained, rusted, painted over, scratched, or just plain filthy. I find screws missing, wrong screws jammed in where they shouldn't be, missing locks, wood damage, layers of paint, burns, mouse turds, dead bugs, old coins, pieces of wire, bent and broken electronic components, burned connector contacts, poorly spliced wiring, bastardized wiring, damaged PCB copper, you name it.

My pet peeve is when someone drives a wood-screw or nail into and through the back door to hold it up because there's no lock. Forget tape or looking for an existing hole, just drive the f***er in there. I have spent too many hours repairing split wood, making new back doors, and filling and re-routing edges and installing new locks to have any sympathy for such "operator antics". These machines are true classics and they've earned the right to be treated with a minimum amount of respect. If for no other reason than simply for surviving so long in the presence of dumb idiots like those who call themselves collectors but who will punch in another coffin nail without hesitation just to move the thing from point A to point B and are too stinkin lazy to do the job properly.

Isn't finding a piece of shit and restoring it all part of RESTORATION? I get alot of satisfaction from turning junk into something nice. Some of us don't have the money to go out and buy a totally perfect machine, so we start with what we can get.

I went to an arcade here in Chatham almost every week during 1980 and 1981. It had no restroom. It stank more and more as the months rolled by. A guy I knew from highschool drank a giant drink in the movies. We went to the arcade afterward. I turned around wondering where he had gone off to. A moment later I saw him standing too close to a machine near the back of the place and facing the wall. He was pissing behind the machine onto the carpet. "Nice move ass. You mother would be proud of you." I never went there again. It lost the magic I guess.

You choose your friends well.

[teamatomics]

:shock: I am really really tired now...

How fast do you type? cause you sure have long posts

I'm always getting comments at work to make my emails a lot shorter. A pet peeve is when I type 2 screens of stuff and the response is "ok" or "thanx" and nothing else.

I am also a long post guy. It's easier to take a long post and make it shorter in your mind, than to get a point form, two syllable response and be left to GUESS what the hell the person is talking about.

You go Wysiwyg! I too hate when I write a clear, concise and complete e-mail and they reply to me in fuckin "binary". lol

Craig

[RayB]

That annoys me 00000010 .

[wysiwyg]

You go Wysiwyg! I too hate when I write a clear, concise and complete e-mail and they reply to me in fuckin "binary". lol

Craig

Thanks man, finally someone who understands. You've given me an idea to write a program that converts ascii text into binary. Sounds like something that would be really easy to do in Visual Basic. Nah.

Lewinskys brought up a good point. YES, restoration is where the fun is and it's where I get my satisfaction also. Giving some tired, beat up, war torn, old junkpile a new lease on life makes me feel good. Especially when I see someone's face light up when they see it and get all excited about playing. I like to watch my 9yo son and his friends croud around a game machine that was made 20 years before they were born and chatter furiously about the best way to play or move or whatever. They get all cocky if they get a score higher than the other kids. One kid got to level 6 on DKJr last week. I've never been past level 4. Darn kid. It's no fun being over 40 and losing to a 9 year old kid, especially when I've been exposed to the games for 25 years and the kid just saw it now. Oh well, I must be getting slow in my old age.

[ericball]

It's no fun being over 40 and losing to a 9 year old kid, especially when I've been exposed to the games for 25 years and the kid just saw it now. Oh well, I must be getting slow in my old age.

My son is six and I'm still better than him, but I'm sure my days as top dog are numbered. Right now my main advantages are experience, patience and persistance along with some understanding of strategy & tactics. Of course, I'm sure some of his friends could beat me at Halo or other modern games which I haven't spent hundreds of hours playing.

[b1buwg97]

I Like cheese

[chromizone]

You dug up this thread just to write...you like...why am I even responding?

Purple Monkey Dishwasher.

[Gameguy]

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010011000100000101010100010001010010000001001101
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[chromizone]

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[axe]

Well, cheese IS delicious

[cooke]

Apple juice, for half price.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=414TmP12WAU

[b1buwg97]

Dude,THAT is the funniest shit I think I have ever seen
I`m dying here

I smell; fuck a hologram!

Want some apple juiceÉ

EDIT: Watch his other ones too ass beads is good

DAMMIT Corey- now I am going to get nothing done at all today- Soup kitchen in my pants