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Now that I have done a backboard review, I am impressed with how many people remember Journey the video game. -- nm - HdnAgnda Nov 6, 12:12 2
- I have fond memories of playing that game every summer in Atlantic City at the boardwalk arcades. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 6, 12:14
- know your audience -- nm - oblique Nov 6, 12:13
Here's the difference between the Dems in 2004 and the GOP in 2008... - Mop Nov 6, 12:12 1
- The GOP in 2004 was still charge of their own failing policies. The Dems in 2008 get a blank slate. - Will Hunting Nov 6, 12:14
Do you think in 20 years, todays teenagers will be saying 'oh my god, remember wii bowling? i LOVED wii bowling!" -- nm - Andie Nov 6, 12:10 9
- totally....nm - x Nov 6, 12:13 1
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- I'm trying to think of gadget fads that came and went in the last ten to 14 years. - Max Nov 6, 12:12 4
  - you know how people our age remember before cell phones, before the internet, hell, before answering machines? - Andie Nov 6, 12:15
  - Furbies. GameBoys -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 6, 12:15
  - But what of the Sharper Image Personal Cooling System? Tamagoochies? -- nm - emoticripple Nov 6, 12:13 1
    - oh, Tamogochies is a good one. -- nm - Andie Nov 6, 12:14
- Of course, like when I heard a kid say "Did you hear that new Queen song" when Wayne's World came out -- nm - oblique Nov 6, 12:12
- Yes. -- nm - Inigo Nov 6, 12:11
ST PSA: For those still playing HSX, the Holiday Warrants are on sale today. -- nm - emoticripple Nov 6, 12:08
Splatterhouse (for your viewing pleasure) -- (link) - zork Nov 6, 12:07 [youtube]
from B2: If the French suddenly like us, that makes me nervous. -- nm - loosilu Nov 6, 12:03 2
- It's a trap! -- nm - lileve Nov 6, 12:07
- That only makes us more similar to stinky cheese -- nm - con_carne Nov 6, 12:04
From last board: It was "Alert" though the Bosconian speech samples did leave something to be desired - JD Nov 6, 12:02 1
- OMG! - Trish Nov 6, 12:11
I also want to salute John McCain for some of the things that he did in the campaign. - crash davis Nov 6, 11:59 16
- Also from that Newsweek article, if Palin actually did bring up the Ayers stuff without permission from McCain or the campaign... - Inigo Nov 6, 12:16
- I think it goes to show that you have to run as who you are. You can't fake it. If he truly was a man of character he needed to run like one. - pmb Nov 6, 12:10 2
  - Fair points, But its over and I want to be conciliatory. Also, as far as Mel being s spurned girlfriend, thats what happens to easy chicks. :) -- nm - crash davis Nov 6, 12:13 1
    - I held out for a long time...had he made it to the nomination in 2000 there's no telling what my political undewear was going to be hanging off of. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 6, 12:14
- "I could have been worse" seems dubious praise at best. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Nov 6, 12:09
- I know I'm coming off like the spurned girlfriend here but...that's setting the bar low. - Mel Profit Nov 6, 12:09
- I agree with this. -- nm - kelly Nov 6, 12:05
- I would loved to have seen McCain and Hillary doing shots together. -- nm - Inigo Nov 6, 12:05 4
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  - I know, huh? -- nm - loosilu Nov 6, 12:07
  - have ^ -- nm - Inigo Nov 6, 12:06
- He said back when Bush first swiftboated him he considered switching parties, I think he could have won in 04 as a democrat - zeitgeist Nov 6, 12:03
- It sounds like a very divided campaign in this regard. He had some folks who wanted to go full-on Satanic. -- nm - David Nov 6, 12:00 1
  - From a campaign mnagement stand-point, I think that was precisely the problem. - ReluctantCynic Nov 6, 12:07
- include in that the tone of his concession speech as well. classy in the end. -- nm - znufrii -- least fighty poster Nov 6, 11:59
Arcade Poll: What game did you love that nobody else ever seems to remember? - Cuzzin Todd Nov 6, 11:58 64
- Death Race. Sea Wolf. -- nm - VMan Nov 6, 12:16
- Lunar Lander and this weird little game where you were a space ship protecting a few triangles on a screen that other ships tried to come and take - pmb Nov 6, 12:14
- I'm sure everyone played, but : Battlezone - oblique Nov 6, 12:13
- WrestleFest -- nm - Shaun Nov 6, 12:12 2
  - That was one of my B2 picks! Great game. Whither, Earthquake? -- nm - emoticripple Nov 6, 12:15 1
    - The Royal Rumble mode was the best. -- nm - Shaun Nov 6, 12:18
- track and field cheating with my pocket comb. food fight. chopper command. elevator action. star trek. xeno something with the aliens. -- nm - Redmond Nov 6, 12:11
- oh yeah, Karateka and also The Legend Of Kang (sp?) -- nm - zork Nov 6, 12:10
- Atari Football (the arcade version with the trackball) (nm) - Brian Nov 6, 12:08
- Oooo, also Gladiator -- nm - CQ with a gravy boat Nov 6, 12:07
- Bard's Tale. -- nm - Subversive Nov 6, 12:06 4
  - ah, Bard's Tale. I had graph paper maps and everything for that -- nm - oblique Nov 6, 12:07 3
    - Heh - me and my brother used to "map" out games ourselves. We had notebooks full of stuff. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Nov 6, 12:10 2
      - I remember making little tombstones on the map for where notable characters died. Did this for Wizardry too -- nm - oblique Nov 6, 12:11 1
        
        Oh! Wizardry! Loved that one too! -- nm - Subversive Nov 6, 12:15
- holy crap! i was going to post Pengo before i saw you im. -- nm - Redmond Nov 6, 12:06
- I suppose this isn't the poll for me, because I recognize every game posted so far. -- nm - Mop Nov 6, 12:06 1
  - I recognize none at all. -- nm - loosilu Nov 6, 12:08
- f-114. marble madness. jambo safari.... - x Nov 6, 12:06 3
  - I *loved* marble madness. I bought mercury madness for the Wii because it reminded me of that -- nm - oblique Nov 6, 12:07 2
    - yeah, but you need the trackball to really get the feel...nm - x Nov 6, 12:10 1
      - the Wiimote makes the game very fun (tilting the table and such) -- nm - oblique Nov 6, 12:11
- Oh, I also used to love one with the clown on the unicycle with a pin on his head where ballons dropped down and you had to pop them. - JaxSean Nov 6, 12:06
- M.U.L.E. -- nm - Scorpion Nov 6, 12:06
- Splatterhouse -- nm - zork Nov 6, 12:03
- Journey (the band) video game, Zaxxon, Xevious, Rolling Thunder, Contra, Space Tactics, and.... - HdnAgnda Nov 6, 12:03 5
  - Zaxxon! -- nm - zork Nov 6, 12:06
  - Xevious was the other game I spent a lot of quarters on at Showbiz. Third would probably be Spy Hunter. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 6, 12:05 2
    - Xevious is one of my person favorites. In my opinion, it's the reason MAME was invented. -- nm - Mop Nov 6, 12:07 1
      - We have that one one of those little hand-held plug into the TV systems. My son loves to play that -- nm - oblique Nov 6, 12:14
  - Ooh, Contra was great. My answer is Metal Slug, except that I think it's still around -- nm - con_carne Nov 6, 12:05
- Gorf. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 6, 12:03 1
  - Heh. I remember Gorf. Cool. -- nm - HdnAgnda Nov 6, 12:04
- On the computer: Lode Runner -- nm - oblique Nov 6, 12:03 10
  - Lode Runner, SpyHunter, Captain Goodnight, and Snoops or something where you snuck into houses in the dark. -- nm - Max Nov 6, 12:05 3
    - There was another one I played alot called Karateka or something like that -- nm - oblique Nov 6, 12:06 2
      - *SQUAWK! SQUAWK!* -- nm - Karateka attack bird Nov 6, 12:07
      - That was probably one of first legitamate games I bought on my Commodore 64. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 6, 12:07
  - space taxi, spy hunter, spy vs spy ... -- nm - Beryllium Nov 6, 12:05
  - I bet 80% of STers had some version of Lode Runner at some point in their lives. - JaxSean Nov 6, 12:03 4
    - But the *original* Lode Runner on an Apple II? :) -- nm - oblique Nov 6, 12:04 1
      - Sure. and on the Commodore. And on IBM, Atari, tons of stuff. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 6, 12:08
    - I cleared it on Apple ][ and PC -- nm - zork Nov 6, 12:04 1
      - *high five* -- nm - oblique Nov 6, 12:05
- Moon Patrol -- nm - CQ with a gravy boat Nov 6, 12:02
- Gladiator -- nm - David Nov 6, 12:02 1
  - Ooh, it's a wikipedia page now! -- (link) - David Nov 6, 12:04
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  - Toobin' -- nm - znufrii -- least fighty poster Nov 6, 12:02
- Dig-Dug. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 6, 12:00 1
  - also Max's favorite -- nm - oblique Nov 6, 12:00
- at home, river raid. loved river raid! -- nm - kare, late to the game Nov 6, 12:00 2
  - my "at home" favourite was Pitfall. -- nm - Andie Nov 6, 12:00 1
    - *loved* Pitfall. -- nm - kare, late to the game Nov 6, 12:08
- Mille Bornes -- nm - loosilu Nov 6, 12:00 1
  - oh, arcade. -- nm - loosilu Nov 6, 12:03
- heh. Burgertime or Tapper -- nm - oblique Nov 6, 11:59
- Gauntlet. (nm) - con carne SI Nov 6, 11:58
- Hard Drivin' -- nm - Max Nov 6, 11:58 1
  - Heard of it, didn't like it. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 6, 11:59
- *gasp* i loved Pengo! i totally forgot about it till you posted this, but i did love it. - Andie Nov 6, 11:58 3
  - Sweet! You may be the first person to EVER remember it! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Nov 6, 12:00 2
    - i'll have to bring it up to my friend Leanne, i bet she's forgotten it to. -- nm - Andie Nov 6, 12:01
    - I remember Pengu. I loved the little dances he did between levels -- nm - zork Nov 6, 12:01
It looks like the best pitcher of my lifetime, Greg Maddux, is retiring. - David Nov 6, 11:57
did anyone else play Splatterhouse? - zork Nov 6, 11:55 2
- That and Bonk! -- nm - David Nov 6, 11:57
- Never heard of it -- nm - con_carne Nov 6, 11:56
LIR: Joust. It was always Joust. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 6, 11:55 7
- Tempest -- nm - Pippy Nov 6, 12:06
- That one was more fun to watch for me than to play -- nm - con_carne Nov 6, 11:57 1
  - yeah, I was good at a couple of games but just watched the rest -- nm - zork Nov 6, 11:57
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  - Nice, but the thread was about arcade games :) -- nm - con_carne Nov 6, 11:57
  - We're talking arcade. -- nm - emoticripple Nov 6, 11:57
Somedays, it's tempting not to want to respond to an ad like this and be like "I could do this while I work my other job" -- (link) - oblique Nov 6, 11:53 3
- That's not the Craigslist ad I was expecting to see you post ... . -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 6, 11:56 2
  - It made you all tingly down there though, didn't it? -- nm - oblique Nov 6, 11:57 1
    - Admittedly, yes ... yes it did ... . -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 6, 12:00
now you can play a bunch of our favourite arcade games again -- (link) - zork Nov 6, 11:52 4
- Oh my gawd, is that Kilbo's music? -- nm - emoticripple Nov 6, 11:58
- I've seen websites like this and I purposefully never visit them - con_carne Nov 6, 11:54 2
  - these are java, not active-x. the best thing though is the MAME program - zork Nov 6, 11:57 1
    - There is a MAME plugin for my MythTV DVR. Works great with my Logitech wireless rumble pad - oblique Nov 6, 12:02
just because the crazies are bringing the crazy, it doesn't mean the GOP is ruined - crash davis Nov 6, 11:50 13
- We'll see who they put in positions of importance, but if this is the stance of their most vocal mouthpieces, it's not going to do much in the masses. - Will Hunting Nov 6, 11:53 12
  - "Their most vocal mouthpieces" were actually asked to tone it down back in September by the party officers. - Trish Nov 6, 12:03
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    - Because the crazy fringe on the right preys on peoples' fears and uses mockery and bullying to make people believe that they'll be one of the - Trish Nov 6, 12:07
    - The fringe on the right is highly organized and this is a basic right-center nation. - Will Hunting Nov 6, 12:02 1
      - it's also more internally consisent, because, in my view, it is intrinsicially backwards-looking. - znufrii -- least fighty poster Nov 6, 12:07
    - because its easier to build a movement around the ideology espoused by the right. - znufrii -- least fighty poster Nov 6, 12:01
    - I think the ratings have a lot to do with it. Limbaugh makes a lot of money and Air America went bankrupt. -- nm - crash davis Nov 6, 12:00
  - Well, so far they've got an apologist for Republican obstructionism in Eric Cantor as the probable minority whip. - znufrii -- least fighty poster Nov 6, 11:58 4
    - it's 36 hours after the beating; let's give it some time. - Will Hunting Nov 6, 12:07 1
      - I'll give it the benefit of the doubt for now, that's just my initial impression -- nm - znufrii -- least fighty poster Nov 6, 12:12
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      - I just think blaming Pelosi for the House Republicans not signing on to the original bailout plan was disingenuous at best. -- nm - znufrii -- least fighty poster Nov 6, 12:09
i think i may have Alzheimers, but. in this instance, it's a good thing... - Andie Nov 6, 11:49 1
- Listen, someone had to do the job when you were off gallavanting around that TT thing you don't want anyone to know about.....so you're welcome. -- nm - Yo-Yo Nov 6, 11:50
I can't believe nobody mentioned Missile Command. A game so great they built an entire episode of Chuck around it 25 years later. -- nm - pmb Nov 6, 11:49 10
- I played a lot of it at home, but I think the arcade version was before my time. -- nm - emoticripple Nov 6, 11:59
- Never liked it. I'd rather have seen an ep based on Q*Bert or Dig Dug. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Nov 6, 11:51 2
  - You just earned 100 Ner Points by using that asterisk :-) -- nm - con_carne Nov 6, 11:56 1
    - +d -- nm - con_carne Nov 6, 11:56
- PONG got no love either. -- nm - VMan Nov 6, 11:50
- Was it an arcade game? I do remember it for consoles -- nm - con_carne Nov 6, 11:49 3
  - You're like 12 aren't you? -- nm - JaxSean Nov 6, 11:52
  - yep, with a track ball -- nm - zork Nov 6, 11:50 1
    - Oh, of course. Now I remember -- nm - con_carne Nov 6, 11:51
- I hated that game. never liked it -- nm - CQ with a gravy boat Nov 6, 11:49
Romeo Crennel might the biggest moron around. Let's start a rookie with 1 day practice when you could wait, and make the change with a full 10 days - Will Hunting Nov 6, 11:48 1
- Quinn's not a rookie, but I agree with your point. -- nm - David Nov 6, 11:53
Peace out, crew. Got a 12:30 screening of The Good, The Bad and the Weird - Mr. Havens Nov 6, 11:47 2
- that movie looks great. really looking forward to that....nm - x Nov 6, 11:49
- Awesome! -- nm - Spawn Nov 6, 11:48

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