| The funniest thing triggered some great old | | | | but it was far in the 60s and what I am really fond |
| memories of 80s arcade games . Last night I went | | | | of are the memories of actually going to an arcade in |
| to a store, a 24-hour convenience one, to get a | | | | order to play games. Real arcade with a change |
| cigarette lighter and asked for the difference | | | | machine only apart from the stand alone, full sized |
| between Bic lighters and Scripto lighters. | | | | games with their handles and buttons, such as |
| Unexpectedly the boy on shift was helpful and kind | | | | Asteroids, and Donkey Kong, Pac Man and Mr. Pac |
| enough to inform me that as per their reputation the | | | | Man.As there was nowhere else to go after school |
| Bic works much better. That's when I made my | | | | actually, because apart from the malls that e didn't |
| decision to go for the good old, never failing Bic.That | | | | like t hang into, the 80s arcades games were the |
| is how I remembered an old TV ad with Peggy | | | | only places for under 21-year-olds. And we devoted |
| Fleming. And I told the kid about it, about her skating | | | | both ourselves and our free time to spending every |
| on a Bic pen attached to the blade of her skate and | | | | last quarter there.There was one 80s arcade game |
| after a round on the ice the pen was still writing. | | | | that I liked much more than the others. It was called |
| Obviously that story I told him made him calculate | | | | Quix and I never managed to find a copy of it again, |
| quickly, and he made me laugh with the question | | | | neither in the internet, nor on a CD-R. The task was |
| asking if that was back in the fifties. But he wasn't | | | | to part off pieces of a huge rectangle that was on |
| scoffing, on the contrary, he actually confessed that | | | | the screen, using a stylus controlled by the joystick, |
| he would have loved it to be born and raised in this | | | | avoiding the electrical sparks/fuses moving around, |
| age, in the time when things have been new and | | | | because in case they get to you, your score returns |
| cheap as the first video games and even | | | | to zero and you start from the beginning. It was just |
| McDonald's.This on is turn made me think about the | | | | a simple game or people who were not fond of all |
| things we had as children and how very few kids | | | | the killing and shooting and in was much easier to |
| nowadays will consider them worthy to even look at. | | | | move in the limited 2D space.But in fact I still have a |
| Unlike the twenty-something generation now that | | | | place in my heart for the times (a few months only) |
| only know computers and the latest video consoles, | | | | that I was totally addicted to the great Space |
| I've experienced first hand how the 80s arcade | | | | Invaders. Boy, the more I think about it the more I |
| games were played, and how they paved the road | | | | realize just how much I loved those 80s arcade |
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