favourite 80's fads

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UPDATED: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 18:04
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OPPYH

Sunday, July 11, 2010 2:26 PM

Ealy to mid 80's video game arcades. I used to live in them as a kid. At my local mall there were 4 of them, and 3 more within walking distance near my house. They started to dry up around 85'. Damn they were fun. Doing a Google search, I couldn't find one picture of an actual 80's arcade. A little strange considering there were over a million of them in their heyday.
Here is a faux early 80's arcade:

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70's TV FOREVER

KANEMAN

Sunday, July 11, 2010 3:13 PM

Parachute pants.....

FREMDFIRMA

Sunday, July 11, 2010 6:30 PM

Yo, Oppy ?

Get this, one of my childhood dreams was to own an arcade, before reality intervened - but yanno, technology finds a way.

There's an arcade motherboard emulator called MAME, and with the appropriate ROM files, can faithfully replicate prettymuch ALL those machines at your leisure, right down to the last little detail, since it's the actual arcade machine ROM data being used.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAME

And you'd best believe I got the ROM data, some of it personally yoinked from junked machines - there's some legal whinging about this, but it makes little sense since where can you even FIND, say, a cabinet machine of asteroids deluxe to even put a quarter *IN*, so how is it costing them money ?
Hell, they had any sense they'd put the ROM data on CDs themselves and sell em for a nominal fee.

But yeah, there's a special place in my heart for those games, I remember back when someone real good would draw a crowd, and there was a certain respect about it, right down to the corner-quarter etiquette and rules of challenge, like pop culture gunslingers - and I was DAMN good, still am, hehehe, I like to mock the younger folks, since I been kickin ass at these things longer than them little pests have been alive.

Seriously, get yourself a copy of MAME though, guilty pleasures indeed.

-Frem

IREMISST

Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:29 AM

The Oregon Trail game, and driving across town to pay the electricity bill- mainly 'cause we usually went for ice cream after... and I'll say power ballads on behalf of hubby!

WHODIED

Tuesday, July 13, 2010 6:04 PM

The amazingly efficient application of WINE COOLERS to SWEATER DRESSES. A couple of crappy cranberry coolers and bam! The elf boots, the leg warmers, the leggings, and all seven belts are gone. All that's left is a three foot sheath of hot pink Lycra and a 1G prototype push-up bra.

"That sure is a pretty dress. Why, I bet it'd even look good on the floor! Bartles & Jaymes?"

--WhoDied

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