Is this normal?

[Atari freak 1]

Me and my brother (age 16) were playing Ms. pacman for 1hour and a

half tring to beat each other's score. Although I wasn't really alive in the atari heyday (born in 1987, age 14) I can only guess this was what it was like in the 80's, like when your friends came over to play.

 

Am I right?

[SS]

Seems normal to me. Although, I usually do my marathon gaming all alone.

[ATARIPITBULL]

That is what it was like. I'm my house I would have about 6 people over playing my 2600 till it was going to melt, or till my dad did, then when somone else had a new game, we would all pile over his house.

 

[inextremis staple]

i remember those days with my brothers

usually it was me sitting there watching them try to beat pitfall II and then hitting me when one of those blasted condors nailed them

ah...those were the days

[NE146]

In the 80's? You mean it isn't still like that?

[broncoman]

i remember one time my dad beat checkers on my intellivision but it whould not let him win and it got real hot!! so we had to turn it off funny huh !! dragon stomper always did the mega waste of time for me and my friend tom back in the early 80's

[bcsnow]

With a friend of mine I used to play spaceinvaders for hours and hours and when we've got beaten we got so frustrated that we bit our joysticks. The result is that all my joysticks have got some tooth print on them , maybe I should try to find some new ones.

[Atari-Jess]

In the 80's? You mean it isn't still like that?  

 

sadly no, thanks to the general gain in weight in the children of

north america and europe, most children do not go to their friends

house to play video games, instead they sit on their fat asses

(mine included, cept im not fat... but thats not the point)

untill the point where moving in general is a big mistake.

[uosipa llamxew]

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Edited September 23, 2005 by mojofltr

[atari70s]

i have an XEGS joystick with teeth marks ( after 4 hrs of pacman on the 8 bit i got a little hungry):) but i dont know how true on 2600 i wasnt alive in the hay day but on XEGS i know bluemax was a block fav. and NOONE got to touch my Spectravideo joystick. 5 years till it just fell apart( no ducttape in the world could save it ( i bought a new one) the dog at it up so now since my 7800 lot i have 2 Brandy new ones on suction cuped to the Celing. my friends see them when they enter the game room i just say its the only way to garentee the dog wont get to them .

 

Pacman Pole Position and Bluemax Hours of joy for me.

[SS]

It's amazing how many joysticks you see at the thrift shops with teeth marks in them! I always wondered how this came about. :-)

 

Oh, the shame of it all! Time to come out from behind the wall of on-line annonymity. I, too, am a joy stick nibbiler!