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    Only Tapes? I know a lot of people who still ask for "records" though at least that could be short for recording, though I imagine they mean the vinal type... Though they at least look similar.

    Yeah, it happened, but much less regularly.

    My experience was that most of the vinyl-age folks referred to their records as "albums" (itself a holdover term from a previous format, in this case 78s) which is also perfectly acceptable as a term for CDs, at least IMO, as "album" really means "collection of songs."

     

    But carts are definitely not tapes. If memory serves, when I was growing up, they were just "games."

    There were "Intellivision games", "Atari games", "Odyssey games", "computer games" and "arcade games."

    Collectively, they were all "video games."

    Except for Pong.

    Pong was always called simply Pong.

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    when I worked at Toys R Us, I was shocked by the number of people who wanted to buy "intendo tapes".

    When I worked at a used CD store, folks used to come in often asking for "the latest Mariah Carey" tape (or whatever.) When I'd say, "we only sell CDs," they always looked at me like I was a fool and said something like, "yeah, that's what I want," as if somehow it was my fault they didn't know what words mean. (Of course, my fave dumb customer question of all time came from a young lady who asked me how the CDs were arranged -- "Alphabetically by artist," I told her. "Oh," she said with a thoughtful look on her face, "so is Phil Collins under P or F?")

  8. Posted · Edited by Captain Beard

    This game would be more exciting if you could use your fishing knife to cut your opponent's line... or throat...

     

    Ah, the innocence of games past...

     

    As for you, aftermac, I'll get my position back.

    Is there an emoticon for "I'm shaking my fist at you and the sky!"?

     

     

    My score improves again: 99-56 for a score of 43. Woo-hoo!

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  14. Posted

    101,600

     

    Let me be the first to say "Congrat-u-fuckin-lations!"

    Very impressive.

     

    I've hit a wall.

    Pretty much every game I come close to my previously posted score but choke just before breaking it.

     

    Nice pick, though -- I definitely like this game better after this week than I thought I did going in.

    What more can we ask from HSC club?

  17. Posted · Edited by Captain Beard

    10,200 for my first attempt.

    I've always been kinda torn about this game... it could've been so much better.

    But man, Difficulty A is tough!

     

    This is one of my faves. 69,300 but that is just a start.
    At Difficulty A!?! Wow!

    It's pretty early in the week to be so impressed... that's better than my personal high score on the easy variation!

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  24. Posted

    I tried to see how many points I could get on Level 1. 660 points was my best.

    I managed a 670 once. I have absolutely no idea what I did to achieve that, as I never replicated the feat.

    Still, even up through today, I routinely died on the first few levels as they are... so... very... slow...

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