sparkdrummer Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 Sparkdrummer: How about you? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 Mine is my obsession with all things electronic and 80s. :-) I absolutely love the game Dig Dug in particular. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeBo Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 The PeB part of PeBo is simply the initials of my real name...the "o" at the end was added in the 80's so that my BBS nick wouldn't sound like the Peripheral Expansion Box (a concern only a 4A person would have had back then). "o" Is also the second letter in my last name, so it worked. In the late 90's I worked in marketing for Finnish software developer MadOnion.com (aka Futuremark Corporation) and since I needed an online persona for the gig, I resurrected "PeBo" and it has stuck ever since. The only exception is on Google sites...I wanted something different for GMail (before Google took over a gazillion online services), so while my Cylon avatar remains the same across most sites, on YouTube or any other Google service, My Nick is "Shitabarnak" (or simply S Tabarnak - since Google likes to create a first and last name). No story behind that - it's just a uniquely Québécois portmanteau-blending of common English and French profanities that somehow made it past the Google thought-police) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gfreige Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 Just the inital of my first name and my last name. Seems to be a rather unique combination as I used it everywhere without any nickname clash for many years 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew180 Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 "Matthew" was taken, so I had to add a number to make it unique. I think "180" was the numeric part of my license plate at the time. Nothing special. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+eebuckeye Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 EEBuckeye = Electrical Engineer from Ohio State 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 Just the inital of my first name and my last name. Seems to be a rather unique combination as I used it everywhere without any nickname clash for many years Nice Avatar!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 Ω is for the last online username I ever plan to use. I was also the last TI holdout in my local area back in the day. It will also be my last resting place. I have a spare P-Box waiting to hold my ashes when the time comes. Why by a special box when the P-Box is built like a tank? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkdrummer Posted May 1, 2017 Author Share Posted May 1, 2017 Omega, The fcc might have to approve that as a final resting place for your remains. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneMultitasker Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 Mine came from this old Sierra ad... 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 and mine is.. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 Hey... how much does a working Pengo go for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 Hey... how much does a working Pengo go for?If you can find one.. 300-500 I got mine from a guy who's daughter won it in a breakfast cereal contest.. Sent from my LG-H830 using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkdrummer Posted May 1, 2017 Author Share Posted May 1, 2017 Damn! I just remembered... Greg has pinball machines! Oh well, maybe next year if there's a FestWest and I'm able to make it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 Damn! I just remembered... Greg has pinball machines! Oh well, maybe next year if there's a FestWest and I'm able to make it again. hopefully by next year I'll have the space visit-able.. right now it's pretty crammed full Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkdrummer Posted May 1, 2017 Author Share Posted May 1, 2017 Just like your shirt said pal! And I subscribe to it. My pix above kinda show it as well, eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew180 Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 @arcadeshopper: That is awesome! I started going down that road for a while, I think I peaked at 20 games or so. But I found that I like fixing games more than playing them, so I sold them. It takes a lot of room to have that kind of hobby, something that is in short supply in SoCal. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeBo Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 Mine came from this old Sierra ad... OK, you win the award for the coolest source! Mighty left-brained (420-brained?) for a Sierra ad to boot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senior_falcon Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 This is a Carl Goldberg models "Senior Falcon" radio controlled model airplane. I had one of these in the early '70s. It was my favorite plane from that time of my life. You might say it is my "Rosebud". (For those of you who know the movie "Citizen Kane") I even liked vintage stuff back then. My control system was a Controlaire 10 channel reed outfit which used toggle switches to move the control surfaces. By then virtually everyone was using a proportional system. One time I was really wringing the plane out. My dad was watching and overheard a fellow say, "Boy he sure knows how to fly that plane", to which his buddy said, "yeah, and he's using a reed outfit to do it." The guy went over to where I was flying, took a look and came back shaking his head. He said "My gosh, I can't even do that well with my proportional outfit!" 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 Mine comes from a game I've been playing since before I bought my first TI machine in 1980. . .The Empire of the Petal Throne. Here's the reference to Ksárul. I started playing this one in late 1977. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 Tursiops Truncatus. I was into dolphins when I chose it. I was using Flipper on BBSs but (perhaps unsurprisingly) that name was well spoken for on the internet. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 Mine came from this old Sierra ad... InsaneMultitasker.jpg Any idea what artist that is? Reminds me of Bill Plympton Sent from my LG-H830 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneMultitasker Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 (edited) Any idea what artist that is? Reminds me of Bill Plympton Sent from my LG-H830 using Tapatalk I had removed that page from a magazine long, long ago. I used that name to play online games in the late 90s so it must be at least that old. I should have the original somewhere, though I'll need to let my subconscious filing system work it out... Edit: Kevin Pope Edited May 2, 2017 by InsaneMultitasker 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 @sparkdrummer... one of your kits looks eerily familiar! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flottmann1 Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 (edited) hi if you come to Germany you must visit the Drums Museum in Ludwigsburg near Stuttgart This is supervised by a good Friend, it is the only one Drums Museum in Germany ! There were already great drummers here (Carl Palmer, Carmin Appice, Ian Paice,Terry Bozzio, Chad Smith, Nicko McBrain and many more !) Here is a drum set that once played legendary Led Zeppelin Drummer John Bonham, he gave it to Keith Moon Ian Paice of Deep Purple is the Patron from this Drum Museum, I've already met him there here the Side on Facebook https://de-de.facebook.com/Schlagzeugmuseum/ we wait for Ringo Starr and his Son Zak (The WHO) and the great Charlie Watts Edited May 5, 2017 by Flottmann1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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