August 12, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, JoeC said: Yeah, dude. It's called a PlayStation. Actually I think I bought my nephew one way back. I remember when my parents bought an Atari. In the 70s that was hi tech
August 12, 20241 yr 2 minutes ago, The Grinder said: Actually I think I bought my nephew one way back. I remember when my parents bought an Atari. In the 70s that was hi tech In cleaning out her parents' cottage a couple of years back, my wife found an original Nintendo (including Duck Hunt), still in its original packaging that her parents insisted they store it in, including the original receipt. I'm afraid to look up prices for it online.
August 12, 20241 yr 8 minutes ago, The Grinder said: Actually I think I bought my nephew one way back. I remember when my parents bought an Atari. In the 70s that was hi tech Were those things addictive?
August 12, 20241 yr 8 hours ago, The Mighty Mite said: Strat-o-matic was the greatest baseball game ever. I ran a league when I was stationed on a semi-remote Air Force Radar Site in South Dakota in 1966-67. Ran a league with this exact Eagle Toys Hockey also, wasn’t much to do in South Dakota. No one could beat me at that game. Sorry for getting off my topic. One of the guys at the Hockey House in college (early-/mid-2000's) had a Bubble Hockey setup: It wasn't this version obviously, but he scored it when his local rink that he worked in closed down, and the owner told him he could grab the arcade games. Good times.
August 12, 20241 yr Author 5 minutes ago, oldsox said: Were those things addictive? Pac-Man was addictive.
August 12, 20241 yr 9 minutes ago, oldsox said: Were those things addictive? IIRC it was like ping-pong on yr TV
August 12, 20241 yr 8 hours ago, The Mighty Mite said: Strat-o-matic was the greatest baseball game ever. I ran a league when I was stationed on a semi-remote Air Force Radar Site in South Dakota in 1966-67. Ran a league with this exact Eagle Toys Hockey also, wasn’t much to do in South Dakota. No one could beat me at that game. Sorry for getting off my topic. Wrong. APBA is the greatest game ever. IMHO
August 12, 20241 yr 9 hours ago, Dick Allen said: The game is so different. I used to play Strat-o-matic as a kid. I loved homers, hits and walks. Dave Kingman was a whiff machine back in the day. But his career high was 156, which is close to the pace Andrew Vaughn is on this year, and whiff machine doesn't even cross my mind thinking of him. I’m replaying 1979 season in APBA. The game is night and day. A quarter of the way through the season and just a couple ten strikeout games.
August 12, 20241 yr 50 minutes ago, The Mighty Mite said: It’s still around? https://pacman.live/play.html https://www.google.com/search?q=play+pacman+online&rlz=1C1GCEB_enUS1004US1004&oq=play+pacman+online&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyCQgAEEUYORiABDINCAEQABiDARixAxiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIHCAUQABiABDIHCAYQABiABDIHCAcQABiABDIHCAgQABiABDIHCAkQABiABNIBCDUxMTJqMGo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 My apologies to anyone who needs your attention for the next... few weeks.
August 12, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, The Grinder said: IIRC it was like ping-pong on yr TV Atari 2600 actually never got Pong, oddly enough
August 12, 20241 yr what's insanely crazy about the first Atari console, someone actually released a dialup modem for it, that you could use to log into a server and download games in 1983. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameLine
August 13, 20241 yr 2 hours ago, JoeC said: One of the guys at the Hockey House in college (early-/mid-2000's) had a Bubble Hockey setup: It wasn't this version obviously, but he scored it when his local rink that he worked in closed down, and the owner told him he could grab the arcade games. Good times. I almost got my ass beat in a tavern over a game of hockey. Thought the guy playing had cut in front of my pal and I. Called him an a##hole. He was bent over playing at the time I said it. After he was done he straightened up and was at least 5-6 inches taller than me. I've always written checks my 5'8" ass can't cash. Some how I'm still alive.:)
August 13, 20241 yr 13 hours ago, zisk said: I almost got my ass beat in a tavern over a game of hockey. Thought the guy playing had cut in front of my pal and I. Called him an a##hole. He was bent over playing at the time I said it. After he was done he straightened up and was at least 5-6 inches taller than me. I've always written checks my 5'8" ass can't cash. Some how I'm still alive.:) Cangelosi? Grebeck? McKay Christensen?
August 13, 20241 yr I kind of think Benintendi still has some upside, looking at his advanced stats. BABIP seems low and hard hit seems about 90% of what it was. I don't think he'll be a .270 hitter, but a .250 hitter with 20 homers/20 doubles a year would be fine.
August 13, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, Greg Hibbard said: I kind of think Benintendi still has some upside, looking at his advanced stats. BABIP seems low and hard hit seems about 90% of what it was. I don't think he'll be a .270 hitter, but a .250 hitter with 20 homers/20 doubles a year would be fine. Is it still considered upside when you think he will provide less offense than you thought he would when he was given $75 million?
August 13, 20241 yr 21 hours ago, The Grinder said: IIRC it was like ping-pong on yr TV I played so much Pong as a kid its not even funny. Was also a big fan of Asteroids
August 13, 20241 yr 21 hours ago, The Mighty Mite said: It’s still around? We've got videogames like this now a days. No need for pacman.
August 13, 20241 yr When I was in the electronics industry Bally was my largest customer while nearly every version of Pac-Man was being built. I was a "game tester" and they would send a game to my house. I had to give them back eventually but it was a sweet deal. Most of my friends saw Professor Pac-Man for the first time in my basement.
August 14, 20241 yr 9 minutes ago, Texsox said: When I was in the electronics industry Bally was my largest customer while nearly every version of Pac-Man was being built. I was a "game tester" and they would send a game to my house. I had to give them back eventually but it was a sweet deal. Most of my friends saw Professor Pac-Man for the first time in my basement. Damn that would be my dream job
August 14, 20241 yr 35 minutes ago, DoUEvenShift said: Damn that would be my dream job It was until the games industry cratered and Bally moved their video slots and lottery business to Nevada. Fortunately for me telecom exploded shortly after that.
August 14, 20241 yr Since we are into video games now Jerry is giving the fans atari while the rest of the league gets Playstation.
August 14, 20241 yr He has a -1.6 WAR and a.629 OPS. He basically had eight hot games. How bad is this team that we are resorting to getting excited over two series worth of bats?
August 14, 20241 yr 7 hours ago, wrathofhahn said: He has a -1.6 WAR and a.629 OPS. He basically had eight hot games. How bad is this team that we are resorting to getting excited over two series worth of bats? Literally the worst in 125 years, going back to 1900
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