Eureka! Arcade Moments

[OregonPacman]

My "eureka" moment came about 2 years ago when I sold my Dig Dug. My daughter (then 2 1/2) came down from her nap after the game was gone. She looked at the spot where it once resided and she said plain as day "Where's Doug?" It totally blew my mind. I didn't realize that she had any idea of the game's name. The fact that she realized it was gone from the house was a bit of a shock as well.

 

[modessitt]

A certain local KLOVer drives me nuts when he refers to a game PCB I have a "Eh-Swat". I always tell him it's EEE-Swat.

And another local KLOVer keeps talking about KLAUVE instead of K-L-O-V.

And just the other day someoe was talking to me about guh-LAH-guh (Galaga)...

 

[DarrenF]

This thread reminds me, I need to make a JAMMA adapter for my One-thousand Nine-Hundred Forty-Two board...

 

[modessitt]

Ha!


My "eureka" moment came last year when I finally learned you could open the doors on Mappy without being close to them, as long as you were on the same level. Prior, I'd always thought you had to be touching it before you could open it...

 

[CrazyKongFan]

I've had a couple. One was finding out the concert scene on Journey was actually a bonus stage (I had never tried to move the bouncer, so I had no idea). Another was that you could brace against falling stuff on Crazy Climber by making sure you're holding both hands on a sill. Playing in MAME, you miss the instruction cards that are on a real machine with those kinds of tips

 

[Boatdrinks]

Had another moment of enlightenment last night... figured out that you can shoot out the walls to escape a room in Frenzy. I'm sure that I'm the last to figure that out, but it was BIG news to me.

 

[SilverCoin]

Klauve.. lol!

 

[blkdog7]

Huh. I call this place CLAWV. I heard some guys call it KAY-LOVE. That makes me ill. I like CLAWV.