If you had a time machine......

OregonPacman

New member
Joined
Jun 25, 2004
Messages
7,746
Reaction score
63
Location
Tilden, NE
Which Golden Age year (approxomately 1977 - 1983) would you visit?


I would go back to 1980 to Franklin Park, IL and tour Midway's factory so I could see Pac-Man machines being built.


What about you guys?
 
While not golden age, I'd go back to 1998 to go to Sega's Virtual On 2 only arcade in Shibuya Sportsland and Tangerine Spur (the arcade that was only Virtual On 1)... wish I had done it as is.
 
I would go back to the Summer of 1983, just before I entered high school as a Freshman. I have fond memories of that time frame, and MOST of the games that I would like to see "like new" again would be around. (Of course, I can just go downstairs right now and see most of them anyway, but not in their original "natural" environment)

Now, to answer the REAL question; I would show up at the White House guard shack in 1989 with my Ipod 4 in hand, loaded with videos showing how the world has gone to HELL since then and say: "As you can see by my technology, I am from the future. I must speak to the President and his cabinet immediately..." Perhaps that would be one way to prevent this awful course that we have headed down. And I openly blame the internet as a major contributing factor to the problem.

If you think that the world is "fine" today, then you probably aren't old enough to remember what it was like back when children and teenagers were still relatively innocent. My 15 year old son now goes to the same high school that I went to. When I was there, you HEARD about people possibly doing drugs, but never actually saw any real evidence. And those people were in the MINORITY. These days, it is so out of control that it is just sickening. My son feels like he is just about the only "normal" kid that goes to his school, and this is supposed to be one of the BEST high schools in the country...
 
Call me a nerd... but I've thought about this time machine scenario a lot.

I've decided I would never go back in time, but rather forward. The way I see it, if I go back and screw something up, when I get back to my time, everything could be different. But, if I can go forward, I can snag some cool info/stuff and return to my current time using the info and make millions, and buy all the cool stuff from the past I would have visited.
 
Call me a nerd... but I've thought about this time machine scenario a lot.

I've decided I would never go back in time, but rather forward. The way I see it, if I go back and screw something up, when I get back to my time, everything could be different. But, if I can go forward, I can snag some cool info/stuff and return to my current time using the info and make millions, and buy all the cool stuff from the past I would have visited.

damn you biff!, leave her alone!
 
Call me a nerd... but I've thought about this time machine scenario a lot.

I've decided I would never go back in time, but rather forward. The way I see it, if I go back and screw something up, when I get back to my time, everything could be different. But, if I can go forward, I can snag some cool info/stuff and return to my current time using the info and make millions, and buy all the cool stuff from the past I would have visited.

Current time travel theory suggests that it would be more like the TV show 'Sliders' than BTTF.
So even if you go forward and try to return ..more than like you will not be in your own timeline.
 
I wouldn't go back to any of those years. I would go back to the fall of '88 and walk into Fossa's General Store at about 3 o'clock on a weekday, and watch my 13-year-old self play a game of Super Punch-Out. Then I would put in a quarter (and I know he would stay to watch me play, because he is me, and I would have), and he would wonder why I put in the same initials at the start of the game as he used. Then I would blow away his measly ~375K score that he thought was untouchable.

After that I would explain to him who I am and walk home with him to "meet" our parents and our siblings. It would be very interesting having a conversation with my parents while being approximately the same age as they are. I would of course suggest to my father that he should invest in Microsoft or something like that.

There are loads of things I would do as well — too many to mention here — but before leaving, I would use my Nintendo K6510 back door key, dress up in Dickies or something to make myself look like a service man of some sort, and I would go down to Fossa's and dump the ROMs out of that SPO machine (because they were the "Venice Beach" version, which is currently nowhere to be found).
 
!1985! the music... the movies... the culture. i would clear the shelves of Gemco of all the clearance priced star wars toys- then cruise down to the arcade till my fingers bled...
 
1984 or 1985. Right after the arcades died. I would go to auctions and buy up a sh*tload of classics, fill a warehouse or two and then come back and be in classic video game heaven.

If I could afford to build a time machine, I am sure I could afford a couple of warehouses for 30 years. Hell, I could even take pre-orders from you guys and afford to buy up all but three Sundances and stash them away....pre-meth of course....:D

ken
 
Current time travel theory suggests that it would be more like the TV show 'Sliders' than BTTF.
So even if you go forward and try to return ..more than like you will not be in your own timeline.

"Pressured to prove his theories or lose funding, Dr. Samuel Beckett stepped into the Quantumn Leap Accellerator.....and vanished!"


Who knows, maybe he leaped into Billy Mitchell and helped him get that perfect Pac-Man score.
 
Back
Top Bottom