KLOV in 25 years???

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So last weekend I take my kids to the local adventure park. They have a room with approximately 40 video games. Most of them are the new fancy shooting or sit down Nascar driving type games. In the corner is a lonely Galaga/Pac Reunion cab which no one was playing and right next to it was one of those new dance revolution games and the line was deep of extremely sweaty teenage kids.

After I came home I worked on my Asteroids cocktail and I began to think - What will this forum be like in 25 years??? Will it be filled with a new generation of gamers talking about how to repair a dance revolution? Can you see a bunch of 35 - 50 year old men/women reliving their youth and dancing themselves into a frenzy??
I really wonder!
 
We might have to have a subforum with a sticky-graveyard once some of us start kicking the bucket. You know, a little tribute to each one of us where people can leave their condolences.

- M1A
 
That is in 40 years, not 25...

Unfortunately, with a lot of us passing 40 this year and over the next couple of years, its going to become increasingly common. A few of us will depart during our 40s. I'm betting even a few more during our 50s, 60s, etc.

Especially some of our heavier friends. How many people who are "big" do you know over 60 years of age? I have never known that many. I'm 20lbs overweight and that terrifies me. I'm 5'10'' and about 193 or 194, and the weight charts say I should be 174.

Its depressing, but it is reality.

- M1A
 
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Thank goodness women live longer... :D

In 25 years I'll likely have dementia and will be drooling on myself. I'll be telling my grand or great grand children about all the wild KLOV days over and over again until they don't want to visit me anymore :eek:
 
Thank goodness women live longer... :D

In 25 years I'll likely have dementia and will be drooling on myself. I'll be telling my grand or great grand children about all the wild KLOV days over and over again until they don't want to visit me anymore :eek:

Wild and crazy. :rolleyes: :D

These kinda thoughts what this place will look like in 25 years give me the creeps. :eek:
 
Everything and everyone dies off eventually. Doubt there will be a forum with people restoring Dance Revolutions or games like that. Those games will be forgotten/junked; and the people who played them will be too busy with something more important.
 
There will always be an interest, maybe not in the masses such as now but if you think about it, history moves from people to museums, where it will live as long as possible. If we preserve and pass down knowledge we are pretty much going to have this going in memories forever!

[ DO NOT STEP ON MY DREAMS ] :D
 
Alas, I predict this forum will be long gone in 25 years. Hopefully someone has the wherewithal to archive this stuff or it'll be long gone too. Case in point are the hundreds of dead links pointing to long gone arcade collectors pages.

There will still be plenty of arcade game collectors. Most likely there will be some form of information sharing network, too. I don't have to vision to predict what form that may take. Maybe some kind of immersed virtual thing where I can be in your game room or workshop virtually. Maybe even a virtual player 2 on your Joust or RipOff game.


So last weekend I take my kids to the local adventure park. They have a room with approximately 40 video games. Most of them are the new fancy shooting or sit down Nascar driving type games. In the corner is a lonely Galaga/Pac Reunion cab which no one was playing and right next to it was one of those new dance revolution games and the line was deep of extremely sweaty teenage kids.

After I came home I worked on my Asteroids cocktail and I began to think - What will this forum be like in 25 years??? Will it be filled with a new generation of gamers talking about how to repair a dance revolution? Can you see a bunch of 35 - 50 year old men/women reliving their youth and dancing themselves into a frenzy??
I really wonder!
 
Honestly I hope its still here it's basically an online dictionary of arcade games that has no equal on the web at the moment as far as I'm concerned.

Not only that, but I consider everyone here a friend. I spend enough of my free time each day here talking games, politics, life, whatever. Agree or disagree, I like everyone here so far after three years or so. I'd find it difficult to not check in daily at this point.

- M1A
 
We might have to have a subforum with a sticky-graveyard once some of us start kicking the bucket. You know, a little tribute to each one of us where people can leave their condolences.

- M1A

Yes, and M1A, you'll be the only one left in the forums since you've done so well with preventative maintenance...celebrating your 600th prostate exam, and 20,000th time of brushing your teeth.

congrats my friend, you win. :D
 
Klov is to classic arcade games what Taco Bell is to Mexican food. About 10% of it is authentic and the rest just cheap fillers. There will be people carrying on the torch of the classics while the multi-game quick- dollar- fad -crap that really only appeals to the A.D.D. crowd will ( hopefully and probably ) die off. Klov will be long gone and in it's place will be a forum with a small group of collectors that want to remember the games as they were instead of turning them into something the weren't meant to be. In other words, collecting will come full circle. I can hardly wait.
 
I'm still not sure why... I haven't seen the movie and don't think it looked all that interesting maybe that's just me.

glad that someone else feels the same way. when all the teenagers started going nuts about it, i figured, yeah, this is like titanic. another movie with way too much hype that i don't need to see.
 
If this forum survives 25 years (doubt it) it will be filled to the rim with 60-80 year old farts still trying to keep their (then) 50-60 year old machines running.

No one has "love" for modern games like we have "love" for the classics.

Much like a car... age doesn't make something "classic". 1968 Plymouth Road Runner...classic. 1979 Datsun 210... not quite so classic.
 
Well gaming has come a long way since then and the market changes, people change and the world revolves around the money it takes to keep that going. When its not popular it dies and thats the sad truth. As far as arcade gaming today with the new games, its all pretty much shit, my heart filled with hate the first time I laid eyes on some emo teens dancing on a dance revolution at the local arcades. between that and the fighting games and ticket runners its pretty much moved away from where it started. I feel sorry for my daughter having to grow up in this generation, she wont have anything worthwhile to call her own in my eyes but im sure she will do the same as I did when I was her age and cling on to the childhood memories of her own. It is depressing but im gonna pass on what Ive learned to my kids and hopefully they follow suit but I doubt it. I had no interest in my parents hobbies when I was a teen so i doubt she will.
 
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