What's the lifespan of somebody staying in the hobby?
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mickster150
Active member
been in the hobby about 25 years. I keep thinking I will find something else I want to do and sell the games to finance it. Can't seem to find anything else I want to do...........................................
Arcadenut
Well-known member
I can stop any time I want............
Yeah, me too. I only do it to look cool....
Owning a coin op video game was a life long dream. I bought my first game in 2003 and I went big with a Star Wars cockpit. Oh man! Sadly I had to sell it in the crash of '09. But I kept something like 10-12 games. And while I still haven't replaced the cockpit, I'm up to about 30 games +/- a few.
What bothers me is I can't decide if I like the hobby enough to stay in long term. But either way it sure makes me popular with the ladies!
And here, I thought it was the hat....
It's definitely legit, and I hear he has impressive bull whip skills.
I'm fucked
I do indeed have a 10' kangaroo hide bullwhip. And a fedora. I don't know about any impressive skills though.
Here's the legit proof...
A little less grainy that my KLOV avatar:
(From @jkoolpe's garage party, Halloween 2008)
Place of honor, on the mantle in the arcade:
(The hat is my daily driver so it's not in the display.)
And just for grins....a time traveling archaeologist.
(Car is not mine. But I did drive it backward for about 10 feet.)
Hungrydude
New member
Thanks! I have been posting in the reddit arcade forums for a while now, but have recently found my way over here & I gotta admit I am loving how helpful everyone over here seems! Such a great community.
Holy shit dude, I thought you were only donning the hat, whip and jacket.... I didn't realize that was the whole ensemble down to the f-ing Zippo. Maybe you made that distinction, but it was Halloween, at least 9PM, and I may have had one or more refreshments of intoxication. For the record, you did offer to put on a bullwhip exposition... should I be glad I didn't encourage you? (and for those of you at home, I have only seen him without the Fedora because it looks weird on the baseball field..... he might have been wearing it in the dugout.)
Oh hellz yeah! It's the full rig! I need a better, more screen accurate machete, but at least it's period correct! That thing's like 90 years old.
It's true, I'm rarely seen without the hat. I have in fact worn it in the dugout.
But it's not as out of place as you might think.
(Roy Hobbs, in the NY Knights dugout)
And I do play right field.
