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Don't you love it when you meet somebody and somehow it comes up that you have a certain game, or they see you moving a certain game in a truck, and they come up to you and say something like, "Oh, I used to play that game back when I was a kid. I used to roll it over all the time", and you're thinking, "This game doesn't rollover, dumbass, I'll bet you can't get past level 3..."
 
Same thing with classic cars. You wouldn't believe how many people's uncles happened to drive 68 Galaxie convertibles....
 
Yeah, my daughter's friend's mom came by one day and saw my collection and said, "Wow! Ms.Pac-man! I used to play that ALL THE TIME, bitd. I finished it! Have you ever seen the ending?"

I told her I haven't seen the ending. She didn't have time to play.
 
How about someone knowing that you can swap the EPROMS out on a Defender to change it to a Tempest?

I gently, and in several ways, told him this wasn't possible, but he would not concede. Of course, he was promoted to a Director level within our company in short order.
 
Yeah, my daughter's friend's mom came by one day and saw my collection and said, "Wow! Ms.Pac-man! I used to play that ALL THE TIME, bitd. I finished it! Have you ever seen the ending?"

I told her I haven't seen the ending. She didn't have time to play.

Should have asked what her high score was.
 
We used to have this guy at work, he must be the most prolific son of a bitch I've ever met. Other co-workers and I used to joke about making a wiki about this guy's supposed accomplishments. Among them:

-Chasing tornadoes with Alice Cooper's Daughter, then drinking her under the table
-Living in the same building as a pornography production company, and being able to use the OC3 line associated for his own purposes
-Owned THE General Lee. Not one, THE ONLY one. Of course, he couldn't afford the gas to drive it to work to show us.
-All-star drummer, who really only got going when he was blackout-drunk.
-Was once asked to pitch for a major league baseball team, based on the fact that he knew somebody on the team who played with him in high school
-Owned several more cars, in various states of restoration (Drove a 1993 Ford Taurus)
-Professional concert photographer for such acts as Nickelback. I hate Nickelback, but it's still a big claim

Basically the greatest person to ever exist. Of course, he never did mention anything with video games. I'm sure if I had brought i up, he would have.
 
We used to have this guy at work, he must be the most prolific son of a bitch I've ever met. Other co-workers and I used to joke about making a wiki about this guy's supposed accomplishments. Among them:

-Chasing tornadoes with Alice Cooper's Daughter, then drinking her under the table
-Living in the same building as a pornography production company, and being able to use the OC3 line associated for his own purposes
-Owned THE General Lee. Not one, THE ONLY one. Of course, he couldn't afford the gas to drive it to work to show us.
-All-star drummer, who really only got going when he was blackout-drunk.
-Was once asked to pitch for a major league baseball team, based on the fact that he knew somebody on the team who played with him in high school
-Owned several more cars, in various states of restoration (Drove a 1993 Ford Taurus)
-Professional concert photographer for such acts as Nickelback. I hate Nickelback, but it's still a big claim

Basically the greatest person to ever exist. Of course, he never did mention anything with video games. I'm sure if I had brought i up, he would have.



I'm pretty sure I used to work with this guy!
More of "His" accomplishments.

-Was a red seal chef, but yet, he was working as an auto detailer.
-Owned a cherry 69 Firebird, but then his uncle stole it and ran away to Cali, burning down his own farm to cover his tracks.
-Was a "Fire Jumper"
-Used to be a ski instructor in Aspen.

No matter what you were talking about, he would cut in with a better story. What a jerk!
 
I'm pretty sure I used to work with this guy!
More of "His" accomplishments.

-Was a red seal chef, but yet, he was working as an auto detailer.
-Owned a cherry 69 Firebird, but then his uncle stole it and ran away to Cali, burning down his own farm to cover his tracks.
-Was a "Fire Jumper"
-Used to be a ski instructor in Aspen.

No matter what you were talking about, he would cut in with a better story. What a jerk!

I knew a guy once who claimed to have slept with three PMOYs, golfed with presidents, did ride alongs in jets on bombing missions in the middle east and beat Bobby Fischer in several chess matches while on a hunting expedition in Iceland where he discovered the remains of a rare woolly mammoth all while moping floors at a Bob's Big Boy.

My guys sounds waaaay more accomplished than yours.....(see what I did there) :)
 
It depresses me, `cause people tell me stories about what they remember in arcades and specific games BIID. When I was younger, the stories were more accurate...
 
No matter what you were talking about, he would cut in with a better story. What a jerk!

Ah, TOPPER!!!

There's one in every office. Two if you're really lucky! LOL Dilbert had one too :)

Chris
 

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We used to have this guy at work, he must be the most prolific son of a bitch I've ever met. Other co-workers and I used to joke about making a wiki about this guy's supposed accomplishments. Among them:

-Chasing tornadoes with Alice Cooper's Daughter, then drinking her under the table
-Living in the same building as a pornography production company, and being able to use the OC3 line associated for his own purposes
-Owned THE General Lee. Not one, THE ONLY one. Of course, he couldn't afford the gas to drive it to work to show us.
-All-star drummer, who really only got going when he was blackout-drunk.
-Was once asked to pitch for a major league baseball team, based on the fact that he knew somebody on the team who played with him in high school
-Owned several more cars, in various states of restoration (Drove a 1993 Ford Taurus)
-Professional concert photographer for such acts as Nickelback. I hate Nickelback, but it's still a big claim

Basically the greatest person to ever exist. Of course, he never did mention anything with video games. I'm sure if I had brought i up, he would have.

Surely that guy has seen a sasquatch and a UFO also.
 
I used to have a pretty cool t-shirt that just had the Donkey Kong screen on the front with no words. I got more comments on that shirt and people seemed to love it. But it was stunning to me how many people would look at it and think it was Pac Man or Ms Pac and tell me how much they loved that game.
 
Yeah, my daughter's friend's mom came by one day and saw my collection and said, "Wow! Ms.Pac-man! I used to play that ALL THE TIME, bitd. I finished it! Have you ever seen the ending?"

I told her I haven't seen the ending. She didn't have time to play.

Well, it sorta has an ending...a kill screen :D Either the game resets, the screen flips upside down, but still plays normal, or it shows a bunch of garbage instead of a maze.
 
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Originally Posted by Compute
We used to have this guy at work, he must be the most prolific son of a bitch I've ever met. Other co-workers and I used to joke about making a wiki about this guy's supposed accomplishments. Among them:

-Chasing tornadoes with Alice Cooper's Daughter, then drinking her under the table
-Living in the same building as a pornography production company, and being able to use the OC3 line associated for his own purposes
-Owned THE General Lee. Not one, THE ONLY one. Of course, he couldn't afford the gas to drive it to work to show us.
-All-star drummer, who really only got going when he was blackout-drunk.
-Was once asked to pitch for a major league baseball team, based on the fact that he knew somebody on the team who played with him in high school
-Owned several more cars, in various states of restoration (Drove a 1993 Ford Taurus)
-Professional concert photographer for such acts as Nickelback. I hate Nickelback, but it's still a big claim

Basically the greatest person to ever exist. Of course, he never did mention anything with video games. I'm sure if I had brought i up, he would have.



I'm pretty sure I used to work with this guy!
More of "His" accomplishments.

-Was a red seal chef, but yet, he was working as an auto detailer.
-Owned a cherry 69 Firebird, but then his uncle stole it and ran away to Cali, burning down his own farm to cover his tracks.
-Was a "Fire Jumper"
-Used to be a ski instructor in Aspen.

No matter what you were talking about, he would cut in with a better story. What a jerk!


LOL I actually know a guy who really did fire jumping for a while. I also have another friend that owns 5% of a porn company. Now I cant confirm the fire jumper but I can confirm the friend that owns part of a porn company.:D
 
[passing comment]
Aren't they referred to as Smoke Jumpers, not Fire Jumpers?
[/passing comment]
 
The Terminix guy went in to my basement to put some and poison around underneath the kitchen. He peeked at my barcade, checked out the Star Wars, The Pac-Man, the Galaga... and said, "Oh wow! You're really in to vending machines!"

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ALSO... One day I was on the bus to my job at the time and I was wearing a Pac-Man shirt. Just a black shirt with Blinky, Inky and Clyde.

Some guy sitting across from me sees my shirt and says , "OH MAN!!! I used to LOVE THAT GAME!!! Man... Space Invaders... I haven't played that in YEARS!"

Many many years apparently...
 
Can't really make fun of average people getting their facts mixed up. We're actually the weirdos, don't you forget it!
 
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