The only reason I have a cell phone now is because my wife upgraded and gave me hers. I use it for two things... to deposit checks and to get $.99 tacos at Jack n the Box...
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The only reason I have a cell phone now is because my wife upgraded and gave me hers. I use it for two things... to deposit checks and to get $.99 tacos at Jack n the Box...
Thats my one regret. Back on MY day cell phones were nonexistent. Closest we could come to instant pictures were polaroids, and no one was carrying them around.I so regret not taking pictures of the arcades I frequented when I was young. I had no idea how much they would mean to me as a middle-aged man.
Our Senior High ('74-'76) had an open lunch policy. Down the street there was a lunch counter type place with about 14-16 EM pinball machines. Would smoke up and head there during lunch. Was about 50/50 if I made it back after lunch.when I was in ninth grade our high school had open campus for lunch and there was a roller rink directly across the street that was open for lunch that served personal pizzas, fried burritos, nachos, stuff like that and had arcade games. when the lunch bell rang, we would full sprint to the rink to order lunch and play games, I remember they had a Spy Hunter, Track and Feild, Yie Ar Kung Fu and Dig Dug, they had more but those are the ones I remember, I played Spy Hunter every day. we could hear the first school bell ring indicating that lunch was almost over and that's when we headed back to campus, I never once ate lunch in that school cafeteria.
Our Senior High ('74-'76) had an open lunch policy. Down the street there was a lunch counter type place with about 14-16 EM pinball machines. Would smoke up and head there during lunch. Was about 50/50 if I made it back after lunch.
Thats my one regret. Back on MY day cell phones were nonexistent. Closest we could come to instant pictures were polaroids, and no one was carrying them around.
I had a double-eight movie camera (still have it). Took some movies of other shit that was important to me at the time but nothing of the arcades. Such regret. :_(

Because they spent the money and could. Just that.Late to the party. 72 and class of 90 so yes, a teenager in the 80s. That said, being only 10-ish during arcade peak I was intimidated by older teens with combs in their back pocket, rocker t-shirts, mullets and muscle cars parked outside of the arcade dominating all the popular games especially Williams games for whatever reason.
Look at it this way:Because they spent the money and could. Just that.
That makes total sense. I wish I knew then what I know now.Look at it this way:
Few of them were football players, or basketball players, or popular in school. This was an arena where THEY could be the Alpha and EXCEL.
All for the price of quarters. Which they had. So they did.
Wouldn't you give a few bucks to beat the Quarterback and Prom King at Robotron? I know I would have.
LOL. I know, I know!That makes total sense. I wish I knew then what I know now.