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| 2464 | Article | Vaporman87 | Funny how the companionship of a dog can make a kid feel so much more confidence and peace. Like they were made to compliment each other. Unless you ask my middle son. He's scared to death of even the tiniest dog. Losing a beloved pet in your youth is rough. It leaves an empty space in you that you can remember forever. I can still feel the distress of knowing my dog, Susie, was being given to my uncle because my mom and dad had divorced, and she was moving and did not want the dog. Neither did my dad. I felt a bit betrayed. But yes, gaming can make you forget your worries for while. A much better alternative than alcohol or meds. You can enter another world and live there for a time, forgetting that OTHER life and the issues you're dealing with. Doing that as a kid creates a lasting memory of how you coped. One I'm glad you shared vkimo! | Aug 05, 2015 |  | |
| 2489 | Article | Hoju Koolander | Touching story. Having your own personal "Battle Cat" must have been pretty fun. Loved the Altered Beast mash-up idea your young brain came up with. | Summer of Sheeba | Aug 08, 2015 | |
| 2466 | Article | Vaporman87 | For shame! LOL Oh we've all been there, haven't we? Frustrated by losing when the game (any game) was firmly within our grasp. With board gaming, the opportunity to "gently swing things into your favor" was oh so enticing. I KNOW I tried my hand at it more than once, usually failing. Sometimes you can invent a new rule to favor you, knowing that the instruction manual had been safely thrown away years ago. "But that's how WE always played..." was a common phrase. LOL This reminded me of a recent visit with friends during which one of their daughters joined me and my daughter in a game of UNO. I had played UNO for decades, so when she began coming up with one rule after another to favor her hand, and she would play cards then take them back, I knew she was a compulsive cheater who was awful at actually executing the cheat. What is wrong with kids these days? They can't even cheat right! | Cheatin' | Aug 05, 2015 | |
| 2476 | Article | kstrom22 | This is a classic conundrum, while I can't in good conscience these days condone cheating, it does break the child's heart within me that our current crop of kids weren't raised on the classic cheat games like Candy Land. I heard they introduced a spinner! Truly the end of a cheat-era. | Cheatin' | Aug 07, 2015 | |
| 2509 | Article | Vaporman87 | You know what is really funny about this... that in the bathroom next to our family room I have multiple Godzilla movie posters hanging. And here I thought it was just me! Speaking of Godzilla, that is my "obscure collector's obsession". I have everything from Trendmasters to Bandai figures stuffed in various closet spaces. The Japanese import Bandai figs are worth far more moolah than my Trendmaster stuff, but TM figs hold their own pretty well in the aftermarket. | Spider-Man & Venom Action Figure Retrospective Part 2 | Aug 12, 2015 | |
| 2516 | Article | echidna64 | This brings back a "web" of nostalgia. I miss Todd McFarlane's gritty take on the Spider-Man comics. Not gonna lie, I spun up a new trilogy in my mind once I heard that there would be another reboot of the film franchise. Regrettably, it might be a long time before see an older and more tortured Peter Parker ala Maximum Carnage. | Spider-Man & Venom Action Figure Retrospective Part 2 | Aug 13, 2015 | |
| 2517 | Article | Hoju Koolander | @Vaporman87 You are not alone, Great minds think alike, Birds of a feather and all that. Godzilla collectibles sound like they would take up a lot of space. @echidna64 If we ever get a Maximum Carnage movie, we'll know the Nerds have officially taken over. Kraven's Last Hunt would make a great one too, though maybe that would be better as a direct to Netflix TV-MA one off. | Spider-Man & Venom Action Figure Retrospective Part 2 | Aug 14, 2015 | |
| 2478 | Article | Vaporman87 | You've really brought back to mind all the wonderful things we miss about an arcade in the 80's and 90's in great and loving detail. It's funny how, in a time before the internet and worldwide connectivity, your experience in one arcade will be the same in so many ways in another hundreds of miles away. Like the routine of plopping down your quarter for "next". Such things transcended distance and social environment differences. And, each felt like it's own little "club". As though there was a camaraderie that was implied any time you crossed the threshold onto that gaudy carpeted floor. Many places that house arcades now are simply dens of rip-offery. Insert a dollar to play a game that is rigged to prevent you from winning that Nintendo DS calling out to you from behind the glass. In Gatlinburg, Tennessee I saw a glimmer of hope. An arcade with a machine that combined the greatness of the past with the redemption craze of today. A giant Pac Man game that played like the classic, but was recrafted to make the goal winning as many tickets as you could. The more points, the more tickets. If they could do this with several hundred more classic titles, an whole new arcade concept could be invented. But so far that is the only title I've seen to incorporate that idea. | The Mall Arcade | Aug 07, 2015 | |
| 2480 | Article | echidna64 | Way to go Mass! This was a great read and I love the individual details you gave with each arcade game. This def takes me back, the Simpson's game and other 4-players games were epic! Area-51 is probably the only arcade game that I beat in its entirety. It was the right balance of fun vs difficult. I tried to stay away from the games that were coin-crunchers. Nowadays, the closest thing we have to the original mall arcades is Dave and Busters | The Mall Arcade | Aug 07, 2015 | |
| 2482 | Article | Vaporman87 | @echidna: There are still some arcades out there that have stuck to the classic business model, but they are few and far between and typically located in the heart of giant metropolitan areas. Which is exactly the opposite of where I live. LOL. | The Mall Arcade | Aug 07, 2015 | |
