BIMD only one kid we knew had an Atari, and we all tolerated him, even though he was an ass, just so that we could go to his house to play Ms. Pacman.
You had Mrs Pacman, that was pretty advanced for the Atari. Our Atari came with one cartridge, which had Tank Battle. To me old man, that was good enough for us and no other games were every bought, unless we paid for it, and at 2 bucks a week in allowance, it would take 30 weeks of no spending to get a game, and that wasn't gonna happen.
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You had Mrs Pacman, that was pretty advanced for the Atari. Our Atari came with one cartridge, which had Tank Battle. To me old man, that was good enough for us and no other games were every bought, unless we paid for it, and at 2 bucks a week in allowance, it would take 30 weeks of no spending to get a game, and that wasn't gonna happen.
Yeah, this kid was spoiled - he basically had anything that came out for Atari. I spent all my quarters at Safeway, playing.... fata, was it Berserker? Game where you were in a maze shooting robots, and it kept saying "Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert!"
You had Mrs Pacman, that was pretty advanced for the Atari. Our Atari came with one cartridge, which had Tank Battle. To me old man, that was good enough for us and no other games were every bought, unless we paid for it, and at 2 bucks a week in allowance, it would take 30 weeks of no spending to get a game, and that wasn't gonna happen.
You got $2/week for allowance!?!?
I only got $2/week for allowance and I'm probably half your age. This was when a can of coke cost $1...
Mr. "I walked up hill both ways in the snow only to get to school and get the strap" himself got $2/week for allowance? Holy spoiled...
And with the birth of that multiplayer gaming experience (Atari Combat), so to was born the the use of homophobic and racial slurs, at your buddies after scoring a kill.
The only difference was, you weren't separated by 3 countries and a 45,000 kms of fibre optic cable. It was usually a coffee table, and a pillow fort.
"Haha f#g, I just blew you tank blob off of the screen!"
*Go-bot strikes you in temple at 50 MPH... tears, blood, screaming*
*Mother comes down stairs, and rips Atari connections out of back of TV, and throws you in back yard....bleeding from head.*
I only got $2/week for allowance and I'm probably half your age. This was when a can of coke cost $1...
Mr. "I walked up hill both ways in the snow only to get to school and get the strap" himself got $2/week for allowance? Holy spoiled...
Well I did live in Bonavista, we had standards to maintain. When the NEP hit and my parents lost everything they still kept up the allowance thing.
I remember every Sunday my three systems and I would line up outside of his office and go in one at a time, there was a stack of 8 crisp $1 bills and a stack of 4 sheets of loose leaf paper. He'd pull out the paper with my name on it, which had a list of chores and jobs I was responsible for and he'd run through them. Everytime there was something that wasn't done that $2.00 would shrink. Then he'd as he says "Give you what you were worth that week" then pull out a list of new jobs and run through them with you. Then you took you're money or what was left of it and leave.
The girls always had the easy chores, vacuum, wash walls, do the dishes etc. I always got the mow the lawn, paint the fence, sand the deck. Or the spring dig the garden, or the even better ones like, dig a hole 2 feet deep to an exact diameter of 6 feet for a new fire pit. Or the gag worthy spring break one of clean up all of the dog's poop in the back yard the first time the snow vanished.
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Yeah, this kid was spoiled - he basically had anything that came out for Atari. I spent all my quarters at Safeway, playing.... fata, was it Berserker? Game where you were in a maze shooting robots, and it kept saying "Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert!"
I remember the arcade in South Center, we'd spend hours there playing Asteroids, Pacman and pinball.
We were so blown away the frst time we saw a game with color (A star trek first person shooter I think)
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Willow Road, at the time it was a dead end cul de sac (awesome for road hockey, but we were right across the street from a pair of trailer parks.
There was a huge vacant lot besside our house that stretched all the way to where the town of Midnapore started. We used to take .22 out on the weekend and blast gophers.
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Willow Road, at the time it was a dead end cul de sac (awesome for road hockey, but we were right across the street from a pair of trailer parks.
There was a huge vacant lot besside our house that stretched all the way to where the town of Midnapore started. We used to take .22 out on the weekend and blast gophers.
Then you would remember the Half pipe built in the field there where I smashed my face in. We grew up about 500 metres away, I backed onto Nickle... Oh wait, I recall you remembering crashing through my old mans fence in a past thread... which I ended up having to help him repair. Jerk.
And yes, I remember the NEP putting us on a hot dog and KD diet for quite a few years too. ####### liberals.
BIMD at the farm we didn't have natural gas lines coming to our area so we used propane as a heating fuel and it was trucked in. For years we had a huge propane tank out behind our house. And party line telephones and gravel roads. (we still have the gravel roads, lol)
BIMD you could ride your bike down to the zoo and go in for free--plus they had a wading pool
BIMD you could go to zipping across the city on any street and traffic was rarely a problem
BIMD the Stampede Corral was the big rink
BIMD the Cave-in-Basin was actually open
BIMD they had cows right downtown
BIMD you could actually see something besides other building out of the Husky Tower
BIMD a fun Friday night was down at the Victoria Pavillon watching Archie the Stomper Gouldie
BIMD you could ride your bike down to the zoo and go in for free--plus they had a wading pool
BIMD you could go to zipping across the city on any street and traffic was rarely a problem
BIMD the Stampede Corral was the big rink
BIMD the Cave-in-Basin was actually open
BIMD they had cows right downtown
BIMD you could actually see something besides other building out of the Husky Tower BIMD a fun Friday night was down at the Victoria Pavillon watching Archie the Stomper Gouldie
Greatest wrestling angle ever
I was there that night when there was a riot at the Pavillion.
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Diamond Back was the totally radical choice for the discerning BMX rider. It still boggles my mind, my old man forked over $450 for a BMX bike in 1983. But man, were they built awesome. I would go just short of killing a man, to get my hands on one of these in factory condition. The day mine was handed down to a nephew, was one of my saddest days ever.
BIMD there was a place called the "pits" or "the monkey hills" where diamond cove is now that we could do crazy air (back then crazy air was maybe a 360 at best) with our Diamondbacks.
