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ID	Post Type	Posted By	Comment	Title	Posted On

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.		Aug 08, 2015
2490	Article	massreality	kstrom22: I totally forgot to write about the carpet. Man did they have some strange patterns. I personally preferred token machines. I thought they were much cooler and it was more special than a regular old quarter. Of course, as I got older, I realized how much money I lost using token machines. Sometimes I'd walk out with a few extras in my pocket and despite my best interests, I never brought them back with me. I think they usually ended up in a change jar and were only found whenever I'd go use the Coinstar.	The Mall Arcade	Aug 08, 2015
2491	Article	Vaporman87	I'm going to throw my hat into the ring for the change machines. Then at least the quarters were still legal tender. :)	The Mall Arcade	Aug 09, 2015
2492	Article	Vaporman87	Beautifully written story, onipar (though one would expect it to be so; you being an author). The plight of a childhood spent someplace like Brooklyn is about as unfamiliar to me as such a thing could be. But the fear of a local bully is pretty universal, so I can relate to this story. I love these lines - "...lifting him off the ground and encasing him in clam-stank..." "...he was probably just late for a midday stabbing at the park..." Thanks for sharing!	A Flurry of Hadoukens and Shoryukens	Aug 10, 2015
2493	Article	onipar	So glad you enjoyed this! I've been wanting to write some stories about childhood events in Brooklyn, and I was excited to have a bit of motivation to finally do so.	A Flurry of Hadoukens and Shoryukens	Aug 10, 2015
2494	Article	Vaporman87	Man, you guys really knew how to take full advantage of a Saturday! So many great activities and games. I see a great many similarities to my own Saturday exploits. Sure, the activities may have been different, but it was really only about getting in time with your friends and neighbors and making the most of being free from school. We used to take Nerf basketballs,(the soft, vinyl, stuffed kind) wrap them in duct tape, and hit them with wooden bats in a game of Home Run Derby. If we could hit the ball onto the roof of our building (which was tall enough to fit an RV in), then it was a Home Run. Travel in the woods, wrestle with pillows, play video games, record ourselves on cassette tape or video, etc., etc. So much fun to be had on a sunny Saturday. I get to do all new things now that I have kids. I can be a part of their own favorite things about a Saturday, and it is a blessing.	A Mid-90's Saturday With c_b_f	Aug 10, 2015
2496	Article	Vaporman87	This reminds me a fairly unique place that I sometimes frequented around this same time. It was actually a video game retailer, but an independent one. Unlike the Electronic Boutiques and Gamestops of the world, this was just a little Mom and Pop place in a small strip mall area. There, you could not only buy the latest games, consoles, and accessories... you could TRY them before you committed your hard-earned cash toward them. Several TVs with a different console at each lined the tables in the back room. You paid for a certain amount of time, picked the game you wished to have a go with (though not all new releases were immediately available for trying), paid the fee, and off you went to the back room. In a closet-sized room behind the demo tables, they hid the most technologically advanced console of the day. A big screen TV and premium surround sound system huddled around a single recliner was all that sat in there. THAT was the place to be. It might cost you a little more, but you had the chance to experience those games the way they were meant to be experienced.	A New Kind of Arcade	Aug 10, 2015
2497	Article	comic_book_fan	i have a niece that i get to play with she always likes me showing her an old tv show or a game from when i was little she wants to play ghost in the graveyard but she is afraid of the dark and it's hard to find enough people to play.	A Mid-90's Saturday With c_b_f	Aug 10, 2015
2498	Article	onipar	That sounds amazing! I wish places like this still existed. Maybe they do somewhere? Maybe if the console arcade in my town had adopted that same business plan of selling the games as well, they would have lasted longer. I wish they had.	A New Kind of Arcade	Aug 10, 2015
2499	Article	massreality	I miss WCW Saturday Night so bad.	A Mid-90's Saturday With c_b_f	Aug 10, 2015