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| 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. | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 2488 | Article | kstrom22 | I love this article, and I love the (remaining) true and old arcades. The one nearest my house has what I can only describe as an SNES store demo. You can play either Super Mario World, The Addams Family, or F-Zero. It's killer. It seems like all Arcades have that same "dizzy patterned carpet," why do you think that is? Here's a possibly controversial question, which are better, token-exchange machines, or quarter change-maker machines? My brother and I were always on different sides of the debate... | The Mall Arcade | Aug 08, 2015 | |
| 2487 | Article | massreality | Thanks everybody. echindna64: I originally had a huge write up on Area 51, since it was my favorite arcade game. However, it came out a few years after the time period of this article, and I actually never played Area 51 in an arcade. Only in movie theaters. It was such a great game, I even bought it on PC. | The Mall Arcade | Aug 07, 2015 | |
| 2486 | Article | onipar | Oh yeah, those winter gloves! I loved hypercolor AND the gloves. It was brilliant. I think I was still young enough that sweaty pits didn't bother me much :-) | Do You Remember: HyperColor Shirts | Aug 07, 2015 | |
| 2485 | Article | OldSchool80s | Enjoyed reading this. Nice work! Have some awesome 80s memories of going to the arcade and Showbiz Pizza. I also remember the tabletop Ms. Pac-Man at Pizza Hut, but never realized that was a universal thing. | The Mall Arcade | Aug 07, 2015 | |
