Hi All,
Lenty here from Oxford..
Well where do i start.....
My teenage yrs are the 80's.... Born in 1966... I remember riding bike from one chipshop to another with my 50p per week pocket money i received on a Sat (or i could have 10p per day, now that is still the hardest choice in life i've had to make) playing Boot Hill, Cosmic Gorilla, Space Invaders, Breakout etc...
As time went by i moved onto Gorf, Defender and Scramble. Around 1983 my dad got a job working for BellFruit in Oxford so at weekends i wnet ot work with him fixing Fruities, Pin balls and Video games. What i great life this was for me. I still remember going to his work on Sat and Sun morning and in the warehouse was loads of brand new video games waiting to be sited in pubs, clubs, cafe's etc.... all with keys and calling me to 'pls play me for nothing' ;-)
Time went by and to be honest i did not get into the 'Dungeon and Dragons', 'Track and Field' games etc. Just not me.
So my dad moves onto new a job out of this industry, i find woman beer and all those other things as they say.
Now i'm married with a great family. BUT i need to escape to my youth every now and then so what better than a couple of fruities and CANDY CAB machines in my conservatory. Sad bit now is that my son preffers his Xbox or Wii and i have done my best to understand the games he plays but just not me. If it don't go 'left' 'right' 'fire' i'm lost ;-(
Now i'm moving house and it's been agreed the garage (god knows why it's called a garage as the opening can only take a very small car, rant over) can be converted into a games room.
So.... here goes buying a midway Space invaders to 'do up' and just disappear into every now and then. Thus the reason for joing this forum.
All the best Lenty.
Lenty here from Oxford..
Well where do i start.....
My teenage yrs are the 80's.... Born in 1966... I remember riding bike from one chipshop to another with my 50p per week pocket money i received on a Sat (or i could have 10p per day, now that is still the hardest choice in life i've had to make) playing Boot Hill, Cosmic Gorilla, Space Invaders, Breakout etc...
As time went by i moved onto Gorf, Defender and Scramble. Around 1983 my dad got a job working for BellFruit in Oxford so at weekends i wnet ot work with him fixing Fruities, Pin balls and Video games. What i great life this was for me. I still remember going to his work on Sat and Sun morning and in the warehouse was loads of brand new video games waiting to be sited in pubs, clubs, cafe's etc.... all with keys and calling me to 'pls play me for nothing' ;-)
Time went by and to be honest i did not get into the 'Dungeon and Dragons', 'Track and Field' games etc. Just not me.
So my dad moves onto new a job out of this industry, i find woman beer and all those other things as they say.
Now i'm married with a great family. BUT i need to escape to my youth every now and then so what better than a couple of fruities and CANDY CAB machines in my conservatory. Sad bit now is that my son preffers his Xbox or Wii and i have done my best to understand the games he plays but just not me. If it don't go 'left' 'right' 'fire' i'm lost ;-(
Now i'm moving house and it's been agreed the garage (god knows why it's called a garage as the opening can only take a very small car, rant over) can be converted into a games room.
So.... here goes buying a midway Space invaders to 'do up' and just disappear into every now and then. Thus the reason for joing this forum.
All the best Lenty.
