My NEW Obsession!
Feb. 3rd, 2004 03:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captain_slinkyFirst off, yes I miss Crystal... but not as much as I th9ught I would. I just get home late every night is all, but I still get to spend my lunch hour with her every day. So havng said that...
I LOVE MY NEW HOURS AT WORK!!!
5pm till 2 am, working for Comcast. See, the *best* part of the job is that no one calls in after 10 at night, so I get 4 hours of quality TV viewing time. Time during which I have re-discovered a little game show from the 80's called STARCADE. The website at http://www.starcade.tv is a more-than-adequate time capsule taking me all the way back to 1983 with tons of quick-loading video clips from the show, commercials from the sponsors, and even the quick descriptive blurbs of all the fabulous prizes (lke the Aquarius Home Computer System and the Bionic Chair).
Of all the people on my friends list, I think Chris is the most likely to remember this game show. People went on and answered trivia questins about arcade games, then played each game for about 30 seconds trying to get the highest score. You young whipper-snappers on my friends list have to realize that this was a different time back then... when you went to 7-11 to get your Superman II Slurpee Cup, there were usually at least two video games taking up space there... Very few people knew that the guy trying to capture Donkey Kong was named "Mario", or that he had a brother... every mall in America had at least one PROFESSIONAL video Arcade in it that was packed every weekend... and there were only 3 different ways to play video games at home: The Atari 2600, the Colecovision, and the Intellivision.
You kids today, you don't know what it was like!
I LOVE MY NEW HOURS AT WORK!!!
5pm till 2 am, working for Comcast. See, the *best* part of the job is that no one calls in after 10 at night, so I get 4 hours of quality TV viewing time. Time during which I have re-discovered a little game show from the 80's called STARCADE. The website at http://www.starcade.tv is a more-than-adequate time capsule taking me all the way back to 1983 with tons of quick-loading video clips from the show, commercials from the sponsors, and even the quick descriptive blurbs of all the fabulous prizes (lke the Aquarius Home Computer System and the Bionic Chair).
Of all the people on my friends list, I think Chris is the most likely to remember this game show. People went on and answered trivia questins about arcade games, then played each game for about 30 seconds trying to get the highest score. You young whipper-snappers on my friends list have to realize that this was a different time back then... when you went to 7-11 to get your Superman II Slurpee Cup, there were usually at least two video games taking up space there... Very few people knew that the guy trying to capture Donkey Kong was named "Mario", or that he had a brother... every mall in America had at least one PROFESSIONAL video Arcade in it that was packed every weekend... and there were only 3 different ways to play video games at home: The Atari 2600, the Colecovision, and the Intellivision.
You kids today, you don't know what it was like!
