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15 Feb 2018, 12:12 pm

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What kind of music was being played on the radio during this time?

I don't remember, we usually had cassettes or records playing.

But I do have two songs that I remember hearing over the PA, at two different stores. One was Back in the High Life Again by Steve Winwood, and the other was You've Lost that Loving Feeling, I'm not sure which artist it was, but I want to say it was the Righteous Brothers version.

My dad has a big stack of Top 30 USA records that he bought from some DJ, I used to listen to them a lot when I was younger. Most of them have sheets with the "scripts" on them, and the records have the commercials and everything =) I really should try to find them and put them online somewhere, though they're not in the best of shape anymore.

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The Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man was just terrible. The programmer of the game was given virtually no time to make it.

They also only gave him a 4K chip to do it all in!


Pretty much all the arcade ports to the 2600 were pretty bad. Its a very overrated system, and IMO was inferior to its primary G2 competition, namely the ColecoVision and IntelliVision.



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15 Feb 2018, 12:14 pm

The Chicago Bears won Super Bowl XX in '86! WE ARE THE BEARS SHUFFLING CREW!! !

Defeating the New England Pats 46 to 12. Yes, it was a whole different day in football.



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15 Feb 2018, 12:16 pm

drwho222 wrote:
SabbraCadabra wrote:
LegoMaster2149 wrote:
What kind of music was being played on the radio during this time?

I don't remember, we usually had cassettes or records playing.

But I do have two songs that I remember hearing over the PA, at two different stores. One was Back in the High Life Again by Steve Winwood, and the other was You've Lost that Loving Feeling, I'm not sure which artist it was, but I want to say it was the Righteous Brothers version.

My dad has a big stack of Top 30 USA records that he bought from some DJ, I used to listen to them a lot when I was younger. Most of them have sheets with the "scripts" on them, and the records have the commercials and everything =) I really should try to find them and put them online somewhere, though they're not in the best of shape anymore.

lostonearth35 wrote:
The Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man was just terrible. The programmer of the game was given virtually no time to make it.

They also only gave him a 4K chip to do it all in!


Pretty much all the arcade ports to the 2600 were pretty bad. Its a very overrated system, and IMO was inferior to its primary G2 competition, namely the ColecoVision and IntelliVision.


Too many consoles in the video game market was one of the factors which led to the North American video game crash of 1983. However, the video game crash only hurt the industry, not the consumer.



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15 Feb 2018, 1:17 pm

LegoMaster2149 wrote:
drwho222 wrote:
SabbraCadabra wrote:
LegoMaster2149 wrote:
What kind of music was being played on the radio during this time?

I don't remember, we usually had cassettes or records playing.

But I do have two songs that I remember hearing over the PA, at two different stores. One was Back in the High Life Again by Steve Winwood, and the other was You've Lost that Loving Feeling, I'm not sure which artist it was, but I want to say it was the Righteous Brothers version.

My dad has a big stack of Top 30 USA records that he bought from some DJ, I used to listen to them a lot when I was younger. Most of them have sheets with the "scripts" on them, and the records have the commercials and everything =) I really should try to find them and put them online somewhere, though they're not in the best of shape anymore.

lostonearth35 wrote:
The Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man was just terrible. The programmer of the game was given virtually no time to make it.

They also only gave him a 4K chip to do it all in!


Pretty much all the arcade ports to the 2600 were pretty bad. Its a very overrated system, and IMO was inferior to its primary G2 competition, namely the ColecoVision and IntelliVision.


Too many consoles in the video game market was one of the factors which led to the North American video game crash of 1983. However, the video game crash only hurt the industry, not the consumer.


The dominant system post crash was the NES. A system with a library that was 1% gold and 99% garbage. Possibly the most overrated system ever.



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15 Feb 2018, 2:15 pm

drwho222 wrote:
LegoMaster2149 wrote:
drwho222 wrote:
SabbraCadabra wrote:
LegoMaster2149 wrote:
What kind of music was being played on the radio during this time?

I don't remember, we usually had cassettes or records playing.

But I do have two songs that I remember hearing over the PA, at two different stores. One was Back in the High Life Again by Steve Winwood, and the other was You've Lost that Loving Feeling, I'm not sure which artist it was, but I want to say it was the Righteous Brothers version.

My dad has a big stack of Top 30 USA records that he bought from some DJ, I used to listen to them a lot when I was younger. Most of them have sheets with the "scripts" on them, and the records have the commercials and everything =) I really should try to find them and put them online somewhere, though they're not in the best of shape anymore.

lostonearth35 wrote:
The Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man was just terrible. The programmer of the game was given virtually no time to make it.

They also only gave him a 4K chip to do it all in!


Pretty much all the arcade ports to the 2600 were pretty bad. Its a very overrated system, and IMO was inferior to its primary G2 competition, namely the ColecoVision and IntelliVision.


Too many consoles in the video game market was one of the factors which led to the North American video game crash of 1983. However, the video game crash only hurt the industry, not the consumer.


The dominant system post crash was the NES. A system with a library that was 1% gold and 99% garbage. Possibly the most overrated system ever.


I agree with you 100% on the NES. Yes, it had its gems. Zelda (only the first, not the sequel), Mario et al, Contra, Castle Vanya, Final Fantasy--these were great. But by and large most of its library were garbage games that now clutter up the shelves of used bookstores that also sell old games and AV. It even gave the Zelda franchise its lone bad game!


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16 Feb 2018, 6:00 am

SabbraCadabra wrote:
LegoMaster2149 wrote:
What kind of music was being played on the radio during this time?

I don't remember, we usually had cassettes or records playing.

But I do have two songs that I remember hearing over the PA, at two different stores. One was Back in the High Life Again by Steve Winwood, and the other was You've Lost that Loving Feeling, I'm not sure which artist it was, but I want to say it was the Righteous Brothers version.

My dad has a big stack of Top 30 USA records that he bought from some DJ, I used to listen to them a lot when I was younger. Most of them have sheets with the "scripts" on them, and the records have the commercials and everything =) I really should try to find them and put them online somewhere, though they're not in the best of shape anymore.

lostonearth35 wrote:
The Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man was just terrible. The programmer of the game was given virtually no time to make it.

They also only gave him a 4K chip to do it all in!


YLTLF would have been the Righteous Bros version - as it was heavily featured in Top Gun.



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16 Feb 2018, 6:20 am

drwho222 wrote:
Pretty much all the arcade ports to the 2600 were pretty bad. Its a very overrated system...

Incorrect.

drwho222 wrote:
The dominant system post crash was the NES. A system with a library that was 1% gold and 99% garbage. Possibly the most overrated system ever.

According to Wikipedia, "A total of 714 known licensed game titles were released for the Nintendo Entertainment System video game console during its life span, 679 of these games released in North America..."

I doubt anyone could, with all honesty, pick only six great NES titles and then denounce the rest of them as trash. I don't think I could even pick twenty, and I'm not even counting unlicensed or import titles.

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It even gave the Zelda franchise its lone bad game!

No, that was the Phillips CDi.

Unless you want to get controversial, then I would say it was the N64.

There was nothing "bad" about Zelda II, it was just really, frustratingly difficult.

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YLTLF would have been the Righteous Bros version - as it was heavily featured in Top Gun.

You could be right. I just looked up the Hall and Oates version, that one's from 1980, so it would've been a little out-of-fashion by then...Top Gun was 1986, so that puts it closer to the correct time period.

Steve Winwood's single came out December of '86, so it might fit together...though I honestly couldn't say what year these two memories even occured in. I was dead certain that I heard Back in the High Life the day my brother was born, but Wikipedia says that that is impossible =)


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16 Feb 2018, 6:46 am

SabbraCadabra wrote:
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YLTLF would have been the Righteous Bros version - as it was heavily featured in Top Gun.

You could be right. I just looked up the Hall and Oates version, that one's from 1980, so it would've been a little out-of-fashion by then...Top Gun was 1986, so that puts it closer to the correct time period.

Steve Winwood's single came out December of '86, so it might fit together...though I honestly couldn't say what year these two memories even occured in. I was dead certain that I heard Back in the High Life the day my brother was born, but Wikipedia says that that is impossible =)


He IS right, RB version from 1964 was the version in Top Gun and that remarkable also played on pop radio at the time when Top Gun hit the cinemas and everyone wanted to be fighter pilots.



I had jets as a special interest back then and could recite armament configurations of different fighters as well as characteristics like maximum mach speed from memory, i even corrected a professional fighter pilot a few years ago about what plane was on a picture (comparing Mig 23, Mig 27 and Su 24 - which sorta look the same).


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17 Feb 2018, 1:32 pm

SabbraCadabra wrote:
drwho222 wrote:
Pretty much all the arcade ports to the 2600 were pretty bad. Its a very overrated system...

Incorrect.

drwho222 wrote:
The dominant system post crash was the NES. A system with a library that was 1% gold and 99% garbage. Possibly the most overrated system ever.

According to Wikipedia, "A total of 714 known licensed game titles were released for the Nintendo Entertainment System video game console during its life span, 679 of these games released in North America..."

I doubt anyone could, with all honesty, pick only six great NES titles and then denounce the rest of them as trash. I don't think I could even pick twenty, and I'm not even counting unlicensed or import titles.

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It even gave the Zelda franchise its lone bad game!

No, that was the Phillips CDi.

Unless you want to get controversial, then I would say it was the N64.

There was nothing "bad" about Zelda II, it was just really, frustratingly difficult.

alcockell wrote:
YLTLF would have been the Righteous Bros version - as it was heavily featured in Top Gun.

You could be right. I just looked up the Hall and Oates version, that one's from 1980, so it would've been a little out-of-fashion by then...Top Gun was 1986, so that puts it closer to the correct time period.

Steve Winwood's single came out December of '86, so it might fit together...though I honestly couldn't say what year these two memories even occured in. I was dead certain that I heard Back in the High Life the day my brother was born, but Wikipedia says that that is impossible =)


In Zelda 2 you had a sword the size of a lipstick. And that's just for starters. Zelda 3 stands as one of the all time best games ever because it took was great about the original LOZ and made it better.



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17 Feb 2018, 8:29 pm

I miss payphones. :|



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19 Feb 2018, 10:31 am

The 80s were a pretty good decade for me until the very end. Then it turned terrible for me.



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19 Feb 2018, 4:59 pm

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I miss payphones. :|


Yeah, there aren't a lot of those around anymore...



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19 Feb 2018, 11:15 pm

And they are still needed....



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19 Feb 2018, 11:21 pm

especially by those of us who can't afford or live out of range of smartphone service or even dumbphone service.



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20 Feb 2018, 10:02 am

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And they are still needed....


Pay phones still actually make a lot of money.



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20 Feb 2018, 2:30 pm

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And they are still needed....


Yes, but with cell phones they are just not worth the bother for the phone companies to set up and maintain.


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