Sunday Burst of Weird and AWESOME!

Oddities and Awesome abound!

:: Via SamuraiFrog: Deaths in old-school arcade games.

I miss arcades, although I spent a lot less time in them as a kid than others my age, owing to my parents’ odd notion that there were better things for me to be doing with my saved-up money than changing it all to quarters and playing video games. (But hey, I thwarted them by saving up my money and then blowing it all on comic books! HA!!!)

Kidding aside — they were right, of course; as much as I loved the old-school video games of that era, I had zero concept of time management, money management, or “Hey, I should probably crack open that book that Teacher X assigned me to read/study/do homework out of.” I was unfocused enough; adding regular arcade time to the mix would have been, shall we say, unwise. But I did manage to squeeze in arcade visits now and again. Loved ’em, even if my favorite games tended to be monopolized for hours at a time. Nothing frustrated more than rushing into the arcade, knowing I only had twenty or thirty minutes, tops, before I needed to be someplace else, running to my favorite game, and seeing a crowd of people standing around with their quarters lined up on the console. Ugh!

(And now I find that I can’t even remember the name of my favorite late-80s/early-90s era video game, which I owned in college. I made that game my bitch…and I can’t remember for the life of me what it was called, so I can’t find out if a version exists for any other gaming system.)

:: I want this.

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The glass of milk would have to be pretty epic, though. I’m thinking you’d need a glass flower vase filled nearly to the top with milk.

:: I’m not a big fan of commercials, especially this one, which is pretty poorly filmed. The picture gets really blurry at the end. Or maybe it’s something with my eyes.

More next week!

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