Island Of Misfits

[WeedHopper]

 

[Hippie420]

Asteroids was my favorite. Spent many an hour and drank a lot of beers playing it at the bar.

 

[RosterMan]

 

[RosterMan]

 

[boo]

I for one have never played a video game...

 

[SubmarineGirl]

I for one have never played a video game...

Me too, they have never kept my interest we didn’t have them as kids and I was into other stuff when I got older. My youngest grandson (10) wants so bad for me to be interested in his Nintendo switch game too. He explains it to me in such detail too…

 

[Hippie420]

Had a food truck up at the local Wallyworld, so the Old Hen brought home corn dogs. No greasy curly fries, so I made my own. Yum.
Ain't gourmet by any sense of the word, but munchies are munchies.

 

[Hippie420]

G'night, shipmates. Eyeballs are burnin', back ain't happy, and tomorrow's another day if'n it gets here.
Hope to see ya all in the morning. ☮

 

[pute]

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Some of my favorite video games there....thanks for the memories. I could get through all 9 keys on pac man. Just had to know the pattern. Donkey Kong and misstle comand we're on the list as well.

Still do the hand and eye thing....9-ball and ling pong.

 

[Unca Walt]

Remember Ping Pong? The first video game.

In October 1958, Physicist William Higinbotham created what is thought to be the first video game. It was a very simple tennis game, similar to the classic 1970s video game Pong, and it was quite a hit at a Brookhaven National Laboratory open house.

The Magnavox Odyssey, known as the first console video game system, was released in 1972 and offered a game of table tennis, or Ping-Pong. Atari founder Nolan Bushnell created Pong, his version of this concept, as an arcade game

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The game was called, "Pong". I had one.

 

[Unca Walt]

I for one have never played a video game...

Now that susprises the heck outa me. Although I 'spect you missed something you'da liked.

One of the benefits to the game player was greatly increased hand-eye coordination. Even logical thinking <-- for that was the primary part of many of the non-arcade games.

One game I had that my son Puck and I played as a team was so complex and fun and often timed segments we got so drawn in, we had a fargin school notebook recording known data <-- Constantly referred-to. It took us about a month to get to the end.

So we got the next one -- same result: Logic, attention to detail, excitement, adrenaline, planning, and mostly flat-out fun.

 

[WeedHopper]

Morning Islanders. Laying here checking my messages before I gets my ass up and ready for work. Lazy bastards,,,get your asses to work.
No time for video games.
I like playing spin the bottle but I had to quit because Roster kept showing up with his eyes closed and lips puckered up wanting to play.

 

[Tattered Old Graywolf]

Remember Ping Pong? The first video game.

In October 1958, Physicist William Higinbotham created what is thought to be the first video game. It was a very simple tennis game, similar to the classic 1970s video game Pong, and it was quite a hit at a Brookhaven National Laboratory open house.

The Magnavox Odyssey, known as the first console video game system, was released in 1972 and offered a game of table tennis, or Ping-Pong. Atari founder Nolan Bushnell created Pong, his version of this concept, as an arcade game

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I played Pong a couple times and a bike racing game once with grandsons, but I've never had any real interest in video games. I did good at Pong and my grandsons cleaned my clock racing...................... Next day I whipped all three grandsons fencing foil, and taught them to knap obsidian blades and valentines, so I figure we're even.

I wonder what their grandsons will be teaching them and vice versa........................??

Gooode morning brothers and sisters! 62F @ 86% RH, partially cloudy and predicted to reach 67F.

Breakfast out this morning at Gravy with Grayfox and friends.

Invited to a roundtable discussion of Mystery Oil and the Medusa Stone in Eugene Sunday, so reviewing old records. A party afterwards with good folks, good food and a sampling of concentrates provided by various labs in attendance.

 

[user 60570]

good morning all you Cool Cats

lots of rain yesterday and day before , an anomaly around here

will be spraying the plants this morning as a preventative

and then it’s over to the county seat to meet up with some more seniors and eat some orange chicken

off to the Salt Mines!

 

[SubmarineGirl]

good morning all you Cool Cats

lots of rain yesterday and day before , an anomaly around here

will be spraying the plants this morning as a preventative

and then it’s over to the county seat to meet up with some more seniors and eat some orange chicken

off to the Salt Mines!

Sounds like a good day plan. The plants loved the rain I’m sure.

 

[user 60570]

Sounds like a good day plan. The plants loved the rain I’m sure.

the rain was great!

1-2 inches!

but not so much the pea sized hail and 40-60 mph wind gusts

but yeah , we will take the free water any day!

here is to a wonderful weekend!

 

[WeedHopper]

Rain? What the fk is that? Im fking melting

 

[pute]

Morning. Gotta walk again before it gets to hot.

 

[WeedHopper]

Hot,,,,Colorado is not hot ya big sissy.

 

[pute]

Yup....63 here now....that is why I walk now. Today's high will climb to the mid 90's.